Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Books
Dummies: A Reference for the Rest of Us!
Last week there was an Indy Christian Geeks lunch at my favorite coffee shop. During lunch, I had a special gift delivered from the good folks at Wiley Publishing (also here in Indianapolis!). The guys had some fun… snapping some photos and uploading them to Twitter within minutes with great titles like, The Secret is Out! Kidding aside, Wiley has…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Why I don’t like Facebook
Those of you who have seen me speak have often heard me speak out against Facebook. I’m on Facebook, I participate on Facebook… but I don’t like it. There are quite a few things I don’t enjoy on Facebook: The navigation makes no sense to me. There are menus, side menus, navigation that appears… I get lost and don’t believe…
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E-commerce and Retail
Consumers Do Not Buy Perfection Anymore
One of the most wonderful transformations that I believe social media has brought about is the destruction of the perfect brand. No longer do consumers expect perfection… but we do expect honesty, customer service, and fulfillment of any promises a company set expectations for. In a client luncheon last week at Bitwise Solutions, President and CEO Ron Brumbarger told his…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Video: How Social Media Works
It all starts with one… then it’s unstoppable.
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Content Marketing
Chris Brogan Rocked BlogIndiana
“Now I know why you want to hate me!”, chanted Chris (ala Limp Bizkit) at one point in a panel discussion. The question was referring to what brings out the haters in the social media world. The fact is that, as online personas build their own brand and develop their own voice and expertise in the industries… some folks will…
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I’m Right Behind You…
How would you modify your content if the person browsing your website were in a different country? A different state? A different city? Across the street? In your store? Would you speak to them differently? You should! Geotargeting has been around for quite a while now in the direct marketing industry. I worked with a database marketing company to work…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
PhoneGap: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development
If you’ve had any experience developing in multiple languages, aside from objective C, you’ll probably get the same reaction that this guy did: I bought the book and read it, watched the movies, installed the IDE and I still can’t bluff my way into an app that simply states, “Hello World!”. Thank goodness that there are some incredibly intelligent developers…
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Content Marketing
Looking for a Second Opinion? A Hundred?
There was quite a firestorm when I promoted utilizing crowdSPRING. Those in the design community who I respect so much though it was a bit hypocritical to appreciate crowdSPRING and other spec systems like 99designs, while advocating hiring design agencies as well. I don’t believe it’s one or the other, I do appreciate both! I challenged a couple of the…
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Great Ideas Don’t Matter
Working with successful entrepreneurs the last few years has been an eye-opener for me. I’ve always been an idea guy, but watched as others executed on those ideas and became much more successful than I am. Compendium is one of those amazing ideas – and now it’s a company that’s doubling in size year over year. It’s not doubling because…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Putting a Value on Social Media with Tourism
Pat Coyle and I met with the great team at the Indiana Office of Tourism today. The team has been recognized as the top tourism office in the country for adopting social media strategies – and it’s working. Pat and I will be speaking in September to over 55 visitor bureaus from all over the state and met with the…
