Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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A Video on Design versus Usability
Jon Arnold does an amazing job explaining what his firm does, Tuitive = Usability. There are some incredible applications out there that never see the light of day. The application may solve some very difficult issues, but if no one…
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For Traditional Businesses, New Media Is NOT Easy
Social media is easy. SEO is easy. Blogging is easy. Stop saying it. It's not true. Technology is daunting. Conventional companies struggle with leveraging technology and newer channels to get positive results. Many abandon or avoid it altogether. Online search…
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Engage! Brands, Business Rules, and Social Media
For the past month, I’ve been reading Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web by Brian Solis. Calling it a complete guide feels like an understatement—this book is deep,…