Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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How to Fake the Numbers: Lessons from Twitter and Facebook
I once wrote a satirical post that 3.24% of Facebook users are dead. My point was pretty simple, Facebook continues to inflate their numbers by counting the number of total accounts rather than accounts with recent usage. On the Facebook advertising page, it states, “Reach over 350,000,000 active Facebook users.” Really? If I sign up for an ad, that ad…
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Marketing Blog Likes and Dislikes
Marketing Blogs are on my daily digest schedule. I follow marketing bloggers on Twitter and have a bazillion marketing blog feeds in my reader (which I never keep up with). I often read a blog and stop within a few days because of the content, others I’ve read for years. I don’t believe there’s any single #1 marketing blog on…
- Content Marketing
5 Keys to Your Successful Personal Brand
I had a conversation with one friend today and got an email from another asking my advice on how to build their personal brand… and ultimately profit from it. This may be a topic that’s better answered by friend Dan Schawbel, a personal branding expert… so keep an eye on his blog. I’ll share my thoughts on what I’ve done…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Not All SEO Professionals Are Created Equal
While I was at a content management platform I cofounded, I was often confronted by SEO professionals who liked to challenge every little thing across the application. At issue was that these folks were used to working on a set number of pages with a few keywords and then maximizing the impact of those select pages. They weren’t used to…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Move Your Blog and Retain Search Momentum
If you have an existing blog, chances are that you have search engine authority built to that domain or subdomain. Typically, companies simply start a new blog and abandon their old one. If your old content is lost, this could be a huge loss in momentum. In order to keep search engine authority, here’s how to migrate to a new…
- E-commerce and Retail
Causes: Charity + Facebook = WIN!
I’m not a fan of Facebook, that probably won’t change anytime soon. Aside from the ridiculous ads that won’t go away no matter how many times I ask (see screenshot below), Facebook is a closed system – they want all activity to happen within their platform. This is constraining… and lessons should have been learned from AOL and MySpace. In…
- Content Marketing
5 Keys to B2B Blogging
This week I’m working on a presentation for the Webtrends Engage conference. My topic is quite specific and the time slot is very brief (10 minutes), so it’s challenging me to do one heck of a presentation! I’ve been asked to speak to successful B2B Blogging. I’ve narrowed the keys to Business to Business (B2B) Blogging down to 5 distinct…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Is Copernicus or Aristotle Running Your Business?
There are several businesses I work with… and I think the ones I enjoy the most are the ones who recognize that they are not as important as their customers are. Some of the others don’t even acknowledge that there is a customer. Copernicus has been identified as the father of modern day astronomy since he argued heliocentrism over a…
- Event Marketing
Dropping the Super Bowl for Digital Media
More and more businesses are embracing technology when it comes to their marketing strategies. When Pepsi pulled out of the Super Bowl, traditional journalists called it a gamble. Not advertising in the Super Bowl is a gamble? Really? A Super Bowl advertisement costs $3 million dollars per 30 seconds. Pepsi planned two 30 secoond ads and a 60 second ad……
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Checking Your Site’s Rank with Personalized Search
One of my clients called last week and asked why, when she searched, her site was first in the rankings but another person had her down the page a bit. If you hadn’t heard the ruckus, Google has turned on personalized search results permanently. That means that based on your search history, your results will differ. If you’re checking your…
