Mobile Marketing
Hear from two expert speakers on best practices for implementing site search into the online shopping experience.
What do Under Armour and Starbucks have in common? More than you think. Retailers, you might want to pay attention โ these companies are winning in mobile. Under Armour and Starbucks each have a keen eye on their core customer, both know how to build a grassroots following and, unlike many other brands, they know howโฆ
In a session last week at the eTail East conference in Boston, Richard Cohene, director of marketing at Beyond the Rack (BTR), a private shopping club that sells designer apparel, footwear and accessories, detailed the brandโs mobile strategy as well as offered tips to those in attendance on how they can best capitalize on theโฆ
Earlier this summer, New York & Company (NY&C) joined Zmags for the first in our โMaster Marketerโ webinar series. In the webinar, Paul Carroll, NY&C companyโs vice president of digital and e-commerce creative, discussed how Zmagsโ flagship product, Creator, has enabled his team to grab consumer attention, boost sales and reduce the cost of creatingโฆ
Every quarter, IgnitionOne checks in with the ongoing trends in digital marketing and publishes a report based on the data flowing through our platform. Frankly, the people who find this report most interesting are the investors and financial analysts who live and die by whether they should buy, sell or hold various stock. But forโฆ
This June, the headlines exploded with story after story about Facebook offering free beacons to retailers. Finally, the potential to bring e-commerce-level shopper engagement to brick-and-mortar stores through beacons became more plausible. Since Facebook has a massive, always-on user base, this opens doors for widespread beacon use, overcoming the major hurdle of beacons relying onโฆ
Sephora maximizes its mobile commerce possibilities with more relevant and personal content in a recent update to its iPhone application, which introduces a beauty match search feature into its Beauty Board. The beauty retailerโs latest app refresh launches new features such as an in-store scanner and a new search capability in its Beauty Board toโฆ
For an increasing number of consumers, if you donโt have a fast, easy-to-use mobile website or app, you donโt exist. Think about that for a minute. That big, slick, content-rich e-commerce site youโve spent so much time, money and effort building, maintaining and promoting might as well be invisible to the ever-growing ranks of untetheredโฆ
Beacons are a mobile marketing technology poised to transform the way consumers shop in stores and the ways stores market to and interact with their customers. Push notifications triggered by beacons โ tiny store-based transmitters that communicate with retailersโ mobile apps on consumersโ smartphones via Bluetooth Low Energy wireless technology โ will influence $4.1 billionโฆ
Wal-Mart has introduced an Apple Watch application, suggesting that the device could have a broad market appeal while cementing the retailerโs role as a leader in mobile retail. While there's been no shortage of marketers jumping in with Apple Watch apps since the device, Wal-Martโs entry here is notable given the retailerโs value positioning, whichโฆ