Marketing Automation: First Ask Yourself, ‘Why?’

By Micky Long, vice president and practice director of lead nurturing, Arketi Group The excitement around marketing-automation systems and the extended lead-nurturing activities they enable shows no sign of abating within the B2B community. ExactTarget's acquisition of marketing-automation provider Pardot and the news that Oracle has completed their acquisition of Eloqua are just two examples…

Vimeo Acquires GIF App Echograph, Upping the Ante for Mobile Video Sharing

Vimeo has acquired Echograph, an iOS app that lets users create animated GIFs, or more specifically cinemagraphs. The deal will bring Echograph’s team into Vimeo’s fold and aim to expand the app to all mobile platforms. Echograph will remain a standalone app but will now be free (it previously sold for $2.99). This appears to…

First Time Unlock/Jailbreak iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS iOS 6.1 Untethered Capable Software

Finilly The Unlock Jailbreak Team has relased the latest tool capable to unlock/untethered jailbreak iPhonee 5/4/4S/3GS for iOS 6.1.1 It took an extra 72 hours for the jailbreak iphone 5 iOS 6.1.1 untethered to be released for those using Windows systems (meaning, most of us), but that’s now here as well. www.Unlock-Jailbreak.net have just released…

Top 3 Problems for Mobile Emails: Excessive Scrolling, Poor Layout and Too Much Content

In Yesmail Interactive’s white paper, “Mobile Email Design: Marketing Fit for the Small Screen,” the company offers an overview of the challenges to designing emails for mobile devices. It also highlights the two tactics that can be used: scalable design and responsive design. Mobile email’s surge According to Yesmail, 36 percent of emails were opened…

Infographic: How to Track Social Media ROI by Tracking People

KISSmetrics, a Web analytics provider, has put together an infographic showing how businesses can track social media ROI by tracking users. Here are some of the “stops” along the way of the 15-day roadmap the company lays out: –

Shopkick Is the No. 1 Most Used Shopping App in the U.S. in Terms of Engagement

According to Nielsen, Shopkick is the No. 4 shopping app in terms of reach among smartphone users in the U.S. Amazon is No. 1 with a 19 percent reach, followed by eBay with 17 percent, Groupon with 13 percent and Shopkick with 10 percent. Starbucks (8 percent), Walgreens (6 percent), Barcode Scanner (6 percent) and…