According to electronic commerce professor Martin Spann, from Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University (MLU), mobile technology is offering marketers a unique new location-based opportunity that has the potential to be highly lucrative. He explained that “The smartphone is a location-based service,” and that this “means you can integrate the online world with the offline world.” Therefore, according to Spann, smartphones and tablets have done a great deal more than simply allowing a consumer to remain engaged in the virtual world while they are on the go within the real world. It also…
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Digby announces release of new Localpoint platform
Leading company in multi-channel mobile commerce and engagement, Digby, has just launched its new mobile platform, Localpoint, which provides location-based marketing capabilities, as well as mobile commerce and analytics for top companies and brands in their industries. The platform uses powerful web-like analytics within mobile commerce efforts, as well as in the actual physical location of a brand’s store, in addition to geo-targeted mobile messaging tools. This lets Localpoint provide brands with the ability to influence, appeal to, comprehend, and own, the relationship they have with their customers across the…
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