Online Marketing

Walgreensโ€™ Digital Strategy is Dangerously Boring
December 8, 2015 at 10:20 am

As a personal crusade to get retailers to actually use digital channels in valuable ways, I've taken on the National Retail Federationโ€™s Top 100 retailers list, and Iโ€™ve been evaluating the activities of these retailers in digital spaces: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, other social properties if itโ€™s appropriate, and then, of course, how well these activitiesโ€ฆ

Amazon Terminates Merchant Ads That Pull Visitors Offsite
October 16, 2015 at 11:22 am

Off-site sellers who enjoyed a steady stream of traffic from Amazon Product Ads will bid farewell to that at the end of October. Amazon.com disclosed over the summer that the service would end on Halloween. Likewise, what appeared to be a possible replacement, or even a competitor with Google AdWords, will also cease operation as Amazonโ€ฆ

How to Kick it Into High Gear for Last Weeks of Back-to-School
August 19, 2015 at 3:21 pm

The back-to-school (BTS) season kicked off for retailers as early as springtime, as brands developed fresh strategies and high-engagement campaigns to capture new customers for the second most important retail season of the year. While full-scale campaigns have long been executed, itโ€™s not too late for retailers to kick it into high gear during theโ€ฆ

Sellers Baffled as Amazon Ditches Product Ads
August 12, 2015 at 3:59 pm

Merchants who advertise products on Amazon.com got some confusing news on Tuesday. Amazon is discontinuing its Product Ads program, and it's replacing it with a new Text Ads program. But no one seems able to find information about the Text Ads. EcommerceBytes could find nothing about it on Amazon's website, and the company didn't respondโ€ฆ

3 Tips for More Relevant Customer Engagements
August 7, 2015 at 5:28 pm

Consumers today have more power than ever before. Every minute of every day they engage with numerous brands across multiple channels, demanding highly relevant experiences along their journey. Sounds like marketers need some powerful new capabilities to make this possible. Maybe, but consumers are becoming more and more willing to guide retailers along the pathโ€ฆ

Digital Advertising Trends Retailers Need to Know
July 29, 2015 at 3:20 pm

Every quarter, IgnitionOne checks in with the ongoing trends in digital marketing and publishes a report based on the data flowing through our platform. Frankly, the people who find this report most interesting are the investors and financial analysts who live and die by whether they should buy, sell or hold various stock. But forโ€ฆ

Retailers Pushing Toward Personalization
July 6, 2015 at 1:57 pm

When shoppers browse your website, do first-time visitors favoring a product category get served the same recommendations as repeat buyers? Do โ€œmillennial technophilesโ€ get the same experience as โ€œadventurous empty nestersโ€ or โ€œfashion-forward momsโ€? Retailers are increasingly answering โ€œnoโ€ to these questions โ€” and driving deeper customer engagement and more leads as a result. Byโ€ฆ