A built-in iPhone QR Code reader has long been on the wishlist for direct mail marketers, agencies and printers.
With great fanfare, Apple unveiled a new version of the iPhone operating system at the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) in June. Among many major announcements, a few influential tech industry press websites discovered that Apple is bundling a QR Code reader in the native camera app of the iOS 11 operating system.
Google announced that it would be restructuring its search engine algorithm in order to favor mobile-friendly web pages on April 21st. This means that today the highest ranked web pages on Google are formatted to optimize their visitors’ mobile experience. The term “mobile-friendly” means that a given web page is coded to automatically optimize its formatting to any screen size. The text is in a legible font size, pictures stay formatted so that the viewer will be able to read the content equally as easily on any screen size. So, what does this mean for your web pages and online properties? It means that all of the hard work you’ve put into SEO over the past several years will be useless if your pages aren’t mobile-friendly.
The Mobile Content Marketing Revolution
It’s Unanimous – Content Marketing was the marketing buzzword phrase of 2014 and mobile content marketing will lead in 2015. According to the latest research from Content Marketing Institute, 77% of B2C and 86% of B2B organizations are using content marketing and 69% of B2C and 70% of B2B marketers are creating more content than they did one year ago. Companies overwhelmingly made content marketing a priority in 2014 – and the research proves that content marketing isn’t going away any time soon.
With everyone doing it, how does a business stand out from the crowd? The key will be how effectively they plan their content marketing strategy in 2015. Over the past month, marketing experts have revealed the biggest marketing trends they expect to see in 2015, from digital, social media, and content marketing. Out of these predictions, the two biggest takeaways we found are:
According to ChamberOfCommerce.com and BrightLocal SMB marketing budgets are shifting to digital. In fact:
21% of SMBs expect to increase their digital budgets
45% of SMBs might increase their digital budgets
32% of SMBs will not increase their digital budgets
