Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Your Agency Sucks
Yesterday, I spoke in Detroit at the headquarters of an international corporation that has dozens of subsidiaries. My presentation was an hour long and focused on how to look at analytics differently… seeking the information that they weren’t even aware existed nor how it impacted their online business. The presentation had some rave reviews and two hours afterwards, I still…
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The Real Cost of Social Media
The folks at Focus put out this infographic, sharing actual data on the cost, benefit and return on investment of social media. I appreciate the fact that they approximate the hours spent to manage the medium and even provide a cost to benefit ratio for top brands utilizing social media. Did you know the average monthly value of a Twitter…
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Video: Social Media Revolution 3
For some reason, I never get tired of watching these amazing videos from Socialnomics. This latest version of the Socialnomics video was published in June, 2011. Socialnomics was founded by Erik Qualman with the intent of providing Social & Mobile Statistics, Studies & Surprises. Be sure to check out Erik’s blog. I hope to get him on the Marketing Technology…
