Research shows marketers are struggling with today’s digital tools and massive amounts of data

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The annual BRITE conference from Columbia Business School was held on March 5, 2012, its Center on Global Brand Leadership and the New York American Marketing Association (NYAMA) revealed the findings of the first BRITE-NYAMA Marketing Measurement in Transition Study. This research involved the participation of the senior marketing execs from large corporations so that the researchers could obtain an improved understanding of the way that practices are evolving in the following categories: marketing measurement and return on investment, collection and use of data, and the way that traditional and…

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How to evaluate a mobile loyalty program

Mobile Loyalty Program Marketing

Mobile loyalty programs are becoming increasingly popular among smartphone users, and retailers, restaurant owners, and other merchants are starting to recognize the size of the potential that they hold. However, all loyalty programs are not created equal over the mobile channel, so it is important to know how to evaluate one for its efficacy. Use the following questions to help to decide whether or not a mobile loyalty program has the best chances of success: • Is the program transactional? Even though it is being used through a new technology…

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Sitomic releases print ad tracking with QR code manager

QR Code Service

Sitomic.com has announced the launch of its QR Code Manager, which allows businesses to launch several QR code campaigns simultaneously and use them to collect visitor data from a number of different sources, making the successes of print ads much easier to track. Until now, it has been very challenging for marketers to obtain statistics from their print campaigns. However, the use of QR codes has made it far easier to measure the activity generated from those advertisements. The concept is that a unique QR code is created for every…

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U.K. town of Reading to experience QR code and NFC pilot

augmented reality shopping mall

QR codes and NFC technology are now involved in the first British out-of-home (OOH) advertising pilot program that is occurring on a large scale in that country, involving 13 different brands in the entire city of Reading. Kinetic, an OOH media agency, has partnered with Zappit technology provider and JCDecaux in a pilot program of the use of advertising that uses QR codes and NFC technology. They chose the Berkshire county city of Reading because it is among the most tech-savvy populations in the country. Now, the campaign has covered…

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Johnny Rockets’ launches new QR coded marketing campaign

Johnny Rockets QR Code

Restaurant chain Johnny Rockets’ has launched a new marketing campaign that uses QR codes to reach out to tech-savvy consumers. The company has some big plans for using the codes after the campaign has run its course. Johnny Rockets’ is looking to build an online customer database that will help the company distribute discounts and special promotional incentives and information. The database is to be called the Rocket e-Club and will be one of the company’s first major mobile marketing and commerce initiatives. Johnny Rockets’ QR codes are to appear…

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