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- E-commerce and Retail
FlockTag: Universal Loyalty System and Intelligent Deals
This afternoon I went for a visit down to my favorite coffee shop, the Circle City Coffee Shop, and FlockTag had setup shop there! What impressed me was the ease of use for the both the customer and the business owner. To register the loyalty card, FlockTag setup a secondary, mounted tablet. The customer taps their card on the reader…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Addvocate: Identify, Amplify, Measure, Optimize, Govern
Companies don’t take advantage of the powerful force they have internally when it comes to social media. We watch all the time as companies employ 1 or 2 social media folks to manage a corporate social media presence. They work hard, they distribute great content, but they’re in their own bubble when it comes to promoting their content. If you…
- Content Marketing
Dos and Don’ts of Content Marketing
Alright, here’s your chuckle for the afternoon. Using Meltwater Buzz, we just saw this simple and beautiful infographic providing a good checklist of items that one may want to keep in mind when developing their content marketing strategy. One of the rules with regard to blogging is Don’t publish a badly written blog. I’ve seen a lot of bad writing…
- Analytics & Testing
Locations for Your Calls to Action
We’re always testing Calls to Action on our own sites and our clients. This may be an elementary post, but there are several places to provide a path to engagement on the typical website. I’d encourage companies to program these locations into their content management themes to make it easier for businesses to add, update, and test different calls-to-action. CTA…
- Content Marketing
14 Statistics to Justify Content Marketing
We often work with folks that have trouble understanding the benefits of content marketing. They may be advertising on traditional media or be driving sales with a fantastic outbound team. While we’re not in any way against that, the investment is quite different. With advertising, the audience is owned by someone else and you’re paying a premium to access that…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Adphorus: Facebook Ad and Social CRM Platform
Adphorus is a Facebook Ad Optimization platform that works on top of Facebook Marketing API and Social CRM, allowing you amplify your return on investment based on existing customer data. Adphorus Features: Actionable Dashboards – Use dashboards to track your campaigns and your KPIs. Performance Marketing – conversion tracking, optimization based on CPA, and test multiple target group, creative, placement…
- Content Marketing
Justintime: Rich Web, Mobile and Tablet Prototypes
Justintime Prototyper allows you to build interactive rich web, mobile and tablet wireframes. Justintime Prototyper enables the creation of interactive prototypes with gestures and stunning effects. You can even prototype data-driven apps and form validations without a single line of code. View examples of Prototyper on their site. Justintime Prototyper features: Mobile Application Prototypes – Enjoy prototyping your mobile apps…
- Content Marketing
Are You a Destination? An Exit? Or Just a Sign?
The perception of what online marketing should be differs from company to company. We have clients who are very content with simply having a nice brochure site so that they can check off their marketing list that they have a pretty site. It’s an unfortunate viewpoint, but some still struggle with understanding the interactive nature of the web and they…
- Content Marketing
Meltwater Buzz Updates: Curation, Value and Authority
People often ask me how in the world we’re able to find and write about so many marketing technologies out there. It is true that we get pitched quite a bit by public relations professionals, but Martech Zone isn’t a news site – we’re a site to help marketers find technology they can leverage. Many of the tools we share…
- E-commerce and Retail
FATWIN: Increase Foot Traffic In-Store and Online With Omni-Channel Contests
I had the pleasure of sitting down with the founder and team at FATWIN yesterday as they launched. Scott Hill is the co-founder and executive of a measured marketing software and services company that’s been helping companies for a decade. His company launched FATWIN, a platform that helps businesses drive web and in-store traffic through gaming, contests, and prize redemption.…
