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How will mobile effect the presidential campaign in 2012

How will mobile effect the presidential campaign in 2012

Among the strongest elements Obama’s 2008 election campaign was the fact that it used innovative and unique new techniques that applied technology to raise funds from large corporations such as CommerceTel Corp., as well as Verizon Communications, Walt Disney, and other U.S. giants. By using these methods to their fullest for the 2012 campaign, Obama should be able to raise $1 billion this time around. This is because campaigns that embrace the potential that technology has … Read entire article »

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Auto Accessory Warehouse uses text messaging to drive sales

Auto Accessory Warehouse uses text messaging to drive sales

San Bernardino, California-based auto accessory retailer, Auto Accessory Warehouse, has come upon notable marketing successes by using text messages to boost its sales. In fact, the original text message marketing blast in its campaign brought in more than $5000 in new purchases as a return on investment on an advertising bill under $175. This meant that the return was worth an astounding 2800 percent. Auto Accessory Warehouse owner, Mike Kazi decided on mobile text messaging when he … Read entire article »

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Mobile websites and text message marketing form a solid strategy

Mobile websites and text message marketing form a solid strategy

In the newly created world of mobile marketing, the combinations and techniques are always being tested and recreated in order to determine what can be used to most effectively engage customers and generate revenues. It may not be obvious why at a first glance, but mobile websites and text messaging, together, are being called one of the most powerful combinations in mobile marketing. With text message marketing, a shortcode can be used to allow the user to … Read entire article »

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Research report shows that 60 percent of 2010 non-voice mobile revenues were from SMS

Research report shows that 60 percent of 2010 non-voice mobile revenues were from SMS

According to a report issued by Portio Research, SMS messaging still leads the revenues from non-voice mobile, representing 60 percent of the income, which was worth about $179.2 billion in 2010. This was the fifth edition of the report entitled Mobile Messaging Futures 2011-2015, and it forecasted that by the completion of 2011, the mobile market will have passed $200 billion, that in 2014 it will break the $300 billion mark, and that the end of … Read entire article »

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New spam regulations for SMS in India to become effective on September 27

New spam regulations for SMS in India to become effective on September 27

According to a Telecom Regulator TRI notice, India’s new SMS spam regulations will go into effect on September 27, 2011. This comes on the heels of an announcement made by that nation’s Telecom minister, Kapil Sibal, which was made last month regarding SMS spam. It is the hope that through the new regulation, unsolicited bulk SMS providers will no longer be able to send these incessant mobile marketing messages. In August, Sibal had promised that this practice … Read entire article »

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Asian marketers are getting the most out of SMS techniques

Asian marketers are getting the most out of SMS techniques

Though there are many different mobile marketing techniques being used throughout Asia, from games to apps, it is SMS that is reaching virtually every person with a cell phone, regardless of the model. Some experts are starting to think that brands in the west can learn from this lesson when they launch their Asian mobile marketing campaigns. For example, director of international media Gavin Mehrotra, from Coca Cola Company stated at the MMA Forum in Singapore,that … Read entire article »

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