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Western business owners have long struggled to tap into the Asian-Pacific marketplace. The APAC region offers a variety of challenges to business owners from the west due to language, cultural, and other unseen barriers. In spite of these challenges, many businesses have attempted unsuccessfully to reach audiences in the APAC region. What these companies lacked was insight, advice, and tools to develop their brands within APAC countries. InterAd, Inc. works with western companies enabling them to achieve their sales goals…

RevJet, the only unified app-based platform that simplifies all aspects of digital ad experience management for Fortune 500 marketers, announced a major update to their industry-leading Global Ad Serving App Suite. Version 5.0 bolsters its Global Ad Serving Suite capabilities across the board, including streamlined cookie-less personalization, enhanced consent management, cross-device Identity Management, advanced attribution, and more. Marketing Technology News: Deliveroo and Onfido Expand Partnership to Provide…

Digital marketing consultancy, Hawke Media, integrates Wayflyer’s revenue-based financing platform in its full-service marketing solutions Wayflyer, an eCommerce platform that provides both capital and marketing analytics to small businesses, today announced that it is partnering with Hawke Media, an award-winning marketing consultancy based in Los Angeles, California, to offer revenue-based financing services as a part of Hawke’s expanded marketing solutions. “Hawke Media understands what it takes to create a…

Even the top of the world isn’t immune to the Coronavirus. China has shut down, the Tibet side of Mount Everest and Nepalese authorities have ended all expeditions on the South flank for the rest of this year's climbing season amid the worsening global pandemic. It’s increasingly becoming apparent that the coronavirus is going to cause an economic slowdown.  The travel industry has been sent into a spiral. Conferences and major events such as SXSW have been canceled. Even college and professional sporting events are being…

Acquiring new customers is hard - after months of work setting up Marketing campaigns, optimizing websites, re-targeting, and personalizing, it can be painful to see a customer initiate a return. But a return doesn't have to mean a lost sale or an unhappy customer. Returns are a common part of the post-purchase experience, which is an increasingly crucial element of the customer journey. From the point of a customer return, to packaging and speed of shipment, even to what an order tracking page looks like - it’s far too…

Just two and a half years after its launch, Brandless stopped taking orders and laid off over 70 staff. Once on track to disrupt the high-quality organic produce market that the likes of Whole Foods dominates, the company blames the crowded e-commerce market for its downfall. The disrupter became disrupted. Brandless is not the only Direct to Consumer (D2C) brand experiencing the negative effects of oversaturated markets. In the past, D2C brands relied heavily on Performance Marketing, with 98% of such brands believing that…

Marketers are incredibly busy people, especially on the B2B side. Marketing is in charge of the customer experience from the first anonymous touch online, through each step of the buyer journey, to closing the sale and beyond via upselling and retention initiatives. As a marketer, you need all the help you can get to manage the customer lifecycle effectively. That’s why it’s so important to make sure your MarTech stack is working as hard as it can for you. Do you have visibility into all stages of the sales and marketing…

Movie studios typically develop their media plans way before their trailers drop. Why delay securing the inventory when you know, based on the movie’s themes and its stars, who the likely fans are and the best channels to reach and engage them? But I think that strategy misses the boat. Studios have a major event - the trailer drop - that can provide them with a ton of insight into who the actual audiences for their movies will be. If they take the time to listen to that data, they’ll have what they need to create…

The Biggest Disruptions in Marketing Technology You Should Be Expecting This Year Speaking to top marketing leaders in the industry led us to believe that the buzzing ecosystem of marketing technologies would have more disruptions in 2018 than ever before. Most disruptions in marketing technology are likely to shape the way marketers use automation, programmatic systems, and AI/ML capabilities for account-based targeting, customer experience management, and content marketing. Read More: TechBytes with Amit Sinha,…