• 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 […]

• Contest Factory
• April 9, 2018

10 Ways to Engage Your Audience on Social Media For many brands, social media success will ultimately be dictated by the level of engagement they’re able to create with their audience. What benefit is there to having a million Twitter followers if they never retweet your posts, contact you, or make a purchase? Luckily, generating […]

• Contest Factory
• April 9, 2018

To say that trade shows are important to the modern business is something of an understatement. Not only do an estimated 81% of all attendees have buying authority according to one study, but 99% of marketers said that they also got unique value from these types of events that they didn’t get from other marketing opportunities At […]