Tag Archives: mobile apps
Stumping The Apple Store Geniuses: My Mobile-Enhanced Shopping Day Fail
Last week, the team behind the retail platform PowaTAG invited me to speak at its public launch. (You can learn all about the technology in this brief video.) Available today for iPhone and Android devices and coming soon for Windows Phone and Nokia X, the PowaTAG app works by looking or listening for proprietary video […]
When Are Higher Marketing Costs A Good Thing?
The rapid migration to smartphones and tablets from laptops and desktops has happened at a breath taking pace. While that has created a massive business opportunity, the supply of mobile apps and mobile websites has grown even faster than our demand for that content. The result is that the cost to advertise in mobile has […]
There’s More To Your App’s Value Than You May Be Considering
Two stories on mobile app monetization caught my eye last week. Both offer valuable insights on making mobile revenues that every app developer and publisher should internalize, though they come with headlines that don’t quite deliver on their stories’ full meaning. The first story comes from a conference that took place in New York. Its […]
Why Mobile OS Updates Are The Right Time To Amplify Your Marketing
Marketers love big occasions. Product anniversaries, major holidays, national elections, the Olympics, the World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Oscars all give marketers a platform upon which to engage and excite their customers. Even if a company doesn’t officially sponsor one of these events, marketers have figured out ways to draft off their momentum to […]
Expectations For 2014: The Appification Of Things
Not that we needed the reminder, but Adobe recently confirmed that app users are a lot more engaged than mobile web visitors. The app’s dominance over the mobile website, at least as it stands today, looks to me like the digital equivalent of early Homo Sapiens’ advantage over other branches of our evolutionary tree. While […]
Tools For Mobile Marketers To Drive App Engagement
Getting consumers to download your app is really hard. Even harder, though, might be getting consumers to use your app for the first time, much less on a regular basis. Fortunately, companies that can tackle this challenge have emerged. The challenge itself has a lot to do with how dynamics shift as users go from […]
How To Manage Your Company’s Multi-App Strategy
This blog has focused primarily on issues related to designing and implementing a mobile strategy. What if your company already has a mobile business? In particular, how should you handle a proliferation of apps among your firm’s various brands? A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at the LA Office Brand Partnership Forum about the […]
The Affordable Care Act’s Mobile Mess
With over three years to implement the health care exchanges that went live on October 1, the federal government had plenty of time to prepare its signature tool – http://www.healthcare.gov – for the mobile era. Though much has been written about the site’s woes, I haven’t read much about its mobile experience. I decided to […]
Five Foundational Steps To Achieving Mobile Marketing Success
Many times over the last couple of months, I’ve found myself in the company of old friends and new acquaintances who have asked me a version of the following question: “How would you go about using mobile marketing to advertise my product or service?” I tell them that the marketing world, while more complex than […]
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