Study Shows Retailers Use Marketplaces to Acquire New Customers … – EcommerceBytes
Retailers rank online marketplaces fifth for effectiveness among customer acquisition tools and allocate 16% of their digital marketing budgets to online marketplace initiatives and operations, according to a new Shop.org report conducted by Forrester Research and Bizrate Insights. Results of “The State of Retailing Online…
Kanye West’s Pan Am Games gig shows Toronto dreaming big – Canada – CBC … – CBC.ca
Kanye West has been awarded more than a dozen Grammy Awards, sold millions of albums and married into America’s reality TV royalty. But, for some Canadians, the rapper’s resumé is missing one key word to qualify him as a headliner for the Pan Am Games’ closing ceremony — Canadian. The organizers’…
How Video Is Enhancing Heat Mapping for Retailers – RIS News (blog)
In today’s retail environment, heat maps often are used to understand customer behavior in relation to a store’s layout. And now, video capabilities are turning heat-mapping data up a notch. While heat mapping allows retailers to understand where customers walk within a store, video allows…
Top 8 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Bottom Line – Business 2 Community
So how can you leverage the popular 140-character social media site to drive more traffic to your business or blog? Dozens of Twitter experts, marketing pros and business leaders who have used Twitter to market their brands, productsand services share their top 10 tips for…
Wolff: In digital media’s youth crusade, career paths are fuzzy – USA TODAY
Michael Wolff, USA TODAY 7:02 p.m. EDT July 12, 2015 The news media, like most businesses built on craft and culture, have largely worked as an apprentice system. Younger people learned skills and language from older people. A good media job would have been judged…
7 Signs CMOs Need To Examine Their Media Mix – Marketing Land
One of the most common questions we get from clients and prospects is this: “Are we spending our money on the right advertising channels?” Quite obviously, the answer varies by company and the goals of the campaign in question. But if you’re trying to do…