Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Education at the Speed of Technology
Last night I was given the opportunity to speak to the CIT 499 class at IUPUI for Dr. Thomas Ho. It was an engaged class, composed of some students that hadn’t entered the workplace, some who had, and some who were currently working in technology. In speaking to them, I simply shared my experiences on how businesses are beginning to…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Two More Tips that Seth Missed on Surveys
Nicki tweeted about Seth Godin’s post: Five Tips for Surveys. I think Seth missed a couple key tips: First, please don’t survey your customers unless you’re prepared to do something with the results. Second, I’d recommend every survey process starting with a single question, “Would you recommend us?” As Seth states in his post, asking one question can often change…
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Analytics & Testing
The Other Traffic Source in Google Analytics?
This week at work, one of our clients was asking what the “other” traffic source in Google Analytics (GA). There’s not too much detail in the actual interface for Google Analytics so you have to do some digging. Traffic sources are also known as the medium in GA. I did some digging and found that Google Analytics captures the medium…
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Reputation is Authority’s Dark Shadow
The news is full of some incredible stories of humanity recently: Alex Rodriguez admits to steroids (strangely omitted from MLB.com’s AROD news page) Michael Phelps photographed smoking pot. He’s subsequently lost a huge endorsement deal with Kellogg’s. Even Barack Obama has had a couple tough weeks, trying to find cabinet members and pushing through a stimulus package that has sinking…
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How Much Would You Pay for Twitter?
There were some rumors of Twitter charging for commercial accounts, but it appears those rumors have been crushed. In my opinion, it’s too bad. Three Reasons Twitter Should Charge: Paying for commercial messaging has been key in reducing text message spam in the mobile industry. Making commercial users pay on Twitter would probably reduce the number of Spitterers out there.…
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Content Marketing
Thinking Visually
Great find from Leslie Pagel on Walker Information’s Customer Innovation Blog: From David Armano.
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Advertising Technology
It’s Not Getting Easier for Marketers
Key to many of the links I share and the posts I write on this blog is automation. The reason is simple… at one time, marketers could easily sway consumers with a brand, a logo, a jingle and some nice packaging (I admit that Apple is still great at this). Mediums were uni-directional. In other words, Marketers could tell the…
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Content Marketing
Marketing Engagement: Fun with Videos
Building a platform for businesses to blog on is only a success if those customers actually leverage the platform. We know our clients would succeed in getting a return on investment if we could just get them to create and share more posts about their products and services. Platform utilization requires that the software as a service company actually have…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Appirio Connects Salesforce and Facebook
I was just doing a webinar yesterday and someone asked me to prioritize social networks based on their ability to drive business. Although I don’t believe social networks to be a primary medium for marketing and advertising (based on the intent of the user), I do encourage our clients to utilize RSS and other tools to automate publishing of their…
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Content Marketing
How to Select a Web Designer
A friend of mine asked me in an email, can you recommend a web designer for me? I paused for a minute… I know a ton of web designers – everything from brand experts, to local graphic designers, to content management systems developers, to social networking experts, to complex integration, enterprise and architecture developers. I responded, “What are you trying…
