Tag Archives: location services

Infographic: The Retailer’s Guide to SoLoMo

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Social, Local, Mobile. The nickname for that is SoLoMo and it’s a strategy that’s securing a lot of growth in the industry. Social drives traffic through promotion and sharing, local drives action while users search for retailers in their region, and mobile is driving the purchase decision in and outside the retail location. Although retail conversion rates are low for smartphone users, those statistics don’t tell the whole story, as mobile devices are heavily influencing purchase decisions in-store and online. From Monetate’s Infographic: The Retailer’s Guide to SoLoMo This infographic … Continue reading →

10 Mobile Marketing Strategies

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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When you talk about mobile marketing, I think almost every marketer gets a different picture of what kind of strategy you’re speaking about. Today we finished a comprehensive mobile training session with about 50 companies present. As Marlinspike Consulting worked with us on the training syllabus, it became clear that there’s a lot more to mobile marketing than one might think. Here are 10 Mobile Marketing Strategies to think about: Voice – somehow, this one always gets left out . Whether it’s simply linking a phone number on your site, … Continue reading →

Infographic: Mobile Marketing Growth

Posted on by Adam Small
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The numbers are staggering and continue to accelerate. More and more people are trading in their mobile phones for smartphones, generating a huge demand for marketing apps, marketing-optimized web sites, location-based services and interactive mobile and social usage outside the home and office. From the Infographic: The traditional cellphone is being overtaken by the far more capable ssmartphone. Equipped with high-speed Internet connections and lightning-fast processors, these devices have essentially put fully capable interactive billboards in our pockets. How are advertisers taking advantage of this huge potential, and are consumers … Continue reading →

The Ultimate Compliment – ManufIT

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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The layout and design of my blog has been very deliberate and carefully tested. I don’t like many of the money making blogs that have dense clusters of advertisements and utilize interruption techniques when viewing pages. You’ll note my home page is clean with the content concentrated in the whitespace – where the focus is natural. When Scott Whitlock contacted me a month or so ago, he asked if I had any time to help him develop a corporate blog for his local company, Flexware Innovation. I honestly didn’t, but … Continue reading →