Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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WordPress: Manage Ads with Ad-minister
Each time I would test some ads on my site, I always had to reach into the theme designer and edit the core them code… something that gets me a little nervous. I’ve tested quite a few ad plugins for my WordPress blog, but none of them were robust enough. This week I finally found what I needed with a…
- Content Marketing
You Won’t Be Blogging Forever
When I speak to folks about blogging, many ask me if blogging is here to stay. Nope. Asking someone if blogging will be here forever is like asking the guys who printed their newspapers with the Gutenberg press the same question. Like the free press, blogging will evolve with technology, bloggers with huge followings will be bought out, and blogs…
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Stuck on a Plane for 3.5 Hours
I recognize issues with the weather and appreciate that the airlines wish to keep people safe. My 14 year old daughter is on her first trip with her class to Washington D.C. She’s been sending photos to me of the White House, the Washington Monument, the Constitution and other sites since she arrived on Sunday night. We paid quite a…
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There’s Plenty of Room…
There’s plenty of room for all God’s creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes., originally uploaded by dullhunk. My Dad sent me this by email and it was simply too funny not to share. This is an advert for Saskatoon Restaurant, Greenville, South Carolina, and can be purchased as a T-Shirt. I’m also testing out Flickr’s ‘Blog this photo’ feature.…
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How Many Blog Posts?
An interesting question was posed to me today and I wanted to share it with you folks to get your thoughts. Is there an easy way to tell how many blog posts a person’s blog has? With WordPress, it’s pretty simple (perhaps too simple). Wrapping each post is a div with the Post ID. The Post ID happens to be…
- Content Marketing
Blogging is not Enough, “Press the Flesh”!
This is a phrase I’m growing tired of – quickly – during this presidential candidacy. I’m not sure who penned the original term but I’ve seen it used widely this season. Most recently, the governor of West Virginia used the term to discuss why Barack Obama lost West Virginia in a landslide to Hillary Clinton. He’s trying to defend the…
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You’d probably open this Mail…
Today in my mail I received a blue envelope that had my name and address neatly printed on the front. The reply address was a P.O. Box but it still appeared handwritten. When I flipped the envelope over, it had the Hallmark seal on it. The curiosity got the best of me and I opened it to find a card…
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Leveraging Web Analytics
Many people look at the typical site configuration and they see a Web Site that points to a Call to Action and then they measure that Call to Action through Analytics, calling it a conversion. If you were to draw that out, it looks like this: The problem, of course, is that the Web Analytics is housing TONS of hidden…
- Email Marketing & Automation
It’s Time to Change Email Marketing Strategies when…
Your emails look like this: Perhaps a subject line more compelling and personalized instead of “ChangeThis: Issue 46” Perhaps some line breaks so that I don’t have to wrap as I read (I didn’t read it, it was impossible). Perhaps Multi-part MIME emails to send text to those who want a plain look, but HTML to those of us who…
