Infographic: All About Marketing Automation

CMSWire, an online magazine focused on social business, online customer experience and information management, has put together an infographic offering an overview of marketing automation. “Marketing automation is about automating the routine and repeatable tasks associated with lead management, lead nurturing, lead scoring, and creating and maintaining a marketing lead database,” according to CMSWire. Here…

Facebook Is Creating a Smartphone App to Track the Location of Users

Facebook is reportedly developing a location-tracking mobile app, which the company is aiming to release by mid-March. The app will track the location of users to help users see which of their friends is nearby. If that’s not creepy enough, how’s this: the app would run even when the app is closed on a smartphone.…

Mobile Vikings Aims to Use Daily Deals to Make Mobile Data Free

Mobile Vikings, a startup based in Hasselt, Belgium, has a big dream: free mobile Internet for everyone. It hopes to do this by having companies foot the bill. In more specific terms, Mobile Vikings is hoping to third parties pay users’ mobile bills if they make purchases via an app. The smartphone app rewards users…

How Marketers Can Use SlideShare to Generate Leads

Presentation slides often elicit yawns, glazed eyes and doodling in person, but on the Web they can be much more exciting and effective for generating and nurturing leads. SlideShare is a major reason why. For those who aren’t familiar with the site, SlideShare is a presentation-sharing platform that LinkedIn purchased in May 2012. As of…