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Time is the Challenge For Marketing Professionals

Douglas Karr Monday, September 12, 2011

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Our first SurveyMonkey poll results are in! Time is the biggest challenge for marketing professionals. With the growing demand on marketers to produce content for internal use, web site, blog, social media and more… it’s no wonder that time is our biggest challenge. It may also be a symptom of a weak economy where companies aren’t hiring the resources necessary to complete the work needed to compete.

Here are the results (exporting a chart was a feature in our sponsor’s application – SurveyMonkey!)
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That said, the stats provide another piece of information… there are plenty of opportunities for marketing technology firms to develop time-saving tools that automate our processes. These last two weeks I spent an inordinate volume of time extracting data from analytics and developing custom reports and dashboards for a client to provide some input on all our search engine optimization work we’ve accomplished. Tens of thousands of keywords needed sorted, grouped and filtered to see if our efforts were paying off… not a simple task for a human, but absolutely possible for a development firm.

It also makes me wonder if marketers are taking the time to implement automated solutions or they just go the manual route. I can’t stand doing the same process twice in a row so I’m always looking for an easier way. Perhaps that’s a great topic for an upcoming poll!

This week’s poll is a bit deeper. We’re curious about the types of social media strategies you’re deploying for your company:

Douglas Karr Monday, September 12, 2011

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Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is the founder of the Martech Zone and a recognized expert on digital transformation. Douglas has helped start several successful MarTech startups, has assisted in the due diligence of over $5 bil in Martech acquisitions and investments, and continues to launch his own platforms and services. He's a co-founder of Highbridge, a digital transformation consulting firm. Douglas is also a published author of a Dummie's guide and a business leadership book.

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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