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Articles Tagged api:
- E-commerce and Retail
How Real-Time Market Pricing Can Boost Business Performance
As the modern world places increasing importance on speed and flexibility, the ability to infuse real-time, highly relevant pricing and sales guidance into their sales channels can give businesses the upper hand on competitors when meeting customer expectations. Of course, as the demands of performance increase, so do the complexities of business. Market conditions and business dynamics are changing increasingly…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
AppPresser: Build Powerful Mobile Apps From Your WordPress Site
Creating a mobile app used to be a complex, expensive process. For WordPress site owners, it often meant starting from scratch—rebuilding their content, learning native code, and figuring out app store submission requirements. AppPresser enables you to transform any WordPress site into a feature-rich, visually stunning mobile app with ease. AppPresser AppPresser empowers WordPress users to build, customize, and launch…
- Customer Data Platforms
Acquia: What is a Customer Data Platform?
As customers communicate and create transactions with your business today, it’s getting more and more challenging to maintain a central view of the customer in real-time. I recently met with a client who was having just these difficulties. Their email marketing vendor differed from their mobile messaging platform outside their data repository. Customers were interacting, but because the central data…
- Marketing Tools
What is Robotic Process Automation?
One of the clients that I’m working with has exposed me to a fascinating industry that many marketers may not even be aware exists. In their Workplace Transformation Study, commissioned by DXC.technology, Futurum states: RPA (robotic process automation) may not be at the forefront of media hype as it once was but this technology has been quietly and efficiently working…
- Customer Data Platforms
CompanyHub: Sales Automation CRM for Your Small Business
Managing customer relationships shouldn’t feel like managing a complicated software project. For most small to mid-sized businesses, the challenge isn’t finding a CRM—it’s getting the team to actually use it. The issue? Overcomplicated systems, poor usability, and a lack of flexibility to tailor the CRM to real-world workflows. CompanyHub CompanyHub was built to change that narrative. Designed to be as…
- Content Marketing
PHP: Use the WordPress API to Build a Shortcode to List Subpages
We’re working on quite a complex implementation for an enterprise client right now. The site is being built in WordPress but has a ton of bells and whistles. Often, when I’m doing this type of work, I like to save the custom code for repurposing later on other sites. In this case, I thought it was such a useful function,…
- Content Marketing
Fastly: Why Performance is Key for the Smart Marketer
To be successful in today’s fast-moving and end-user-focused environment, marketers need a fast, secure, flexible solution that can deliver content in real-time. Fastly’s platform speeds up websites and mobile apps by pushing content closer to your users, providing improved and secure experiences worldwide. The key to smart marketing is prioritizing performance to improve conversions. Fastly Solution Overview Fastly is a…
- Analytics & Testing
Mashape Connects Developers and APIs
For the longest time, my goto for finding APIs was Programmable Web – but that may have changed after perusing Mashape. Mashape isn’t simple a searchable directory of APIs, it actually integrates the API directly into their repository. This enables you to sign up, find and test an API without any difficulty at all. Here’s their list of benefits and…
- Content Marketing
Using Digital Asset Management to Streamline Social Promotion
We have two clients right now that have millions of customers nationwide. The pressure to scale a social media strategy that promotes, reacts and responds to that size of network is no small undertaking – and truly impossible without the use of workflow and automation. What businesses don’t realize is that the curation and workflow tools to simplify the ability…
- Marketing Tools
SoapUI: The Developer’s Tool for Testing and Visualizing APIs
Whenever I meet with a good friend, I hear about a new tool that makes life easier. I had coffee with David Grigsby, a .NET integration expert who works for DocuSign. David and I discussed SOAP versus REST APIs (that’s how we roll). I tend to favor REST APIs because they’re easier to visualize and develop a chunk at a…
