‘Marketing’ posts

Target Adds Content from DailyCandy to Drive Traffic

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 02 Jun 2009

Great piece in the WSJ on how Target is adding content to it’s ecommerce site from DailyCandy to increase traffic.  Conventional ecommerce wisdom was that buyers only come to the site when they have an intent to purchase.  Therefore, content would only distract potential buyers and reduce conversion rates.  Sucharita Mulpuru from Forrester states this | View post »

3 New Ecommerce Funnels: Part 1

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 21 May 2009

A lot of our ecommerce clients are expressing frustration with their current approaches to drive traffic to their sites. Nearly all are currently spreading their dollars across paid search, email and affiliates. The effectiveness of all 3 are generally declining and the cost per converted customer is going up. But most retailers are unaware of | View post »

Calendar Marketing – the new email marketing for retailers

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 20 May 2009

Retailers use email to reach customers at their desktops to try and get them to return to the store to buy. The effectiveness of this tactic is on the decline, largely because: Consumers are deluged with email spam Every other retailer is using the same approach Email is often blocked in junk folders Email spam | View post »

Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 16 Apr 2009

Video demos of the Patriots Calendar App are provided to help you understand what is available for the fan of the New England Patriots and how we are managing this cross channel/cross domain micro-experience through OView. The Fan Experience As a fan of the New England Patriots the Patriots Calendar App, built using the Event | View post »

Sociable Ads: The Future or Advertising, or Just Another Banner?

Posted by John Eckman on 14 Apr 2009

Given the number of users who deploy ad-blocking software in their browsers, and the complete blindness to banner ads exhibited by most website users who haven’t bothered to deploy ad blockers, it isn’t surprising that the industry continues to seek a replacement (or at least a supplement) for the standard banner ad. Sociable Ads, a | View post »

Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web

Posted by Optaros on 03 Apr 2009

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and me2me was | View post »

Corporate Microblogging: Who Speaks for @optaros?

Posted by John Eckman on 25 Jan 2009

Twitter and Identica are  great places for individuals to express themselves, engage in conversation, build their personal brand, or just have fun. But what’s a corporate brand to do? What does it mean for someone to tweet as @optaros (or post notices on identi.ca as @optaros)? I’ve been pondering this question recently not just from | View post »

SugarCRM consultant Optaros is practicing what we preach

Posted by Optaros on 14 Nov 2008

Download a case study of our SugarCRM deployment at the State of Vaud. Today we announced, with SugarCRM, Optaros’ implementation of SugarCRM. As we have already implemented a number of CRM solutions based on SugarCRM for our clients, one might think “what took you so long to use it internally / eat your own dog | View post »

Content Sponsorship – Media Companies Grow Online Revenue with A Web 2.0 Approach

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 17 Sep 2008

Most online media properties are looking for new ways to increase their online revenues that are consistent with their brand. Advertisers want to engage directly with their target audiences with meaningful, rich content. Media properties are looking to ad more rich, social media capabilities to their sites Media properties are constrained financially to invest in | View post »

Open Source CRM eGovernment success story

Posted by Optaros on 03 Sep 2008

In December 2007, Optaros delivered a first – Swiss enterprise scale – implementation of SugarCRM for the State of Vaud. The system, called REFEN, has been in production since begining of 2008. Today, a combined team of State and Optaros people is working on the upgrade of the initial release. REFEN evolutions clearly demonstrate the | View post »

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