Ian Cleary

Ian is the CEO for RazorSocial and has dedicated his working life to helping you figure out the best tools and technology for social media. Ian regularly speaks at events (mainly in the US), and writes for a lot of the top social media blogs.

Content Marketing

Ian ClearySunday, January 29, 2023

5 Tools That Will Improve Your Results from Blogging

A blog can be a great source of traffic to your website, but creating blog posts is time-consuming, and we don’t always get the results we want. When you blog, you want to ensure you get maximum value from it. In this article, we’ve outlined 5 tools that will help improve your results from blogging, leading to more traffic and,…
Social Media & Influencer Marketing

Ian ClearyWednesday, November 2, 2016

PRISM: A Framework to Improve Your Social Media Conversions

The reality is that you typically don’t sell on social media channels but you can generate sales from social media if you implement a full end-to-end process. Our PRISM 5-step framework is a process you can use to improve social media conversion. In this article we’re going to outline the 5 step framework and step through example tools you can use for…

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 Helping Hand, which curated the best sites from around the web to help people with their computers and navigate 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 discovered 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 changed 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 company overseeing my publications, podcasts, workshops, webinars, and speaking gigs. Highbridge is my agency with two other partners that help 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