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What do your customers expect from your mobile marketing campaigns?

06/30/201306/29/2013 John Montgallo

Smartphone customers are already building expectations, but are you meeting them? As smartphones rapidly increase their market share among mobile device users, campaigns that target cell phones with those capabilities are becoming more common. As a new channel, however, it isn’t always obvious. Moreover, brands need to recognize that optimizing their websites isn’t the full extent of the process. However, as something new, they aren’t always sure what other steps to take. What do consumers want from their mobile marketing campaigns? Unfortunately, they’re not exactly sure, themselves. Though they know…

Learn from the mobile marketing mistakes of others

06/29/2013 Jennifer Goula

Jump ahead by learning from the trial and error that has already been accomplished. Mobile marketing is still very new and can be quite tricky, but there have already been a large number of campaigns – some successes and some failures – that can help a company or a brand to learn how to continually improve its own advertising and promotions, without having to make the same mistakes that have already been suffered by others. QR codes are a prime example of how successes are possible by avoiding repeats of…

Mobile marketing introduced in new Toys ‘R’ Us campaign

06/14/201306/12/2013 Stephanie Beck

This massive toy store has recognized that its customers are smartphone carriers and this is an important opportunity. Toys ‘R’ Us has revealed that it is moving to the cutting edge when it comes to advertising, with a new mobile marketing campaign that will use techniques such as smartphone coupons that will include barcodes that can be scanned at the point of sale in order to allow shoppers to obtain discounts. The company is also running campaigns in a top American magazine to gain tremendous exposure. The toy store will…

M-commerce is receiving an important boost from mobile coupons

06/03/201306/01/2013 Stephanie Beck

This form of advertising is encouraging more people to look to their smartphones when they shop. In 2010, m-commerce made up only 3 percent of online shopping as a whole, but by the time the end of the 2012 holiday season arrived, that figure had spiked upward to reach 11 percent, which represented approximately $18 billion in consumer spending. Mobile merchandising trends are rapidly changing and consumers are catching on very rapidly. These new mobile marketing trends are starting to focus on bringing very practical and attractive elements to m-commerce.…

M-commerce is greatly benefiting from the popularity of mobile coupons

05/25/201305/31/2013 Jesse Collins

These discount opportunities are driving consumers to use the channel on an increasing basis. There is no doubt that m-commerce is growing very quickly, as it represented 3 percent of online shopping in late 2010, and rose to 11 percent by the close of the holiday shopping season last year – according to comScore data. This means that it brought in $18.6 billion in consumer spending last year (excluding travel). Now, various techniques are being analyzed to understand what the main drivers of m-commerce truly are. Among them, mobile coupons…