Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
-
Corporate Blogging: Ten Frequently Asked Questions from Companies
If there’s one thing that pulls you back to reality, it’s meeting with regional businesses to discuss blogging and social media. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you understand blogging, social media, social bookmarking, search engine optimization, etc. You’re the exception! Outside the ‘blogosphere’, corporate America is still wrestling with finding a domain name and putting up a web page.…
-
This is a Tribute, to the Greatest Blog Post in the World…
This is the not the greatest blog post in the world… nooo… this is just a Tribute. All joking aside, I deleted 3 post drafts this morning. They were drafts that I had started long ago but I just couldn’t seem to fine-tune them enough for publishing. Perhaps one of them was the greatest post in the world. We just…
-
Google Adwords: Save a couple bucks…
If you want to save a couple bucks and not have people click on YOUR ad to come to YOUR site that they happen to ALREADY be on, remember to add your site to your competitive ad filter in Google Adsense.
-
Product Management: Silence is Success that often goes Unrewarded
Product Management isn't the easiest of jobs. Product Managers sometimes need to learn how silence is sometimes the best recognition you'll receive for a job well done. Read more in this post about the challenges of being a Product Manager and recognizing those rewards.
-
Where are the Single Serving Restaurants?
Why aren't there restaurants that pay attention to serving sizes? With obesity raging in this country and restaurants serving enough for a family of 5 on a single plate, why isn't anyone taking advantage and doing the right thing? Surely there's a market out there.
-
I’m a YouTubotato
YouTube on AppleTV? Can it get better than this? Here's a review of YouTube and AppleTV... you won't be disappointed.
-
Is the next President of the United States running Linux?
Earlier today I read a post about Ron Paul’s website. Interestingly, his site is less of a typical candidate site and more of a mashup of other sources of information about him. What a fantastic idea, and it shows additional transparency. That got me even more curious. What was the site developed on? According to Netcraft, Ron Paul’s site was previously…
-
Four Eyed Monsters
This is a spectacular independent film and perhaps the future of film distribution. It’s more targeted to folks like my son, but I still enjoyed it. The story accurately depicts all the awkwardness of getting into a relationship. It’s slightly edgy at times, but I suppose that’s realistic (and I am getting old). The messages behind the movie are timely…
-
What Does Jump the Shark Mean?
Jumping the Shark is a popular idiom used to describe when a television series, or any other form of entertainment, reaches a point of decline in quality, often due to far-fetched or gimmicky plot developments. The phrase originated in a 1977 episode of the sitcom Happy Days and has since become a widely recognized term in popular culture. In the…
