Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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1,500 Posts! On to Social Media Domination!
I was using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine tonight to try to pinpoint when I officially began blogging. I was a late bloomer compared to those bloggers who started blogging when it was still called journaling. My earliest blogging occurred…
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I’m Leaving A Great Job and Heading To A Content Management SaaS Platform, Compendium
The last year I spent with Patronpath has been an incredible roller coaster ride. The company is in a tremendous growth spurt and is hugely successful! We won the Techpoint Mira award. We completed the development of 4 POS integrations…
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Marketing Analytics 101: Show Me the Money!
When I wrote an article for Talent Zoo last month, I wrote about leveraging automation and integration to maximize and leverage your online strategies, as well as the companies helping businesses to execute those marketing automation opportunities. A few minutes…
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Do you Seed Blogs?
Way back (snicker) in the early days of blogging, I figured out that commenting on other blogs was hugely successful. The majority of growth in those young days was due to my participation in the conversation in other blogs. Even…
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Mobile Textarea: How Many Characters Left
We’re up to Version 3.0 of the WordPress Mobile Plugin utilizing Connective Mobile’s API and Text Club feature. Connective Mobile has a 150 Character limit for your Mobile Marketing message that you want to broadcast to your subscribers. Rather than…
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Who’s Twittering You?
Reputation managers can set up alerts on micro-blogging and communicate to consumers, supporters and criticisms directly. Here's how to set up an alert for those communications within minutes.
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5 Strategies to Get Attention on the Web
This might be an ironic post given the fact that my blog is in a slight decline in readership. The truth is that I know what’s causing it, but I lack the time right now to invest to stop it.…
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PHP: Using Is.gd API to Shorten URL
Just read an article on the benefits and pitfalls of shortening URLs over at SEOmoz. I utilize the Is.gd API to do this: function doCurlRequest($url, $variable, $value) { $api = $url."?".$variable."=".$value; $session = curl_init(); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL, $api); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);…
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We Hired an Attorney Today
It’s not a bad thing. Every week, for more than a year, I’ve had a reminder from 43 things to Start a Successful Business. That’s a tall order! Starting a business is one thing, making it successful is quite another.…
