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E-commerce and Retail
The Benefits of Using Tablet Point of Sales Systems In-Store
When retail outlets think about a point of sale tablet, they may simply be thinking of a replacement for the clunky, massive, old POS that they purchased a decade ago. It’s important to keep in mind that a POS tablet doesn’t simply solve the problem of hardware costs, it’s also a versatile tool that can improve the shopping experience of…
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Content Marketing
How To Repurpose Content Effectively
Most marketers understand the value of high-quality content, but fewer consistently maximize its value through effective repurposing. Repurposing content is the practice of taking an existing asset and transforming it into multiple formats, experiences, and channels to reach broader audiences and drive stronger results over time. With so much competition for attention across platforms, repurposing is no longer optional. It…
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E-commerce and Retail
Personalizing the Customer’s Shopping Journey
Tailoring the shopping experience to individual consumers isn’t a new idea. Just think about the feeling you get when you visit a local restaurant and the waitress remembers your name and your usual. It feels good, right? Personalization is about recreating that personal touch, showing the customer that you understand and care about her. Technology may enable personalization tactics, but…
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Email Marketing & Automation
What Elements Should You Be Testing in Your Email Campaigns?
Using our inbox placement platform, we did a test a couple of months ago where we reworded our newsletter subject lines. The result was incredible – our inbox placement increased by over 20% across the seed list that we created. The fact is that email testing is well worth the investment – as are the tools to help you get…
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E-commerce and Retail
Amplero: A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Churn
When it comes to reducing customer churn, knowledge is power especially if it’s in the form of rich behavioral insight. As marketers we do everything we can to understand how customers behave and why they leave, so that we can get prevent it. But what marketers often get is a churn explanation rather than a true prediction of churn risk.…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Personalization is not Automated
Direct responses via email, Facebook and Twitter are getting more and more sophisticated, allowing people to substitute strings in their messaging. Software applications make the mistake of calling this personalization. This is not personalization. This is customization, not personalization… and it must be done carefully. If it’s not, it can be deemed as insincere. If you wish to personalize a…
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Content Marketing
3 Lessons Content Marketers Should Learn from Retail
Erin Sparks runs Edge of the Web radio, the podcast we sponsor and participate in every week. Erin and I have become good friends over the years and had an amazing discussion this week. I was discussing an upcoming ebook that I had written for Meltwater that will be published soon. In the ebook, I go into great detail about…
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Advertising Technology
13 Ways to Target Your Display Advertising
Display advertising continues to advance in its sophistication as we previously discussed on our interview regarding Programmatic Advertising with Pete Kluge of Adobe. If you’re thinking about expanding your promotions into display advertising, there are quite a few ways available to target your advertising impressions to try to capture more relevant audiences, higher click-through rates, and improved conversions: Brand Targeting…
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Advertising Technology
What is Real-Time Bidding (RTB)?
In both paid search, display and mobile advertising, there’s plenty of inventory to purchase impressions on. In order to acquire solid results, you should be testing the purchase of hundreds or even thousands of keyword combinations on paid search. If you’re doing display advertising or mobile advertising, the inventory may be spread amongst hundreds or thousands of sites or apps.…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Sysomos Gaze: Image and Video Monitoring for Social Media
You’re a national brand and a mistreated customer shares an embarrassing photo of your brand on social media. They don’t tag you on the photo, but it’s just too good not to share. It goes viral and before you know it, your monitoring alerts are going off as leading sites begin to mention you and share the image online. Momentum…
