Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Copyrights and The French Revolution
Copyright law has undergone significant transformations since its inception in the printing press era, evolving through historical milestones such as the French Revolution to contemporary challenges posed by artificial intelligence. For businesses today, understanding and complying with these laws is a legal necessity and a strategic imperative. Copyright law’s roots can be traced back to the 15th century, coinciding with…
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Mobile and Tablet Marketing
One browser feature that would take the market!
Earlier tonight, I was working on a great blog post – a collection of links that I’ve discovered in the past few weeks that I wanted to show to all of you. I wanted to round the number off at an even 10 just to make it a ‘Top 10’. I perused my saved bookmarks and wrote some little witty…
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Content Marketing
Why do great employees leave? Why must great companies still recruit?
Over the last decade, I have had the pleasure of working for several companies. The company that I measure most to is Landmark Communications. The Corporate Staff at Landmark empowered employees to develop themselves as much or as little as they would like. The company did so without fear of the investment that they would make in employees that may…
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Search Marketing
Review Me! Blogging for Dollars
Sponsored Post: ReviewMe When PayPerPost and ReviewMe first popped up on, I was pretty disappointed. I really felt as though ‘blogging for dollars’ was going to take a turn for the worst. Tonight I noticed a few posts on other blogs that ReviewMe was actually utilizing their own system to pay bloggers to review themselves. It caught my attention so…
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Content Marketing
Gas Hosevertising?
Speedway is the place for me to gas up. For a gas station, I must admit they do that little ‘extra’ for the inevitable trip to the gas station. For one, I carry around my Speedway rewards card that I’ve saved up 15,000 points on. I’m ashamed to admit that I have no clue what that means, other than every…
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Marketing Tools
In the Next 25 Years, My Predictions
It’s fun to think about the future and what it might bring. Here’s a collection of my predictions… Computer monitors will be flexible, light, wide, and inexpensive. Primarily made of plastics, the manufacturing processes will get cheaper and cheaper. The convergence of phones, television, and computing will be largely complete. Cars and airplanes will still run on gas. The United…
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Search Marketing
All Products are Conversations
Another gem from Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com, cartoons drawn on the back of business cards:
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Content Marketing
Are you working with Philanthropic Organizations?
Today I joined my company’s charitable committee, ExactIMPACT. I don’t always have the opportunity or resources to give back so I decided that I should do some charity work at the place I spend the most time at! This Thanksgiving is looking pretty bleak for charities who watch over so many in our society who can not take care of…
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Search Marketing
Top 10 Tips for Getting a Better Pay Raise
If you’ve not already noticed, I have another site called Income Change Calculator. I hope you find it useful. As a manager, I used to have to calculate pay increases for my employees all the time – that site grew out of the need to make it easier to calculate. I’d like to add some tips to the site on…
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Content Marketing
4 Seconds or Bust
Remember the days of going to bed with your modem humming along downloading pages so you could view them the next morning? I guess those days are far behind us. John Chow posted a note on this study put out by Jupiter that states that most online shoppers will bail out if your page doesn’t load in 4 seconds or…