{"id":120118,"date":"2012-05-21T03:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T10:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/community\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/21\/retailers-sign-on-to-popular-digital-marketing-strategy\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:59:29","slug":"retailers-sign-on-to-popular-digital-marketing-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/21\/retailers-sign-on-to-popular-digital-marketing-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailers sign on to popular digital marketing strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital technology can revolutionize retail merchandising. However, this time it&#039;s not smartphone or tablet computers that are the focus of attention &#8211; it&#039;s digital signs.<\/p>\n<p>Digital signs are everywhere in retailing, yet some brick-and-mortar shops continue to see the benefit of the technology. Signs allow for businesses to provide in-store content, including tips and notices, as well as advertisements, Entrepreneur magazine reports.<\/p>\n<p>However, businesses don&#039;t have to have a large marketing budget to make a difference. One well-placed sign can boost business and make companies better able to compete with large corporations. Kroma Makeup attests to how its signs came to pay for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At the Plaza, our digital sign was placed at the foot of the escalator to drive traffic to our station and tell our brand story, while the multimillion-dollar companies we were competing against weren&#039;t using them,&quot; company founder Lee Tillette told the magazine. Since integrating the sign as part of its marketing strategy, the company saw its annual sales grow 7 to 8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Signs can also prove to be a more environmentally friendly marketing strategy, allowing companies to broadcast deals and promotions without printing paper flyers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital technology can revolutionize retail merchandising. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/21\/retailers-sign-on-to-popular-digital-marketing-strategy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":120119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail-merchandising-and-marketing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retailpro.com\/News\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}