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Discount vouchers directly from your iPhone
Published by Angie February 4th, 2010 in Advertising, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping, Retail Marketing, Shopping Center Marketing, Social Media, eCommerce.Voucher Cloud is an app developed by Invitation Digital that allows users to get discount vouchers straight to their mobile, as well as locating nearby businesses with special offers.
To make things easier, Voucher Cloud takes your current location via GPS and serves up the offers closest to you. This seems to [...]
Facebook fights back, disallows the Suicide Machine
Published by Angie January 6th, 2010 in Social Media, Social Networking, Technology.Like the computer in the movie “2001,” Facebook is struggling to keep its profiles from virtual extinction at the hands of its arch enemy - the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine.
The Suicide Machine is a clever Web site out of the Netherlands that was designed to free users from their social network lives on Facebook, Twitter, [...]
Body scan won’t lie to you about your real size
Published by Angie December 21st, 2009 in Demographics, Fashion, Innovation, Personal Shopping, Retail Marketing, Technology.Did you ever want to know your measurements down to a hundredth of an inch?
If you’re ready for such honesty, Unique Boutique in Long Beach has the tool for you - a body scan that measures you at 200,000 points.
The purpose of the procedure is for the customer to have better information to buy or [...]
iPhone credit card payment system
Published by Angie December 9th, 2009 in Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping.Not to be outdone by tech visionary Jack Dorsey — one of the brains behind Twitter — and his Square cellphone payment start-up, point-of-sale veteran VeriFone struck today with the announcement of PAYware Mobile.
Not dissimilar from the Square iPhone application and accessory, which The Times profiled last week, PAYware targets small businesses with its subscription-based [...]
Mobile Shopping’s First Christmas
Published by Angie December 3rd, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Retail Marketing, Uncategorized.U.S. consumers are shopping via cell phone more than ever before. According to Deloitte’s 24th Annual Holiday Survey of retail spending and trends, published in October 2009, one in five shoppers plan on using a mobile phone to assist with holiday purchases, from researching prices and other product information to actually buying presents. Retails Systems [...]
IKEA’s brilliant Facebook campaign
Published by Angie November 26th, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Consumer Brands, Online Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking.…the Swedish purveyor of fast-food furniture decided to open a new store in Malmo and didn’t really have a lot of money to let people know about it.
So it engaged a rather outre advertising agency called Forsman and Bodenfors to create a rather special launch campaign.
The agency created a Facebook profile for the store manager, [...]
5 Effective Calls to Action That Will Get Your Visitors Clicking
Published by Angie November 19th, 2009 in Advertising, Interactive Advertisement, Online Advertising, Websites.Creating a great call to action isn’t simple of course, as it takes work to figure out exactly what to offer and how to portray that offer on your pages. As you begin to think about how to handle creating calls to action for your website, keep in mind that simple calls to action [...]
Web ads that learn from you
Published by Angie November 13th, 2009 in Advertising, Interactive Advertisement, digital publishing.This might surprise you, but the holy grail for many online advertisers is to make an ad that people actually like. Based on the current state of the banner ad economy, that might not seem like the case.
Thanks to the simple addition of thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on many websites, advertisers are finally [...]
Augmented Reality Helps Sell the Product
Published by Angie November 4th, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Consumer Brands, Innovation, Interactive Advertisement, Online Advertising, Technology, Virtual world.Augmented Reality is taking hold across the marketing world as consumer brands as varied as Kia Motors, Nestlé, and Frito-Lay look for newfangled ways to push snack foods, cereal, and automobiles to a younger demographic. The hope for marketers is that augmented reality will engage an audience more deeply than other forms of social media, [...]
Enabling the Mobile Wallet
Published by Angie October 29th, 2009 in Consumer Brands, Innovation, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Retail Marketing, Technology.The mobile phone as a payment and promotional device is coming to retail. The questions are when, what processes and under whose governance?
The RIS mobile survey published in May 2009 suggested an answer about when and processes. The survey finds that 47 percent of retailers will have a plan or be in pilot mode by [...]


