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One-Minute MarketerWhat Drives People to a Store to Buy?

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What Drives People to a Store to Buy?

iStock_000064211747_MediumMore and more of retail is moving to online fulfillment. However, if you know what you want is at a store and it was the same price as online, would you rather buy it in a store?  More than 70 percent of respondents of a new study said they would prefer to buy in the store.

The new survey by TimeTrade questioned more than 5,000 consumers on what would drive them into a store. The results are surprising:

  1. Special promotions displayed on website (55%)
  2. Print ads (49%)
  3. Email (38%)
  4. Location-based promos (opted in, 29%)
  5. Text notification (with permission, 27%)
  6. Marketing through social media (20%)
  7. Mobile ads (18%)

It is easy to discount print in this digital age, but it still has a time and a place.

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Mark wrote his first direct-mail fundraising letter in 1981 for the University of Iowa Center for Advancement. The effort raised a few million dollars in undiscovered wills and legacy gifts. From that day forward Mark discovered a love of the big idea that moves the needle.

After 12 years at KWWL, Mark became a business owner as a co-founder of ME&V — rebranded as AMPERAGE in 2015. After 25 years of leading creative teams in video production, graphic design, PR, writing and web development, Mark transitioned out of ownership in 2021. Today he serves in an employee role as special projects consultant.

He is creatively ambidextrous — son of an artist and engineer — and famous for distilling complex ideas down to a few words and a few visuals. Mark is a writer. When he found that many nonprofits struggled with complex branding puzzles, he wrote the book, “NonProfit-NonMarketing .” He also wrote a novel called “Reenactment.”

Mark is an active blogger OneMinuteMarketer® with nearly 1,000 readers each week on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter. One of his most popular YouTube videos is on “How to Look Good on Zoom.”

One of Mark’s fondest business memories was being named to INC 500 two times and attending the INC 500 conference with other winners. Mark is considered by some a Civil War expert (and that explains his novel). Mark also served as an adjunct professor in the business and in the communications departments at Wartburg College.

Mark is a graduate of the University of Iowa and is currently vice president of the University of Iowa Journalism and Mass Communications Advisory Board.

Mark is married to state Sen. Liz Mathis, and the two love to travel, even when it means being trapped by a volcano in the Czech Republic for three weeks.