Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Agencies need this Book on their Coffee Table
Many years ago I went to my boss with, what I thought, was an incredible idea to boost garage sale classified advertisements. Build an online application where a subscriber can find their home and plot a day of garage sale visits. In between, advertisers could put a coupon or two for lunch or coffee. The route plotted would provide the…
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The Gap in Marketing Technology?
1.webp” alt=”Olympics Relay Drop” title=”Olympics Relay Drop” width=”360″ height=”202″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image4495″ align=”right” />Many, many years ago I was an analyst at a Newspaper. Each week I compiled data from across our production and distribution systems and worked to find where there was time or money to be saved. It was a challenging job but I had good leadership and…
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Why Bing Wins Video Search over Google
Google may be paying a little too much attention to text. Take a look at the stark difference between Google’s video search results and Bing’s video search results. I don’t often give Microsoft credit in the usability department – but they nailed this one! Google Video Search Results 1.webp” alt=”google-video-search” title=”google-video-search” width=”640″ height=”426″ class=”alignnone size-full tie-image4462″ /> Bing Video Search…
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Vendor Client Relationships in Real Life
My favorite client story is one where a client told me that my hourly rate was twice what my nearest competitor was. I told him I’d be glad to meet that rate but the work would take twice as long. He paused for a few moments as it sunk in… Don’t you wish you could take those great haggling techniques…
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Thank You for the Recognition Today, Indy!
In February I pulled some all-nighters and weekends while volunteering for the 2012 Superbowl Committee. Pat Coyle gave me a call when it was ramping up and I was energized to be on board and provide some guidance (and quite a bit of development) to piece together a social and search campaign that would get Indianapolis’ name all over the…
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What’s the ROI on Headaches?
Software companies and software as a service companies think they’re selling technology. Selling technology is easy… it has dimensions, takes up space, has definable features, limits, capabilities… and costs. The problem is that most people aren’t buying technology. 1.webp” alt=”people-technology” title=”people-technology” width=”640″ height=”215″ class=”alignnone size-full tie-image4351″ /> Give a great sales organization enough time and they can manipulate any request…
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Bing It On!
Microsoft is taking Google head on with a word that’s been synonymous with search and Google = relevance. Here’s the first commercial that Microsoft is running. I truly hope that Microsoft can aggressively challenge Google with Bing. For the last few days, I’ve used it as my default search engine, and I’m getting relevant results – that’s the name of…
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It’s Time to Turn Your Company Upside Down
When companies describe their management hierarchy, you usually get a pretty cool diagram that ranks employees by who they report to. The ones with the power and the compensation are always listed on top… in order of importance. It’s not a surprise. This puts the customer at the bottom of the hierarchy. Those employees who deal with prospects and customers…
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Pink: When Business Is Bare
1.webp” alt=”Victoria Secret Pink” title=”Victoria Secret Pink” width=”300″ height=”166″ class=”alignright size-medium tie-image4246″ />When my 15 year old daughter came home with a Victoria Secret bag in her hand I almost had a stroke. I welcome all the comments in this post about how terrible a father I must be and that I should better monitor my daughter’s buying habits. Honestly,…
