Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Nokia Advertising… Windows Phone Next
Both Nokia and Microsoft have lost quite a bit of momentum in the United States mobile market, a market dominated by iPhone and Android. People shouldn’t be counting out either organization just yet. First, Nokia dominates the international market (40%) with very heavy market share in Europe and Asia. Not only does Nokia perform well, their users are much more…
- Analytics & Testing
Numbers Matter
I’ve heard well-respected social media folks say, “Don’t pay attention to the number of followers you have.” and “it doesn’t matter how many fans you have”. They’re wrong. If it didn’t matter, we wouldn’t be counting them. We count everything… and we judge everyone by the numbers we see. Let me explain. Currently, there’s a backlash over Klout and the…
- Marketing Infographics
Facebook Security by Facebook!
Facebook continues to enhance security features it seems on an ever more frequent basis. Per their stats, the improvements are working and reducing issues. It’s a monumental effort including stopping over 600,000 compromised logins per day! The security features aren’t simple though. It appears that Facebook recognized how complex their security features are so they subsequently published this Facebook Security…
- Content Marketing
When Disaster Strikes!
The last 48 hours haven’t been fun. Technology is a fantastic thing, but it’s never perfect. When if fails, I’m not sure there’s really that much preparation you can have… but you do have to react. You may have noticed that our site was getting gruelingly slow the last couple weeks. It was strange given the fact that we have…
- Analytics & Testing
Google’s Keyword Apocalypse
On the 18th, Google said it was going to start hiding the keywords utilized by people logged into google accounts (Gmail, YouTube, Google+, etc.). Interestingly, in the name of privacy, Google is only going to do this with its organic search results. In my opinion, that’s B.S. and this seems like quite an evil move in my book. As much…
- Content Marketing
12 Paths to Creative Content Generation
We had an amazing webinar yesterday with PR Newswire and SurveyMonkey, over 1,600 people registered!!! The webinar was a joint webinar with John O’Connell, a PR and Communications consultant from HNTB. I’ve modified my presentation into a format friendly for distribution here: The 12 Paths to Creative Content Generation: Understand the intent of your visitors. Stop selling and provide value…
- Marketing Infographics
How the Tablet is Changing Enterprise
As more and more companies invest in cloud technologies, the only tool necessary to work remotely is a tablet. It’s getting easier and easier for me to work with nothing but my iPad. In some ways, I think the applications built for touch screens are far more user-friendly than the traditional user interface on most programs. As well, the cost…
- Content Marketing
What’s the Perception of Your Value?
Sometimes I think I’m nuts starting my own business 2 years ago (but I wouldn’t have it any other way). Shortly after starting the business I knew I was in trouble because I had a great product but didn’t have a clue how to sell it. I’d set up a quote by estimating how much time it would take me…
- Email Marketing & Automation
The Environmental Impact of SPAM
The folks at WebpageFX Weekly have put together quite the infographic explaining the environmental cost of SPAM. I’ve written before about SPAM and the email industry… and am still surprised that no one has made any advancements in combatting SPAM. If ISPs like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft truly wanted to rid theirselves of SPAM, they would offer protected email addresses…
- Analytics & Testing
Increase Traffic by Optimizing Publish Times
As we continued to work to increase traffic the last year, one of the areas we took a good look at was the time of day that we were publishing blog posts. A mistake that many people make is simply looking at their traffic by hour and utilizing that as a guide. The problem is that viewing traffic by hour…
