Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Inside Google’s Ranking Algorithms: Insights from the DOJ Antitrust Case
You know those moments when you Google something simple—like What temperature should chicken be cooked to?—and instead of getting a direct answer, you’re dropped into a 1,500-word article that includes a history of poultry, the risks of salmonella, and a giant pop-up newsletter signup box? Yeah, we’ve all been there. And it’s a perfect example of the tension at the…
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Content Marketing
Contentsquare: Unlock Customer Experience Wins with Agentic AI-Powered Insight
Your customers expect more than just functionality—they expect fluid, frictionless digital journeys that feel personalized and intuitive. But when journeys break down, the consequences are immediate: disengagement, abandonment, and churn. And with data scattered across platforms, understanding what’s really happening can feel impossible. Contentsquare Contentsquare eliminates that complexity with a unified, AI-powered digital experience platform that gives marketers, product teams,…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Salestrail: The Mobile App for Salespeople to Produce More Calls with Less Administration
Salespeople don’t need more tools—they need fewer that work better. Between constant follow-ups, messy CRMs, and calls slipping through the cracks, the last thing they want is to switch how they use their phones. That’s where Salestrail shines. Salestrail is a mobile-first call monitoring platform built specifically for modern sales teams. It automatically tracks SIM and WhatsApp calls in the…
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Analytics & Testing
Zoho Apptics: Unified Product Analytics for Developers Who Build With Purpose
Building a great app is more than just shipping code—it’s about creating meaningful user experiences. That requires actionable insights, seamless feedback loops, and total visibility into app behavior across platforms. Enter Zoho Apptics, a robust product analytics platform engineered for developers, product managers, and growth teams who want to go beyond vanity metrics and truly understand how their apps perform…
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Content Marketing
Storyblok: Build and Launch Smarter Content and Campaigns with this Headless CMS
Today’s digital teams are under pressure to build faster, scale seamlessly, and adapt across every channel—without losing control over brand, performance, or user experience. Traditional, monolithic CMSs struggle to keep up, often locking content and presentation together in ways that slow down innovation and silo teams. That’s why the shift to headless CMS is bringing much-needed relief. By decoupling the…
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Content Marketing
Content Workflow: Create, Collaborate, Approve With Generative AI… But Without the Chaos
Managing content at scale is harder than ever. Marketing and content teams are under constant pressure to meet deadlines, uphold brand standards, and deliver channel-specific assets—all while keeping pace with an explosion of content demands. Add in the growing role of AI tools for research and content generation (GenAI), and the process becomes even more complex. Teams often find themselves…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SEO PowerSuite: The Complete SEO Platform Trusted by 2M+ Marketers
When it comes to dominating search engine rankings, marketers are constantly wrestling with a mix of data chaos, platform fatigue, and budget limitations. From keyword research to backlink analysis, managing multiple tools often slows execution and eats up your budget. If you’ve ever wished for a single solution to handle the entire SEO lifecycle—without monthly restrictions or cloud pricing traps—you’re…
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Content Marketing
Perforce: Version Control for Video and VFX Studio Workflows
Creative teams in animation, video, and virtual production face ever-growing complexity. As asset libraries balloon and project timelines shrink, bottlenecks in workflow and version control can stifle momentum. Artists, developers, and producers alike need seamless collaboration, scalable storage, and instant access to the right files at the right time. Perforce Perforce offers a high-performance version control platform purpose-built for the…
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Analytics & Testing
Landing Page Mistakes That Kill Conversions—And How to Fix Them
A landing page is a dedicated web page designed to guide visitors toward a single action—such as filling out a form, signing up for a newsletter, downloading a whitepaper, or making a purchase. Unlike other pages on your site that encourage exploration, a landing page should serve as a focused gateway, not an intersection. Its purpose is to lead users…
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Event Marketing
Teleprompter Pro: Studio-Grade Script Scrolling on Apple Devices
Delivering confident, polished video content used to demand expensive setups and rigid workflows. Today, with just an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, you can achieve the same studio-grade results—no crew required. For Apple users who want to stay on script, maintain eye contact, and record like a pro, there’s one tool that stands above the rest. Teleprompter Pro Teleprompter Pro is…
