Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Customer Data Platforms
How To Prepopulate A Form Field With Today’s Date and JavaScript or JQuery
While many solutions offer the opportunity to store the date with each form entry, there are other times when it’s not an option. We encourage our clients to add a hidden field to their site and pass this information along with the entry so they can track when form entries are entered. Using JavaScript, this is easy. How To Prepopulate…
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Customer Data Platforms
CRM: Data Cleanliness is Next to Data Godliness
I wrote a colleague today reinforcing how important Data Cleanliness is in your CRM efforts. Says I, “Data Cleanliness is next to Data Godliness.” Says She, “Then I will be in Data Heaven!” We chuckled, but it’s no small feat. Data cleanliness and accuracy are critical for effective sales and marketing efforts. Ensuring clean and deduplicated data is essential for…
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Marketing Tools
What’s a Mashup?
The term mashup was originally popularized in the early 2000s. While it’s challenging to attribute it to a single individual, it gained prominence in the context of web applications that combined data from multiple sources to create new, integrated services. It’s not a recent concept, but the proliferation of APIs and web services has made mashups more common today. I…
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Marketing Tools
Create The Problem, Then Charge For The Solution?
One of the more bizarre issues I see in the technology industry is enterprise companies that sell a solution… that requires them to sell more solutions for problems their original solution causes. Here are ten companies that sell core products with security or stability gaps and then offer additional products or services to address these issues: Microsoft: Known for Windows…
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Content Marketing
Blogger: CSS Style for Code on Your Blog
A nice post on how to dress up displaying code on your blog or website using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
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Content Marketing
ASP RSS Parser, Feed Reader
This weekend, I’ve been glued to my laptop, searching the net for web-based RSS feed readers. The reason is that I wanted to write an ASP RSS feed reader that would display the feed so that the content could be automatically scraped into an HTML email. So, for folks who want to reserve a portion of their email newsletter for…
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Content Marketing
Why the Movie Industry is Failing
Me and my kids went and saw King Kong yesterday. The special effects and computer-generated graphics were fantastic. I think the true test of a movie (that depends on special effects) is whether you find yourself empathizing with the computer-generated character. Kong, indeed, had his own character. I thought the end was a little hokey and didn’t match the sadness…
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Content Marketing
What’s Your Bailiwick?
Understanding and effectively describing one’s authority is paramount in sales and marketing. How a brand, person, product, or service conveys authority can significantly impact its success and reputation. bailiwicknoun, pronounced [bey-luh-wik] A person’s specific area of interest, skill, or authority. The office or district of a bailiff. Dictionary Describing your bailiwick and your Unique Value Proposition (UVP) are related concepts,…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Blogs Heating Up
This week was a difficult week. My job is fantastic, and my peers and my clients appreciate me. For the first time, though, I believe my blog interfered with my professional relationships. Having spoken with them at length, I don’t believe there is a concern with my employer. My leaders believe in blogging as a healthy expression. Of course, they…
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Sales and Marketing Training
American Managers are Spoiled…
American Managers are spoiled. Some are even brats. Imagine managing on an island. Your island has limited human resources, was hours away from anything, and you spoke a different language. Attracting employees to your island is difficult due to the native language and the island. The island isn’t in the Orient or the Caribbean; it’s cold and damp, with some…