Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Wicked Lies that Social Media Gurus Weave
This is a rant. Lies, lies, lies. I’m so very tired of hearing all of the crap that social media ‘gurus’ tell clients. Last night I did a Twitter Explained training with Linda Fitzgerald and her group, Affiliated Women International. The group is made up of experienced, empowered business women. In their words: Our vision is to “empower women worldwide”.…
- Content Marketing
Fix Caching Issues with Flash, JavaScript, XML, KML or Google Maps
This is a short and sweet post on caching issues. Sites and browsers are built to really optimize resources. They do it so well sometimes that the end result actually breaks your dynamic website instead of updating it as often as you’d like. Today I was working with JW Player, a Flash Movie player that pulls in a list of…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Interactions’ Hybrid Calling System = Amazing
On Monday, I had the opportunity to tour Interactions, listen and observe their system in action, and use a full demonstration of Hey Otto – a voice and web conferencing system that utilizes Interactions technology on the back end. Companies who have large call centers go down two different roads, either automated speech recognition (ASR) systems or by employing large…
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Set Expectations with an Acceptance Agreement
As a marketer, you’re probably relying on a lot of third party applications and resources to bring your campaigns to life. I’ve written before about how setting expectations with your customers drives customer satisfaction… there’s also a way that you can help drive your own satisfaction – build an acceptance agreement to set the tone with your third party relationships.…
- Advertising Technology
Skip The Resume and the Job Fair
On Sunday, I was working on another startup’s plans and had a discussion with all of my partners about transparency and the Internet. It’s no different. As business leaders, they need to be out in front of the herd, need to have their presence known, need to have photos out there that people can see. They need to step outside…
- Analytics & Testing
Track Multiple Authors with Google Analytics
On a multiple author site, each author can post in a multitude of categories, it’s nearly impossible to identify each author’s contributions to the overall strategy of the site. I was doing some testing with this recently and identified a nice simple way of measuring traffic by each author. Google Analytics has the ability to track additional virtual pages. This…
- 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.…
- 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…
