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Physical Books Are a Hit with Digital Natives
For all the handwringing about how social media is chipping away at our mental health, digital social platforms are driving at least one type of analog media: physical books. As in the kind, where you flip actual pages by lamp light. No scrolling. No clicking. Just honest-to-God printed words on paper. And the delicious irony […]
Who Says Chickens Can’t Fly? Raising Cane’s is Soaring (BOOM)
Why did the chicken cross the road to Cancun? To meet with Raising Cane’s 3,000 team members to present the plan for the future! Raising Cane’s is a multi-billion-dollar brand with over 800 locations. Founded in 1996, the company’s sales have been on the upswing. The brand gathered its team in Mexico to present its […]
Brand Building or Performance Marketing? Why Multi-Location Brands Must Invest in Both
Brands have long grappled with the decision of how to allocate marketing dollars across brand building and performance marketing. Building sustainable brand awareness and a strong reputation requires a long-term investment with tough-to-measure results. Performance marketing delivers more immediate local leads and sales. It’s easy to see why many brands overinvest in performance marketing at […]
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Social Apps Are Creating a New UX for Local
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
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
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.
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CallTrackingMetrics CEO Welcomes Replacing Humans for the Boring Tasks
Todd Fisher is co-founder and CEO of CallTrackingMetrics, launched in 2009. If your business has a “high-touch” product or service that requires a phone call, it could probably benefit from using CallTrackingMetrics, which started out providing attribution for online ads but now does much more.
Can AR Elevate Multi-Location Marketing?
Augmented reality continues to be an early-adopter technology in terms of brand marketing. It has the unique ability to demonstrate products in their full 3D glory, which has proven effective in categories from furniture to footwear and cosmetics to cars. Many of these categories align with multi-location brands.
Contextual and Native Come Together to Help Advertisers Win the Open Web
Both contextual and native take a natural and intuitive approach, rather than a disruptive and distracting one. If a seamless experience is the goal, context may even be a more appropriate mode for targeting native campaigns than third-party cookie targeting ever was.
AI-Powered Digital Advertising is Exciting, But Is It New?
While the integration of generative AI into virtually every modern marketing and advertising platform is exciting, it’s not exactly surprising. Despite the hype surrounding AI and its influence on the digital advertising industry at large, AI has been used in adtech for years.
CEO Adam Golomb on How Restaurant Chain Primanti Bros Is Evolving
Primanti Bros. has 41 locations across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland, with three more to open by year’s end. CEO Adam Golomb and his team are deep in planning for summer events to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Primanti Bros.
Reveal Mobile Launches Solution to Offer Authoritative In-Flight Campaign Insights
Reveal Mobile is launching an OOH measurement solution for mid-market brands today, designed to let marketers know how their OOH campaigns are performing while their campaigns are still running — a major improvement with the potential to radically impact the performance of outdoor campaigns.
ChatGPT Will Shake Up Marketing. That’s Good
Now that ChatGPT has entered the conversation, so to speak, and AI chatbot tools are about to shake up content marketing. But don’t panic — that’s a good thing.
Arity’s Driver Data Reaches 200 Million Connections
Arity, a mobile data and analytics company, has actually increased its first-party data set from one million seven years ago to 200 million connections as of this year. Mobility data from vehicles can show movement patterns and behaviors in multiple and varied locations and result in more relevant ad targeting.
Yext Launches No-Code Page Builder to Power Localized Marketing
Yext this week made another power move by launching a no-code page builder. No-code websites may sound most relevant to SMBs, but they’ll also have huge implications for multi-location brands looking to stand up localized marketing websites across hundreds or thousands of locations without large marketing teams.
Retailers Move to Automate 70% of Rote Store Tasks by 2025
Generative AI is the talk of the retail town as marketers look to use it to connect with customers, but many retailers are gearing up to use AI for another purpose: automating routine in-store tasks.
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