QR Codes
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Customer Data Platforms
Everything You Wanted To Know About QR Codes
By now, you’ve likely scanned and utilized a QR code. Quick Response codes are two-dimensional barcodes that store information in a square-shaped grid of black squares on a white background. They work by encoding data in a way that can be quickly and easily read by a digital device, typically a smartphone camera. 45 percent of responding shoppers had used…
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E-commerce and Retail
How Are Smartphones Impacting In-Store Retail Experience?
Smartphones continue to have a significant impact on the retail industry, enhancing in-store experiences and reshaping customer behavior. Here are some ways in which smartphones have transformed retail: Mobile In-Store Research Showrooming: customers visit physical stores to see products in person and then use their smartphones to find better deals online. Retailers have had to adapt their pricing strategies to…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The History of Text Messaging (Updated for 2023)
In today’s world, texting is a ubiquitous form of communication, but it had humble beginnings. Let’s journey through the history of texting, highlighting the key milestones highlighted in the beautiful series of infographics below from SimpleTexting. 1992: The First Text Message On December 3, 1992, in the U.K., the first-ever text message was sent. Engineer Neil Papworth sent the message…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
25 Mobile Marketing Strategies Used By Businesses To Grow Visibility, Engage Visitors, Capture Leads, and Grow Conversions
Many of us operate our businesses and manage our sales and marketing from a desktop at work. However, this can put us at a disadvantage when the majority of prospects and customers we’re speaking to are on a mobile device. In recent years, there has been a shift in consumer response to overreaching marketers since mobile is such an intiment…
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Marketing Tools
URL Shorteners: How They Work And Why Marketers Should Use Them
URL shorteners are web services that transform long Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) into shorter, more manageable versions. They generate a unique, shortened URL that redirects the user to the original, longer URL when clicked or entered into a web browser. If you wish to do a great job with attribution and better understand your marketing efforts, utilizing campaign query strings…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
PostReminder: Transforming How Brands Connect With Customers When Timing Matters
We know how busy people are – especially when they’re walking in the door and looking through their mail. Even if people are interested in a piece of direct mail, they usually set it aside and intend to get back to it at some point. But before they know it, too much time has gone by. The offer expired or the event ended, and…
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Analytics & Testing
UltraSMSScript: Buy A Complete SMS, MMS, and Voice Marketing Platform With API
Starting a text message strategy can be a daunting implementation process. Believe it or not, carriers are largely manual even today… submit paperwork, have your data retention and privacy policies reviewed, and sign off on SMS permissions. I’m not trying to understate the importance of compliance with this medium, but the frustration of migrating or integrating an SMS solution can…
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Advertising Technology
QR Code Builder: How To Design and Manage Beautiful QR Codes For Digital or Print
One of our clients has a list of over 100,000 customers that they’ve delivered to but don’t have an email address to communicate them with. We were able to to do an email append that successfully matched (by name and mailing address) and we started a welcome journey that has been quite successful. The other 60,000 customers we are sending…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Mobile Marketing: See The True Potential With These Examples
Mobile marketing – it is something that you may have heard of, but, quite possibly, are leaving on the back burner for now. After all, there are so many different channels available for businesses, isn’t mobile marketing one that can be ignored? Sure – you can concentrate on the 33% of people who don’t use mobile devices instead. The use…
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Marketing Infographics
How to Improve Engagement at Your Next Conference
This infographic from The Europe Hotel & Resort, a five star luxury hotel in Ireland, provides some an overview of trends in MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions): Meeting spend is rising globally with a 2.1% expected rise predicted for 201636% of #travel industry professionals expect to spend more than $4,000 per person in incentives in 2016Exhibitions within the trade…