Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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How Social Media Apps Use Location-Based Data… and Why It Matters For Your Business
For years, many business owners have encouraged customers to check in at their physical locations, tag themselves on social media, share photos, or use branded hashtags as a form of digital word-of-mouth ( WOM ). These tactics are still valid…
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CPQ and 3D Visualization as a Sales Tool: Bringing Customization, Speed, and Precision to B2B Manufacturing
Manufacturing is both complex and competitive. Sales teams are facing unprecedented pressure to deliver faster quotes, handle growing product complexity, and meet increasingly personalized customer expectations. Configure, Price, Quote ( CPQ ) software has emerged as a transformative solution, connecting…
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SEO Statistics: History, Industry, and Trends in Organic Search
Search engine optimization ( SEO ) affects the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine’s unpaid results, referred to as natural , organic , or earned results. Search Engine History Here's a timeline…
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What Are The Most Effective Steps to Deploying an Effective B2B Growth Strategy?
For B2B marketers seeking to drive sustainable growth in an increasingly complex landscape, traditional lead-centric strategies are no longer sufficient. Buyers are more anonymous, independent, and digitally savvy than ever. To break through this noise and inefficiency, many organizations are…
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Picsart: Create Scroll-Stopping Ads in Minutes with AI-Powered Workflows
Creating high-performing ads across multiple channels can be time-consuming and expensive. Marketers are expected to be copywriters, designers, analysts, and campaign strategists—all at once. What’s more, the pressure to launch quickly, scale effortlessly, and outshine competitors is only growing. That’s…
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WordPress Plugin: Advanced Admin Search With Title, Slug, Content, or Tag
Finding content in the WordPress admin panel can quickly become a chore, especially for sites with hundreds or thousands of posts. By default, the search box in the All Posts screen is limited in capability—it only checks post titles, and…
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The Evolution of Personalization: From Merge Tags to AI-Powered Experiences
What began as Dear {FirstName} has transformed into dynamic, predictive, generative, and increasingly immersive personalization. Organizations with personalization programs supported at the C-level are 2x more likely to report high ROI. Forrester Sophisticated retailers and businesses now operate...
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CustomGPT: Replace Your Static Knowledge Base with Conversational AI in Minutes
Creating and maintaining a knowledge base ( KB ) has always been more challenging than it should be. Traditional KBs required specialized software, cross-departmental coordination, and ongoing maintenance, often resulting in outdated documentation, poor search experiences, and missed opportunities for…
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Google Ads Location Assets: A Powerful Tool for Marketers with a Local or Retail Footprint
I'm not sure there's a spot on the SERP that isn't being filled with ads nowadays. It reminds me of the newspaper industry, where news ultimately became the filler between ads. Personally, this is disappointing. Organic search promised to provide…
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App: DNS Propagation Checker
DNS propagation is the process by which changes to DNS records are distributed and updated across the Internet. When a domain name's DNS records are modified, such as updating the IP address associated with a domain's A record, these changes…