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Flash Sale Guide: How to run more effective summer sale campaigns

Planning your summer sale campaigns? Take a look at our 5 step guide to planning a successful flash sale

Why retailers need to market their business via SMS

There are lots of ways retailers can market their business, and it can become a minefield of sales and marketing personnel trying to tell you why their way is best.  With so many options around, from PPC, email, magazine and print,…

Retail dos and don’ts of SMS marketing

Do this . . . don’t do that . . . a phrase we are sure you have heard over the years, and unfortunately, we are going to say it to you again. But this time we aren’t telling you off,…

6 ways retail can use SMS

With a 98% open rate compared to email at just 22%, there is no doubting that sending a text message will get a great return of investment, be that visits to websites, inbound calls, or sales of your products. We know…

How customers are using their mobiles in your shop

So because your business does most of its trade in its bricks and mortar shop, you think that mobile marketing is not for you, you think it’s only for online shops… Send them a link to your website and hey presto…

1 out of 4 shoppers came through SMS marketing

We knew SMS was good, but this good? Even we were surprised! The Black Friday madness is now behind us, while the dust settles and the shop shelves are restocked, the statisticians calculators are working overtime to try and figure out…

Increase leads, sales and your customer base with one little magic word…

You might have read that title and been very skeptical and somewhat pessimistic about what this ‘magic’ little word can actually achieve. However do you know what the best thing about this word is? It’s the fact that you can choose…

You’re hired! Healthy profits to rival Lord Sugar’s Apprentice

The main aims in business are all about those numbers: customers, costs and profits. There is nowhere that this rings truer than in The Apprentice. Keeping costs minimal and profits high is advice which echoes each year within the hit business…

Digital dilemmas – Choosing between money off or percentage discounts?

British shoppers love a good deal and are always on the hunt for the latest bargain. The word ‘SALE’ can spark a spending spree within minutes and eliminate all capability for rational thought when shopping, but when searching for the best…