marketing

The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture
The Crowdsourced 1099 Salesforce Enters The Picture
October 04, 2019  |  Business

We are all salespeople — we all have influence over certain friends, relatives, neighbors and co-workers. Assuming people trust us (assuming other people consider us...

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New Facebook Feature Separates Web Browsing From Social Profiles
New Facebook Feature Separates Web Browsing From Social Profiles
August 20, 2019  |  Facebook

To allow users to separate their web browsing history from their personal profiles, Facebook finally finished a new feature. The move, however, could make advertising...

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Pasta Passes Sell Out At Olive Garden
Pasta Passes Sell Out At Olive Garden
August 16, 2019  |  Retail

With fans of the restaurant chain looking to get an unlimited fix, Olive Garden‘s Never Ending Pasta Pass sold out in one second. All 24,000...

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More Than Pretty Pictures: Visual Commerce’s Rise Boosts Retail
More Than Pretty Pictures: Visual Commerce’s Rise Boosts Retail
August 13, 2019  |  Innovation

For fans of retail or marketing history — or just fans of how people communicated in the past — reading old magazine and newspaper advertisement...

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Groupon Tries To Reach A More Lucrative Consumer Base
Groupon Tries To Reach A More Lucrative Consumer Base
August 12, 2019  |  Retail

Hey, did you hear about Groupon? When was the last time anyone said that to you? No offense against Groupon, the relatively longstanding online discount...

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Yelp Adds Tracking To Restaurants’ Phone Numbers For Grubhub Incentive
Yelp Adds Tracking To Restaurants’ Phone Numbers For Grubhub Incentive
August 06, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Vice is reporting that Yelp is changing phone numbers for Grubhub in order to let the company take a “referral fee” of between 15 to...

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WhatsApp, Instagram To Carry Facebook Name
WhatsApp, Instagram To Carry Facebook Name
August 04, 2019  |  Facebook

Facebook is adding its name to Instagram and WhatsApp as part of a rebranding aimed at unifying all three apps, The Wall Street Journal reported...

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That Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger, And Marketing Stunt #Fails
That Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger, And Marketing Stunt #Fails
July 27, 2019  |  Retail

This week, the world was presented with a truly unusual retail mystery: The Case of the Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger. The story starts at 6:30 a.m....

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Marketing Startup Pomona Raises $3M To Expand Data For Brands
Marketing Startup Pomona Raises $3M To Expand Data For Brands
July 24, 2019  |  Investments

An Indonesian startup that provides consumer brands with omnichannel marketing and sales products, including cash-back rewards, has raised $3 million in a Series A-2 funding...

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