Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Integrate Chat with your Site in 5 Minutes
Over at WP Engine, I noticed they were running a really nice online chat program that popped up after about 45 seconds on the site. More and more of our clients had been asking for such a solution, so I did some digging and was surprised what I found! SnapEngage is a ridiculously simple Chat program for your website that…
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Developing a Persona is Sculpture, not Casting
1.webp” alt=”” title=”Persona” width=”213″ height=”320″ class=”alignleft size-medium tie-image12679″ />Companies and individuals are often overzealous in the protection of their brand or persona online. The old school of marketing taught us that everything about our brand had to speak to perfection… and that perfection was what sold. We had perfect logos, perfect packaging and perfect slogans to go with them. The…
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The Fastest and Easiest Means of Speeding Up Your Site
Through our hosting provider, I was introduced to CloudFlare. I was absolutely astonished at the service… especially the starting price (free). When I worked for a major SaaS provider, we configured geocaching services and it cost us tens of thousands of dollars a month. CloudFlare isn’t built for a SaaS provider, but it’s perfect for your website or blog. CloudFlare…
