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How Retailers Are Using Pop-Ups to Drive Customers In-Store
One pillar of most in-store marketing strategies is to transform shopping into a share-worthy experience. This, retailers bet, is a way to make hitting stores worth it when Amazon is only ever a click away. Pop-ups are one iteration of that strategy.
5 Retailers Using Live Shopping to Boost Back-to-School Sales
Meta will reportedly shut down its live shopping feature on Facebook in October, but that doesn’t mean the concept of live shopping is dead. Across the retail marketing space, multi-location retailers are investing in live-stream content as a way to leverage the popularity of social media and engage with Gen Z consumers this back-to-school shopping season.
Nestle Uses DISQO’s Consumer Data to Fill the Cookie’s Gaps
With the third-party cookie going away on Chrome (eventually) and mobile identifiers losing scale, marketers are seeking new measurement tools. The customer intelligence platform DISQO is stepping in with a new product called Outcomes Lift.
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How to Stop Getting Bogus Leads from Facebook Ads
Like a discordant refrain, these familiar phrases can feel like they’re playing on loop when following up with potential customers generated from Facebook Lead Ads. Bogus or misleading leads are a huge complaint among advertisers, but there are a few common and useful steps an advertiser can take when building Lead Generation Ad Campaigns to curb the occurrence of false leads.
Certain aspects are out of our control from the advertisers’ end, such as trusting Facebook users to enter correct and non-misleading information, but armed with this handy checklist, you can audit your lead gen ads, making improvements to stem the tide of bogus leads.
3 Tips for Attracting High-Quality Leads at Your Next Event
First impressions are key, and it’s imperative that as soon as the lead is ready to buy, your brand is the first on their mind.
Doing this requires you to understand your leads and deliver a message that appeals to their needs while portraying your brand in the best possible way. This is a big challenge because you want to promote your brand without going overkill and scaring leads away.
Here are three steps for attracting higher-quality leads at your next event.
Three Methods to Deploy Foreground Data Effectively
For those of us in the location data industry, we must adapt to the new world we live in and find solutions to solve the age-old problems our clients face. Foreground data (data that is captured only when a user has an app open) has the potential to be just as effective and insightful and can offer even greater insights into how people interact in the physical world.
Companies conducting location analysis can use three methods to help keep their solutions robust in this next era of location data; layer in foreground apps, reduce noise, and capitalize on inferences.
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