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VerticalResponse unveils new social media marketing app for mobile

02/19/201202/18/2012 Jesse Collins

Leading self-service marketing solutions provider for small businesses, VerticalResponse, has now unveiled its new iOS mobile app for its social media marketing platform called Roost by VerticalResponse. The company provides a wide range of solutions, including social media marketing, email marketing, online surveys, direct mail marketing, and event marketing. Roost by VerticalResponse provides small businesses with a dashboard that allows them to quickly and easily develop, deploy, manage, and measure their various campaigns through social media. Now, the new mobile app – which is now available at the Apple iTunes…

Cinsay study shows the potential and capability of its social commerce software

01/10/201201/10/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

Cinsay, Inc. has completed the three quantitative tests that it performed throughout 2011’s fourth quarter as a part of a study with its Smart Container managed services, to determine how successful its new software is, as well as to examine the software’s purpose in greater depth. The idea behind the Smart Container software is the marriage of viral social media distribution and video-driven marketing so that retailers could achieve improved results. According to the results of their tests, the software performed beyond their expectations, with tremendous rises in critical factors…

Will the addiction to social media and all things digital continue long into the future?

10/07/201110/07/2011 Jesse Collins

Following a report by Gartner in August 2011 called “Consumer Fatigue with Social Media”, many marketers have been wondering whether or not the digital addiction is the trend that it appears to be, whether it is actually a fad that is on its way out. This has been highlighted by the stories popping up all over the media that have indicated that millions of people have been deactivating their email accounts due to the commercialization, privacy concerns, boredom with the concept, or the lack of interest in sharing everything they…

The top rules for effective social marketing

08/20/201108/19/2011 Sam Lambert

Social marketing is a vital part of any business or brand’s marketing mix, and it is important that execs and marketers alike recognize the top rules for keeping up with the latest and make sure that marketing efforts are as effective as possible. To execute a marketing strategy with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and other top social media networks, there are six rules that should be acknowledged: • The social media sandbox is growing – Though Facebook continues its rein over the social media marketplace, there are a number of other…

Study shows that digital marketers are unsatisfied with currently available tools

08/09/2011 Jennifer Goula

According to a survey held by Web Liquid, a digital marketing agency based in New York, digital marketers are recognizing the value of social media monitoring, but are not fully satisfied with the tools available to get the job done. Social media marketing is already known to be highly important, with 74 percent of marketers making an effort to track online conversations held by consumers regarding their brands. The survey included the participation of 237 marketers at the senior level, among whom 95 percent believed that consumer conversations online over…