Archive for November 2016
Commerce Signals and PlaceIQ turn in-store sales data into campaign optimization tool
Commerce Signals and PlaceIQ today announced a partnership that will deliver in-store sales data to PlaceIQ customers (agencies and brands). The new offering from Commerce Signals is called “Databridge,” and it provides purchase data from Visa (Advertising Solutions) and related insights for marketers. What’s significant is that the anonymous transactions data can be delivered within…
Read MoreIs in-house marketing better than using an agency?
Is it better to do your online marketing in-house or through an agency? It’s an important decision to make. Now, you should probably know that I’m a founder of an online advertising agency, so I might have a bit of a bias. But I have worked in-house and done my own fair share of hiring…
Read MoreGoogle’s shift to mobile-first: mobile moments that matter
Kashin / Shutterstock.com Eric Schmidt predicted that sales of smartphones would surpass PCs more than six years ago, as the then-Google CEO prepared the world for the “mobile-first” culture at the Mobile World Congress in 2010. Fast forward to today, and we’re witnessing the birth of a new mobile era where consumers interact and convert in…
Read More‘Beacons are dead,’ says CEO of a retail analytics firm
An assortment of beacons from (starting upper left) Gimbal, Kontakt.io, Estimote, Radius Networks, GPShopper, Aruba “Beacons are already dead.” That’s what Euclid Analytics’ CEO Brent Franson thinks. His company provides engagement and analytics solutions to retailers and, he told me, his firm is happy to work with beacons. If they did something customers really wanted. Beacons offer hyper-granular…
Read MoreHow to Get 100,000 People to See Your Blog Post
What would more traffic to your blog post mean to you? Image source. What would 100,000 views on a blog post mean to you? Depending on the goals of your blog, it could mean thousands of new subscribers and fans. But it could also mean new customers — big traffic means big exposure and big…
Read MoreRanked conversations have arrived to the Twitter mobile experience
Does your Twitter timeline look different to you on your mobile device? Don’t be shocked; this is Twitter’s new conversation ranking feature that groups responses by sub-conversations and by ranking, not by chronology. With this update, the mobile experience has caught up with the desktop experience where this has been available since June 2015. It’s…
Read MoreFacebook adds gaming inside Messenger, News Feed
There are a lot of things that people do outside of Facebook, but Facebook continues to incorporate more of those things into Facebook — like watching videos, shopping, reading articles and now playing video games. On Tuesday Facebook debuted a way for people to play arcade-style games by themselves or against friends within the social…
Read MoreWhy You Must Address Problems Before You Can Offer Solutions
You make a product, hone your pitch and then get busy prescribing the benefits of your tools to anyone who’ll listen. That’s the way it works. You know what people need, and you tailor your solutions to meet what they need. You even give your unique methodology a fancy name and construct branded processes to…
Read MoreOptimizing Marketing Resources – What to Automate and What Your Team Needs to Handle
When you work in a small marketing department with a shoestring budget, you’re often faced with the dilemma of paying for automation or investing hours in managing the work internally. Through my years in various marketing roles, I’ve gotten lucky and also learned the hard way about which processes should and should not be automated.…
Read MoreData: Mobile drives majority of Black Friday traffic, but PCs dominate sales
There were record e-commerce sales over the past weekend, as more consumers shopped online. However, the rise of mobile commerce is the larger and more interesting story. On Black Friday, mobile devices were responsible for roughly 36 percent of total revenues and a majority of online retail traffic, reported Adobe — this despite awkward and suboptimal mobile experiences across many…
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