Henry Bell

Henry Bell is the Head of Product at Vendorland. He is a business technologist driving transformative growth through digital technology strategies. Henry is a highly analytical and collaborative problem solver with outstanding cross-functional skills in product leadership, application management, and data analytics.

Ecommerce and Retail

Henry BellWednesday, August 24, 2022
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Backing Up A Shopify Store: How To Keep Your Online Store Protected

Businesses, big and small, rely on technology to function on a day-to-day basis. This is particularly the case with online stores that work using tools like Shopify. The platform is massive as it currently powers more than a million online stores in 175 countries. From the moment you launch an eCommerce business, your customers are interacting with your Shopify website. So what…
Ecommerce and Retail

Henry BellFriday, October 29, 2021
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The New Face of E-Commerce: The Impact of Machine Learning in the Industry

Did you ever anticipate that computers might be able to recognize and learn patterns in order to make their own decisions? If your answer was no, you are in the same boat as plenty of experts in the e-commerce industry; no one could have predicted its current state. However, machine learning has played a significant role in the evolution of…

It all started as a book club.

Yes, I’m serious. I started my work on the web more than two decades ago. My first site was a site called Helping Hand that curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and with navigating resources on the Internet. Years later I sold the domain to a company that helped folks quit smoking, one of my first big contracts.

I began blogging on Blogger and waxed poetic about everything from politics to Internet tools. I was all over the place and mostly wrote for myself – without much of an audience. I belonged to a Marketing Book club in Indianapolis that quickly grew out of control. Over time, I found out that more and more of the group were coming to me for technology advice. The combination of my technology background and my business and marketing acumen was in high demand as the Internet rapidly brought change to the industry.

After reading Naked Conversations, I was motivated to better brand and control the content on the site. I also wanted more control over the look and feel of my blog, so I moved to my domain in 2006 and built my first WordPress site. Since I was focused on marketing technology, I didn’t want the domain with my name to get in the way, so I moved the site (painfully) to its new domain in 2008 where it’s grown ever since.

The Martech Zone is owned and operated by DK New Media, LLC, a company I started in 2009. After working with virtually every major online marketing department in my tenure at ExactTarget and launching Compendium, I knew there was a great demand for my expertise and guidance within such a complex industry.

DK New Media is my personal company overseeing my publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking gigs. Highbridge is my agency with two other partners that helps companies maximize their investment in sales, marketing, and related products. We offer integration, migration, training, strategic consulting, and custom development.

Thank you so much for your support over the years!

Douglas Karr
CEO, DK New Media
VP, Highbridge