April 08, 2022 6 Ways Businesses Can Benefit from Indoor Location Services Indoor location services have long yielded considerable value for large venues, offering their visitors and WiFi users more in-premise safety, easier navigation, and more. Such technologies are not exclusively valuable for large venues alone, however. From businesses in the hospitality industry to healthcare facilities, indoor location services have ample applications and equally plentiful potential benefits…. Read More
March 03, 2022 How to encourage more visits and manage overflow in a growing Healthcare Facility The Covid-19 pandemic has seen many people postpone their healthcare visits out of the fear of infection. On top of that, due to sparse resources, critical Covid-19 cases caused a reshuffling of medical departments to fight the disease. Non-Covid patients, like those with diabetes and cancer, lost fast access to doctors for regular checkups. Fast… Read More
November 18, 2021 6 Ways to ensure data security in remote work environments The last several years have brought many changes to the modern workspace as a considerable number of companies have seen their employees shift to working from home. The change from a daily commute to remote work forced businesses to rethink many practices they thought were set in stone. One of the new challenges modern companies… Read More
November 15, 2021 Black Friday 2021: How collecting insights about in-store customers can drive revenue this Black Friday Black Friday 2021 will fall on the 26th of November, with businesses around the globe looking to welcome visitors back to their stores with all-time low prices for desired goods and services. Due to the global pandemic, Black Friday 2020 was more or less exclusively online, which meant many customers were unable to go out… Read More
November 10, 2021 Purple Sponsorship Program: How can brands advertise on guest WiFi access journeys? Many businesses are looking for new ways to reach their target audience, and year after year are continually using the same techniques such as PPC and social media advertising. These options, while sometimes effective, are getting more expensive as businesses compete for the attention of their desired audience. For example, 64% of brands are looking… Read More
October 28, 2021 Purple introduces customer Revenue Share Program Improving customer engagement and increasing revenue has always been at the forefront of any marketeer’s mind, but how often do these methods last before a new solution is required? Purple’s new ‘Revenue Sharing Program’ is introducing a new way for customers to create additional revenue streams that come at no extra cost! Too good to… Read More
October 26, 2021 All the Benefits of Healthcare CRM Between traditional healthcare challenges and ones the pandemic entailed, the healthcare industry strives to contain operational costs. In the midst of accelerating digitization, patients no longer evaluate providers based on medical outcomes alone, instead seeking a pleasant overall patient experience. As they become more engaged across channels and more involved in the process, healthcare marketing… Read More
October 12, 2021 iCloud+ Private Relay – An introduction to Apple’s new privacy service Starting in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, Apple has introduced a new feature as part of their paid iCloud (now iCloud+) subscription service, called iCloud Private Relay. But what it is, and how does it work? Also, is it any different from companies offering a VPN solution? Let’s find out. The idea behind… Read More
October 08, 2021 Captive portals: What are they for, and how do they work? In this blog, we’ll be discussing the burning questions which surround captive portals and explaining how they work within marketing and business processes. What is a captive portal? A captive portal is a web or splash page displayed before end-users can authenticate onto WiFi (another examples being services or servers, etc), typically by using a… Read More
September 23, 2021 WiFi proximity marketing: Strategies and how they work What is proximity marketing and why is it used? Proximity marketing is a communication strategy that businesses use to maximize engagement with customers in real-time within a targeted space. Real-time comms used in proximity marketing will often consist of advertising campaigns, customer support options, as well as many other engagement strategies that adopt a ‘right… Read More
July 05, 2021 Don’t miss out on rich data & insights this holiday season! Are you starting to think about your plans for the upcoming holiday season? Many other retailers are. A bumper 2021 holiday season? The 2020 holiday season was like none that we’ve ever experienced before. Rather than the hustle and bustle of visiting physical stores, we were all forced to limit our holiday shopping to mainly… Read More
June 25, 2021 Evolving your primary data collection techniques to prepare for a cookieless world What is primary data? First-party data collection (also known as Primary data collection) can be defined as the data that is collected by you from a direct source to be used for specific purposes. The main purpose of first-party data collection is to gather information that provides insights into audience demographics and their behaviors. This… Read More
May 28, 2021 Information Security: Why is it so important? “The key to good, frictionless, security is understanding the needs and the operations of the business to efficiently build controls around them. Security should be baked in, not sprayed on.” Senior Security Engineer – Dan Perry What is infosec? Quite often a part of information risk management, Information Security (often shortened to ‘Infosec’) is the… Read More
May 21, 2021 How to A/B test your online world and your offline physical space There are many different ways that businesses try to test out new website designs, marketing campaigns and with the use of WiFi Analytics, even store layouts and window displays. But to ensure that these campaign resources and efforts aren’t wasted, it’s important to ensure that companies have clear outcomes and can record their data accordingly…. Read More
April 28, 2021 Purple insights provide a UK demographic breakdown of visitors returning to outdoor bars and pubs As pints were poured and cocktails shaken for the first time in months, consumers rushed to beer gardens and terraces to celebrate the return of their favorite establishments, permitted to reopen from Monday, April 11th. However, challenges remain in understanding the undoubted long-term impact of repeated lockdowns, social distancing, and the ongoing issue of Covid-19… Read More
April 12, 2021 Location Analytics & Services: How they can increase revenue The first commercial satnav was released in 1990 as a revolutionary built-in feature for the Mazda Eunos Cosmo, and yet in 2021 we can order an Uber through a mobile application, see how far away the driver is, get to our destination on the quickest route possible all while sharing our location or eta with… Read More
