Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
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One of the benefits of working with a company that specializes in blogging for SEO is that it gives us some inside connections to SEO experts who have accomplished quite a bit of testing and experimentation. Today I had a discussion with someone who recommended a couple social media sites that can actually assist with your Search Engine placement. Surprisingly,…
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Marketing Books
Am I an A**hole?
Am I an a**hole? Readers of my blog typically stick up for me and speak to the respect, passion, and compassion I try to provide through my blog. It’s definitely a persona that I project and one that I try to work to perfect each day. Blog posts have the advantage of pre-planning (although in the past, I have been…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Autotarget: A Behavioral Marketing Engine for Email
Database marketing is all about indexing behaviors, demographics and doing predictive analytics on your prospects in order to market to them more intelligently. I actually wrote a product plan a few years ago to statistically score email subscribers based on their behavior. This would allow the marketer to segment their subscriber population based on who was the most active. By…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Stop Bailing, Let’s Invest in the Opportunity of Social Media
Americans hate to lose a war, period. In one view, the dying automotive industry is a war we think we’re losing. I don’t believe we’re losing anything; I believe we’re progressing. Jobs moving overseas always sound ominous, but people ignore that we’re creating new jobs in this nation that have never been heard before. I’m a living example of this.…
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Marketing Books
Eye Have A Spelling Chequer
I just finished reading Righting the Mother Tongue: From Old English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling, by David Wolman. You may not know what orthography and etymology are, and that’s okay. I know I’m a butcher of grammar and spelling, but this book made me feel better about my skills. There are millions of words in the…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Content versus Backlinks
A lot of folks spend and sell their time on the optimization of their website, and wind up scratching their heads when another site has greater ranking but isn’t optimized. It’s because optimizing the content is only half the battle, it’s getting the attention of other sites that really pushes your site up the Search Results. The search engine’s job…
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Corporate Sponsorship
If I could sell patches on my suit, I think I could start a bidding war between Papa John’s, Donato’s and Dominoe’s:
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media Experts in your Backyard!
Social media is a booming business right now, even with the rut our economy is in. I believe there are three reasons for that: Social media is an engaging medium that is difficult to fake or do half-ass. Social media is an inexpensive medium, requiring time but not a lot of expensive resources. Social media is a primary means of…
