Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Social Media Lead Scoring and Qualification
I’ve been trying to catch up with my friends at Right On Interactive for a few months now… there have been murmurs all around the industry that their most recent platform enhancements are amazing. Andy Skirvin stopped the the office and walked through the platform and it absolutely blew me away. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been…
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B2B: Videos are Influencing Purchasing Decisions
Video has been touted quite a bit with consumer marketing, but the real opportunity might be with business-to-business (B2B) marketing. In a recent study released by Eccolo Media, multimedia topped the collateral list as the fastest growing mediums that decision-makers and influencers are utilizing to make purchasing decisions. 1.webp” class=”s3-img” border=”0″ alt=”B2B Collateral” /> As we found in every past…
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Speaking Your Audience’s Language
It’s only fitting that I write a post about communication sitting in a conference room in France. Last night we had dinner scheduled for 8 PM with a company at Le Procope, the oldest restaurant in Paris (est 1686). We were excited – this restaurant had patrons like Danton, Voltaire, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. We’ve been…
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The Real Reason to Hire a Social Media Guru
Over the last decade, I’ve worked tirelessly to build an online following, authority, and eventually a thriving business. Now, I’m faced with people who wish to hire my services so I can help them do the same. At times it’s a great company with incredible talent and I’m able to deliver. Sometimes that’s not the case and I provide a…
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Have You Set Up Parameters in Webmasters?
This week, I was reviewing client sites utilizing webmasters tools. One of the oddities it identified were that many of the internal links on the site had campaign codes attached to them. This was great for the client, they could track each of their calls-to-action (CTA) throughout the site. It’s not so great for Search Engine Optimization, though. The problem…
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The Only Truly Global Email Service Provider
NOTE: Emailvision is now part of SmartFocus. While it’s true that our hometown heroes, ExactTarget, are now expanded into the United Kingdom and Australia, they’re still fairly limited to English-speaking countries. Earlier this year, we had the incredible opportunity to meet the talented leadership team of Emailvision. Centered in Clichy, France (just outside of Paris), Emailvision may truly be the…
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Social Media + Analytics = Inaccurate
If I were to ask you which source provided more traffic to your site, Twitter or Facebook… how would you determine that? The majority of web analytics users would log in and look at their referring sources and come up with the value. That’s a problem. Some companies simply add “twitter.com” as a referring source and think that it does…
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Drip, Drip, Drip… Buy
No one is waiting for your next tweet, status update or blog post to make their next purchase. There’s always the chance that you might motivate someone to purchase, but it’s impossible to predict when prospects are ready to make their next purchase. That’s why it’s so important to be there when your prospects are ready to decide. Where will…
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Agencies: Quit Wasting Your Clients’ Footer Powered By Links
Agencies and designers are typically diligent at adding their powered by to the footer of the sites and applications they build. Still, I’m surprised at how many don’t utilize that opportunity to gain some search engine ranking. When I explain search engine optimization and ranking to folks, I typically explain it this way: On-page Keyword Optimization – using keywords effectively…
