Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Small Business and Social Media
Postling is a small business social media application that allows businesses to publish to any of the popular social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Facebook Photos, and YouTube. Postling provided this infographic – providing some insight into small businesses and their use of social media. 1.webp” alt=”” title=”Small Business and Social Media Infographic” width=”640″ height=”2440″ class=”alignright…
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The History of Web and Social Analytics (Through 2011)
We love infographics… and if you haven’t noticed, we now have a category just for the Infographics. We love infographics so much that we’ve started to develop and design our own infographics and some for our partners and clients. This one was created for our client, Webtrends, and provides a social media and web analytics history. Here is a history…
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Social Media Timing
Some very intriguing stats on social media timing from @danzarrela, put into a beautiful infographic by the folks at Kissmetrics. Utilizing techniques to schedule your social media engagement can maximize the exposure your content will get in social networks. Included are stats for Facebook and Twitter on what days and times are best to maximize the audience size and the…
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Facebook: The Largest Marketplace on Earth
I can already hear the screams from the rafters… how dare you mix up dollars and cents with a social network. Those of you who have read my blog for a while understand that I’m not a Facebook fanboy. However, I’m slowly becoming more and more influenced by the incredible stats that Facebook continues to post… and advising my clients…
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Who is Really Your Target Audience?
1.webp” alt=”” title=”Target Audience” width=”213″ height=”281″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image11666″ align=”right” />One of the fundamental misunderstandings about online media is identifying who your target audience is. Too many people focus in on whether or not their prospects are there. This week, we worked with one company who complained that his C-level prospects simply weren’t online. I’m not going to argue whether…
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Copying Content is Not Okay
First my disclaimer: I am not an attorney. Since I am not an attorney, I’m going to write this post as an opinion. On LinkedIn, a conversation started with the following question: Is it legal to repost articles and other content that I find informative on my blog (of course giving credit to actual author) or should I speak with…
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The Thunderbolt is Killing the iPhone
1.webp” alt=”” title=”thunderbolt versus iphone” width=”280″ height=”300″ class=”alignright size-medium tie-image11545″ align=”right” />Walter Piecyk, BTIG Research analyst claims the HTC Thunderbolt is actually outselling the iPhone in 28% of Verizon stores. I know why. This month we’re kicking off some posts on mobile devices. Understanding the technology that is being adopted is important for marketers to understand. Mobile Internet growth is…
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Social Media Equity and Return on Investment
Gary Vaynerchuck is fast becoming one social media evangelist that I always stop to listen to, follow, and agree with. Bryan Elliott recently interviewed Gary in a two part series that I would encourage every business-owner… from small to CEO… to listen to. One point in the interview struck me – and I’m not sure that there was enough emphasis…
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Corporate Blogging for Dummies: Triple your Blog’s Traffic with Relevant Visitors
Bob Burchfield has been a long time friend and one of the nicest guys in Indianapolis. He attends all regional events and has the region’s most comprehensive Indianapolis events calendar. Bob dropped this note to me today: Doug, I want to share with you about a little blogging project that has gotten going in the past month. One of the…
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Free eBook: Moving to Social CRM
1.webp” alt=”” title=”Social CRM for Dummies” width=”300″ height=”279″ class=”alignright size-medium tie-image11515″ align=”right” />Customer Relationship Management is a key to most organizations, providing them with the customer intelligence and data they need to maintain a good relationship with their customers. Layering social media on top of your customer relationship activities can accelerate your company’s performance and build a much tighter relationship…
