
Shopping PR: Who Pays $1.1 Million for Mystery Shopper Reviews?
There's one thing Sheepy doesn't get: mystery shoppers. Mobee just got caught in the sheepworks.

There's one thing Sheepy doesn't get: mystery shoppers. Mobee just got caught in the sheepworks.

Good marketing comes from good understanding-knowing what makes your company unique and knowing why the customer should care.

When it comes to motivating your employees, their salaries and fringe benefits should do it, right? Well, not always. EPR contributor James Scaggs gives you a few valuable tips.

With all the new social media networks or tools inviting brands to promote themselves, each promising spectacular results with little effort, it is getting harder and harder to choose the right communication channels with the best ROI for brands. Knowing which types of products perform better on which networks could help marketers, and those interested in joining or already present on image sharing network Pinterest should know that jewellery/luxury goods/accessories (22.8%),

Big Brands often integrate new social media channels in their social strategy while struggling to keep their market share and always have a great relationship with their customers transformed in fans or followers. Go where your clients are is a marketing recommendation strictly followed by successful companies. Photo sharing site Instagram quickly attracted adopters and is now used by 54% of Interbrand top 100 companies, as a recent study by Simply Measured shows.

Private Facebook users are given a 'Promote' button next to the ones for 'Share' and 'Like,' where they're given the option to pay $7 to make sure that a post reaches a higher percentage of their friends by bumping it up in news feeds and making it stick around longer. What does this mean for business, and how can you take advantage of this new Facebook advertising channel?

Getting CEOs on board with search marketing can sometimes seem like an impossible task-but it doesn't have to be.

When using any social network (and not only, for that matter, in the online environment), you might want to block a user. On Pinterest, you didn't have this option until now. But it was a heavily requested option, the third most popular feature request on the site (as mentioned here, and no longer on the official list as it already is a rolled out option). With the block option, the social network has also announced a ‘report user’ feature and more granular email settings.

The in-store experience is very important for any customer and it’s the key to sales and, consequently, profit for retailers. Knowing when and how to employ the available digital technologies and adding a little bit of human touch is the key to success for retailers, a new study shows.

This Sunday morning I was surfing Facebook looking for fashion gifts.