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Your customers won't rave about a simple payment experience. They won’t congratulate you when they can pay for an “online exclusive” product at the till. They won’t talk on social media about the slickness of the online checkout process. But they will make a lot of noise about a bad experience. And your conversion rates and sales will take a hit. These payment niggles have a particularly big impact on hospitality business with ambitious growth targets. Download the Insider’s Guide to catching payment niggles before they become critical concerns.

Discerning and demanding consumers expect meaningful retail interactions. Creating new world-class experiences is vital to differentiate products and boost profits in the consumer goods market. • Let me shop when and how I want: Technology to research and buy products defines consumer behavior, driven by social media’s “see now, buy now” mentality. • Give me relevant data: With ever-expanding information, every touchpoint should have customer data that matters. • Give me a truly unique experience: Innovative retailers use new partners and tools to deliver personalized consumer experiences. • Pair my products with consistently good service: New customer service technologies are crucial in a world with more consumer/retailer choices. • Make my retail environments better: Consumers want memorable, differentiated experiences in user-friendly digital and physical retail environments. I invite you to download your targeted industry analysis and uncover the expectations to take into account a

As a B2B marketer, the process of nurturing and generating new leads is always tricky business. Chasing high quality and relevant leads requires a considerable amount of time, energy and resources to be invested into email marketing campaigns, social media management and educational content such as blogs, whitepapers and eBooks. While live chat support has been around for about a decade, only in recent years and especially in the age of the smartphone, are B2B companies capitalizing on it as a channel to generate and nurture leads.

Creating new content takes an incredible amount of time and resources for your internal teams. Maybe you’re even paying an agency a good percentage of your budget to do it for you. Whilst content, from blogs to eBooks, and videos to white papers, does have a lot of value, that value comes at a cost. This isn’t the only issue with generating new leads through content. The effectiveness of sharing content via email is declining, it’s harder than ever to connect on the phone, people are apprehensive about immediately giving out their contact details, and social media has become more about likes and less about real results. In short, creating content to generate leads can be challenging, time consuming and expensive. But, what if you didn’t have to spend time and money creating content in the first place? What if you could generate qualified B2B sales leads without it?

Already reshaping politics and the workforce – not to mention the commercial world – Gen Z is an economic force to be reckoned with. Read up on the retail trends they’re instigating in this new report. And get a jump on the competition.

Die Welt ist heute digital – Cloud, Mobilität, Social Media und das Internet of Things verändern Arbeit und Freizeit für jeden. Diese sich schnell weiterentwickelnde digitale Welt definiert auch die Beziehung zwischen Ihrem Unternehmen und Ihren Kunden neu. Die Kunden erwarten von ihren bevorzugten Marken heute eine komfortable, interaktive User Experience. Auch die Security ist ein wichtiges Anliegen. Die Risiken wachsen, da Unternehmen und Kunden immer mehr vertrauliche Daten austauschen.Diese Transformation verstärkt auch den Wettbewerb. In den Worten des Analysten Mark Raskino: „Daher revidierten alle Akteure ihre Strategien ungefähr gleichzeitig, und allen wurde die Macht der digitalen Wirtschaft etwa zur gleichen Zeit bewusst. Konkurrenz ist also unvermeidlich.“

If you're a brand marketer or digital agency looking to amplify your social marketing initiatives this year, this document will guide you through the growing world of Facebook apps. Today, there are more than 500,000 active applications on Facebook, but of these only 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users. You've downloaded this guide because you recognize that marketing today means creating a two-way dialogue with your customers.

The rise of social media is intrinsically connected to email, which was itself the first social network. Email marketers must leverage this complementary channel to expand their reach beyond the email list, realizing the power of viral marketing in the social web.

The growing trend towards insourcing marketing and transactional email is being driven by businesses that are looking for ways to improve their email programs, increase data security and lower costs. When evaluating whether it makes more sense to leverage an on-premise or outsourced solution, it's important to understand how the traditional arguments have changed.

Separate fact from fiction with Oneupweb's new white paper on social media. By now you've heard the buzz about social media, and it's true, it is a cornerstone for branding, sales growth and PR.

Does social media marketing really work? How do you separate fact from fiction as you navigate your way through the buzz about "going viral"? Amidst the chatter about Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, Digg, Delicious, and Linked In-what will really get your business ahead? Tune in to find out as Oneupweb CEO Lisa Wehr and Social Media Director, Maureen Michaels team up to unveil the truth.

There's growing recognition that marketers can no longer afford to wait for specific guidelines from the FDA. Jump on the social media bandwagon or be left blow'n in the wind. Are you prepared? b

Social media is all around us and has fundamentally changed the way many of us communicate--both personally and professionally. Video can make your social media better, and ultimately get more leads to your website. But how best to post, measure, and use to drive traffic to your website?

The hype about video search has just begun which means lots of questions, lots of new experts, and not enough time to sort through it all. This new whitepaper "An Effective Video SEO Strategy in Three Phases" will give you the blueprint for getting started and beyond. Learn all about: the 2 things you should be doing right now to improve your video search engine optimization; widespread myths about what works and what doesn't; Advanced tips for even greater results and more!

Only a decade or so ago, those human resources professionals who hadn't yet found their way onto the Internet were finding themselves increasingly left out in the cold.As we slip swiftly into the second decade of the 21st century, it's those who haven't yet begun to participate in 'social media and networking' that are starting to feel the chill.

Only a decade or so ago, those human resources professionals who hadn't yet found their way onto the Internet were finding themselves increasingly left out in the cold. As we slip swiftly into the second decade of the 21st century, it's those whohaven't yet begun to participate in 'social media and networking' that are starting to feel the chill.

There’s strong evidence organizations are challenged by the opportunities presented by external information sources such as social media, government trend data, and sensor data from the Internet of Things (IoT). No longer content to use internal databases alone, they see big data resources augmented with external information resources as what they need in order to bring about meaningful change. According to a September 2015 global survey of 251 respondents conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, 78 percent of organizations agree or strongly agree that within two years the use of externally generated big data will be “transformational.” But there’s work to be done, since only 21 percent of respondents strongly agree that external data has already had a transformational effect on their firms.

Marketing as you know it will never be the same. There’s a fundamental shift in relationships between brands and customers—fueled by smartphones, social media, and today’s always-on, always-connected mentality. Marketers have access to more customer data (big data) than ever before. But the quantity of data only matters if you’re smart about using it—to power 1:1 customer journeys.

To better understand how companies are finding the unique, hybrid cloud architectures that best meet their needs, we interviewed executives at companies that had reduced or changed their use of managed or cloud IaaS or that chose to avoid the public cloud in the first place. These companies include retail, social media, healthcare, financial services, and public sector companies. Some of these companies were born in the cloud while others transitioned from traditional IT infrastructures. Company sizes ranged from 300 employees to more than 300,000.

Leading companies and technology providers are rethinking the fundamental model of analytics, and the contours of a new paradigm are emerging. The new generation of analytics goes beyond Big Data (information that is too large and complex to manipulate without robust software), and the traditional narrow approach of analytics which was restricted to analysing customer and financial data collected from their interactions on social media. Today companies are embracing the social revolution, using real-time technologies to unlock deep insights about customers and others and enable better-informed decisions and richer collaboration in real-time.

If you’re a small-to-midsized business (SMB), you know that you’re operating in a fast-paced, ever-changing business environment. Customers want their demands met instantly, and increasing competition multiplies the pressure you’re under. If you can’t deliver, you can be sure somebody else will. Fortunately, the technology landscape is changing the way you do business. Mobility, social media, and Big Data are leveling the playing field and making it possible for companies like yours to access more sophisticated technology, reach bigger audiences, target their messages, and innovate in their offerings. Yet nothing has changed the landscape so much as the cloud.

Mobility, social media, analytics and the cloud are revolutionizing how data is accessed, used, and secured for small to midsize businesses. With data security threats are on the rise, keep your business running with Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

With new technologies, new opportunities often emerge, especially in business. Download this asset to learn more about how social media and mobile devices, is changing the ways businesses interact with customers and the ways in which customers desire to be engaged. Sponsored by: HPE and Intel®

Consider the many ways that a customer encounters your brand – organic results on a search engine, display media campaigns, social media links, re-targeting on external sites, etc. One thing is certain – consumer journeys are far from linear. They can occur across multiple platforms, devices and browsers. The problem is that organizations are often constrained to channel-limiting decisions regarding their media investment allocations. Marketing attribution helps you analyze the impact and business value of company-generated marketing interactions to help make the best marketing investment decisions. The challenge is to interpret the massive volumes of customer data that continues to expand day by day.

Firms That Plan For Mobile, Cloud, Big Data, And The Impact Of Social Media Without First Taking Control Of Their Existing Application Portfolio Are Headed For Disaster.