Using Mobile Coupons to Enhance Current Advertising
Using a mobile coupon strategy as part of a wider concerted marketing effort can be a great way to build customer loyalty and drive sales from prospective customers. Mobile coupons are a highly effective way of driving a response from targeted prospects, and are a still a relatively untapped area of marketing. Technology has only very recently reached the extent to where it is capable of delivering messages to prospects at an efficient and cost-effective rate.
A mobile coupon is simply a discount or voucher sent by text message to a consumer’s cell phone or hand-held device. All the individual needs to do is text a particular ‘keyword’ to a specific 6-digit code and they will instantly receive your customized reply. This saves them the trouble of searching for and printing out your coupon, since they can simply show the text message at time of checkout. This is a big deal to some, considering today’s ‘going green’ times. This also ensures that they can always attain your most current offer instead of bringing in an expired print coupon.
New Technology Taking Mobile Marketing to New Levels
With so many technological advances in recent years, almost all of us have been influenced greatly by the conveniences these technologies bring. Many of us can’t imagine doing without devices that weren’t even in existence only a few years ago. This has opened up new opportunities for businesses and individuals to capitalize on these trends in order to become successful.
This new era has also allowed even the smallest businesses to remove the geographical limitations from their marketing efforts in order to become truly ‘global’ entities. These businesses are able to undertake new marketing strategies that are low cost and incredibly effective.
Mobile Shopping Is Growing Quickly
According to a new study by ABI Research, in 2015, shoppers around the world are expected to spend about $119 billion on goods and services purchased via mobile phones. That number represents about 8% of the total e-commerce market.
Email and Mobile Marketing – Now Affordable to the Smallest of Businesses
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Both email and mobile marketing have risen in popularity amongst business owners due to its effectiveness as a means of building customer loyalty and increasing revenue. Until very recently, the costs of email marketing and mobile marketing were prohibitive to all but the largest corporate players, and as such the market (certainly for mobile marketing) remains largely untapped to this day. Direct marketing using these methods has undergone a revolution in recent years. It has finally come to the forefront as a successful and affordable way to market to targeted individuals.
Email and mobile marketing are amongst two of the most highly responsive forms of direct marketing available. These forms of marketing require you to gather permission from the prospect in order to send ongoing messages, meaning that the messages that are sent are received by a truly receptive audience. This also allows for sending specific messages to certain subscribers, which makes for much more targeted campaigns that produce much more serious results.
Mobile Marketing Growing in the U.S.
Mobile marketing is the act of reaching directly to consumers through SMS messaging, leveraging the growing number of mobile phone owners and users. It is predicted to be the next major global technology phenomenon, and to a certain extent it is already used across Europe and Asia by businesses of all sizes to deliver targeted messages on a wholesale scale. Mobile business consultants and service providers already have access to the frameworks for dealing with SMS text marketing, yet still the US market remains behind much of the rest of the world in this method.
