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What is Marketing Automation? Typically when most people think of marketing automation, they imagine a platform that automates activities such as lead scoring, customer segmentation, cross-selling and campaign management. Well that type of automation is primarily for B2B companies, who are looking to reach a mass audience at once. Plus, B2B marketing automation platforms usually only provide one channel, which is email, to reach their customers. B2C companies are looking to grow their brand and reach their customers through personalized messages. A B2C marketing automation platform helps businesses understand where each individual customer is in their journey and determine what actions need to be taken to move each customer forward. Plus they get the option of multiple channels to reach their customer, including email, text message, IM, push notifications and more. Why is Marketing Automation Important for Dispensaries? The first obvious reason why marketing automation is imp...

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. If you have new APIs, clients, or source code examples to add to ProgrammableWeb’s directories, we offer forms (APIs, Clients, Source Code) for submitting them to our API research team. If there’s a listing in one of our directories that you’d like to claim as the owner, please contact us at editor@programmableweb.com. Twenty-seven APIs have been added to the  ProgrammableWeb  directory in categories such as Banking, Platform-as-a-Service, Marketing, and Voting. Highlights today include APIs for predicting, managing, and cutting energy costs with Smart Energy applications. Have a look at what is new for developers today on ProgrammableWeb. APIs FinFolio  provides portfolio management software for investment advisors and money managers....

With a whopping 75 percent of all customers wanting to receive offers via SMS, it really doesn’t take a genius to know what you should be doing – sending your customers a text message of course. And with more and more restaurants popping up every day, it’s more important than ever to get your restaurant at the forefront of customers minds and your name on the tip of their tongues when they are looking for places to eat. There are lots of different marketing channels that restaurants are using to promote and acquire new customers, from social media, which is great for sharing news, updates and new dishes. However unless the consumer is actually on the social media platform and following you, they won’t see it. You can use email marketing, but with people getting hundreds of emails a day, they will either go straight to junk, into the promotion tabs that Gmail have, or will be just deleted without even opening it. You can advertise on billboards, flyers, your own website and oth...

MANILA, Philippines - When it comes to tackling financial responsibilities, many Filipinos used to set aside insurance as an optional cost; the benefits deemed a nice-to-have rather than a necessity. However, following the rapid development of the micro-insurance industry in recent years, more Filipinos are gradually recognizing the comfort and security that insurance brings, even to those with limited means. Specifically geared towards low-income households, micro-insurance offers bite-sized insurance products that effectively mitigate risks while reducing the vulnerability of those in the lower end of the market. According to a study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, the term “micro” pertains to the capacity of a program to handle the small, sometimes irregular cash flow of underprivileged families who have been excluded in the commercial insurance system. The advent of micro-insurance may be traced to as early as 2006 with the issuance of the First Circula...

Australian politicians can only look on with envy at the welcome given to British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn when he turned up at the Glastonbury music festival last month. “Oh, Jeremy Corbyn” went the chant from the crowd to the tune of a White Stripes song, in a must-watch video that should terrify conservatives. Suddenly a bearded 68-year-old who is fond of scruffy jumpers was getting the same treatment as a rock god. Bill Shorten would be lucky to raise a murmur at a music festival in Australia, given the local custom of booing politicians. The last time he went to one, in Tamworth two years ago, he dropped in to see a few country bands and left quietly. Yet the Opposition Leader may get a hero’s welcome one day. Shorten is tapping into a powerful force that positions him as a champion for younger Australians. His message about intergenerational inequality is hitting home in the same way that his “fairness” crusade worked in 2014. Cutting through the academic d...

JAIPUR: The internet services were blocked across several locations in Nagaur and Churu on Friday to clamp down on inflammatory messages being circulated on social media platforms. The Rajasthan police's reserved companies were sent to Nagaur, Churu, Jaipur and other districts of the state as the body of Anandpal Singh is expected to be cremated today. However, sources close to the slain gangster claimed that Anandpal's family would not accept the body. On Friday afternoon, Nagaur district collector issued prohibitory orders to suspend mobile Internet services, bulk SMS , social networking websites for 48 hours in Deedwana, Ladnu, Jaswantgarh, Maulasar, Khunkhuna, Makrana, Parbatsar, Peelwa, Kuchaman, Nawa, Maroth, Chitawa and Badi Khatu areas in Nagaur, a few hours later the Churu district collector also issued the same orders. The top brass of the Rajasthan police also met on Friday to take stock of the current situation prevailing in Nagaur, Churu and other par...

When the SMS became commercially available in 1999 the prevailing atmosphere wasn’t one of elation as you might have expected, but trepidation. Much like today, many individuals railed against the technology’s supposedly harmful effects, citing the damage it might wreak upon thousands of years of human communication; their concerns weren’t so far-fetched either, recent studies reveal that nowadays most teenagers use texting as their main method of sustaining and invigorating their social relationships. Others however aren’t just scared of a decline in communication, but of its complete reversal. As texting has gained traction we’ve increased our inventiveness with it, resulting in fonts such as Emoji. Whilst some herald the two byte ideograms as the new height of communication, others see Emoji’s as society slowly back-pedalling towards hieroglyphs and symbols. I would urge companies not to dismiss SMS as something that’s outdated and irrelevant, but rather to see it...

CHANDIGARH: As the Jat-agitation entered the 50th day on Sunday, a clash erupted between the protesters and the state police near Fatehabad in Haryana with the agitators trying to march toward Delhi on the call given by the All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS) to gherao the Parliament. The clash started when the jats, moving in their tractor-trolleys, were stopped by DSP Gurdayal Singh. When the agitators were told to leave their weapons behind, a young protester threw a wooden log at Singh, thereby injuring him. The police resorted to lathi-charge and used tear gas while the protesters pelted stones leaving around 25 people injured in the incident. n a matter of minutes, close to twenty tractor-trolleys full of protesters reached the spot and the situation spiralled out of control with the agitators setting fire to police buses. Security has been heightened in Jhajjhar following the clashes. The state government had imposed a ban on the movement of ...

Tyntec, a global cloud communications company, announced today a new proposal to build a framework in North America that bridges the gap between person-to-person messaging (P2P) and application-to-person (A2P) messaging over short codes. The current U.S. messaging framework is under pressure to fulfill consumer demand for new mobile messaging use cases, including appointment confirmations, customer care dialogues, fast sharing of news updates, among others, explained Marco Lafrentz, Tyntec’s director of P2P and Cloud Services: Currently, the SMS messaging framework in North America is over-complicated for operators and enterprises plus lacks being scalable, user-friendly and flexible for the different needs of enterprise-to-consumer communication. It also lacks transparency and choice for A2P services. From case approval requirements to non-standardized interconnection layers, enterprises have little visibility into their A2P services.” The industry currently offers...

Criminals beware - the Viber Tree is growing branches. A Turangi neighbourhood is using people power to stop crime from happening, drawing praise from local police. It all started about two years ago, when some Turangi residents got together to set up the the network. It is called Viber Tree, because members use the web-based instant messaging service Viber. At the start, there were only half a dozen people on the tree. Now there is 40. The point of the Viber Tree is alert neighbours of suspicious activity in the area and it has had some good results. In May, a young man was seen acting suspiciously and was followed by residents over the Viber Tree. He was soon apprehended by police, after being found in a property where he shouldn't have been. He has been charged with burglary and aggravated burglary and is currently before the court. Another man was also spotted by members of the Viber Tree and he, too, has been charged with burglary. The Viber Tree...

The Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) has urged the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) to investigate the activities and business operations of VFS Global Services, a visa application company carrying out business in Abuja and Lagos, for charging a non-negotiable rate of N400 (Four Hundred Naira) for SMS. In a petition forwarded to the Director-General of the Commission and signed by the network's chairman, Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju, CSNAC said it is demanding an urgent investigation of the VFS Global Services because it is fraudulent, unconscionable and exploitative. The petition read: "We write to formally lay a complaint against the business operations and actions of VFS Global Services and Operation; a visa application company carrying out business in Abuja and Lagos. "The said company as part of its purported services to be rendered to visa applicants in Abuja and Lagos charge a non-negotiable rate of N400 (Four Hundred Naira) for SMS ...

Top 2016 listing shows that the 200 largest companies in Nottinghamshire have a joint turnover of £29.8 billion and employ more than 202,412 staff. For the second year running, Boots UK has taken the top spot,with a turnover of more than £7 billion. Now part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, is based in Deerfield, Chicago, following a merger with US drug store giant Walgreens in 2014, Boots UK's registered office is its Nottingham headquarters, where 8,000 staff are employed. Retailers dominate the top of the listing. After Boots, Sports Direct, based on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border, is in third position and Wilko is listed as the fourth largest Nottinghamshire company. Pendragon, the huge retailer whose subsidiaries include Stratstone and Evans Halshaw, is the county's second largest company by turnover. It has more than 9,600 staff scattered around the country but is managed from Annesley, turning over more than £4.45 billion. 1 Boots UK . T...