E-Food: Kaufland is firmly turning online [5 Reading Tips]

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Quelle: ehaurylik – Fotolia
The degree of digitalisation of a society can be measured by the amount of everyday activities that turn digital. This is one of the reasons why Handelskraft carefully gauges the state of the e-food market and regularly follows the exciting online food offensives that traditional German supermarkets (Rewe, Lidl, Edeka, Aldi and Kaufland) have been waging in the last years months with an eye on the forthcoming opening of Amazon Fresh in Germany.
 
The last one to take a step forward in this fierce race has been Kaufland, which is testing a new delivery service in Berlin. With this, Berlin shoppers have four supermarket chains to choose from in order to order fresh food online and receive it right to their door at their convenience.

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SEA: Google Adwords is placing big bets on mobile-first experiences

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Quelle: VIKTOR HANACEK
Mobile is taking root in our digital lives, becoming critical for current online marketing strategies. To respond to this reality, Google has made a set of announcements in which the common denominator is to boost mobile-first innovations. Where is the search engine market leader looking to this time?
 
To SEA! With the latest version of the Google AdWords Editors (11.6) launched last week, the universal app campaigns (UAC) have undergone several changes. In particular, Google gives more relevance to interactions at the expense of downloads and, above all, lets marketers reach a larger target audience through different platforms with the optimisation of the UAC for iOS. This is, without doubt, good news. However we prompt you to not stay on the surface, but to deepen! What is the real impact of the UAC update?

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SEO: What are the real opportunities of Penguin 4.0 for webmasters?

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Source: picjumbo
Certainly, Google has started the new season on fire. In the last days, the Mountain View company has been hitting the headlines again with fresh news in interconnected areas that might give us a glimpse of our digital future. One of this big news was the announcement of the long-awaited update of the Penguin algorithm that, for sure, has filled SEOs with more than joy. But why is the Penguin update so important?

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Redefining subscription models, refining customer services [5 Reading Tips]

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Source: Fxquadro – Fotolia
In a digital world where time flies and place is changing, it is becoming more difficult to convince the modern customer that a product or service is worth their time. In order to do so, retailers are experimenting with new ways of interaction with the objective of surprising and offering a good value, putting the focus on providing best-in-class services and offerings.
 
In this context, I have primarily looked at the future of subscription models wondering what kind of model will endure and appeal to the modern customer. The answer to this question has definitely something to do with flexibility and personalisation, as this is the way marked by some successful start-ups such as Hellofresh.

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What are the challenges, priorities, and trends in marketing and sales? [5 Reading Tips]

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Source: milsabord29 – Fotolia
B2B and B2C marketers struggle to reach an audience increasingly more slippery but paradoxically more connected. In this context, mobile is driving interactions between organisations and their audiences and technology is having a critical role in enhancing the digital customer experience and, ultimately, in increasing conversions and sales.
 
As a result, inbound marketing is not only gaining prominence among marketers but also is making marketing strategies more effective, as inbound organisations are 4 times as likely to rate their marketing strategy highly.
 
Precisely, this is one of the main conclusions of the eight annual study “State of Inbound 2016” conducted by HubSpot, which aims to give a comprehensive overview of the main trends, strategies and challenges marketers and sales representatives face today as well as to provide relevant data to figure out how the marketing and sales’ future will look like in an increasing mobile, technological and digital world. This report reflects the opinions of more than 4500 respondents (namely marketers and sales representatives) from 132 countries.
 

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How do sustainable products influence buying decisions? [5 reading tips]

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Source: pexels | Max DeRoin
Sustainability has always been a beautiful word with which companies spearhead their corporate social responsibility (CSR) objectives. However, there are facts and figures that prove sustainability having a prominent place within the online retailers’ main business strategy and is enhancing its influence on consumer buying decisions.

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Dash-Buttons: instant on-demand shopping experiences [5 Reading Tips]

Screenshot: Amazon
Screenshot: Amazon
The wonderful world of Dash-Buttons created by the giant Amazon has just landed in Europe, what means that German, British, and Austrian Amazon Prime Members can start to forget to turn on the laptop, to scroll down on the smartphone and to make a final click or, even two, to complete online purchases.
 

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Google AdWords: The null “-“ will replace the default 6 on Quality Score reporting

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Source: bachecamafalda – Fotolia.com
Google is continuously evolving and moving forward with the objective of finding the perfect algorithm and the most effective functionalities so that users can find exactly what they are looking for even when they don’t have a clear idea of what they want. In the context of this ever-evolving society, AdWords is no exception.
 
Over the last months, Google has been working hard on some updates that may impact in the result of ad campaigns. The last one, which has been recently announced, will take effect from September, 12 this year and aims at bringing more transparency into Quality Score reports.

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Co-creation: Where a customer focus drives innovation and efficiency [5 Reading Tips]

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Source: JZhuk – Fotolia
Co-creation is nothing new. However, it is a strategy that, despite of its multiple benefits for companies, is still far from taking roots because of all that it implies: engaging customers openly and transparently and, especially, sharing detailed data with them. However, the release of the shortlist of proposals for a new Mozilla logo, behind which there’s a new global identity of the open web pioneer, brought co-creation back into the spotlight.
 
In a world where companies are increasingly focused on their customers and where more companies structure their organisations and processes around their customers, it is surprising that the number of initiatives to make them participate actively in the brands’ day-to-day is still low.
 

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Olympics 2016: Was it possible to succeed under #Rule40? [Recap]

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The Olympic Flame was blown out, terminating the XXXI Olympiad (Rio 2016) and handing over to Tokyo 2020. These Summer Games, the first in South America, will be remembered for the contrast between lights and shadows. On the one hand, the glory won by Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Usain Bolt, the amazing cross-channel media coverages and the takeaways given by inspirational stories. On the other side, however, the virus Zika, the green pools, the scandal of the US swimmers headed by Lochte, the echoes of doping and corruption and, of course, the #Rule40 revealed what mistakes should not be made in the digital era and what problems should not come up during such kind of event, but also what best practices should be followed.
 
As we already explained in the preview article, the relaxation of #Rule40 by the IOC, although it meant to take a step forward in the rights of those non-sponsor brands that have a contract with an Olympic athlete, forced those brands to come up with inventive concepts and stimulate their creativity to make profit and stand out without mentioning, even vaguely, any intellectual property content related to the Games. With the rules laid down, did anyone fulfil these expectations? Were there brands which deserve the gold medal in smartness? Let’s see!
 

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