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
February 28, 2022 What are Indoor Location Services? Indoor location services allow for the tracking of people and objects within a set space through the combination of hardware and software technologies. This is often done to understand the movement of people and reduce the loss of revenue from lost or stolen assets. The Indoor Location Services market as defined by Gartner – “…… Read More
February 16, 2022 5 benefits of WiFi Sponsorship you don’t get with traditional advertising channels In 2021, Purple announced the capability for businesses to sponsor advertising space on its WiFi access journeys that are seen daily in over 65,000 venues across the globe to a network of over 1 million end users! In this blog, we’re going to look at the benefits of Purple’s WiFi Sponsorship program and how exactly… 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
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
November 05, 2019 Purple supercharges intelligent spaces offering by acquiring indoor navigation solution Fast-growth data analytics firm Purple WiFi has acquired US wayfinding business LogicJunction. In the deal announced today, Manchester-headquartered Purple confirmed the takeover of Ohio-based LogicJunction, with the combined businesses operating under the Purple brand. The acquisition is a majority stock deal, with the existing management team and employee base joining the Purple team. Purple offers… Read More
July 04, 2019 Atea join the Purple partner network Purple has formed a new technology partnership with Atea, Northern Europe’s market leader in IT infrastructure. Atea are a large IT integrator and transformation specialist with 7,400 employees and 4,000 consultants located in 87 offices. Located in seven countries —Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Atea offers a full range of hardware and… Read More
May 22, 2019 What is WiFi analytics and why is it important for your business? Firstly, what is WiFi analytics? WiFi analytics put simply means, to gather customer data through the use of guest WiFi. Guest WiFi is the free WiFi you get in hotels, cafes and numerous other store types. WiFi analytics collects customer data in two different ways. Authorized data The first method of collecting data is through… Read More
March 25, 2019 Parque Arauco improve the in-store experience with WiFi analytics Parque Arauco, one of the largest shopping mall operators in South America, have partnered with Purple to install an advanced guest WiFi network in a number of shopping centers across Chile, Peru and Columbia. The new network allows Parque Arauco to deliver an exceptional guest WiFi experience with custom splash screens and social login, whilst… Read More
March 15, 2019 Knock knock, who’s there? John, aged 23, from Manchester. He’s a repeat customer. His last visit was on 10/02/2019, and he has an average dwell time of 30 minutes. Capturing customer data online is something that we are very good at. We know how many people visit our website, how much time they spend on-site, their demographics, whether they… Read More
March 15, 2019 Farmacorp sign WiFi analytics and engagement renewal with Purple Farmacorp, Bolivia’s largest pharmaceutical chain, have signed a one-year WiFi analytics and customer engagement renewal with InCloud IT and Purple. The WiFi solution, which is present in over 60 pharmacy’s across Bolivia – soon to be 130+ following scheduled expansion – offers customers a secure, high-speed guest WiFi connection with a simple and customized access… Read More
September 13, 2018 Closing the gap between your online and offline customer data Are you capturing customer data from your physical spaces? If not, you could be missing a trick. With the rise of online sales and convenience buying, offline seems to have taken a back seat, with businesses now focusing solely on collecting customer data from the online space. The problem… …offline still accounts for a huge… Read More
June 21, 2018 Opin Kerfi join Purple’s global partner network Purple has formed a new technology partnership with Opin Kerfi, leading IT solutions and service partner, to provide businesses with in-depth data and analytics around their customers and physical spaces. Opin Kerfi specialize in many fields of IT including hardware, infrastructure, networks, communications solutions, office solutions and software development. The business is also a HPC… Read More
April 21, 2018 Shifting retail’s focus from e-commerce to an inclusive Customer Algorithm E-commerce took off in the early 2000’s and created a buzz around 24-hour shopping, but it’s also heavily skewed retail marketing to rely on online insights to generate sales. In 2018, this focus is making a colossal shift back to a more balanced, in-depth ratio of offline to online consumer insights. Offline insights are similar… Read More