Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Hold Companies Accountable
I could share some great horror stories with you on my history with banks and credit cards. Some of it has admittedly been my fault but most of it is the ridiculous actions of banks. I wonder how these guys sleep at night… massive profits, bailouts, executive bonuses and ridiculous overage fees haven’t even budged them to improve their systems.…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The iPad Hype… Why You’re Next
We had a couple folks complain that the blog had an issue on the iPad where they actually couldn’t read the posts. This was about the tenth person that complained about our blog and the iPad so I finally broke down and we purchased a few. One is for me, one for Stephen, our developer… and the other one is…
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Analytics & Testing
Conversions: Meet the Intent of your Visitor
It may seem like an obvious question, but it when your site is designed to respond to the intent of each kind of visitor you’re able to convert more. Visitors will come to your site for a number of reasons: Seeking Information – both clients and prospects may be looking for specific answers. Can they find them? If not, can…
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Advertising Technology
Do Not Track: What Marketers Need to Know
There’s already been quite a bit of news about the FTC’s request for Internet companies to enabled features that empower consumers to not be tracked. If you hadn’t read the 122-page Privacy report, you’d think the FTC was setting some kind of line in the sand on a feature they’re requesting called Do Not Track. What is Do Not Track?…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Bob Prosen Launches Small Business Accelerator
A few years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed Kiss Theory Goodbye, a book from Bob Prosen that provides sound advice for businesses. Bob’s business leadership and management training programs have dramatically increased performance and profitability and changed the culture at Sabre, Hitachi, Sprint, AT&T and hundreds of small businesses across the nation. Bob’s consulting and training are now in…
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Content Marketing
Integrate WordPress and Blog Talk Radio
We’ve had our radio show going for a couple months and continue to build a great following thanks to Blog Talk Radio. Most recently, friends Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy were on to discuss their latest book Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself. We’ve been very satisfied with Blog Talk Radio. It’s a great…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
The Awesome Authors Beta is Live
Part of our rebranding was coming up with a unique feature specifically for Martech Zone. Although I call this site my blog, I truly want the blog to be a collection of views from other professionals in the industry. At times, I disagree with what’s written here… but I support the fact that we all have different perspectives on the…
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Content Marketing
Marketing Automation with Aggregation and Syndication
We like to use big words in the marketing industry… aggregation and syndication are a couple of them – and they’re very important. Aggregation – allows you to collect content from other sites and display them in yours. They could be from a blog, news feed, podcast, or social feed. Aggregation can be a great tool to use to keep…
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Content Marketing
Technology Marketing: The Apple Formula
Technology marketing, as opposed to marketing technology, is the way that products and services in technology are positioned to potential customers. Since our world and lives are moving online… the manner in which technologies are fantastic, leading examples of how to brand and market overall. It’s difficult not to think about technology marketing without speaking to Apple. They are fantastic…
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Autoupdates Failing on WordPress? FTP Failing?
Recently, we had a client that configured their own servers for use with WordPress. When the recent 3.04 security update came through, there was some sense of urgency to getting this version installed on all of our clients. However, this particular client always required that we upgrade WordPress manually… a process not for the faint of heart! We wouldn’t get…
