Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Retail Identity Graphs: Identity Management Is The Foundation of Accurate Customer Insights and Predictive AI
Retailers today face an evolving landscape where personalized customer experiences are expected across all touchpoints. With customers engaging across a myriad of channels, creating and maintaining a unified view of each individual is a significant challenge. This is where an identity graph comes into play—a tool designed to store and connect identifiers and behavioral data about customers, forming a cohesive…
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Appy Pie App Builder: User-Friendly, No-Code App Building Platform
Creating mobile applications used to mean hiring expensive developers or learning complex programming languages, which took valuable time and resources. Today, individuals and businesses need quicker solutions to adapt to digital demands. Enter Appy Pie App Builder—an innovative, no-code platform that empowers anyone to build Android and iOS apps without coding skills. Appy Pie simplifies app creation, allowing you to develop and launch…
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ChatGPT: How To Utilize Generative AI To Develop Your Ideal Customer Profile
The Gartner Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) framework is a structured approach for defining a business’s most valuable customer segments. This methodology goes beyond basic demographics to paint a clear picture of the ideal customer based on their characteristics, needs, behaviors, and challenges. An ICP helps businesses tailor their marketing and sales efforts toward the highest-value prospects likely to convert, be…
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Saleshandy: Scale and Automate Your B2B Lead Generation and Cold Outreach Success
B2B sales professionals and marketers know the challenge of generating qualified leads (leadgen) and getting responses from cold emails. Managing various tools for email tracking, lead generation, and outreach often means juggling multiple platforms. What if there was a solution that streamlined these tasks and offered reliable deliverability, automation, and personalized engagement? That’s where Saleshandy steps in. Saleshandy Saleshandy is a…
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Pulse: Boost Conversions with Real-Time Social Proof
In a digital landscape filled with skeptical consumers and short attention spans, capturing a website visitor’s interest—and keeping it—can feel almost impossible. Without any form of social proof, visitors may not trust your brand or feel compelled to take action, whether signing up for a newsletter, booking a demo, or completing a purchase. Social proof aims to solve this challenge.…
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How to Estimate Your Next Web or Development Project
When is it going to be done? This question looms over every project, often posing one of the most challenging aspects of quoting timelines. While experience should theoretically make estimation more predictable, each new project is unique, carrying its unseen obstacles. Projects can be delayed by factors entirely out of your control, from minor API changes to unforeseen client delays.…
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Surfshark: What’s a VPN? Why You Need One For Business and Personal Use
Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is crucial for anyone who values privacy and security, whether browsing from home, a coffee shop or traveling abroad. What is a VPN? A VPN is a tool that encrypts your internet traffic and masks your IP address to safeguard your privacy online. By creating a secure, private connection between your device and the…
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The Ultimate Guide to Display Ad Sizes For Desktop and Mobile in 2025
Display ads remain one of the most versatile and effective tools in digital advertising, driving brand awareness and customer engagement across devices. As more people consume content on mobile and desktop, advertisers face the challenge of optimizing ad spend for both platforms to capture audience attention effectively. This guide covers the best-performing display ad sizes for desktop and mobile, factors…
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Onclusive Social: Unleash Data-Driven Insights with AI-Driven Social Listening and Market Intelligence
Staying informed on consumer trends, brand reputation, and competitive shifts is critical. Companies need a tool beyond basic data collection to offer deep, actionable insights in real-time. Traditional market research can be slow and cumbersome, disadvantaging businesses. This is where Onclusive Social steps in. Onclusive Social (formally Digimind) Onclusive Social is a leading, AI-driven intelligence platform designed to help businesses…
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X: List of Keyboard Shortcuts and Mobile App Gestures
When I first began programming about twenty years ago, I had a colleague who was an advanced architect and genius developer. Each time I reached over with my right hand, he would mumble something about being mouse disabled. His version wasn’t as politically correct and was often wrapped with some obscene words that aren’t safe for work… but I digress.…
