• Contest Factory
• July 10, 2018

Case Studies for Gamification that Will Make You a Believer Gamification is more than just a modern-day trend or passing fad — it may very well be one of the most important opportunities that you have access to as a marketer today. In fact, there are five core gamification campaigns from recent memory that absolutely […]

• Contest Factory
• June 25, 2018

Content Formats that Don’t Get Scrolled Past Content marketing is undeniably popular, but at the same time it’s often so varied that many people aren’t sure where to begin. Gone are the days where content marketing simply involved writing a lengthy blog post. These days, there are a wide range of different content formats that […]

• Contest Factory
• June 25, 2018

Lead Generation with Gamification:  Easier than You Think One of the most important things to understand about lead generation is that when you ask your prospects for their contact information, you’re ultimately asking them for a lot more than just a name, phone number, address, or email address. You’re also asking for something very valuable […]

• Contest Factory
• June 25, 2018

Gamify Your Social Media and Cash in on Engagement! If you made a list of the most powerful marketing tools that you have at your disposal, “gamification” and “social media” would probably be the two entries right at the top. With that in mind, there is absolutely no reason why these two must be mutually […]

• Contest Factory
• June 7, 2018

Stop the Viral Marketing Chase and Catch it Already! For the last few years, small and medium-sized businesses have been using social media to help empower and improve their digital marketing campaigns. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others have been a way to generate leads, increase brand awareness, encourage customer engagement and more; the […]

• Contest Factory
• June 7, 2018

Customer Loyalty It goes undisputed among sales and marketing professionals that it is easier to make a sale to an existing customer than it is to sell a product or service to a prospect.  Not only is it easier, it costs less too.  With all this gravy, it’s no surprise that Loyalty Marketing is an […]

• Contest Factory
• June 7, 2018

Chatbots Explained Simply, Why You Need Them. A chatbot is at its core a computer program designed to mimic the types of actual conversations that humans have all the time. It works based on artificial intelligence (and in a lot of cases, via machine learning and similar techniques) to analyze the words someone uses, get […]

• Contest Factory
• May 22, 2018

Marketing Funnel Optimization Strategy: The marketing funnel is an early rendition of an infographic, bringing data visualization to the science of turning prospects into loyal customers. With only a fraction of today’s population and media, it’s no wonder it was so straight-forward in the 20th century. Now fast-forward to 2018, where understanding the marketing funnel […]

• Contest Factory
• May 22, 2018

Gamify Your Point of Purchase and Keep Your Customers Coming Back Marketing is all about getting the right message in front of the right person at the most perfect of moments, yes – but it’s also about the long game. Your efforts to make a deep, meaningful, engaging connection with someone doesn’t end once they […]

• Contest Factory
• April 9, 2018

Instagram Prospecting Know-how Instagram has long been an incredibly popular social media platform for businesses, but several recent studies have revealed that it may be even more powerful than people first suspected. Not only do an estimated 71% of businesses heavily use Instagram, but it also has over 200 million monthly active users. But Instagram is ultimately just […]