Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Thrive with a Retail Marketing Management System
Running a small retail establishment is a difficult task, one that requires a business owner to be part marketer and part salesperson in addition to running their business. I recently received a note from Elliot Yeo from Thrive, a software application built to assist small retailers with running and improving their business. Once the system has details about your sales…
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Use Mobile to Acquire Email Subscribers
1.webp” alt=”” title=”text-to-subscribe” width=”188″ height=”238″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image11487″ />Good friend and former colleague, Megan Glover, is now the Director of Marketing at Delivra. Delivra is an email service provider with a solid reputation for helping its customers here in the region. They’ve also been named one of the best companies to work at in Indiana. Recently, Delivra teamed up with…
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Affordable Marketing Automation for Any Size Business
Marketing Automation is the name given to software platforms designed for marketing departments and organizations to simplify processes by automating repetitive tasks. One of those tasks is the ability to identify a visitor on your site, capture their information, and develop an ongoing communication strategy with them… accomplished with little or no resources using automation. 1.webp” alt=”” title=”Aberdeen Automation Stats”…
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Without the Right Tools…
1.webp” align=”right” title=”Thor” width=”229″ height=”300″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image11345″ />Friday night I had dinner with friend Adam Small, CEO of Agent Sauce – a real estate marketing platform. Afterwards, we decided to go see Thor in IMAX 3D. After the other movie previews ended, the packed audience settled in… until we heard an alarmed yell in the theater: “FOCUS!”, the man…
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Ratings, Reviews and Buyer Intent
1.webp” align=”right” title=”Jeff Quipp” width=”200″ height=”266″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image11314″ />Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with Jeff Quipp of Search Engine People, an SEO and Internet Marketing firm. Jeff moderated a panel on ratings, reviews and social media that I was on at the Search Marketing Expo and eMetrics Conference in Toronto with Gil Reich, VP…
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Monitoring Keyword Rank Distribution?
Since search engine optimization continues to drive down costs for our clients, we work hard to get them ranked well. When you’re trying to rank on a few words, it’s pretty simple to see if you’re doing the right things… using a tool like Authority Labs, you can monitor day to day ranking. We do this for all of our…
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The Huff with Huffington
1.webp” alt=”” title=”money-people” width=”200″ height=”267″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image11154″ align=”right” />In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a $105 million class action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington for selling to AOL but not providing any pay to the bloggers who helped develop the Huffington Post into such a powerhouse blogging community. I’ll skip the irony of a wealthy lefty making a quarter of…
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Video: Innovation is Achieved by Solving Problems
On Friday, I was provided an amazing opportunity to participate in Compendium’s Innovation Summit. Under the leadership of President Frank Dale, with an idea from Blake Matheny, and with the support of founder Chris Baggott and Sales VP Scott Blezcinski, the company took a “time out” from working and, instead devoted a day to innovation. Chris started out the initiative…
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53% Shifting Budget from Print to Search and Social
This morning, I’m reading eConsultancy’s State of Search Marketing Report for 2011. The State of Search Marketing Report 2011, produced by Econsultancy in association with SEMPO, looks in-depth at how companies are using paid search, search engine optimization (natural search) and social media marketing. The report, which also contains a marketplace valuation, follows a survey of over 900 respondents from…
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Crowdsource Your B2B Data Cleansing
Last week I had a great discussion with the folks at NetProspex, a Software as a Service toolset that allows you to enhance and verify your business to business contact records. The system is quite rich, already accumulating data on over 21 million verified B2B contacts. 1.webp” alt=”” title=”business-card-s” width=”300″ height=”177″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image11055″ align=”right” />Sometimes it’s easy to collect…
