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Top 5 All-In-One Marketing Platforms

September 15, 2021August 12, 2021 by Creative Many

When businesses are looking for software and tools to help automate and enhance their marketing and sales, they could be forgiven for being overwhelmed. The choice is enormous, and being able to pinpoint which ones are the right ones for what you want to achieve can seem a daunting task.

The good news is that there are software solutions that take several marketing automation features and instead of you having to purchase individual software for each one, instead bring them all within one platform. These all-in-one marketing tools make managing your marketing more efficient and more effective as you see an overview of your core marketing activities all within one dashboard.

Whilst there is going to be many variations to which individual marketing tools they offer, those that are worth considering the most will have solutions that help with all of the following:

Improving The User Experience Of Your Website Visitors

August 17, 2021February 12, 2019 by Creative Many

User experience when it comes to websites revolves around how a visitor to a website behaves and interacts with the functionality of the website, according to a natural flow and their natural instincts. If a website visitor has to take more than a few seconds to figure out how to complete an action, or how to navigate to where they wish within the site, there’s a high chance that they may give up altogether and leave the site. This results in a bounce rate (or short visit) that can become alarming to search engines and this is believed to be one of the many factors taken into consideration when a website is ranked in the organic search results.

So how can you improve the entire user experience of your website? If you are building a new website or redeveloping your old one to be more modern and functional, user experience research and testing should be a prime focus in the planning stages, throughout the website build and before the big launch. Below are some of the most important points concerning the critical aspects of creating and improving a good website user experience.

24 hours For Big Businesses to Remove Inappropriate Facebook Comments

August 17, 2021August 12, 2012 by Creative Many

Recently the Advertising Standards Board (ASB) ruled that business Facebook pages were an advertisement, and that brands needed to take responsibility for the comments posted by members of the public such as misleading or inappropriate content. Social media pages are now considered to fall under the category of advertising, and the rules and regulations that apply to advertising content extends to user-generated content.

This is causing some concern amongst businesses who are already actively using Facebook as part of their social media marketing strategies. There are wide reaching implications to businesses that aren’t actively monitoring Facebook comments, or don’t allocate resources to active moderation of content.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has now clarified that large companies using Facebook will need to remove misleading or inappropriate comments within 24 hours. This guideline applies to large businesses, while there will apparently be more time allowed for smaller businesses.

Australian Retailers Yet To Catch Up With Consumers In Mobile Commerce

August 17, 2021March 12, 2012 by Creative Many

Australia has one of the world’s highest levels of mobile penetration and smart phone usage – recent research by Google found that 25% of Australian consumers have used their smart phone to research or purchase a product.

eMarketingConnected’s research found that 15% of all retailers have a mobile website – this compares to 46% in the U.S. where mobile retail websites have grown from 14% in the last year (source – RIS News 2011 Cross Channel Retail Study). This puts Australia a year behind the U.S., assuming a large number of major retailers will take the plunge and build a mobile website in the next year. Dick Smith is one major Australian retailer that has recently launched a mobile website to meet the growing demand (read the full Dick Smith mobile website review here).

Less than half of retailers in all sectors have a mobile website, there’s also a large variation between sectors with multi-retailers leading the way, closely followed by the electrical retailers. The remaining sectors have a low percentage of retailers providing a mobile website.