Every day, people are looking for a place to eat, play, or shop. How effective would it be if you could send discounts, promotions, recommendations, coupons, and more directly to people’s cell phones? Although there are people against mobile advertising, this idea is picking up steam around the world and promises to be widely used and accepted in the very near future. It can be powerful because marketing messages directly reach target consumers and everyone has the ability to opt out or use privacy settings to limit the advertisings they receive on cellular devices. If you are unsure how you feel about mobile advertising, take some time to understand how it works and the reasoning behind it before making a final decision.
Why Businesses Love Mobile Marketing
Increasing numbers of businesses are going for mobile marketing. Why do they find it so appealing? The answer is simple. Most people keep their cell phones in their hand or in their pocket, within easy reach. When you respond to a mobile marketing poll or offer, your location is automatically checked in and your friends will take note of the name of the place. They may then be curious enough to check it out on their own. Voila! Viral branding brings in increased customers.
Businesses also realize that people are hopelessly in love with texting and spend hours every day staring at the screen of their phones. These business want to make an immediate appeal through this medium because they know customers are likely to view any advertising or messages within 5 minutes of it being sent. There is simply no better way to be sure target customers are actually seeing advertisements.
In addition, the ability to use far more than simply SMS has opened up a world of possibilities to businesses. Today’s businesses can use apps, interactive content, games, surveys, and streaming music and video to get customers to take notice and get involved. As such, business owners can make advertisements so finely targeted and relevant to audiences that many people don’t even realize that they are looking at marketing. These factors make it almost a guarantee that increasing numbers of businesses will continue to up the stakes with mobile marketing to include more coupons, loyalty programs, and special deals. When customers have a coupon or loyalty certificate available on their cell phones, they are more likely to visit the business to redeem their savings. That makes mobile marketing an extremely effective and efficient way to reach people and build business.
If you are looking for ways to explore more marketing options, consider adding mobile marketing to your plan. Get creative and offer customers something they really want and you will see how much this simple step can help your business grow and your profits explode. If you want to start using mobile marketing but aren’t sure how, consider hiring a consultant or a marketing service to help you get started. In the meantime, learn everything you can about this strategy and soon you will be able to create and utilize your own mobile ads and enticements.
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I think people could easily catch up to product updates if it will be send to their mobile device directly. So I guess mobile marketing is more efficient than Internet or other promotion tools.
Betty,
Absolutely! Product releases are a great use for mobile marketing. I get Google Play updates all the time on my phone.
Andy
Actually search marketers need to give due importance to SEO marketing through mobile devices.
I haven’t thought about this idea but I think it would really help. Thanks!
Teresa,
Can you be a little more specific? What part of mobile advertising would help?
Andy
Andy if you If you have not already begun an aggressive mobile marketing strategy, now is the time. There are 40 million Americans using their mobile devices to search the web; that’s over 15% of American web users—and that number is growing…fast. And that is just in the continental U.S. In many developing nations most users’ primary method of connecting to the Internet is via mobile devices. There are another 40 million mobile Internet surfers in India alone (a quickly-growing demographic).
Thanks for an interesting article, Andy.
If the marketing is targeted intelligently, and the users have the option to opt out or limit what they receive, then yes I agree it makes perfect sense. The growth in mobile use is phenomenal,many there’s lots of evidence that smartphones are becoming the main way people access the Internet, and particularly social networks like Facebook.
In case it interests you, I have been looking at Facebook usage in a local area, and have blogged about it a Cooke of times recently:
Estimating social media usage within a geographic area:
http://bitly.com/NbVXKv
Mark,
This would have to go along with white hat marketing ideas. That is an interesting post on local Facebook usage.
Andy