Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
What’s happening on your site right now?
Most of our clients review their analytics daily or weekly. At times, they’re surprised by the results. Perhaps it was a mention on another blog, publication or social bookmarking site. The problem is that they don’t see it now… they see it 8 to 24 hours after the event. Much of marketing is about timing and momentum. Tomorrow is often…
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Content Marketing
Don’t Be Discouraged With Social Media
One of the people I go out of my way to hear speak is Jay Baer. This morning I had to wake up before the sun to drive up to BlogIndiana to hear his keynote – and it was well worth the trip. There are quite a few reasons. Jay has 20 years of experience as a marketer and doesn’t…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Taking Your Site International with Search
We’ve had the challenge and fun of working with a few clients on tips to take their site international when it comes to SEO. We also have other clients who don’t want to rank internationally but get a ton of international traffic. Getting a search engine like Google to understand your intent for localization or internationalization isn’t as easy as…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Develop Goals Before the Mobile App
The good folks at Webtrends (client) have released an incredible whitepaper from their Director of Mobile Analytics, Eric Rickson. Developing a Strategy for Mobile Maturity and Investment walks through key performance indicators in a mobile strategy. Beyond the topic of mobile analytics, one of the key paragraphs I found was: Too frequently, marketers skip the critical step of defining and…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Page Speed and Your Visitors
One of the factors that’s very difficult or costly to impact is the speed at which your site loads. This is a constant battle here on Martech… social integrations and advertising slow the page load times way, way down so we’re always trying to tune it up through a number of means. We know that we lose some visitors over…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Dancing for Queso
Had I known that Moe’s Southwest Grill had a dance video contest for $10,000 – I may have dedicated a desktop jam video just for them! I like this campaign for a few reasons. The agency Brandmovers didn’t have to artificially create the demand… they created the strategy and the consumers did the work… the production, the distribution and the…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Social Media and Enterprise
The folks at Get Satisfaction have released a new Infographic on Social Media and the Enterprise, called Let’s Get Down to Social Business. From the infographic: By 2014, the market for social enterprise tools, software and services is predicted to reach $4.6 billion worldwide. This new generation of technologies is rising up to meet a growing demand for connectivity and…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Many Faces are in Your Latest Email?
I get over 100 relevant emails a day… I know that’s a bit disturbing. It’s especially disturbing when the email really isn’t that relevant. Such is the case with these LinkedIn emails that tell me about the folks in my network that have changed job titles. I can’t help but scan through the faces and click-through to check out what’s…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The Mobile Worker
By 2012, Morgan Stanley predicts that smartphones shipments will exceed computer shipments. In addition, it’s expected that 25% of all online e-commerce will be executed via a mobile device. It’s already estimated that 30% of corporate email is read on a mobile device. Although social media seems to take the lead of most stories… mobile should be top of mind…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Popularity of Programming Languages
Rackspace recently published an infographic on the evolution of programming languages. You can click through to Rackspace to see the entire infographic – the more applicable section, in my opinion, is the overall popularity at present. When I’m speaking with large companies, there seems to some question by the IT and development teams as to the plausibility of open source…
