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Mobile discount coupons focus on QR code and social media compatibility

02/21/201202/21/2012 Stephanie Beck

Modiv Media has announced their newest product called Modiv Social, which allows consumers to collect discount coupons from any source they’d like, and then use them or share them over social media such as Facebook. This uses a concept that is not at all new, but that has yet to be fully leveraged over the mobile channel. Email marketers have been told that their effectiveness and survival will require the use of social and mobile platform links for some time now, but it wasn’t until mobile couponing arrived that this…

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…

Super Bowl Sunday broke mobile pizza order records

02/09/2012 Jesse Collins

This last Super Bowl Sunday brought a number of victories, not only in the game itself and its players, but also in the mobile marketplace, where records were broken for the number of pizza orders that were made for pizza delivery during the broadcast. Mobile use as a whole were very popular throughout the Super Bowl game, especially in terms of mobile social media platforms. In fact, there were approximately 12,000 tweets generated every second through the final three minutes of the game, alone. That said, social media wasn’t the…

Glamour magazine uses QR codes in print ads to successfully achieve 512,339 scans

01/11/201201/11/2012 John Montgallo

Glamour magazine, from Condé Nast, has achieved a striking success through the use of QR codes printed on several of its pages, which produced 512,339 scans. This pilot program, which occurred within its September “social edition” achieved these scans among an estimated two million readers, meaning that it managed to obtain a scan from approximately 1 in every 4 readers. The editorial and marketing departments at Glamour worked together to form content that pushed the download of a mobile app called “Friends & Fans”. The editorial piece told the magazine’s…

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…