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by Murgesh Navar
Tracking brick-and-mortal sales attributable to online advertising
The US census bureau chart below shows how small e-commerce still is. 93% of all dollars are still spent in the store, locally.
Most marketers are still stumped as to how to establish causation between their online efforts and sales lift in the store. Earlier this year, Facebook announced a new tool Conversion Lift measurement to help advertisers determine how Facebook ads determine their bottom line. This tool requires businesses to upload their sales data into Facebook and is restricted to larger accounts. Google, not surprisingly, has also has been working on a solution to tie clicks on search ads back to in-store traffic, called Store Visits. Store traffic in the case of Google is determined by user proximity to the advertiser’s location on Google Maps. PetSmart, part of Google’s case study, states 10% of clicks on ads lead to a store visit. Tracking store visits apart, tracking actual sales lift is still very complicated. Read More
Thanks to all ISOs of First Data
Thanks to all First Data ISOs who met us at the annual conference in Atlanta. Big Thanks to First Data for giving us a booth presence and introducing us to all the great ISOs who are actively transforming the local business, helping millions of local merchants become more efficient in the way they do business. Beyond credit card processing….. into helping merchants strengthen relationship with their customers.
BuyFi with Ignite Payments Conference
Ignite Payments is a First Data sales channel. Presenting at their conference. We really appreciate the tremendous votes of confidence in our service and applications. Here are George and Zulker during set up.
Marketing made more effective with Game Mechanics
Video game designers use established techniques to engage players and motivate higher degree of participation. Business owners can apply similar techniques to motivate their customers to act in ways that adds value to their business i.e. increased sales, greater loyalty, word-of-mouth, etc. Some of this can sound complicated and outside the realm of a small business focus….
Marketing Automation using Credit Card Data
Over fifty-percent of customers to a retail business visit once and never come back. There is a need to turn these single-visit customers into multi-visit loyal customers. But lacking investment in technology and skilled marketing talent, the average business does not understand how to market to these customers.
BuyFi helps businesses by tapping into customer purchase data within their point-of-sale systems and payment gateways, and use that information to automatically market to customers who have already made purchases from the business by sending messages, offers and promotions to the right customers at the right time. A series of automated campaigns turns single-visit customers into returning customers, and returning customers into multi-visit loyal customers. Businesses retain more of their valuable customers without the need for expensive talent or technology.
Check out @buyfi at the Disrupt SF 2014 Startup Alley! #TCDisrupt http://shar.es/11AfDy
UMarket on Clover POS : See us at TechCrunch Disrupt Sept. 8-10 in the Clover booth
UMarket: Marketing Automation on Clover POS
Automatically provides rewards for customers based on their credit card purchasing habits at your business. UMarket offers a series of “set-it-and-forget-it’ marketing programs to convert shoppers who have only purchased once into Returning Customers (2x visitors), then into Retained Customers (3+ purchases), and finally, into Loyal Customers. UMarket uses purchase history data to trigger automatic Win Back Offers to bring back customers who used to purchase frequently but have not bought recently, and renews their loyalty to your business.
Small Business CRM systems are not effective
We have come across several small businesses in the last 30 days that have invested in a CRM system, but don’t really understand them. Small businesses are seeking to mimic large businesses in leveraging technology such as a customer relationship management software system. Their goal is to automate sales and marketing functions, and efficiently manage customer interactions with the business. The good news is that such software has become more affordable and more easily available with the advent of cloud computing. The problem is.. it does not work for most small businesses. Why? Let us break down the problem a bit. The first thing you need to do when you turn to a CRM system is to create a list that is segmented into leads, prospects, customers, and super loyal customers. This is a great start, but just a start. Now you need to wrap a sales process around these customers Read More