Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
You Don’t Pay for Social Media Consultants
With the wide focus of Martech Zone, I may not get the social amplification that a great blog like Convince and Convert gets (Great post from Jay!)… but I do appreciate the community we’ve built here at Martech Zone. The most recent SurveyMonkey Poll we added on social media strategies fills me with pride… you folks are sophisticated marketers! You’re…
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Content Marketing
WordPress rel=”prev” and rel=”next”
Quite a few years ago, folks would fine-tune their pages using a technique called nofollow. Basically, if you wrote rel=”nofollow” within an anchor tag (a link), the theory was that the search engine would ignore that link and ignore the next page. It’s been used extensively by sites like Wikis and within comments so that user-edited links wouldn’t be abused…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Viewing Habits are Rapidly Changing
This incredible infographic from Litmus shows the drastic change in email viewing behavior just in the last year! From the infographic: Email remains the strongest online activity around the globe. In fact, email users are expected to reach 3.8 billion by 2014; that is nearly half of the earth’s current population, and a significant climb from 2.9 billion reported users…
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Content Marketing
MyRepono: A Simple, Affordable Offsite WordPress Backup Plugin
I didn’t have a WordPress backup plugin for quite a while. So… the first time that I lost my WordPress database was a nightmare! It was my fault… I was making some updates to the database and dropped the entire database by accident. I was wondering how in the world I would recover my blog posts since I didn’t have…
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Content Marketing
Influence Marketing Strategies
Some fascinating statistics associated with word of mouth marketing. In my opinion, this is the most underestimated marketing strategy with, perhaps, the highest impact. Companies, products and services worth mentioning skyrocket in popularity due to this incredible channel. In recent years, with the advent of social media, influence is truly traveling at the speed of light. Simply put, it you…
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Content Marketing
Does a Subscribe Dropdown Work?
When we relaunched our newsletter, I wanted to really make the subscription link a dominant feature on our site. We added a drop-down section at the top of the site and it’s been incredible. While we used to get a trickle of one or two subscribers before, now we get dozens of subscribers each week. The Marketing Technology newsletter is…
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Analytics & Testing
Time is the Challenge For Marketing Professionals
Our first SurveyMonkey poll results are in! Time is the biggest challenge for marketing professionals. With the growing demand on marketers to produce content for internal use, web site, blog, social media and more… it’s no wonder that time is our biggest challenge. It may also be a symptom of a weak economy where companies aren’t hiring the resources necessary…
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Marketing Infographics
Return on Investment for SEO
This infographic from DIYSEO on search engine optimization return on investment may raise more questions than it actually answers. I’m always suspicious when I see a blanket statement that one channel is better than all the rest… as if you should abandon every other medium? Here are some observations: Was this simply measured off of a single campaign? In other…
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Content Marketing
Is Your Site Suffering from Premature Elaboration?
Premature Elaboration is a fantastic term that’s frequently used by a friend of mine, Doug Theis. Doug uses it when he discusses a how some salespeople have the completion of a sale in their grasp and then lose it because they continue talking after the prospect was ready to sign. They just couldn’t shut up! It’s not just sales, it…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Long-Tail Keywords: Don’t Just Focus on the Tip of the SEO Iceberg
One of the SEO companies used to have a photo of an iceberg on their homepage. I love the analogy of an iceberg regarding search engine optimization. A recent conversation with a client regarding their ROI on SEO held some concerns that they only got a handful of unique visitors in the last year for the keyword phrase we were…
