ExactTarget has released the results of its research from June 2011, which indicated that mobile emails are currently the most powerful way to encourage consumers to pursue shopping activities. As mobile phones rapidly rise in their importance to online commerce, many efforts have been taken to try to market to smartphone users and to understand which methods are most effective among the many techniques that are being newly attempted. The ExactTarget study discovered that in the United States, 56 percent of smartphone owners had made a purchase as a result…
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Experts announce 4 top ways to influence buyers
Marketing experts have released the results of their findings regarding today’s consumer, and have found that transparency, trust, buyer control, and social media are the top sources of influence over buyers. Though marketing has traditionally been built on a foundation of push techniques, and the 4 P’s (product, price, place, and promotion), those have been replaced by new and evolved influences, which are proof, value, enablement and outcome, and experience. Therefore, companies are discovering that in order to cater to those factors, marketing must be altered. Effective marketing no longer…
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