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Digital Infocard – QR Codes

Digital Infocard for Nov 22, 2011 – QR Codes

QR Codes

- QR Codes were created back in 1994 by Toyota

- Americans scanned 14 million QR Codes (as of July 2011)

- 46% of the users scan QR Codes to get discounts

- Their usage was up a whopping 4,589% from 2010 – 2011

- 68% of QR Codes are scanned using an iPhone

For more information on how to create and use QR codes read QRious About QReating QR Codes?

Digital Infocard – Facebook Marketing

Digital Infocard - The World of Facebook Marketing

Facebook Marketing

- Facebook has 800+ million users and counting. It’s the 3rd largest country in the world!

- 75% of Facebook’s users are outside the US

- CTR for links in News feeds is 1 in 715 or 0.13%

- CTR for links in Pagesis 1 in 280 or 0.35%

- Wednesdays are more likely to generate likes than Fridays

- Pages receive 1 click for every 1,000 Fans

More on Facebook? Read: Increase Brand Engagement with Facebook Fan Pages

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Custom Landing Pages are utilized to complement and enhance the performance of your marketing efforts like Direct Mail, Email Marketing, Telemarketing, QR Codes, Banner Ads and PPC. They can also be used to support traditional mass-media marketing channels like TV (think infomercials) and Radio Ads. A landing page allows you to selectively target and profile your audience while offering them customized and targeted offers. They are an optimal touch point for your prospect and optimized landing pages have been proven to boost conversion rates by up to 50%. CLPs can be used as a vehicle for event registration, product surveys, or to promote and sell real estate. Read more about the 7 Habits of Building Highly Effective Landing Pages.

Marketing Automation focuses on demand and lead generation with targeted marketing programs to drive awareness and interest in a company's products and/or services and nurture leads from first interest through to sale. To develop a strategic marketing plan, a fully automated marketing automation platform is designed to develop, manage and analyze campaigns, enable audience and customer segmentation, lead qualification, lead scoring and lead nurture. Distributed Marketing, a discipline that encompasses automation of internal marketing processes, is one way to enable marketing automation across your channel, partners, dealers, franchisees, etc. This type of system dramatically increases the organization's ability to deliver personalized content to relevant entities or individuals at appropriate times.

Email marketing is a very powerful customer engagement tool which is extremely cost-effective and effective, if done right. Email marketing is often reported as second only to search marketing as the most effective online marketing tactic. (MarketingSherpa, January 21, 2009). An effective email marketing strategy involves 3 things: Improved Deliverability, Better Open Rates and Increased Click-through Rates. Use the following design and content guidelines to Create an effective email marketing campaign and follow this 7 step checklist to avoid spam filters and cater to different flavors of email clients.

eBusiness methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with vendors, suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the requirements of their customers. eBusiness involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: purchasing, order processing, logistics, customer service, cooperating with business partners, etc. Special technical standards and/or APIs meant for eBusiness facilitate the exchange of data between companies.