Tag: geotargeting

New 1st Guard iPhone claims app powered by Pitney Bowes

Jorge Gonzalez
insurance industry mobile technology

1st Guard, an insurance company with a specialty for owner/operator truck and fleet coverage, has announced its latest insurance news as the adoption of Pitney Bowes Software, which is a geo-locational software solution that will allow the company streamline its operations and offer superior claims and customer service. According to the vendor statement for 1st Guard, these goals will be met through the insurance company’s TRUCKER1 app, which will allow the drivers toobtain access to their coverage data so that when a claim needs to be made, they will be…

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The continuing importance of location to mobile commerce and marketing

Julie Campbell
Geotargeting

According to the latest Mind Commerce Publishing report, entitled “Mobile Location Commerce 2012-2017”, mobile commerce is predicted to achieve a 39 percent compound growth rate from now through until the completion of 2017, as a result of the omnipresence of smartphones and tablet computers. Location-based commerce is forecasted to be one of the primary initiatives that will exist among the mobile environment within the next three years. In fact, location-based services were a key element of the report, and are expected to have an important impact on boosting sales. Geolocation…

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How much does location matter to a mobile marketing campaign?

L. Green
Geotargeting

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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Mobile discount coupons focus on QR code and social media compatibility

Stephanie Beck
Mobile gaming

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…

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Eenox launches new QR code management service called Qube

Stephen Vagus
QR Code Analytics

Eenox, a web technology startup founded in 2011, has launched a new QR code management service called Qube. As QR codes become more widely known amongst consumers, companies are starting to see how important it is to keep control of their QR codes. Code management services are not especially new to the world of QR codes, but many are quite similar to one another. Qube aims to be different through the use of emerging geolocation technologies that will help companies learn how to place their codes effectively. The service utilizes…

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