These days, credit card fraud primarily takes place on the internet. Criminals use hacked information to take advantage of customers, retailers, and banks. In order to make internet purchases more secure, credit card companies like VISA and Mastercard have released a new version...
When it comes to making payments on the internet, customers favour security and convenience over everything else. The payment process shouldn’t take long and must meet data protection requirements - after all, this is very sensitive data. Regarding PSD2, the EU is presenting a...
Professionals use video editing software to create amazing films. However, video editing is not just for professionals. The best video editing programs of 2019 manage a balancing act between suitability for amateurs and professionals. With the right video editing software, you...
So you think Alexa can do a lot? Well, it’s now possible to add even more capabilities to the smart Amazon Echo speaker. If you network it with external providers, you can extend the pre-configured functions with different applications. With Amazon Alexa Skills, Alexa becomes a...
Conversational marketing is a hot topic for SMBs looking to change the way they reach out to new and existing customers. Learn more about how to engage customers on a one-to-one basis and grow your business with a more human approach to marketing.
Unlike classic online ads, native ads are designed to be both context-sensitive and target-group oriented. Native advertising usually takes place in an editorial environment. The ads should fit into the natural content as well as possible. The aim is to create attention through a positive user experience and subsequently achieve brand awareness.
Marketing automation refers to software platforms through which databases and campaign management aspects are connected with one another. This allows a form of campaign planning in which marketing measures are automatically deployed, measured and evaluated. We'll tell you how you can benefit from marketing automation.
Not all leads are the same, something which each marketer will realise sooner or later. It’s not the mass of contacts that make a successful lead management campaign; it’s how they’re categorised. This is where lead scoring comes in. Lead scoring models, used to find out which contacts are the most promising, help to categorise and prioritise all leads so that you can invest your time and energy...
All steps in the lead management process are aimed at building sustainable customer relationships and bringing products and services to customers in a profitable way. After all measures have been taken in the lead nurturing process to successfully connect the contact and provide them with suitable information tailored to them, the sales department comes into play. When it comes to lead routing,...
Contact is established with the potential customer. What now? It would be a big mistake to hand this lead over to the sales department, because those interested are not ready for concrete offers so early on. This is where lead nurturing comes into play: maintaining contacts and further qualifying leads with precisely tailored content.
Just as a good gardener provides optimal conditions for every growth phase of their plants, a good online marketer also cultivates their customer relationships, since just one contact with a potential customer is seldom enough to completely convince them about a product. In “lead management”, you accompany an interested party from first contact to a successful conclusion.
Bitcoin’s success has spawned hundreds of cryptocurrencies now available on the market. Known as altcoins, they try to fix Bitcoin’s weaknesses or else have a completely different focus. In this article, we present the most popular and important alternatives to Bitcoin and explain their main differences: what are the advantages and disadvantages of each cryptocurrency?
“B2C“ stands for “Business-to-Consumer” and refers to business relationships between companies and consumers. For example, when customers place an order in an online shop, they enter into a business relationship with the respective company. The company enters into a communication relationship with their customers by sending an order confirmation, a newsletter, or recommendations for further...
Are you looking to publish an e-book and are searching for the right file format to suit your needs? In the third part of our series on e-books, we’ll be taking a closer look at the most popular e-book formats on the market today, comparing their advantages and disadvantages and helping you to decide which format is the right one for you.
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