The Future of Multi-Location Marketing is Experiential

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With multi-location growth, it’s important to have an experiential marketing plan so you can leverage the foot traffic and business opportunities that come with operating multiple locations.

How Marketers Can Manage WFH Employees Safely and Effectively

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Good leaders understand what signs point to suspicious behavior and which signs are simply a product of the new work-from-home norm.

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Location-Based Marketing Association: Instagram Experiments with QR Codes

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Doritos letting you turn any triangle into chips on Snapchat, Sonic Boom Records launching a vinyl record vending machine in Toronto, Instagram letting you share reels, posts, and your location through QR codes, and Ecom Express partnering with What3Words for last-mile delivery in India.

3 Challenges for Retail Media Networks

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Retail media is not without its challenges. Retailers need to determine how to curate advertising partners, avoid spoiling the shopping experience, and navigate the retail media tech stack.

TikTok Raises its Local Game

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TikTok continues to feel around and test features as it establishes itself as a social media powerhouse. It’s much earlier in that journey than incumbents like Instagram and Twitter, so we continue to see rapid-fire feature launches and trials. And like the above players, some of these are local in nature.

The Best Marketing Tactics Can’t Be Measured

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If some marketing tactics are more measurable than others and you place all the emphasis on readily available metrics, you are just going to turn your marketing program into a click machine.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Meta Goes After Restaurant Sales

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers BC Transit debuting NextRide real-time transit info, PayTile launching a geo-location payment app, Meta going after restaurant sales, and Immertia releasing an AR packaging platform.

Google’s Latest Privacy Play Has Big Implications for the Open Web

Google Fuels the Real-World Metaverse

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Whether for entertainment (which can foster marketing use cases) or direct commerce, the real-world metaverse will have major implications for the next generation of online-to-offline marketing strategy.

Closing the Attribution Loop

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While marketers cannot speak with every customer to learn about their journey, they can access those insights using the correct data. And that process starts with a fully closed attribution loop.

CEO POV: It’s Our Job to Solve Marketing Measurement

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The groundwork for this modern data-is-business strategy is a clearly defined approach to metadata management across the whole data-driven organization. And that can only be effective with executive buy-in.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Kalibrate Partners with Near on Location Intelligence

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Best Buy teaming up with Pokemon Go, Taiwan’s FamilyMart launching a convenience store on wheels, Baidu getting China’s first autonomous robotaxi license, and Kalibrate partnering with Near on location intelligence.

TikTok Jumps into Local Events

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For multi-location marketers, TikTok’s foray into events, and its increasing role as a destination for local discovery, portend that the platform is joining Facebook and other forums as a key place to connect online with local shoppers. TikTok can’t be ignored as an online-to-offline marketing channel.

Social Apps Are Creating a New UX for Local

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Young consumers are increasingly discovering local shops and restaurants on TikTok and Instagram, not Google or Yelp. An appetite for immersive visual experiences is behind the trend.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Amazon’s New Delivery Strategy

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers OneScreen.ai launching a public directory of OOH advertising inventory, Tim Hortons wanting to settle its location targeting lawsuit with free coffee, Sweetgreen gamifying its loyalty program with rewards and challenges, and Amazon planning to start deliveries from PacSun and Diesel stores.

The Six Building Blocks of Successful, Revenue-Generating Partnerships

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There is a blueprint for getting started with partnerships — six basic components that will give any partnership a solid and scalable foundation to build on. After over 20 years of watching and helping businesses launch successful partnerships, I can vouch for this six-point checklist.

Love Languages: 5 Ways to Earn Brand Loyalty 

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Hard metrics define brand loyalty’s value, but brand loyalty is really a feeling we earn by inspiring love, trust, and connections. It’s time to embrace that.

Location-Based Marketing Association: Heineken Uses Projection Ads to Reach NYC Office Workers

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Heineken using projection ads to target late-night NYC office workers, GeoGuessr bringing you virtual tourism, Radar launching “Place Matching” to improve POI data, and H&M and Amazon teaming up to test tech-enabled COS stores.

3 Predictive Analytics Models for Retailers

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Here’s how brands can understand the predictive analytics models available to them and determine what they need to improve their business.

Is Marketing Around Tentpole Moments Enough?

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A marketing strategy that focuses only on so-called “tentpole” moments misses out on a significant new part of the media and marketing landscape today: viral moments.

Google’s Latest Privacy Play Has Big Implications for the Open Web

Location-Based Marketing Association: Rio SEO Partners with Moveable Ink on Hyperlocal Content

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In this episode of Location Weekly, the Location-Based Marketing Association covers Rio SEO partnering with Moveable Ink on hyperlocal content, Snapchat and Disney collaborating on a virtual mural, and the SmartRadio app powering voice-activated betting for drivers.