Thursday, August 23, 2012

What Every Business Needs To Know About Mobile Marketing

By Shawn Rani


Mobile marketing can be very intimidating to someone that has never done it before. It can easily lead to a bit of information overload because of all of the resources available to new marketers. Below are some tips to assist you in getting all of this information organized so that you can start marketing effectively.

Integrate your mobile ad campaign into every other aspect of your advertising to optimize the effects of it! Make note of it on your blog and online social networking accounts. This way you keep in your promotional loop all potential customers, whether they are in an office, car or waiting for a bus!

Be sure to send text messages. People usually have a ringer that will go off whenever they receive a text. They also tend to check it right away. Just make sure to send small files such as photos of a new product that you have available, thus allowing the customer the option of receiving texts or not.

Send greeting cards to your customers on their special day or any holiday. Multimedia Messaging Service can reach all your customers with mobile greeting cards, and it is cheaper then stamps. Mobile greeting cards should be used to build a relationship, not for selling. Always include your company's name and website address on your mobile greeting cards.

Do your best to target your message to fit the needs of the people that you are sending it to. If you are sending out a message about one thing that that person is not interested in, there is a great chance that they will not take the time to read your future messages.

Personalize your mobile-marketing messages. In some cases businesses will fail to personalize the messages, which creates a message that can seem a bit like spam. If you simply use the subscribers name in the message, you will find a better response that is going to yield much better results.

Compatibility is crucial. When starting a mobile marketing campaign it is essential that it will display correctly no matter which device your customer is using. There are loyal users of every mobile platform and focusing on only one device limits your customer base. At the very minimum it should be viewable on the 3 biggest devices: Blackberry, iPhone, and Android.

You are going to benefit from mobile marketing best by keeping your existing customers informed about what it going on with your company. This can include new products, sales and anything else that you think would catch their attention and bring them back to your site to make a purchase.

Remember to link properly when using mobile devices. Do not link to your home website, link to the mobile version of your website so that your customers can get the entire picture. If you do not have a mobile version, you really need to get to work on it and have one for the mobile users.

Every day, more people are accessing the internet through their mobile devices. The time to reach out to these potential customers, is now. Now that you've finished reading this article, you know plenty of things you can do, in order to get all you can out of mobile marketing. All that's left is to get started.




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