Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
Ignore, Measure and Focus
Gregg Stewart has an outstanding post speaking to Marketing Integration in a Decentralized World. When you get a chance, please read the post and consider – not just the advice – but the solutions that are offered. One of the solutions mentioned was Aprimo. Aprimo is an Indianapolis-based company that I had the pleasure of speaking with over the last…
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Can Bloggers become The Fourth Estate?
Nobility is the First Estate, the Church is the Second, the People are the Third… and Journalism was always thought to be the Fourth Estate. As newspapers began losing interest in being a watchdog for the people and – instead – focusing on profitability, publishers began looking at journalism as the filler between advertisements rather than the purpose in life.…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Check your Content Strategy with Google Search Console
Many people know of Google Search Console for site submissions and verifying robots files, sitemaps and indexing. Not enough people utilize the search statistics to get a clear strategy for their site content, though. Navigate to Statistics > Top Search Queries and you’ll find a fantastic data grid: On the left side of the grid are the Top Search Queries…
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Traffic is Relative, I Have Enough
Growing traffic. Everyone seems obsessed with getting their content out there to as many places and searches they possibly can. For a business, it’s always cool to get national or regional recognition that gets some interest flowing in your company. Is it the right traffic, though? Working in the Newspaper industry gave me a fascinating look at the ridiculous chase…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Video: How to Publish Your Blog on Twitter
I completed this video last night to provide our clients with instruction on how to publish their blog on Twitter via Twitterfeed and an RSS feed. It’s applicable to any application with an RSS feed, so thought I’d share it here as well!
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Content Marketing
Three Keys to Leveraging Your Content
Many marketers leverage one piece of technology that they enjoy or are comfortable with and ignore the others. I’m a huge proponent of automation and the marketer leveraging their messaging in any way, shape, or form – so much as it never does harm to their marketing efforts. With regard to a company leveraging content through its site, articles, whitepapers,…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Cut Your Blog Traffic in Half
I don’t surmise anyone would actually wish to cut their traffic in half on their blog. However, it’s pretty standard with my statistics and puts quite a bit of pressure on my to blog every day. If I continue to blog on a consistent basis, my traffic grows – perhaps about 100 new visitors a day each month. However, if…
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Where to Start a Startup?
There are some incredible advantages to starting a company in Indiana. The leadership of entrepreneurs is a tight network of people who are trusted and proven. I’ve spoken about Indiana and Indianapolis as being a prime location for a company to start a business. The people are well-educated and hard-working. The real estate is still one of the most stable…
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The Four Horsemen of the Startup
I’ve been working in startups for almost a decade now. In reviewing the success and challenges of the startups I’ve worked for, its often entrepreneurs that were previously successful that move on to their next startup. I believe there are four issues that startups (and entrepreneurs) must avoid if they wish to survive. The Four Horsemen of the Startup: Greed…
