Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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The Winning Combo of Product, Choice, and Emotion
The Jellyvision Lab has put out an amazing little eBook on How to Present Product Choices. The ebook compares the behaviors of shoppers in supermarkets to those online and provides evidence that behaviors are similar. You might think that a supermarket is enormous, but Jellyvision reminds us that there’s an infinite amount of space on the web, and how you…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Steve Jobs: Let Them Eat Case!
I’m writing this on an Apple keyboard, with my Apple MacBookPro, on my Apple Cinema Display, with my Apple mouse… connected to my Apple Time Machine. I don’t call myself an Apple fanboy, but the quality of their products is always worth the additional cost in my opinion. It’s not just the beauty of their products that I appreciate, it’s…
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Advertising Technology
Old Spice Inspires: When in Doubt, Go Dumb
Sometimes, I love marketing and developing long-term strategies that change the perception of a business, increase the reception of a brand, drive sales, and skyrocket a company’s success. Today isn’t one of them. The online marketing world is ablaze at the brilliant strategy of the Old Spice guy. If you’re one of the few that hadn’t heard, the Old Spice…
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Content Marketing
Marketers are So Full of Crap
<rant>I’m listening to The Influencer Project. It’s a really interesting project – 60 minutes of 60-second tips from the Who’s Who on the web talking about creating influence online. I could be a little bitter that I didn’t get invited to help, but as I’m listening to these folks… I came to the realization that many of them are just…
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Analytics & Testing
Marketing Conductors… err.. Consultants
When I started DK New Media, one of the decisions to make was actually how to brand the company. As I think about marketing and its evolution, I often compare it to a conductor and a symphony. As a consultant, I need to be much like a conductor, helping blend the different mediums and leverage them to hit the right…
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WordPress: How to Make a Video Facebox Popup
Vimeo and YouTube videos now offer higher definition videos that can take up quite a bit of real estate on a web site or blog. One way of optimizing for this is to utilize a method called a Facebox. A facebox is a nice means of displaying a window within your page without a separate popup window. Lifeline Data Centers…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Am I The Only One That Still Loves Creative Marketing?
I was driving on the West Side of town, looked over at a billboard, and there was a billboard for tools. Instead of the billboard being a typical ad, the advertisement went all the way to the ground. An arm ran up the post and the actual tool was in the billboard area. It looked as though the arm was…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What Your Site Hierarchy Looks Like (Design, Index, Links, and Journey)
So many companies I work with focus so much of their time on their home page, navigation, and subsequent pages. Many of them are bloated, with unnecessary content and pages that no one reads – yet they still ensure they are out there. Designers and agencies sit down and develop the site with a great hierarchy in mind that typically…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
ATTN: Social Media Application Developers
Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. My blog. My company. Aside from those, I have a Google account. I have a gravatar account. I have a WordPress account. I have a Yahoo! account. I’m on Flickr. Delicious. Technorati. Ning. Before that there was MySpace. And AOL. Back in the day, I even had a Prodigy account. So here’s my question, since I’m absolutely…
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Content Marketing
RIP: All Your Databases Are Belong to Matt
The technology world lost a special person yesterday, friend Matthew S. Theobald. Matt was an amazing and brilliant person, developing and designing a means to index the data of the world through the Internet. I wrote about Internous after meeting Matt after a local Smaller Indiana event last year. Matt had a vision and tirelessly pursued it. The last time…
