Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Studies: How OTT viewers are changing

Cord-cutting is continuing its rise across American households. According to a new comScore report many of those cutting off cable are instead turning to services like Netflix (55%) and Hulu (52%) to get the content they're missing from cable's service. And they're using OTT products like Apple TV, Amazon's Fire Stick, Roku, and others. >>

Tuesday, July 09, 2019

How Entrepreneurs Bring in Residual Income

When you're an entrepreneur, it's essential to understand the risks you face, and to do everything possible to ensure you'll be able to provide for your family on a monthly basis. Sometimes you require multiple streams of income to make it work. >>

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Study: Shoppers won't wait for site-load

It has been a long-held belief that people will click away from sites with long load times. New data underlines this, especially for online shoppers. Researchers found that 90% of shoppers have left an ecommerce site because it loaded slowly and more than half (57%) have not only left, but bought from a competitor because of site loading issues. >>

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Expert: How data will impact the next 5 years

Data collection and analysis continues to become more important for business success, but consumers continue to worry about data breaches and how their private information is used, leaving many merchants and marketers wondering just what they can, could, or should do for their customers. We asked a digital expert how the data wars would change the digital space over the next few years. >>

Monday, June 24, 2019

Report: SMB owners taking on more responsibility

While there has been a boom in small businesses opening in the US over the past decade, a new report indicates these business owners are shouldering much of the responsibility. SMBs are also finding newer tech to be an implementational challenge. To cope, more SMB owners are shouldering more of the business responsibility. >>

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Expert: How net neutrality repeal has hindered brands, consumers

It's been a year since the US Congress repealed Net Neutrality, and while their reasoning was that ISPs and other entities wouldn't change how consumers logged on, surfed, or found information, the revers has been true. >>

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Study: Half of ad spend to be online in 2020

More and more ad dollars are moving online, but according to one report over the next year 'more' will equal half. According to WARC's International Forecast about half of the global ad spend will be spent online in 2020. >>

Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Study finds consumers reluctant to embrace biometrics

It's passwords over biometrics when it comes to consumer preferences. That's the word from new Paysafe data which found that while just over half of global consumers have used some form of biometrics to make a payment in the past, nearly as many (56%) worry that biometrics will increase identity fraud, putting their personal information at risk. >>

Sunday, June 02, 2019

7 Tips for Cutting Your Business Travel Expenses

If your business requires you to frequently travel abroad to meet with partners or clients face to face, you should definitely look for ways to cut these expenses. Here are a few ways you can do it. >>

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Expert: How banks can build stronger API

API strategy may have been on the back burner for banks and other financial institutions, but according to one expert now is the time for API strategy to come to the forefront. That, because more consumers are choosing to bank and invest and even apply for loans via online channels. Here are three tips to improve banking API strategies. >>

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Reports: Chatbots, personalized content driving conversions

Two new report indicate chatbots and personalized content could be game changers for retailers moving forward. >>

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Top 5 tips to improve password safety

May marks World Password Day - a day many businesses send out reminders to update passwords. But, password hygiene shouldn't be something brands practice only once per year, but throughout each month. Here are five tips to improve your business's password health. >>

Friday, May 24, 2019

Expert: How ethics in AI could impact data privacy

Just a year since the EU instituted GDPR to specify how businesses can collect, analyze, and use consumer data, consumer trust continues to be one of the biggest issues facing global businesses. This is because, while there has been a short-tern slowing of data breaches, larger, mega-breaches continue to happen and are a concern to consumers. That, according to one expert, is where ethics in AI may come to play. >>

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Study: Page and content loads key to experience

New data out this month may seem like it's from 1999 because it's all about page and content load times. According to researchers, three keys to creating a positive customer experience online continue to be page load times, image/content load times, and simple link structures. >>

Monday, May 20, 2019

Brands: How to ensure GDPR compliance now

As we near the year anniversary of the EU's GDPR initiative, many businesses still haven't implemented the right technology and strategies to ensure their mailing lists, data collection, and targeting are compliant. Even those brands outside the EU could stand to take another look at how compliant they are with data privacy as consumers are more leery of data use every year. Here are a few tips. >>