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Target Tests Beacons For Mobile Coupons

Target Tests Beacons For Mobile Coupons | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

This week Target became the latest retailer to integrate beacon technology into the shopping experience, announcing that it will test using low-energy Bluetooth beacons to deliver coupons and special offers to the mobile devices of shoppers when they’re near the product in question.


Target is currently testing the beacon technology at 50 stores in major markets across the country, including New York City, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and Seattle. The retail giant plans to limit the number of mobile push notifications sent to each device to two per visit, in order to avoid driving shoppers insane....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Attention shoppers...

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Marketers not keeping up with shift to contextual coupons: Forrester

Marketers not keeping up with shift to contextual coupons: Forrester | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Forrester asserts that consumer use of coupons has shifted overwhelmingly to digital, with 66 million digital coupons redeemed in 2013, up 141 percent from 2012.


However, even as mobile wallets and applications now hand out context-specific coupons at critical moments, most marketers still rely on free-standing inserts.


Forrester recommends that marketers consider the ability of context to improve the relevance of coupons the same as it does for marketing messages. The report recommends marketers personalize their physical and digital coupon offers and distribution...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Mobile is missing in many marketer's plans - a missed opportunity according to Forrester.

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