Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Our Social Responsibility in Social Media
1.webp” alt=”” title=”WIBC” width=”200″ height=”103″ class=”alignright size-thumbnail tie-image15326″ />Whether you like it or not, as your company begins to build a dialogue in social media you have a responsibility. You have a responsibility to your audience and your company to…
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PIPA/SOPA: How Free Content Might Kill Us
Many companies are blacking out their sites in an effort to fight the Protect IP (PIPA)/SOPA Act that’s under review here in the United States. Rather than climbing onboard the wagon and shutting down my site, I thought it would…
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What Digital Technology is Killing
The digital age has ushered in significant transformations, rendering several technologies obsolete while simultaneously revolutionizing others. This infographic video from Eric Qualman lists almost 50 different technologies that are now obsolete or transformed by digital media. Research for Eric’s newest…
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Which End of the Sales Funnel?
Marketing strategies are often designed to find more leads or upsell current customers. One of the issues we often find with clients is that they’re often working on the wrong end of the sales funnel. Many companies get less visitors…
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Cross Browser Testing Made Easy
If you’re in web development or web design, you know that one of the most frustrating tasks upon completing a beautiful design is actually ensuring that it works across all browsers. Not only can the browser and operating system severely…
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How Much Does SEO Cost?
SEOmoz released data from over 600 agencies that perform SEO for their clients. AYTM took the data and put it into a infographic, How Much Does SEO Cost?. One takeaway that was outstanding to see: Pure “SEO” consultants/agencies may be…
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Site Testing leads to Conversion Happiness
Aside from testing for search, speed and social, there are critical components of a test site that your company should be working on to analyze how visitors are converted into customers. Elements in and on pages like call-to-action buttons, layouts,…
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Viralheat: Social Media Monitoring for SMBs
We’ve been on the lookout for a social media monitoring service for quite some time. A social media monitoring system allows you to set up brands and keywords and monitor various social media sites for mentions, sentiment and activity around…
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Does Your Organic Search Rank Really Matter?
Time for me to ruffle some SEO feathers again! Today I decided to download my stats from Google Search Console and really do some digging on the traffic that I’m getting from organic search. Martech Zone ranks incredibly high on…
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Who Owns Your Corporate Twitter Followers?
Pretty interesting account on the New York Times of how Phonedog is suing a previous employee to gain access to the Twitter followers on the account he set up as part of their social media outreach. By current employment standards…
