Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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What Makes a Great Analyst?
At the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, we had an interesting conversation on what makes a great data analyst. With a room full of analysts in the room, it’s an excellent question. Generally, the team I worked with agreed that there were business analysts and data analysts – and the expectations on each were a bit different. 1.webp” alt=”Understanding Insight and…
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Outliers: The Story of Success
As I was waiting for my flight yesterday, I remembered the two things I forgot – my sport jacket and one of the books in my to-be-read pile. Luckily, the store by my gate had a reasonable book selection, and Outliers: The Story to Success, by Malcolm Gladwell, was there. I’ve been a huge fan of Malcolm Gladwell – both…
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Acrylic Times Elegantly Combines Newspapers and RSS
My friend Bill turned me onto MacHeist a while back. MacHeist is a great deal – they put together a bundle of applications for the Mac that you can purchase at a steep discount. If enough people purchase and enough money is raised for charity, they provide every purchaser licenses for every application in the entire package. It’s an ingenious…
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Video: Twitter in Real Life
This might be the greatest example of the insanity of Twitter. I think I follow 5,000 people because one out of every 1,000 tweets is useful. Watch the video and you’ll see what I see. Even with all the insanity, I still love Twitter though! That’s where I found this video, of course!
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The Most Important Feature of Your Corporate Blog
1.webp” alt=”Door Knocker” title=”Door Knocker” width=”200″ height=”266″ class=”alignright size-full tie-image3987″ align=”right” />Tonight I had a great time at Confluence, an Indianapolis networking event, where we reunited a team to speak on the Do’s and Don’ts of Corporate Blogging. I was joined by fellow industry professionals Rhoda Israelov, Rodger Johnson, Kyle Lacy and Kevin Hood. There were minor differences in agreement…
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HUGE PROFITS… Secrets Revealed Now!
1.webp” alt=”Click HERE to Order by Joel Comm” title=”Click HERE to Order by Joel Comm” width=”200″ height=”300″ class=”alignleft size-full tie-image3938″ align=”left” />No, my site was not attacked by a spammer. This is still Doug writing this post and I’m doing it under my own free will. Have you ever hit a web page that advertises that they’re going to reveal…
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Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres
Regular readers of my blog know that I’ve always been an advocate of measurement. A career in database marketing opened my eyes to the power of data and its ability to accurately assist marketing efforts. Attending the Webtrends Engage Conference was quite an inspiration and has really put me on a crusade to ensure companies measure and analyze their online…
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Stepping into Cross Media Optimization
There were quite a few sessions at the Webtrends Engage 2009 Conference that spoke to the power of data integration and its positive impact on business results. Many companies start with an enormous datamart design and then move backwards – trying to make everything fit into their data model. It’s a flawed process since processes continuously change… you’ll never successfully…
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What’s your Strategy for Customer Recovery?
1.webp” alt=”webtrends-numbers” title=”webtrends-numbers” width=”200″ height=”111″ class=”alignleft size-full tie-image3799″ />In many posts I’ve spoken about “get, keep and grow” strategies for companies to grow their business, but one aspect I don’t think I’ve ever written about is recovering customers. Since I’m in the software industry, I’ve rarely seen customers return so we’ve not incorporated tactics to try to win a customer…
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Social Media and the Employee Conundrum
John Jantsch asks a great question, Do you have a Social Media Non-Compete? Another question might be, “Can a company enforce a social media non-compete?” Courts have traditionally frowned upon restrictions placed by employers on their employees’ right to find and make a living. Since more and more companies are being compelled to utilize social media and encourage their employees…
