Monday, November 25, 2013

Using Mobile Marketing To Increase Business And Sales


by Stavros Georgiadis


There are a lot of different ways to use mobile marketing. Each business sees this type of marketing in different ways, and the implementation of their marketing plans is just as different. Most often, people refer to mobile marketing as the practice of advertising your business via cellular phones. The advice in the following article can show you how to successfully implement a mobile marketing strategy.

Don't send random messages to your customers. Respect your customers' attention by always giving them useful content when you send out messages. A mobile marketing campaign can fail if you waste your customer's time by texting them random, useless information. You are not your customers' friend. When you contact them, they want to know about your products.

When developing content for mobile marketing, be sure that you keep your message brief and easy to understand. They should immediately know what your message is and be able to absorb it quickly.

You can use your friends in order to beta-test your marketing efforts with emails, website, banner advertising, and other venues. For an unbiased opinion, you could pay a tester.

Mobile marketing is perhaps the most fickle of all the types of marketing as this customer base will change rapidly dependent on outside influences. Mobile is still an evolving market, so technology trends can shift the market rather quickly. Know this and account for it.

Make sure that a mobile marketing campaign is effective before starting a new one. It's important to take the long view and measure success by how long your campaign lasts, rather than just looking at the results in terms of sales. To build a plan you will want to look far into the future.

You should know how mobile devices work to know how to format your site and ads. Try out a variety of mobile devices so you can gauge how your site and communications look to different customers.

Use a short code that is dedicated. You will pay more, but your brand will be protected. Dedicated short code also offers you some legal protection.

Though many mobile users are connecting to the Internet, as well as using text messaging, that doesn't mean that all these users understand text message abbreviations. If an individual doesn't understand your ad, they won't look at it, resulting in you losing a potential customer.

No matter how advanced cellphones get, you should remember that web navigation is never going to be as easy on a phone as it is with a computer. If you have a mobile marketing campaign, you want both home and mobile users to view your page easily, so optimize it for mobile devices, even if it looks a bit simplistic on a computer.

When developing a mobile app for your company, make it relevant and convenient to your customers. Customers won't appreciate apps that do nothing but take up space on their phones, and are unlikely to reward you with their business.Keep in mind that those using mobiles may have a more difficult time navigating and browsing your website. If you ensure your mobile marketing site is user friendly to both home computer users and mobile users, it will succeed, even if the page looks a bit simplistic on a home computer. Be enthusiastic about improving your advertising. Also, you should always be aware of what is happening with your competition! Keeping your competitive edge is not easy, of course, but following some of these tips should help you gain the advantage.




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