Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Slideshare – Quiet Giant of Content Marketing
According to ComScore, Slideshare has five times the traffic from business owners than any other popular websites – including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube! Slideshare is now one of the top 150 sites on the web with 60 million visitors a month. Content on Slideshare is viewed across the web thanks to their embedding methodology to the tune of 3…
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WordPress: Add a Top Message Bar
With the new site, I’d been looking for a top bar for WordPress for quite some time. Our last theme design actually had an entire section that could be pulled down that advertised our email subscription. This increased the number of subscribers so significantly that I incorporated the subscribe field directly into the header of the theme. Now I just…
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Stop Assuming I Know You!
At least once or twice a week, I get some email that’s smartly crafted, personable, and I have absolutely not a single clue why I’m receiving the email or the company that sent it. It typically goes something like this: From: [Product] Subject: [Product] Version 2 Released! Hello [Product] User! We’ve been hard at work that last few months redesigning…
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Course: Social Marketing for Startups
1.webp” alt=”” title=”Social Marketing for Startups” width=”229″ height=”269″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image14962″ />Udemy is a video repository with classes on a number of topics that range from free to hundreds of dollars – but most of the videos are under $100 and well worth the value. I found this video, Social Marketing for Startups, that’s quite the bargain at $19! The…
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Persuasive Unignorable Relevant Rememberable
PURRfect. Too funny and original not to share. Kudos to the team at John St, a talented agency out of Toronto Canada, for this unignorable video on catvertising! To stay on top of the ever-changing advertising landscape, john st. has opened the world’s first cat video division. With production, filming and seeding all in-house. Ask yourself, what can cat videos…
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Building Authority for Search
I’ve been a long-time proponent of search engine optimization for quite some time, but my own experiences recently with Martech have honestly curbed my excitement. I used to think that SEO was the ideal means of growing traffic because it was something you could control. That’s true to an extent, but it can only take you as far as the…
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The Value and ROI from Conferences
1.webp” alt=”” title=”Conference Budget” width=”251″ height=”239″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image14930″ />The first conference I went to was a regional industrial technology show. I was an industrial electrician at a Newspaper and my boss wouldn’t pay for it. So I paid my own way in. We had a conveyor system with electronic magnetic proximity switches that had to have such a close…
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LinkedIn Basic Boot Camp
LinkedIn has over 135 million members internationally and the average household income of a LinkedIn user is over $100,000 annually! The first thing I do returning from a business trip or meeting is to enter all my contacts in LinkedIn, review their profiles, and see which ones I should follow up with. In fact, I don’t even accept resumes… if…
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Analyzing Social Streams with DataSift
DataSift is a powerful real-time social media data-filtering platform and is one of only two companies in the world with a license to make Twitter data commercially available for non-display purposes, allowing users to search for posts using metadata contained in tweets. And it does so with an incredibly beautiful interface as well as a developer console and robust API…
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Advertising and Return on Investment
Marketing pioneer John Wannamaker once said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted… The trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Still today, most marketers don’t know which of their advertising channels are most effective. Investment in online has increased due to an improved ability to track success, yet offline channels will continue to dominate spend for the…
