Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Infographics
Small Business Social Media Usage and Results
CrowdSPRING has published this infographic on small business social media habits. When I first saw the stats on usage, I was a bit taken aback at how low usage stats are for small business. Take a deeper look and I suppose it’s no surprise, though. It’s very resource intensive to run a successful small business so sustaining a social media…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
66% of Facebook Users LIKE the New Changes!
It’s not a scientific survey of any sort… just a SurveyMonkey online survey of readers and followers of Martech Zone. However, judging by the response, you folks like the changes that Facebook has implemented. There’s still a third of folks out there that were ticked off by such a drastic change. In my opinion, I think two things are happening…
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Content Marketing
Noob Guide to Online Marketing
Although this infographic states that it’s a noob guide, it’s actually quite a thorough look at the strategies involved in developing an inbound marketing strategy online. The channels described include email marketing, lead generation, organic search, paid search, social media, optimization and analytics. The infographic is pretty stunning – and a great checklist for every online marketer. The only glaring…
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Content Marketing
D&B360 Makes CRM Workflow More Powerful
Dun & Bradstreet has long been the gold standard of quality business data. I’ve been working on and off with D&B for over 20 years. D&B has a cloud-based solution, D&B360, that provides access online directly to D&B’s data. D&B360 integrates directly with the top CRMs to augment customer data with Dun & Bradstreet’s database of over 200 million companies…
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E-commerce and Retail
An E-commerce Plugin For WordPress: WooCommerce
If you haven’t had the chance yet to work with WooThemes, a fantastic theming membership for WordPress themes, you should. They do some amazing work. We had a developer package with them for quite a while before we started building out custom themes from the ground up. WooThemes has released a very clean, comprehensive and simple to use ecommerce integration…
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Marketing Infographics
Does Facebook Work for Small Business?
A recent survey of small business owners was conducted to discover how businesses are using Facebook pages. The results show that, while only half of respondents use the social network, a significant number of users report increased revenue as a result. Small businesses are using Facebook to share basic information, share content, have conversations with customers, provide support and hold…
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Event Marketing
Event Planning and Marketing Blueprint
When I think back on some of the incredible events I’ve attended – Webtrend’s Engage, ExactTarget’s Connections, Social Media Marketing World, and BlogWorld Expo – I’m always blown away by the number of moving parts and how seamlessly these organizations put them together. I am not an event planner. I can barely juggle more than a client at a time,…
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Marketing Books
We Are All Weird
As soon as I saw that there were only limited copies of We Are All Weird out for sale, I knew I had to order a copy. This is Seth Godin’s latest book and it’s a fabulous little manifesto. From the inside sleeve: Godin’s argument is that the choice to push all of us toward a universal normal merely to…
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Content Marketing
7 Lessons Learned in Promoting Your Writing
We were excited to book Jo-Anne Vandermeulen on our podcast but about 20 minutes in, our Internet access went down and we had to discontinue the show. It was disappointing since we were really getting great advice from Jo-Anne. Jo-Anne is a self-publishing promotions expert. After retiring as a teacher, she’s written a series of books… and in the process…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Local Search Optimization Does Not Preclude National or International Optimization
Some of our clients push back when we mention local search optimization. Since they’re known as a national or international company, they believe that local search optimization will hurt their business rather than help. That’s not the case at all. In fact, our work has generated the opposite results. Winning local search results can improve your chances of getting ranked…
