Featured Report: Optimizing the mobile app for future mcommerce success

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Forrester: Mobile Is The Anti-Channel
Jan,02,2015
by: Sarah Mahoney
, While most marketers continue to think of mobile as a channel — one that runs somewhat parallel to its Internet presence — a new report from Forrester Research says it’s time to reverse that perspective. “Mobile eliminates the notion of channels by blurring the distinction between the physical and digital worlds,” writes analyst Julie A. Ask. And brands like USAA, using mobile as a way to sell expanded services; Starbucks, which is continually finding new ways to streamline purchasing, or Guinness building passionate beer communities, are finding that “mobile generates new revenue, improves customer relationships and reduces costs throughout all channels.”  Read More

Mobile Commerce Daily

Optimizing the mobile app for future mcommerce success

Dec,31,2014

by: Shira Anderson

This holiday season, businesses that successfully adapted to consumers’ changing shopping habits stood to see their innovation pay off. Today’s buyers want to buy what they want, where they want and when they want – and the companies that make it easy for them are the ones poised to cash in with serious sales. Given this reality, small retailers embracing mobile commerce are better positioned than ever before to offer customers that flexibility and reap those profits. Read More

Re/Code

Pinterest to Unveil Early Results From Promoted Pins, as It Looks to Ramp Up Advertising

Dec,28,2014

by: James Temple

Pinterest* will unveil early results from one of its first formal brand advertising efforts on Sunday evening, as the San Francisco company looks to roll out the product widely starting on Jan. 1. The popular site, which has raised more than a half billion dollars in funding, allows users to post, or “pin,” images of clothing, food and other products they like. As the company looked to start ramping up revenue, it began testing a Promoted Pins program that invited brands to pay for pins that appear on the search and category pages.   Read More

Mobile Commerce Press

MOBILE MARKETING IS TAKING OFF FASTER THAN OTHER DIGITAL AD CHANNELS

Dec,26,2014
by:Rebecca
IN THE UNITED STATES, SMARTPHONE AND TABLET USERS ARE BEING TARGETED AT A RATE THAT IS MORE RAPID THAN OTHER CATEGORIES.
According to a recent report by BI Intelligence,  mobile marketing  is growing at a faster rate than advertising over any other digital channel in the United States, as a rising amount of the overall ad budget by marketers is being allocated to catching the attention of an increasingly large number of users who look to their smartphones and tablet screens first. Read More 

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Featured Report: The Future Of Wearable Technology Is In The Enterprise (At Least For Now)

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IT digest: Smartphone sales up 20 percent in quarter compared with last year

Dec,28,2014

by: Mohana Ravindranath
Smartphone sales up 20% in quarter
Worldwide smartphone sales grew 20.3 percent from the same quarter one year ago, though overall mobile phone sales were flat, a new Gartner report showed.Vendors sold an estimated 301 million smartphones in the third quarter. These accounted for 66 percent of the total mobile phone market.“Sales of [simpler] feature phones declined 25 percent in the third quarter of 2014 because the difference in price between feature phones and low-cost Android smartphones is reducing further,” Roberta Cozza, a Gartner research director, said in a statement. Read More

Marketing Sherpa Blog

Ecommerce: Building online trust before customers click over to your competitors’ sites

Dec,23,2014

by: Daniel Burstein

All marketing is built on trust. Without trust, customers won’t subscribe to your email. They won’t open. They won’t click. And they certainly won’t buy. Keeping this in mind, I interviewed Craig Spiezle, Executive Director and President,Online Trust Alliance, about security, privacy and consumer protection. I’ve also and provided tips on how you can build trust with your customers. Read More

CNBC

2015's disruptor class: Isaacson on Elon Musk, mobile payments

Dec,28,2014
Trent Gillies
Mobile payments and Elon Musk are among several trends and innovators poised for a breakout year in 2015, according to one expert.In an interview on CNBC, Walter Isaacson, author of the best-selling Steve Jobs  biography, predicts people who are "unbanked" in society will soon be able to make Internet purchases more easily. Isaacson, chief executive of the Aspen Institute, said the lack of banking options available to some will prompt electronic payment systems to rise to the challenge. Read More

Tech Crunch

The Future Of Wearable Technology Is In The Enterprise (At Least For Now)

Dec,25,2014

by: Jonathan Shieber

The first iteration of Google Glass was a flop with consumers (almost from the beginning), most wearables ultimately go unworn, and even boosters bemoan the state of the current wearable market for consumers. Amid all the gloom there’s one trillion dollar bright-spot for the wearable marketplace. From the voice activated communication and logistics devicesmade by Theatro, to the software platforms developed by APX  Labs andAugmate, and the robotic exoskeletons like Lockheed Martin’s Fortis and HULC models or the wearable device from 1MM Corp., a startup just accepted to the R/GA accelerator in New York, for use in warehouses to reduce worker’s injuries. Read More

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Featured Report: Six social networks for the enterprise

ZD Net

Six social networks for the enterprise

Dec,20,2014

by:Eileen Brown

Facebook has recently announced 'Facebook at work' for connecting professional contacts. If you don't want to mix your business and personal lives, have a look at these social networks you can use for work.  There are hundreds of social networks for use in business. Each has some great features that can really benefit workers and corporations. Here, we take a look at six up-and-coming business social networks that you might not have heard about yet.  Read More

The Social CMO Blog

Breaking the E-Commerce Sound Barrier with Matrix Retail!

Dec,18,2014
by: Admin
BOOM!  What was that noise?  Someone just broke the e-commerce sound barrier! 

In the third quarter of 2014 Williams-Sonoma’s e-commerce sales represented 51.5% ($587 million) of total company sales overtaking their store sales ($566 million) for the first time! Even more importantly this increase is not due to offsetting reductions in store sales with the $566 million in store sales representing an increase of 4.8% year over year for the quarter. Indeed Williams-Sonoma are now helping to define a new retail formula, where the sum of e-commerce and in-store sales is greater than the parts, generating competitive advantage for even a 58 year old retailer. This phenomena is something I’m now calling Matrix Retail. Read More

Fierce Wireless

Report: FCC set to fine Sprint $105M for unauthorized third-party services billing

Dec,16,2014

by: Phil Goldstein

Sprint (NYSE: S) could be faced with a whopping $105 million fine from the FCC for knowingly overcharging its customers for third-party services, according to a National Journal report. The report, which cited unnamed FCC officials, said that the enforcement action against Sprint has not yet been finalized. If approved, it would match the record $105 million fine AT&T Mobility (NYSE: T) agreed in October to settle an investigation by the FCC, which concluded the carrier billed customers millions of dollars in unauthorized third-party subscriptions and premium text messaging services. The settlement with AT&T is the largest enforcement action in the agency's history.  Read More

Marketing Sherpa Blog

Paid Search: 3 things you should know while running a PPC campaign

Dec,19,2014

by: Jessica Lorenz

“You cannot sit down and wait for shoppers to get to your site,” said Victor Yacaman, Ecommerce Director, Leonisa. Leonisa is the No. 1 provider of underwear in Latin America, with 52% of sales generated from paid search. With the ability to track and measure visitors, it’s no wonder PPC has continued to be widely used by retail marketers, “[which] means you can spend more dollars on the things that are working and less dollars on the things that aren’t working” said Timothy Seward, Founder and CEO, ROI Revolution. Timothy referenced a recent study by Shop.org via Forrester, saying that, on average, “46% of [marketers’] online retail marketing budgets is spent on paid search.”  Read More

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Featured Report: Why You Shouldn’t Forget About Pinterest

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Why You Shouldn’t Forget About Pinterest

Dec,08,2014
by:Michael Kwan
As an online entrepreneur, Internet marketer or professional blogger, you’ll oftentimes find yourself on a variety of different websites, networking both with like-minded individuals and with your “tribe.” While it’s certainly debatable whether or not you should care about Ello, it’s pretty obvious that the bigger social networks deserve your attention. Building up your audience on social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter only makes sense, but then there’s Pinterest too.

Many people, mostly male, have immediately dismissed Pinterest as a site for women to share home baking recipes and flirty outfit ideas, but there’s so much more to the image-focused social network. Indeed, you might remember a post on this blog talking about how you can make $1,000 a day on Pinterest by sharing the right kind of content in the right kind of way. Read More

e-Marketer

Yahoo Poised to Pass Twitter in US Mobile Ad Share by 2015 
Dec,04,2014
By Staff
Yahoo’s US mobile ad revenues are not only material now, they’re significant, according to a new forecast from eMarketer. Yahoo reported its mobile revenues for the first time in Q3 2014, and eMarketer estimates that the company will take nearly 3.2% of the $18.99 billion US mobile advertising market in 2014, launching itself into the mix as a competitor. Next year, Yahoo’s US mobile ad revenues will account for 3.74% of the country’s mobile ad market, pushing past Twitter for the first time—which will take 3.69% share in 2015—according to eMarketer. By 2016, Yahoo’s share will near 4.2%, which still trails Google and Facebook by a wide margin. However, the company’s 1-percentage-point gain from 2014 through 2016 represents the largest among companies that we tracked for this latest forecast. Read More

TechCrunch

Six Drivers Of The $700B Mobile Internet
Dec,06,2014
by: Tim Merel

Mobile internet is all about big numbers. Revenue will more than triple to $700 billion by 2017, there was over $19 billion invested and $94 billion exits in the last 12 months, average sector returns were up to 15.6x all of the money invested over the last three years, public stock market returns were up to 78 percent in the last year, and there are 32 billion-dollar mobile Internet companies already Understanding what’s driving these big numbers is critical for entrepreneurs, investors and corporates, so let’s dig in. Read More

e-Week

Microsoft's Torque Wearable App Heads to Android Phones 
Dec,07,2014
by: Pedro Hernandez

In the mobile waters, Microsoft is swimming against the current somewhat. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant announced on Dec. 5 that its Torque app is making the leap from wrist-worn Android Wear devices to Android smartphones. Since Torque's debut in October, Android smartphone users have been clamoring for the ability to shake and search, according to Microsoft. Today, the company is honoring their request. "We have incorporated that feedback into Torque 2.0 and added support for Torque on Android phones," said Microsoft's Torque Team in a blog post. The update also offers "new answers including local events and flight status, a way to launch applications with the twist gesture, and more reliable gesture and voice recognition."  Read More

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Featured Report: How to Turn Web Visitors Into Actual Buyers

Mobile Marketer

Marketers’ use of mobile technologies does not match customer behaviors: Forrester

Oct,24,2014

by: Chantal Tode

Too few marketers are aligning their mobile strategies to how customers are actually using smartphones today, with the failure to take corrective action likely to have significant repercussions within two to three years, according to a new report from Forrester.  Only a small majority of marketers - 59 percent - know their customers’ usage and attitudes toward mobile phones, according to the report, “The State Of Mobile Technology For Marketers, 2014.” The failure to close the gap between how customers are using mobile and how marketers are using it will have real ramifications for marketers within two to three years by increasing opportunity costs, make brands irrelevant, leaving companies unprepared to evolve their business model, forcing them to stick with outmoded computing form factors and eating up budget.  Read More

Small business Trends

How to Turn Web Visitors Into Actual Buyers

Oct,26,2014

by: Annie Pilon

How often does your eCommerce business succeed in getting people to visit your site, but then fail to get them to actually buy something? Pretty much every online store experiences this sometimes. But if you have an overwhelming amount of visitors and very few shoppers, you may have a problem.The answer to that problem, according to some eCommerce experts, could lie in your website analytics. Scott Sanfilippo, co-founder of eCommerce consulting company Solid Cactus told BusinessWeek Read More

CIO

Mobile device and date use skyrockets, US gov't survey says

Oct,16,2014

by: Grant Gross

This smartphone thing may finally be catching on. U.S. mobile phone users are “rapidly embracing” smartphones and tablets, noted a report from the U.S.Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The report, however, is based on 2-year-old information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Still, the latest NTIA surveyof U.S. residents’ Internet and computer use shows some important trends and gives U.S policy makers “some valuable insights,” said John Morris, director of Internet policy at the NTIA. Read More

Click Z

Mobile, the Ultimate Shopping Assistant, Says Google

Oct,13,2014

by: Melanie White

The holiday shopping season has already begun. Who needs an in-store sales assistant when you can have your mobile?! Uh oh. It’s already happening. The fall leaves are yet to turn orange and yellow, but the red and green Christmas decorations are already making their way to stores. The holiday shopping season has begun and it's seeming to get earlier and earlier each year. But it isn’t just brick-and-mortar retailers that are getting into the festive spirit. Customers, too, are already thinking about what they’re going to buy their loved ones and they’re turning to online retail stores to do so. Read More

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Featured Report: A Microsoft smartwatch could be here within weeks

ZD Net

A Microsoft smartwatch could be here within weeks

Oct,20,2014

by: Liam Tung

Microsoft's long-rumoured smartwatch could be announced within weeks, giving the company a device to square up to wearables from Apple and Google's Wear partners. According to Forbes, Microsoft could launch the device within the next few weeks, with a focus on health. According to the report, the device will passively track its user's heart rate, and give the company a platform for building health and other apps on. Read More

The VAR Guy

CompTIA: More Companies Taking Ownership of Branding, Marketing

Oct,20,2014

by: Michael Cusanelli 

IT channel companies are becoming more self-reliant on their own branding, marketing and sales activities, according to a new study by CompTIA. The increase of in-house marketing and sales activities is chiefly being driven by the rising importance of new services such as cloud computing, changing customer demand and a more varied lineup of competitors, according to the company. CompTIA surveyed 350 IT companies for its fourth annual State of the Channel study, which examined the size, shape and growth factors affecting the channel. Read More

Fierce Wireless

Verizon again leans on tablets for postpaid subscriber growth in Q3

Oct,21,2014

by: Phil Goldstein

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) added more postpaid subscribers in the third quarter than financial analysts had expected, and the growth was again largely driven by tablet activations, not phones. Just as it did in the second quarter, in the third quarter Verizon relied heavily on tablet activations for the vast majority of its subscriber additions. In the third quarter Verizon added 1.53 million retail net connections, including 1.52 million retail postpaid connections. Of those though, Verizon added just 457,000 postpaid phones and leaned heavily on 1.1 million postpaid tablet activations in the period. In the year-ago quarter Verizon had 483,000 postpaid phone adds. Read More

Wireless Week

Report: Lenovo Crafting Bid for BlackBerry

Oct,20,2014

by: Andrew Berg

BlackBerry stock got a nearly 8 percent bump in early trading Monday as new rumors surfaced that Lenovo may acquire the Canadian smartphone maker. According to Benzinga, which cited a source familiar with the matter, Lenovo could make a play for BlackBerry as early as this week. Lenovo is apparently eyeing a $15 per share price for BlackBerry but the deal could go as high as $18 per share, according to Benzinga. Read More

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Featured Report: From Sprint to Microsoft:The 5 biggest job cutters in wireless in 2014

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From Sprint to Microsoft: The 5 biggest job cutters in wireless in 2014

Oct,09,2014

by: Phil Goldstein

Last week the U.S. economy marked a major milestone: The official unemployment rate dipped to 5.9 percent, the first time it has been below 6 percent since the summer of 2008. Indeed, some companies in the wireless industry that shed thousands of jobs in recent years are now on the mend. For example, BlackBerry (NASDAQ:BBRY) CEO John Chen said earlier this summer the company has finished its three-year-long restructuring efforts as it seeks to refocus on the enterprise market, and would begin targeted hiring. Additionally, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) has seen its finances recover after announcing more than 15,000 job cuts in the past three years. Read More

ZD Net

iPad: Art object or enterprise tablet?

Oct,15,2014

by: Jason Perlow

Yesterday, I talked a bit about my yearly ritual of trading in my iPad for the latest and greatest model, and why as IT professionals it may make sense to think about our device purchases as leased equipment that depreciates heavily and is turned in for the newest technology, rather than holding onto it indefinitely, as a consumer might. The iPad is, at the end of the day, a consumer device. But you would have to be completely unaware of the increasingly common use cases in which scores of CxOs and other executives and IT pros are bringing them into the workplace for use with all kinds of productivity workloads now, whether they are BYOD outright or are actual corporate assets.  Read More

Fierce Wireless

Samsung starts supporting Nokia's HERE mapping platform on its Galaxy devices

Oct,08,2014

by: Phil Goldstein

Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) HERE mapping platform is now available for download on Samsung Electronics' Galaxy smartphones, marking the first time Nokia is bringing its core mapping software to devices that run on Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android. Nokia announced a licensing deal with Samsung for HERE at the end of August. The HERE app is available in Samsung's Galaxy App Store and will run on Galaxy devices running Android 4.1 and beyond that have 1 GB of RAM or more. The app will also come preloaded on new Samsung Galaxy smartphones. Read More

Computer World

Microsoft keeps Windows 10 promotion to a minimum for consumers 

Oct,13,2014
by: Gregg Keizer
Microsoft's Sept. 30 rollout of Windows 10 was focused on enterprise customers because the company doesn't want consumers to hold off on holiday purchases of computers, said Michael Silver of Gartner. Computers with the new operating system won't ship until mid-2015. "Early in 2015 we'll introduce the consumer chapter and talk much more about other device types and more consumer features," Windows chief Terry Myerson wrote in a blog post Sept. 30.  Read More

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