By Adam Steinberg ( @adams472), January 19, 2012
2011 was a major stepping stone for location-based services, as we outlined in our recent “Year in Review” infographic. For starters, more than 15 million people are now using Foursquare—double the number from a year ago—and millions more are using location-based services on Facebook and Twitter. 2012 will be another critical year for location-based [...]
A few months ago, my colleague Loren McDonald wrote a blog post titled, “Leverage Facebook to Grow Your Email Database,” where he outlined all the super-smart reasons to add an email opt-in form to your Facebook page. I’m not going to rehash all the business drivers, but instead let’s focus today on what it takes [...]
This year the Silverpop team posted more than 100 blog entries covering a range of email marketing, social media, lead management, mobile and marketing automation topics. As the year winds down, we count down our Top 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011 (based on page views):
10. “Are You Making the Most of Reporting [...]
By Adam Steinberg ( @adams472), December 19, 2011
2011 was the most exciting year yet for location-based marketing, full of growth, consolidation, new-product releases and an ever-increasing number of users. As December comes to a close, we thought we’d look back on the year that was and highlight some of the key developments in location-based marketing in 2011:
What’s your [...]
By Bill Nussey ( @bnussey), December 13, 2011
With the New Year approaching, I find myself looking back on 2011. It seems that every year brings bigger and more dramatic changes to the world of marketing, and 2011 was no exception.
One of the biggest developments for marketers in general, and Silverpop in particular, was the coming of age of location-based marketing. With [...]
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about social login, with more and more research confirming the benefits of offering this option as an alternative to having people fill out forms or register on your site. A Blue Research study, for example, revealed that three out of every four Internet users leave a website rather [...]
I’m really happy to have Jamie Guse from Dairy Queen on our “5 Questions” blog this month. Jamie is Dairy Queen’s senior manager, digital marketing, and he’s the person behind its incredibly popular Blizzard of the Month loyalty program and DQ’s social media strategy. If you live in the United States or Canada, you know [...]
In today’s mobile, multichannel world, it’s more important than ever to be where your customers are. And increasingly, that means on smartphones and tablets, where more and more people are checking in at retail locations or business events. Foursquare, for example, is adding a million customers a month, and a recent Digital Omnivores report indicated [...]
By Bryan Brown ( @getvision), November 1, 2011
Let’s say you put together an amazing event and promote it via pay per click, your website, Facebook and Twitter. Post-event, you check your reporting and discover that you got 300 leads through the event. Pretty cool, but wouldn’t you like to know how many of those leads came from a social source?
If you’re like [...]
By Richard Austin ( @Silverpop), October 28, 2011
Integrating your email and social media initiatives can boost email revenue by as much as 400 percent according to industry studies, and the latest research continues to show that email and social can work together for the benefit of both.
So if, on average, a Facebook “fan” spends an additional $71.84 compared to a non-fan (Syncapse, [...]
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