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Is Marketing About To Get Really Creepy Or Really Good?

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It is the ability for a brand to deliver contextual and highly targeted marketing at the local retail level. Applications range from step-by-step indoor navigation, to product-level retail customer engagement, to proximity-based social networking." But it's not just a game for Apple and Google. Does that creep you out?

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When Social Comes To Your Automobile

Small Business Mavericks

For instance, GPS technology allows a driver to chart a course using Google Maps to arrive at a predefined destination via a predetermined route. Here’s another scenario: Suppose a customer of yours is driving by your retail shop. In some cases, this can be done by voice commands. Awesome, right?

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #25

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"Is GPS eroding our brain? But that may be what the GPS has done to our brains. Google Zeitgeist 2010. If that's so, then our collective searches are our collective consciousness, and each year, Google plays it back to us. Here's Google's 2010 edition of what we searched and how we spent our time online.

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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

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Augmented reality will enhance games and retail. Word has it that Google will launch it’s Chrome cloud OS in early 2011. Google has announced that it will support NFC (Near Field Communications) in the next release of its Android mobile OS. For example, you can try on fashions from your PC or smart phone. Banking of course!

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The Year Of More

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Through mobile (which are GPS-enabled) and other innovations, there will be a much bigger push to deliver services to the consumer where they physically are in much more effective ways. This is going to be especially true for brands that sell their products and services through third-parties (like retailers or value-added resellers).

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Is your business easy to find for local and mobile searchers.

Saying It Social

I promptly pulled out my smart phone, went to Google and typed merely “Italian deli&# – not having to add a geographic modifier because the GPS on my phone was enabled and would automatically pull local business listings based on my current location. eMarketer reports that consumers force retailers to adopt social strategy.

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How To Create A Know-It-All Company - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Six Techniques to Get More from the Web than Google Will Tell You. Find out why a new study picks Googles Messaging Security over competitors. Salesforce for Google Apps Webcast. Find out why a new study picks Googles Messaging Security over competitors. Salesforce and Google Apps: The dream is Reality! Mainframes.

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