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Right-Time Email Marketing: When is the Right Time?

The following is a guest blog post by Kara Trivunovic, Sr. Dir of Strategic Services at StrongMail (a leader in email marketing).  StrongMail utilizes Rapleaf data to allow their customers (Travelocity, Zappos, IHG, and more) to leverage email marketing with data insight to personalize and build meaningful customer connections. Right-time email marketing is one of the hottest [...]

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Rapleaf Partners with LivePerson to bring Personalization to Live Chat

Rapleaf recently secured a partnership with LivePerson, bringing personalization to the world of online chat. LivePerson, Inc., the leader in Intelligent Engagement Solutions, enables top brands to create meaningful online connections with their customers. With their comprehensive live chat platform, LivePerson partners, including Home Depot, Crate & Barrel, 1-800-Flowers and more, extend and integrate core [...]

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60 Ways Personalization is Changing Marketing

With so much talk centered on personalization lately, it’s hard not to notice how much personalization surfaces in our daily lives. It is a proven fact that when you receive an email that has your name on it, you feel more attached and certainly more special then with a generic email. A gift personalized with your initials is [...]

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Why Work for a Start Up?

Making decisions, learning a lot, and reaping the fruits of one’s labor are things most people would love to do on the job. Rapleaf’s own Travis May was recently featured in VentureBeat, discussing his career search upon graduation and how he saw more opportunities to work for a start-up after graduation precisely for the opportunity available to young people for ownership [...]

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Customer Spotlight: GreenRope Transforms Email Marketing

GreenRope simplifies life for your business, bringing email, social networks, websites, and more into one convenient place. Green Rope recently plugged Rapleaf data into their existing CRM platform to provide customers with insight into their contacts database for more personalized campaigns. Their easy-to-use, intuitive interface allows businesses to manage email marketing, CRM, events, projects, websites, e-commerce, and [...]

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NCAA Final Four: Fan Stats for Game Day

With the Final Four around the corner, Rapleaf looked into its database to learn more about the starring teams’ hometowns. We sampled publicly-available data from the greater Indianapolis, Richmond, Storrs and Lexington areas, and compared the brands of snacks and beverages popular in each area. The results: Lays beat out all the other snacks for all [...]

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Rapleaf’s API in Action

We are always interested in hearing about how other people are leveraging Rapleaf data to build great personalization applications and features. One tech blogger, Chicago Hacks, recently built off our “Insight” Spreadsheet, which allows individuals to enter emails into an Excel spreadsheet and get data instantly. He took this windows-only feature to enable it with Google and [...]

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Launchrock is Showing You What’s Hot @SXSW 2011

With a variety of avenues for exposure to thousands of key industry representatives, #SXSW fosters an environment for numerous successful startup launches every year. In past, we have seen many popular startups introduced, and we expect this year to be no different. One in particular is gaining a lot of traction and attention with a [...]

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Zopim Personalizes Customer Service

Who has never experienced the frustration of time-consuming and infuriating customer service? You get on the phone, dial through endless automated messages and finally reach a real person only to find them treating you like any other customer. Enter Zopim, a livechat service that businesses can use on their websites to chat with their web [...]

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We Love Aviary

Part of marketing in a startup is being able to create marketing materials and cool graphics and images on the fly. Photoshop is the usual choice, but it is expensive and often too advanced for the casual user. And any startup can appreciate a cost-effective alternative. For this, we love Aviary. I first heard about [...]

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