Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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WordPress: How to Create a Shortcode To Publish Your Google Calendar Booking Button
Google Calendar’s appointment scheduling feature allows businesses, freelancers, and professionals to streamline bookings without needing third-party scheduling software. However, Google doesn’t provide an easy way to embed a booking button directly into a WordPress site. Instead, users must insert a custom script or link to the external page. To make this process seamless, a simple WordPress plugin can enable you…
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Should You Leverage Awards in Your Marketing Strategy?
Winning an industry award can be a significant victory for companies, products, or individual professionals. But beyond the trophy and press release, business owners often ask: Do awards really move the needle in marketing? Let’s examine whether pursuing awards is a viable marketing strategy, backed by data and expert insights, and how to navigate the world of accolades without falling…
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Feedier: Capture Actionable Customer Intelligence with AI
Organizations are overwhelmed by customer feedback from countless touchpoints—emails, surveys, reviews, support tickets, etc. The challenge for mid-sized to large enterprises and public institutions isn’t a lack of data; it’s making sense of it all. Traditional feedback analysis methods are time-consuming, heavily reliant on manual processes, and fail to convert insights into real-time action. As a result, customer experience (CX)…
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Features of Google Ads Bidding Strategies For Business — What You Need To Know
Almost everyone has encountered a situation where they need to purchase expensive products they will use frequently in the future. Typically, when searching, an Internet user will focus exclusively on criteria that are important to them. This refers to product characteristics, pricing policies, and other features that make the product highly effective or set the business owner apart from the…
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Top 10 Ways to Simplify and Organize Your Product Data
Efficient product data management is essential for maintaining business agility in a competitive market. Below are the strategies to optimize your product data ecosystem, leveraging modern Product Information Management (PIM) capabilities. Table of ContentsImplement a Centralized Product Information Management (PIM) SystemEstablish a Clear Data Governance StrategyCreate a Standardized Product TaxonomyUtilize Advanced Data Modeling TechniquesLeverage Automation for Data Entry and UpdatesImplement…
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B2B Lead Generation Software: Features, Benefits, and Best Practices
In the competitive world of B2B sales, finding and converting high-quality leads is crucial for business growth. To streamline this process, companies rely on B2B Lead Generation Software—a powerful tool that automates lead identification, tracking, and nurturing. By leveraging advanced technology, businesses can improve efficiency, enhance engagement, and boost conversion rates. This guide explores everything you need to know about B2B…
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Building the Future of Marketing with AI and Operational Excellence: Hilary Cook at #AdobeSummit
In yesterday’s Adobe Summit keynotes, Hilary Cook, VP of Global Marketing Operations at Marriott International delivered a compelling keynote that challenged marketers to rethink their approach to artificial intelligence (AI), process optimization, and customer-centric marketing strategies. Table of ContentsLooking the Future in the Face: AI and Readiness AssessmentBreaking Down the Complexity of Marketing OperationsExecutive Alignment: The Catalyst for ChangePiloting, Scaling,…
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Adobe is Infusing AI Into Every Aspect of Marketing Creativity, Production, and Personalization #AdobeSummit
We are in the golden age of design, and enterprises all across the globe are investing in people and technology to elevate the look and feel of their communications. AI is accelerating and expanding the creative aperture for everyone, opening the content floodgates, tapping into imagination, and massively increasing the number of creative assets being designed, edited, and delivered. Shantanu…
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Adobe Express: Empowering Organizations with Scalable, AI-Generated, On-Brand Content Creation
I had the opportunity to walk through a demo of Adobe Express with the product’s Head of B2B Product Marketing, Pierre Tapia, at Adobe Summit, and I was amazed at the platform’s robust capabilities. Adobe Express is the perfect product for growing companies, as its features cater to businesses of all sizes—from small businesses to enterprises with design agencies. Additionally,…
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Digital Transformation in Retail Luxury: An Interview with Manuel Neto at #AdobeSummit
Luxury fashion has long been defined by craftsmanship, exclusivity, and a firm reliance on tradition. But in an era where data drives competitive advantage, even heritage brands must evolve. Capri Holdings (the parent company of Versace, Jimmy Choo, and Michael Kors) is leading that charge by integrating data analytics into its business strategy. I had the opportunity to sit down…
