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Marketing management

Marketing Day: TweetDeck Teams, Facebook’s New “Product Ad” Units & Pinterest Tips To Drive Traffic

Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Facebook Relaunches Marketing Partner Site Rebranded site replaces the Preferred Marketing Developer program and matches marketers with third-party companies that help with Facebook campaigns. Organic Valley Plants Tongue Firmly In Cheek With […]

Customer experience

Mobile Drives Nearly Half Of E-Commerce Traffic, But PC Still Rules Sales — Report

Traffic from mobile devices is now nearly 50 percent of overall online U.S. retail traffic according to the latest data from IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. IBM reported on Valentine’s Day shopping and ecommerce trends compared to a year ago. Perhaps given the freezing temperatures and snow in parts of the East and South, online shopping rose just over […]

Customer experience

Old Spice Uses #NatureFacts Hashtag For Nature-Themed Fresher Collection Campaign

Earlier this month, Old Spice launched a campaign to promote its new line of nature-themed body spray and deodorant called Fresher Collection. The brand gave the products names like Nest, Log, Roar, Woods and Coconut. The campaign launched with a two-minute video explaining how using Old Spice Fresher Collection can bring one closer to nature, complete with “nature […]

Performance marketing

How To Conduct A Content Audit

A content audit is the cornerstone of content strategy, which governs content marketing. The aim is to perform a qualitative analysis of all the content on a website (or in some cases, a network of sites and/or social media presences — any content for which your organization is responsible). Why perform a content audit, which […]

Customer experience

Study: Accurate Location Can Boost Mobile Conversions By More Than 2X

Mobile ad platform Thinknear’s latest location accuracy report contains a variety of findings about the impact of location accuracy on consumer behavior and ad performance. Overall, the report says that the availability of location for mobile display campaigns is expanding but geo-accuracy is being diluted or degraded by a new influx of programmatic impressions. Thinknear […]

Customer experience

What’s The Real Value Of Mobile?

Establishing proper attribution for mobile’s role in influencing and driving offline conversions is a challenge for the brick-and-mortar retail marketplace. This is often due to online forms of measurement such as click-throughs being used as the primary way to also measure mobile conversions, which are often invalid or unreliable and result in a significant attribution […]

Data

Maximizing Lead Scoring & Analytics: How To Use Big Data In B2B

Modern B2B marketing and sales teams rely on several techniques to maintain customer interest throughout the buying process. Rather than the classic sales funnel, the customer’s journey is now treated as an ongoing course of marketing and education, sales outreach, and (eventually) a transaction. Marketing automation is the engine that allows marketers to collect all […]

Marketing management

Is Apple Really Building An iCar?

Could Apple really be building a car? Something is going on according to a frenzy of articles, which appeared late last week and over the weekend from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Reuters, Financial Times, Quartz and others. The WSJ reported that “Apple has several hundred employees working secretly toward creating an Apple-branded electric vehicle, […]

Data

Online-To-Offline Metrics Increasingly Available, Important To Marketers

For well over a decade the internet has influenced billions and billions of dollars of local or offline spending. But that was largely ignored because it was almost impossible to track digital ads to the offline point of sale (outside of coupons), where 90+ percent of transactions occur. Now, with smartphone ubiquity and vast amounts […]

Customer experience

Baidu: In Q4 Mobile Search Revenues Exceeded PC Earnings

Chinese search engine Baidu reported Q4 revenues of roughly $2.26billion, which represented 48 percent year-over-year growth. However the company missed analyst expectations. Its outlook was also disappointing to financial analysts. Revenues for the full year were $7.9 billion, which was 53 percent more than in 2013. Traffic acquisition costs were 13 percent of revenues. Baidu said […]

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