How to get started in mobile marketing

How to get into mobile marketing

Mobile marketing has reached the point of explosion, and it is now perfectly clear to most marketers and businesses that taking part in it and using its techniques is no longer an option. It’s a necessity.

What isn’t quite as obvious is how to get started and how a marketer should guide a business into the channel for the first time. What are those critical first steps that should be taken from having absolutely no mobile presence, to easing in the door and then taking off for the best successes?

To start, business owners must recognize that failing to begin a mobile strategy right now could be suicide.

The first step to getting started is to actually begin. It’s not enough to just know that you need to mobile optimize and start reaching out to smartphone and tablet users. You need to act. Just deciding isn’t going to make it happen. Begin to find out what types of approaches are available so that you can consider their implementation.

Business owners should find an experienced, professional mobile marketer to help to build this strategy.How to get into mobile marketing

This is important because, unlike with print marketing, for example, a single effort will not ensure your success. It isn’t just a matter of dropping postcard mailers off at the post office. You will need a much more holistic approach to make sure that you have – and continue to have – a meaningful impact on these device users to enhance their experience and encourage them to buy.

Mobile marketers must be sensitive to the fact that this is an entirely new world for these businesses. As was the case when e-commerce first got off the ground and brought mainstream shopping into the home (in a far greater sense than catalogue shopping ever did), the mobile commerce experience has brought shopping into any place at any time (including inside a brick-and-mortar shop, or even a competitor’s location).

Therefore, a strategy must be discussed from the ground, up, and it should address the following components:

• Mobile web – optimization of the original website or the development of a new site designed specifically for the smaller screen.
• SMS (short message service) – also known as text messaging, which can send discounts, contests, and other promotions to consumers, regardless of whether they have smartphones or feature phones.
• Mobile ads – these are typically a hard sell, but in specific circumstances can be highly beneficial.
QR codes – two dimensional barcodes help to bring the real world and mobile world together and are exceptionally inexpensive to create, implement, and use.
• Check-in apps – last year saw a skyrocketing use of these applications among users of smartphones.

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