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How retailers are taking their first steps into the mobile commerce world

How retailers are taking their first steps into the mobile commerce world

When new technology comes into common use, it isn’t always obvious how it should best be used, and mobile commerce is no exception, but retailers – both online and in actual physical space – have been making their first attempts at using smartphones and tablets to their best advantage, each in their own ways. Retailers weren’t typically a part of the first wave of commerce. There were a few trailblazers, but other than that, mobile devices … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Marketing, Trends, United States

Spammers take aim at mobile phone users

Spammers take aim at mobile phone users

Spamming techniques under a watchful eye. Text messages have become the latest target for marketers who use spamming techniques to reach a broad audience in a similar way to that which has already been filling email junk folders for many years. According to Ferris Research, in 2011, it is estimated that American consumers received approximately 4.5 billion texts with spam ads. This was more than twice the number that was received in 2009, when there were an … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Marketing, United States

Mobile consumers receive free food through new Chili’s social campaign

Mobile consumers receive free food through new Chili’s social campaign

Mobile marketing campaign designed to bring in the crowds. Chili’s Grill & Bar has announced that it is providing mobile consumers with free food when they check-in to participating locations using their mobile devices. The restaurant chain is using popular social networks such as Facebook Places and Foursquare to help to boost this interactive campaign. Diners who use their smartphones to check-in to the various Chili’s locations from now through the end of may will be offered … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Trends, United States

Google offers a year of free mobile hosting and site customization

Google offers a year of free mobile hosting and site customization

Free mobile site from Google Google has announced that it is going to make a massive effort to help bring more sites to the mobile web, and that for a year, it is willing to pay the bill in order to accomplish that goal. The search engine giant is working with Duda Mobile, a mobile web optimization startup, to offer 12 months of free mobile site hosting and mobile website optimizing to help to fill in and … Read entire article »

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Steely Eye Digital Media shows 23% of London advertisements not mobile optimized

Steely Eye Digital Media shows 23% of London advertisements not mobile optimized

QR Code scanning stats in London QR codes are becoming a common sight throughout the London transportation system. The codes often accompany large advertisements. The codes adorn billboards as well as posters found in the subway network and have been relatively successful among tech-savvy consumers. It has been difficult for marketers to encourage consumers to scan QR codes with their mobile devices lately. While there seems to be no shortage of smart phones capable of scanning … Read entire article »

Filed under: Commercial, Featured News, International, Mobile Marketing, QR Codes, Trends

Eco friendly SMS for mobile marketers

Eco friendly SMS for mobile marketers

Green advertising The world is starting to come to understand that changes – and large ones – are more important than had previously been assumed in order to help to rescue the world from the environmental damage that has already been caused, or at least slow down the growth of the impact that we continue to have. As an element of this many companies are going paperless in order to reduce the amount of forest that is … Read entire article »

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