How smartphone numbers can help e-commerce retailers improve their marketing
Gathering customer phone numbers and advertising their own phone numbers are two points rarely on the radar for marketers in e-commerce, yet both offer additional solutions to the main challenges for marketers: driving traffic to the website, increasing the number of conversions from browsing, preventing cart abandonment and remarketing. If …
Data-driven e-commerce
Using Google Analytics to learn about and market to your customers Data has always been a part of online marketing and the data-first model should be no stranger to online marketers. Data-first means instead of running campaigns or strategies and then looking at the data to determine success or not, …
The mobile wallet opens up opportunities for marketers
Marketers leveraging mobile wallet to connect with customers in real-time In today’s always-connected world, smartphones are literally everywhere—including in our hands, on our bedside tables and at our side when we’re shopping. So are opportunities for marketers who want to engage their customers by delivering relevant, customized, location-aware content …
Why audio watermarking is set to transform the way brands build and measure audience engagement
Advertising through broadcast media has historically been the most effective means of delivering advertising messages to the greatest possible number of consumers. The goal of all marketers is achieving action from the consumer, but the formula for measuring results of mass media advertising is a simple model of estimated audiences …
How The Co-operators transformed their organization through analytics
At The Co-operators, we recently updated our strategic plan with a bold statement: “We will be THE industry leader in client engagement.” This means offering a superior customer experience that builds long-term relationships based on mutual value (and values). Based on our J.D. Power rankings, Net Promoter Scores, multi-product sales …
Advanced email analytics can increase ROI
Email marketing and email service providers frequently give users a wealth of data from open rates, CTRs and conversions. Tracking, interpreting and using that data can, however, be a tricky beast. Do these data points offer enough information for businesses to make effective choices about how they market to consumers? …
Converting analytics into insights and insights into sales
It doesn’t take a genius to come up with one simple insight that can be applied to solve a client’s biggest marketing problem. Or, maybe it does. Joe Amaral is vice president and creative director at Canadian marketing and communications agency, Clever Samurai (www.cleversamurai.com). Amaral has won just about every …
B2B social media: More than just likes
Social media marketing is potentially more transformative for B2B than for B2C. What started as an experiment for marketing teams has increasingly become an integral part of marketing and sales strategy for B2C. Now B2B companies are increasingly using the popular social platforms as well. Why? B2B marketing tends to …
comScore introduces mobile audience campaign reporting in Canada, UK
Launch enables more comprehensive measurement of campaign demographics and GRPs within comScore vCE RESTON, VA – comScore today announced the expansion of its mobile demographic reporting capabilities in validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE®) to Canada and the United Kingdom. Through the addition of demographic data partners, including recently-added Spotify, this latest vCE …
Five reasons your business needs an online community, not a LinkedIn group
It’s time to move to a platform that actually benefits your members I love LinkedIn for career networking but it’s a terrible platform for a community. Activity in a LinkedIn group tends to follow the traditional 90-9-1 participation model seen on other social networks: 90 percent lurker, nine percent contributor, …