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Eco friendly SMS for mobile marketers

04/07/201204/06/2012 Jorge Gonzalez

Green advertising The world is starting to come to understand that changes – and large ones – are more important than had previously been assumed in order to help to rescue the world from the environmental damage that has already been caused, or at least slow down the growth of the impact that we continue to have. As an element of this many companies are going paperless in order to reduce the amount of forest that is destroyed and pollution that is caused by the logging, production, and transportation of…

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…

To succeed with social media marketing, you must learn to empathize

08/31/201108/31/2011 Jesse Collins

Social media is being used by virtually everyone these days, and marketers from around the world are scrambling to determine how to best take advantage of everything that it has to offer. One of the primary points that seems to have obtained universal approval is that the key to success with social media is empathy. This is because social media is different from other methods of communicating with consumers as the power belongs to the audience as opposed to the speaker. You need to provide the consumer with a reason…