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If you search for “marketing degree” in Google, you will find that there is a lot of confusion around whether the discipline is an art or a science. At some Universities like Essex, Portsmouth, and Worcester, the degree qualifies as a Batchelor of the Arts and yet, at other establishments such as Newcastle, Bournemouth and Lancaster, you can earn yourself a Batchelor of Science.

This divide in a marketer's beginnings are amplified once in the profession. Many would...

The news that Google for Kids is now in the development pipeline for the tech giant has generated quite a bit of controversy today. But Google itself was expecting this.

In effect Google for kids - its plan to develop child specific versions of tools such as search, YouTube and Chrome – will create a whole new marketing demographic and enable website owners to better track who is looking at their sites when.

The information this could, in theory, provide advertisers with is huge. Whether brands would be...

Getting traffic to your website is only half the battle, it is what you do with it once it is there that counts. If you are finding that you have a very high bounce rate and people are simply not interacting and converting on your site then you may be committing one of conversion’s cardinal sins.

1. Lust

This burning desire often occurs when there is a product that you simply cannot live without. Realistically this is what your conversion needs to be highlighting. This is the cardinal sin you need to be...

Consumers have been promised a paperless world for years and yet still happily accept paper receipts at checkout – stuffing them into a bag or wallet where they inevitably get lost or damaged. Yet digital, emailed receipts offer not only a better way for customers to manage their purchasing history, but also a more singular view for retailers of what, where and how their customers are shopping.

It is something Apple has been doing for some time but the news last week that Argos has become the first...

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Online and mobile advertising have traditionally focused on click-through rates and online traffic but, as retailers become more aware of the need to provide an omnichannel rather than single channel experience, that is changing. 

Mobile advertisers are realising that the fact that their customers are shopping both online and instore – and more importantly using their mobiles within the physical store environment – means that they can target advertising to drive...

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A new partnership claims it will deliver the industry’s first global programmatic platform for native advertising – enabling brands to increase their audience exposure. It will initially be launched in the US and UK and roll out to other markets later.

The partnership brings together Xaxis, the world’s largest programmatic media and technology platform, and Disqus, the web’s largest network of discussion communities. The new platform will enable Xaxis...

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Knowing your customers inside out in today’s marketing world is not only more of a possibility than ever before but more vital too. New research shows that marketers in the UK lead their way in this but shows that businesses still are not doing enough to embrace the inbound marketing opportunities that are available to them.

The survey, undertaken by Oracle Marketing Cloud and Forrester Research and released today, finds that of 523 marketing decision makers across a range of...

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Targeting key influencers on social media to help get a marketing message out is a tactic that is proving successful for brands, but consumers are beginning to realise just how vital they are to this strategy.

Mobile gamification company 3radical has released the findings of a survey where it polled the opinions of 600 UK consumers, with 87% saying they were looking for a reward before reading or responding to a brand’s message.

An additional 50% then said a reward had become...

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The customer experience process is rapidly changing. For brands, getting the customer to return again is not new, whether through incentivisation or simple brand loyalty. But the landscape is being turned on its head – and it’s through such new technologies as the Internet of Things (IoT) driving what is being described as the new services economy.

Companies are recognising this. Instead of buying standalone products, it’s now about buying services. Take Netflix...

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Despite years of marketing research and advanced analytical solutions, the key focus needs to remain on people when examining issues of customer loyalty. Designing customer-loyalty solutions without a strong emphasis on the human aspects of your client relationships is probably misguided.

Why strengthen customer loyalty?

Marketers have a clear understanding of the rationale behind brands seeking to increase their clientele’s loyalty; it results in increased brand equity and allows firms to...