Email marketing may not be your top marketing priority, but it should definitely be one that you focus on. Recent data suggests that email marketing is starting to be more effective and rise in popularity once again. Smartphones have made it easier than ever to check your email, and it is almost as easy as…
Category: Mobile Marketing
What the Facebook chatbot story can teach us about content marketing
Unless you’ve completely avoided the internet for the past few weeks (unlikely), you’ve probably heard a rather alarming story going around lately regarding chatbots that Facebook’s AI team were working on that went rogue and started planning the overthrow of humanity. You may also have heard since the story blew up across various social…
How to tell if influencer marketing is right for your small business
Marketing has changed a lot over the last few decades. A major reason is that customers are a lot more savvy and aren’t as trusting as they used to be. People are inherently less trusting of advertisements put out by the brands who stand to profit from them. After all, they’re obviously biased and…
Airlines are beginning to experiment with two-way SMS customer service
When it comes to texting, there’s an interesting dynamic: while we constantly text our friends, relatives, and co-workers back and forth, we never send text messages to businesses. In recent years text message marketing has become popular so businesses are texting us, but we’re not texting back. And even if we did, there wouldn’t be…
Frequently asked questions about chatbots
Chatbots are the latest craze in the world of mobile and artificial intelligence but they’re new enough that many people still know very little about them and some have never even heard of chatbots. Here are some answers to some of the frequently asked questions about chatbots. What are chatbots? As you…
Five qualities of an effective SMS marketing message
Currently, there is no marketing channel that can compete with SMS when it comes to the percentage of target audience reached. When you send a text message to a database of customers who’ve opted in, approximately 98% will open that message–most within just a minute or two. Email open rates are about 20% and…
Chatbots: the next big thing in customer-business interactions
Major tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook have been working for several years to infuse artificial intelligence into their devices and platforms. This allows users to communicate with their devices which in turn can infer meaning and “speak” in a way that replicates human speech. These are called chatbots and they’re not some…