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Email Marketing & AutomationDouglas KarrJan 25, 2023
Maropost Marketing Cloud: Multi-Channel Automation For Email, SMS, Web, and Social Media
A challenge to today’s marketers is to recognize that their prospects are all at different points in the customer journey. On the same day, you may have a visitor to your website who isn’t aware of your brand, a prospect who is researching your products and services to solve their challenge or an existing customer who is seeing if there…
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Paid and Organic Search MarketingDouglas KarrAug 24, 2024
The True Value of SEO: Beyond Rankings and Traffic
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) remains a critical component of online success. However, there’s a growing divide between SEO practitioners who focus solely on rankings and traffic and those who understand the true impact of SEO on business outcomes. This article explores why the latter approach is not just preferable but essential for achieving meaningful results. The Problem with Traditional SEO…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Douglas KarrAug 24, 2011
The Future of Interactive 360 Degree Video
This is a pretty amazing technology when you start to think about the possibilities. Perhaps you could record multiple storylines and have the user click and enter the next. Could make for one heck of a horror movie! 🙂 See the world like never before with 360° video. Can you imagine? People like to look at 360° photos of the…
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Sales and Marketing TrainingDouglas KarrNov 13, 2024
IoT Applications: Ideas and Examples That Drive Customer Loyalty, Experience, and Build Value
The Internet of Things (IoT) rapidly transforms how businesses interact with customers and deliver value. By connecting everyday objects to the internet, companies can gather valuable data, personalize experiences, and build stronger customer relationships. With the rapid evolution of all digital technology, communications, hardware, software, and IoT mobile app development services are now becoming affordable to many businesses. Just in…
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Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrDec 1, 2024
Did Information Access Really Kill the News Industry?
Throughout human history, the control and dissemination of information have been intrinsically linked to power structures and social organization. From ancient scribes to modern social media, the journey of how we share knowledge reflects our evolving society and its power dynamics. Early Information Sharing and the Rise of Literacy In ancient civilizations, knowledge was preserved and transmitted through oral traditions…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and PerformanceSusan ThomasDec 23, 2024
B2B Tech Marketing in 2025: Budget Growth, Reasonable KPIs, and Strategic AI Investments
B2B marketers in tech are navigating uncertain economic conditions with a mix of resourcefulness and strategic spending. According to the latest research: Marketing budgets are being allocated and evaluated in new ways. In 2024, 65% of marketing executives reported budget increases. Surprisingly, 54% of those who received additional funding did not face stricter KPIs—a notable shift from previous years, where…
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Paid and Organic Search MarketingDouglas KarrApr 12, 2025
Semrush Backlink Analytics: How To Find and Restore Rankings and Authority With Lost Content
While every website evolves, those changes often leave behind unintended damage, especially regarding SEO. Martech Zone has undergone several transitions, including domain changes, migrations to new hosting, and theme changes. These improvements helped modernize the site and improve performance, but they also introduced risk: broken links, missing content, and forgotten pages. This is particularly costly because many of these outdated…
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Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrMay 5, 2025
How to Best Connect with Someone on LinkedIn: A Respectful and Effective Guide
LinkedIn remains one of the most powerful tools for professional outreach, yet it’s increasingly clear how you connect matters more than ever. With the deprecation of both bulk import and contact sync features, LinkedIn has moved firmly toward promoting intentional, high-quality networking. For professionals with expansive networks—like mine, which includes over 10,000 connections—I’ve learned that leveraging LinkedIn isn’t about volume.…
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Analytics & TestingDouglas KarrMay 4, 2012
Statdash: Build the Ultimate Dashboard
It seems like each day we’re having to add another tool to monitor some new metrics that provide feedback on our clients. Over time, we’ve collected a number of SaaS subscriptions that we’re logging in and out of on a daily basis. It’s so complex that we’ve sought out development resources – but it’s going to be costly to integrate…
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Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrApr 10, 2013
The Three Buckets of Social Media Marketing Speakers
What an amazing week this has been at Social Media Marketing World! I moderated a session on corporate blogging with Justin Levy and Waynette Tubbs. Justin leads the charge at Citrix for their social and content strategies, and Waynette leads the help of SAS content strategy efforts. Two amazing people that are running enormous strategies efficiently and practically. Since I…