Today’s economy is all about social proof. User-generated content (UGC) is one way to showcase why your brand matters. Moreover, email combined with UGC is a chance for ecommerce businesses to connect with consumers and generate revenue. Olapic found that “user-generated content in email sees a 43% increase in click-through…
Back in college, I visited to this run-down pizzeria shop called Sammi’s. Their logo had a picture of a pyramid on it. No one understood what that had to do with pizza. I pitched Sammi repeatedly on my startup’s text message coupon product at the time. He never bought. But…
The food industry is a $5.32 trillion dollar business. The alluring profitability of the food business along with increasing competition has inspired a new discipline: menu engineering. As the name suggests, it is a deliberate construction of menus to generate greater profits per customer. When asked about the rise of…
Marketing automation = emails. Right? Well yes. But there’s so much more. Which is fortunate, considering it’s never been more difficult to reach customers through email. The competition’s higher. But email providers themselves are introducing new ways and methods to do everything in their power to limit the amount of…
Whether you’ve been running an online store for 6 months or 6+ years, it’s a never-ending battle to win conversions. With average cart abandonment rates hovering around 68% – a mix of new and returning customers – you want to do everything you can to both acquire new customers and…
Have you heard about the Fake It Hack? How about the Exclusivity Hack? The Aha Moment Hack? These are a few of the tactics you’ll read if you Google “growth hacking.” Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of them before. You don’t need to know about them yet. The only…
Automated email workflows can net you 20% more sales opportunities. They’re more personalized, timely, and targeted. The problem, is that the vast majority of marketers – as high as 85% – are unhappy with their performance. Not the results of those campaigns. But of their own execution or implementation of…
I’ve always been a little skeptical of Cyber Monday. It always felt a little forced. Black Friday is a media bonanza as well, but Black Friday always seemed more discovered than created. Cyber Monday on the other hand came off a bit manufactured. I figured that while there were certainly…