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Join Urban Airship's Chief Marketing Officer Brent Hieggelke to discuss what leading companies are doing now to prepare for the inevitable: when mobile is the primary influence on business. For many businesses, we've passed the tipping point. The majority of customers interact with brands on mobile. The majority of revenue is influenced by mobile. This consumer-driven trend is accelerating, but marketers aren't keeping up. Many react to the mobile revolution by trying to fit a square peg (the old web) in a round hole. Many allocate only a small fraction of total marketing resources to mobile. This webinar explores the reasons behind -- and solutions for -- this disconnect, believing that winning brands are constantly learning and evolving in the new mobile marketplace.
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Mobile may see an uptick in shopping over the holiday season if the U.S. government shutdown continues as marketers target shoppers hunting for timely bargains, observers say. "Retail operators, for instance, will be able to identify underperforming markets –- say, locations in which government work and contracting are major elements of the economy -- and target specific value propositions and price promotions to mobile users in those markets," said Ian Schulte, vice president of new ventures at Latitude.
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Microsoft will now become much more of a hardware company after agreeing to pay Nokia $7.2 billion in cash to buy its cellphone business, with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop returning to Microsoft amid speculation he might replace retiring chief Steve Ballmer. The deal includes the Finnish handset-maker's patents and a 32,000-strong workforce. Ballmer offered three reasons for ending their Windows Phone partnership: the companies' separate business needs; the duplicated efforts of building the two brands; and the difficulties of deciding how to invest each partner's capital. Also, executives said uniting the phone and software under a single banner will boost Microsoft's gross margins from less than $10 to more than $40 per unit. Microsoft will continue to license Windows Phone to other handset-makers.
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The latest trend in back-to-school marketing for retailers is using SMS to generate high engagement, writes Todd LaBeau, vice president of digital at Lindsay, Stone & Briggs. Kohl's and Abercrombie & Fitch are sending out short and sweet contest messages, whereas Nordstrom and Macy's are concentrating on getting recipients to share. The driver is that nine of 10 text messages are read within three minutes of being received, per SinglePoint Research.
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Eight-four percent of Chinese companies project that mobile sales will grow over the next year, and 16% are already marketing regularly through mobile, an Experian Marketing Services' whitepaper reports. Currently, text is the main marketing channel but other technologies, including QR codes, are expected to take a bigger share.
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