In this generation, more and more people are learning to be comfortable with doing things on-the-go, hence the rise of smartphone users. Those small devices provide convenience as they can be used as a digital scheduler, clock, television, music player, game console, Internet browser, and more. In fact, according to Pew Internet, more than half of the adult population in the United States owns a smartphone. On top of this, Asymco analyst Horace Dediu recently said that almost 600,000 Americans are purchasing smartphones every week. The rate of smartphone adoption…
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How much does location matter to a mobile marketing campaign?
According to electronic commerce professor Martin Spann, from Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University (MLU), mobile technology is offering marketers a unique new location-based opportunity that has the potential to be highly lucrative. He explained that “The smartphone is a location-based service,” and that this “means you can integrate the online world with the offline world.” Therefore, according to Spann, smartphones and tablets have done a great deal more than simply allowing a consumer to remain engaged in the virtual world while they are on the go within the real world. It also…
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