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Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is a fractional Chief Marketing Officer specializing in SaaS and AI companies, where he helps scale marketing operations, drive demand generation, and implement AI-powered strategies. He is the founder and publisher of Martech Zone, a leading publication in marketing technology, and a trusted advisor to startups and enterprises alike. With a track record spanning more than $5 billion in MarTech acquisitions and investments, Douglas has led go-to-market strategy, brand positioning, and digital transformation initiatives for companies ranging from early-stage startups to global tech leaders like Dell, GoDaddy, Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe. A published author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies and contributor to The Better Business Book, Douglas is also a recognized speaker, curriculum developer, and Forbes contributor. A U.S. Navy veteran, he combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution to help organizations achieve measurable growth.
  • Interspire Inspiring Sophisticated Email Marketing

    This is a sponsored post. The folks at Interspire are raising the bar on Email Service Provider software with their newest upgrade, Interspire Email Marketer. Interspire offers a dynamic and robust email marketing solution that comes as an affordable server installed version or as a hosted web based solution. One of the most unique features in their latest version (5.5)…

  • Recession is a REQUIRED Marketing Tactic

    I’m a big fan of Andy Sernovitz’s blog, Damn! I Wish I’d Thought of That! Today, though, I’m not sure I agree with Andy. Marketers: Stop sending promotions that start with in these tough times, how to market in a recession, or any other bad economy-themed promotion. I Wish Andy would have thought of this: Perform a search on Recession…

  • Marketing in a Tough Real Estate Market

    Utilizing online technologies as a medium for commerce is a growing niche. Consumers are getting much smarter about using social media to help educate themselves on purchase decisions. With a housing market here and nationally in the dumps, it’s only natural that both Real Estate agents and consumers looking to buy have begun to utilize the Internet to make a…

  • Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
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    It’s Time to Put on Your War Face

    There’s a difference between a sales person and a closer. I believe I’m a great salesman, but a terrible closer. I know I’ve sold many large engagements, but I was never the guy that pushed for ink (the contract signing). I don’t enjoy pushing back on contract size or applying the pressure for a prospect to sign earlier. Thankfully, I’m…

  • Is the Google Cookie Crumbling?

    I have this theory that nothing is infinitely scalable. Successful businesses often outpace their ability to manage the growth, technologies that work great at a small scale seldom do the job at a huge scale… even employees are often promoted beyond their capabilities. Google has seen unprecedented growth the last decade.  For quite a while we’ve held them up to…

  • Analytics & TestingWebsite Comments and Engagement Is Not A Marketing KPI

    Engagement Is NOT A Marketing Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for Most Companies

    Don’t believe me? How much money does your company make from comments? How much money does your company make from those people who comment? How much money does your company make from people that comment on your social media posts? Probably none. Engagement, as measured by comments or participation, is nonsense for the vast majority of businesses. Many experts will…

  • Content Marketinghd video

    HD Video can be part of your Marketing Strategy

    One of my clients was Widen Enterprises. Widen is a 60 year old company that started in prepress technologies. Unlike some print companies, Widen has not stood by and watched as startups scavenged their industry. Instead, Widen has transformed into an Internet digital asset powerhouse. Now they’re transforming the digital asset management industry. You may have read some posts in…

  • Social Media and Happiness

    Last year, I wrote a post Can Social Media Cure Depression?. It seems it can! Today I was happy when good friend and Indianapolis Mobile Marketing guru Adam Small sent me the following link: Happiness is contagious in social networks. An excerpt: New research shows that in a social network, happiness spreads among people up to three degrees removed from…

  • Marketing & Sales Videosdoghouse

    Very Few Can Master Viral like This!

    Congratulations to JCPenney on this fantastic viral campaign. The Doghouse website has even more features and the video in high resolution. Check out the audio on the Get Out of the Dog House Page. Note: One minor improvement I would have made would have been to have an embedded share tag so folks don’t have to search the web!

  • Success through Automated Usage Reports

    At my job, we utilize Salesforce as our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool. Salesforce is one of those incredible systems that can do virtually anything, but usually requires some effort to get there. One of the great efforts that I see Salesforce advancing is proactive email marketing usage reports that are sent on a monthly basis to each user. The…

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