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22 Mar

How banks can use social media and mobile apps

How are leading banks applying social media and mobile devices in ways that drive revenue and customer value? Spain’s BBVA provides an excellent example of how this can be done.
Here’s a look at how they’re creating qualitative outcomes for customers and profits for themselves, and how you can too…
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Spain’s BBVA, one of the [...]

22 Mar

Buying glasses online: short sighted thinking from retailers

Last month, I was unfortunate enough to lose my glasses.  Since I am a speccy four-eyes moley moleman, this has caused me some problems.
So rather than traipse down to an optician and be up-sold to hell
and back because obviously anything less than their £200 SuperHyperThin lenses
will be akin to milk bottle bottoms and will [...]

22 Mar

What makes a good thank-you page?

I’ve reviewed plenty of e-commerce sites for this blog, but one aspect I haven’t looked at so much is the thank-you page, the last page shoppers see after placing an order.
A recent report from Snow Valley has taken a look at this issue, providing tips on the mistakes to avoid, as well as a [...]

22 Mar

Aggressive data mining isn’t a problem, but…

This weekend, AdAge published two articles discussing the lengths to which advertisers are collecting and using data to target consumers for ads. One article details some of the techniques, and the other discusses the potential negative implications.
In short, marketers are increasingly taking data from offline sources and finding ways to apply this data to ad [...]

22 Mar

Photojojo turns Tumblrs into marketrs — and sells a few cameras in the process

Today on Tumblr, photo site Photojojo conducted a little experiment. They asked Tumblr users to reblog a post about their Fuji Instax Mini Instant Camera. Every time someone reblogged their offer before 4P, the camera’s price went down $.10. They were hoping to sell 50 cameras at a steadily reducing price by 4P.
Photojojo blew through [...]

22 Mar

Nestle incites the social media mob after Greenpeace campaign

Corporate responsibility is a tricky issue in an increasingly social and connected world. Consumers now have more means than ever to share and communicate their concerns with how companies do business.
This week, Nestle found itself on the wrong side of an angry group of consumers. And thanks to a few misplaced comments on Facebook, [...]

22 Mar

Yelp fights lawsuits in the court of public opinion

2010 has not been a kind year so far to Yelp. The popular customer reviews website is now facing not one, not two, but three separate lawsuits which essentially allege that the company has built a business by extorting local businesses.
They claim that, in an effort to turn listed businesses into paying advertisers, Yelp salespeople [...]

22 Mar

Q&A: We Are VI’s Matthew Carrozo on building a web app in 12 hours

Yesterday, as an experiment in team-building, design agency We Are VI designed and built a web app in the space of 12 hours.
The finished product is Scriptopus, a round-robin writing app. I’ve been taking to We Are VI’s Head of Strategy Matthew Carrozo about the challenges and the lessons learned from the project….
Why did [...]

22 Mar

Will opt-out threaten Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is one of the most popular analytics services for online publishers, especially smaller publishers. And for good reason: it has most of what the average publisher needs, and it’s free.
But Google Analytics is offered, of course, by Google, and Google is no stranger to privacy complaints. That means that Google often has to [...]

22 Mar

Which retailers have multichannel returns policies?

A recent survey from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) found that more than 60% of shoppers are less likely to return goods bought online.
This is partly due to a lack of awareness from consumers about their rights when shopping online, but could also be the fault of retailers and their returns policies.
This [...]

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