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HBR Staff/Getty Images Despite two decades of email and social media marketing, and the digitization of the consumer experience, catalog mailings have been steadily increasing since 2015. What’s more is that consumers are surprisingly enthusiastic about receiving them – response rates from catalogs have increased by 170% from 2004 to 2018. The effects are not just…
In our Love App-tually series, Mashable shines a light into the foggy world of online dating. It is cuffing season after all. Last December, I received an email from the dating app Happn about the “popular dating terms” that their dating experts predicted would be all the rage in 2020 now that ghosting, catfishing, and…
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Image copyright Amazon Ring Image caption The app launched in the US in May 2018 Ring doorbells are providing customer data to companies such as Facebook and Google, an investigation suggests.The Electronic Frontier Foundation found the Ring app was “packed” with third-party tracking, sending out customers’ personally identifiable information.Five companies were receiving a range of…
Marketing and sales automation — tools that leverage the advances and data of our digital age to better identify and then interact with customers — is big business, with the whole market expected to generate some $6.6 billion in revenues for related companies by 2025. But “companies” is the operative word here: it’s a very…
A doorbell device with a built-in camera made by home security company Ring is seen on August 28, 2019 in Silver Spring, Maryland.Photo: Chip Somodevilla (GettyThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Monday announced that its research into the Ring app’s Android version identified several embedded third-party trackers sucking up “a plethora” of personal information.Three of…
An investigation carried out by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has revealed that the Ring app for Android is “packed” with third-party trackers, sending out a wide range of personally identifiable information (PII) to analytics and marketing companies. The EFF investigation found that Ring for Android v3.21.1 sends users’ personal information to four analytics and…
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By starting at the bottom, Lara Merriken got a quick education to food-product sales and marketing. January 20, 2020 4 min read This story appears in the January 2020 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Lara Merriken needed to make some changes. In 2000, after an intense decade spent earning a psychology degree and building a…
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Looking for a unique way to increase your social media engagement? Have you considered gamifying an Alexa flash briefing? In this article, you’ll discover how to create a voice marketing funnel that increases social media reach and engagement. Using Voice Technology to Improve Social Media Engagement Voice technology is becoming increasingly prevalent with the explosion…
Did you know that, on average, 51% of companies are currently using marketing automation, and more than half of B2B companies (58%) plan to adopt the technology? The statistic may be mind-boggling, but it is very much justified. Companies and marketers are always in search of ways that make things easy and convenient for them. Automating…
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Nowadays most companies are doing SEO, PPC, and Content Marketing. Yet sometimes the company’s are not getting the leads they need. Some businesses get leads — but not quality leads, or they don’t get the leads that fit their expectations. The main reason a company doesn’t get the leads they need is that they are…
f you’re anything like us, you’ve stared blankly at your email screen, mentally debating which sign-off is best for your message. Is ‘sincerely’ too much? Does ‘best regards’ seem dismissive and cold? Is there ever a time-and-a-place for an ‘Xoxo’? Many otherwise confident professionals struggle with how to close an email, by stressing over words…
According to Ascend2, 71% of businesses use marketing automation. The benefits of marketing automation are significant across all industries, including real estate. Even better, marketing isn’t the only process that real estate agents can automate in their business. Managing a real estate business can be time-consuming. Numerous, repetitive tasks can prevent agents from maximizing their…
