Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Consultants, Contractors, and Employees: Where Are We Heading?
Often, I hear the screams of pain when we turn to external consultants or contractors to get work completed. It’s a delicate situation – sometimes employees feel like they are being betrayed that you’re going external. Quite honestly, there’s a learning curve and additional expense to going external. There are advantages, though. Humor aside, consultants and contractors recognize the fact…
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Borders Live at 01: Borders vs. Amazon Email Marketing
If you don’t have a Borders store around you, I’m sorry. If you do, you might like this site that Borders has launched, Borders Live at 01: 1.webp” alt=”Borders Store01″ /> Wow… books, live music and Seattle’s Best Coffee! That’s like heaven for me! It also appears that the Borders Email Newsletter has gotten an overhaul, it’s really fun to…
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Kiss Theory Good Bye: The Five Crippling Habits of Companies
Yesterday, I completed reading Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. If I were to rank it, it may be a 3 or 4 out of 10. It’s a quick read and the message behind it is both timely and incredibly important. In all honesty, though, it could have been published as a white paper and had…
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Book Release! Renée Pawlish: Nephilim, Genesis of Evil
1.webp” /> For two and a half years I worked with Renée at a Newspaper Database Marketing firm in Denver, Colorado. Like many talented employees, Renée had creative outlets that blew me away. I was lucky enough and thrilled to read the transcripts of Renée’s first murder mystery book. It was an awesome read, fun and unpredictable! Renée just wrote…
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Stealing the Bait from Phishers
Have you ever gone fishing where you keep dropping your line and a few minutes later your bait is gone? Eventually, you pick up your line and go elsewhere, don’t you? What if we applied this to Phishing? Perhaps every single person that receives a phishing email should actually click through on the link and enter bad information in the…
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Would Your Company Blog If Your Life Depended On It?
Some folks think bloggers are hunkered down in our basements with boxes of pizza and Mountain Dew everywhere. There’s another view of bloggers that you might not be aware of. Bloggers are social people who crave communication (and sometimes attention!). Today, I had a fantastic discussion with a local business group. I had the opportunity to discuss my experiences with…
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The Best Resources to Ramp Up Your Corporate Blogging Strategies
In preparation for speaking to a local business group about Corporate Blogging, I’ve gathered quite a few resources from many sites. I would be remiss if I didn’t publicly thank them. I’m also providing a handout to folks with resources and links back to these folks’ websites. In the past, I was against corporate blogging as a strategy. I penned…
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What is Net Neutrality?
The term Net Neutrality was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003. The questions raised in discussions of open access and network neutrality are basic to both telecommunications and innovation policy. The promotion of network neutrality is no different than the challenge of promoting fair evolutionary competition in any privately owned environment, whether a telephone network, operating system, or even…