Category: Mobile Marketing

Social media marketing price alert feature added to Pinterest

The network has now launched its latest feature that will help people to find better mobile commerce deals.

Pinterest has just announced that it has launched a new social media marketing feature that is designed to help consumers to be able to obtain price alerts that can help them to find the best deals for purchasing the various items that they see over the network.

Until now, the website has essentially been a digital window shopping experience for consumers.

Usually, people will “pin” the items that they would hope to have but that they may never actually purchase. This latest social media marketing service is being launched close on the heels of the “pin price” feature that gave users the ability to view the current price of the items that they have pinned. As a complementary service, the new price alerts feature will allow users to be able to watch the latest in changes in the price tags of the items that have caught their eye.

This new social media marketing experience emails a user when a product’s price is reduced.

Social Media Marketing - PinterestThis new social media feature is an opt-in service. Therefore, users can choose whether or not to receive the price alerts. If they wish to receive them, they simply need to pin the items they are interested in watching to one of their boards. They will then begin receiving emails whenever there is a reduction in the price of that item.

Pinterest has taken special precautions to help to make certain that there will not be any unintentional spamming produced by this social media marketing strategy. Representatives from the network have explained that they will help to prevent this from occurring by consolidating various prices into a minimum number of emails. They will create as few emails as possible while still providing the user with benefits. Should the email frequency still be too high, the user can use their account settings to change the frequency at which they receive the alerts.

Pinterest is hoping that this new social media marketing effort will help to boost the value of the site and that by partnering with a number of large and independent retailers, the site will stand out from among other mobile commerce websites in assisting shoppers to find the best deals.

PassionTag Launches In-Image Digital Marketing Platform to Drive Brand Engagement

Consumers Share Their Passions and Engage with Brands by Creating and Collecting SmartTags Shared through Social Channels

Mountain View, Calif. – August 7, 2013– PassionTag, a technology provider of dynamic in-image digital marketing and commerce solutions, today unveiled the company’s platform designed to redefine how consumers express their passion through digital images and how brands effectively use social, mobile and digital tools to drive affinity and revenue.

PassionTag is the first mobile application that allows consumers to ‘tag’ their passions through the photos shared on Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, and SMS. With PassionTag, they can turn a static image into an interactive photo containing actionable tags that extend the story they want to tell.

PassionTag’s in-image digital marketing platform enables deeper brand and customer engagement through SmartTags. With the creation and management of PassionTag’s in-image placement of SmartTags, photo sharing is transformed into a powerful, action-oriented channel enabling deeper brand engagement through the image. The call to action contained in the SmartTag is experienced through the social applications PassionTag has developed to work in sync on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, or on PassionTag.com

PassionTag enables brands and consumers alike to easily create SmartTags which can be shared, collected and customized. PassionTag’s SmartTag technology enables a “digital backpack” of trackable and transactional actions which can be attributed to most any image, thereby significantly improving the value and utility of an image. By turning photo-sharing into a pervasive, revenue-generating peer-to-peer ecosystem, PassionTag’s Smart Tags enable a shift from a value-based transaction to a value-based partnership.

Photo sharing is one of the fastest growing segments of the social web, and we are excited about the potential our technology holds for delivering an engaging user experience that creates incremental revenue for brands, non-profit organizations and eventDigital Marketing Social Media management producers,” said Thomas Moewe, CEO of PassionTag. “Our technology elevates the role of the image, dramatically improving the consumer’s experience with photo sharing while enabling brands to turn static images into dynamic, actionable photos.”

Among other clients, Dragon Con, Atlanta’s internationally known pop culture, fantasy and sci-fi convention has partnered with PassionTag. The PassionTag app will allow Dragon Con’s fans to tag their photos with any of a dozen Dragon Con-related SmartTags, and then post them to their favorite social network. Fans can view and “like” all the photos organized under a specific tag regardless of who posted them. Or, they can follow their friends to view their photo streams.

“There is so much to see and talk about at Dragon Con. It’s just natural that taking and sharing photos with friends is an important part of the whole experience,” said Rachel Reeves, Senior Director of Guests and Media for Dragon Con. “And we know our fans love using cutting-edge smartphone apps. PassionTag lets our fans do both and experience Dragon Con in a fun new way.”

PassionTag’s free mobile application can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store by visiting: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/passiontag/id663610124?mt=8

ABOUT PASSIONTAG
PassionTag, Inc. is a technology provider of dynamic in-image digital marketing and commerce solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, PassionTag’s platform enables the creation and management of SmartTags that can be applied to photos shared online by both consumers and brands. For more information about PassionTag, please visit us at http://www.passiontag.com/public/ or call u at 1-800- 475-5160. Join our Facebook community at http://on.fb.me/16UmnZd or follow us on Twitter @passiontag.

Media Contacts:
Beth Trier
Trier and Company for PassionTag
www.triercompany.com
415-285-6147
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Valerie Beaudett
Trier and Company for PassionTag
www.triercompany.com
650-400-7833
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