Text Messaging
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E-commerce and Retail
Retailers are Improving Experience and Driving Revenue with Text Messaging
The statistics are overwhelming that consumers pay more and engage further with companies that offer a great user experience with increased communication. Text messaging has evolved into one of the universal communication methods that retailers are deploying to improve customer experience and drive revenue. OpenMarket’s recent Retail Mobile Messaging Report conducted by Internet Retailer, polled 100 e-commerce retail professionals about…
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Analytics & Testing
Capture Yelp and Google Reviews from Apps Your Customers Use!
Not too long ago we had a fantastic interview with Daniel Lemin, the author of ManipuRATED: How Business Owners Can Fight Fraudulent Online Ratings and Reviews. He spoke to the importance of capturing reviews in order to have both fresh reviews and to combat any negative reviews that may occasionally arise. Is there a better time to capture a great review…
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Marketing Infographics
An Infographic With Every Reason You Need to Focus on Mobile
We spent quite a few episodes on Edge of the Web Radio reporting to our audience on the importance of mobile. We often speak in terms of mobile marketing but as I was sitting in the station discussing the show with Erin Sparks of Site Strategics, it really started to dawn on me how critical mobile behavior was changing based…
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Email Marketing & Automation
7 Tips for Effective Digital Coupon Marketing
Good friend Adam Small has a mobile text marketing platform that sees incredible redemption rates on SMS text offers. One technique he told me about that a client that offered a bring a friend offer where you received a free shake when you brought a friend to the establishment. They would send the text out a half hour before lunch…
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Marketing Infographics
Mobile Marketing: Make it Personal
Hipcricket’s 2014 online survey, Consumer Attitudes on Mobile Marketing, was conducted in April 2014 and targeted 1,202 adults in the US. The survey found that Marketers are already adopting mobile and consumers are responding. Two-thirds of respondents said they’d received a text message from a brand in the last 6 months and almost half of consumers found the text message…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Signal: Grow with Email, Text, Social and Sweepstakes
BrightTag, a cloud-based marketing platform for Internet retailers, has purchased Signal. Signal is a centralized marketing hub for cross channel marketing via email, SMS and social media. Signal features include: Email newsletters – pre-built, mobile-optimized email templates to use or create your own. Text messaging – launch an effective program and be compliant with mobile carrier requirements. Social media publishing…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Seven Deadly Sins of SMS Marketing
Text messages continue to be an incredible means of marketing but it’s not too sexy so there’s not typically a lot of noise about it. There should be. SMS marketing (with MMS becoming mainstream) continues to drive incredible results. If you’re a retailer trying to drive foot traffic, you’ll find sending a discount or special via text message incredibly effective.…
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E-commerce and Retail
Mobile Marketing in the Retail Industry
Mobile and retailing continues to offer a ton of opportunity for retailers to improve customer value and increase loyalty – ultimately driving sales. Simple strategies like SMS messaging have very impactful response rates. More advanced solutions like mobile applications can enhance the shopping experience for customers. Dynmark is a UK-based cloud mobile intelligence and messaging company. They’ve put together this…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Signal: Communicate via SMS, Email, Twitter and Facebook
Signal is an integrated platform for businesses to manage, monitor and measure their marketing efforts across mobile, social, email and web channels. Basically, a CRM + mobile marketing + email marketing + social media management. We believe that the marketer’s job has become increasingly complex due to the rapid proliferation of marketing channels, and the tools to manage them. Our…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
How to Use Text Messaging to Win Love, Leads, And Revenue
Text messaging (SMS) has been a foundation of our success with our real estate marketing platform. When a property gets a visitor, they request information via text from a sign we post on their lawn. When the response is provided with a mobile tour and realtor information, the realtor is immediately notified and can call the visitor to see if…