Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Ecommerce Social Login & Sharing
Great data from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google and Yahoo! on social logins, social sharing and e-commerce conversions. Monetate works with retailers like BestBuy, Urban Outfitters and sites like QVC and Comcast to optimize their sites to increase conversion rates. Social commerce…
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I Don’t Like It!
These are probably the worst 4 words that you can ever hear as an agency from your client. You never get used to it even though it happens fairly often. People hire designers to do the impossible… pull a vision…
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Google+ for Business
Kudos to our friend and social media mentor, Chris Brogan, on this incredibly robust infographic on why and how businesses should be using Google+ to advance their online marketing. Key for our clients has been the deep search integration. I…
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Website Testing Beyond the Landing Page
We’ve already posted a landing page best practices infographic that drew a lot of attention. This infographic from Monetate, Website Testing: Move Beyond the Landing Page, really takes it up a notch… providing input on other pages to test, elements…
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Rant: The Online Piracy Market
The music industry and piracy, the movie industry and torrents, newspapers and online news. What do all these have in common? Supply, demand and a shifting market. I’m a big fan of capitalism and lean quite a bit to the…
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Marketing Projects versus Processes
Many of our clients require a bit of re-education when we onboard them. They’re used to working with their marketing vendors like they shop for groceries. They want to itemize, price and checkout. We’ve done marketing projects in the past…
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B2B Profiling and Prospecting with Mintigo
After leaving the newspaper industry, one of my first jobs was developing prospect databases for B2B vendors. Using some third party tools, we developed a means to develop a custom index on firmographic traits on your client base. In other…
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Don’t Blame the CMS, Blame the Theme Designer
This morning I had a great call with a potential client about their inbound marketing strategies. They mentioned that they were meeting with a firm to develop their website. I had noticed prior to the call that they were already…
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The Anatomy of Content Marketing
This ContentPlus Infographic: The Anatomy of Content Marketing, shares some great statistics on why you’d want to employ a content marketing strategy for your company, including increased visibility, wider reach, word of mouth marketing, return on investment and building a…
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Half of Companies Polled have a Google+ Page
We ran a SurveyMonkey poll on our sidebar for the last few weeks to get a clear picture of how many companies had adopted a Google+ page. The poll results were a perfect split… only 50% of readers said their…
