Merchants adopting mobile marketing in hopes to catch consumer’s attention

Mobile marketing

With the raging popularity of smartphones becoming evident to everyone, merchants are quickly jumping onto the mobile marketing bandwagon in order to draw new customers and encourage existing ones to return and shop. Businesses can’t simply rely on storefront signage to bring in the crowds now that their customers are more likely to be looking at their smartphone screens as they walk by the shops. They need to place their messages directly in front of their customers at the moment that they are most likely to think about a purchase.…

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Google working on NFC mobile coupons

Google

Google is working with Ingenico on a way to start making use of their NFC enabled Smartphone’s. The service would send a redeemable coupon to the customer’s Smartphone while they’re shopping in the store. The coupon would then be redeemed on checkout and subtracted from the total purchase. Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has been in the works to be made a method of payment for Smartphone users. Several of the new Smartphone’s that have come out, or are coming out, are enabled with NFC technology. NFC works by radio…

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