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Social media marketing is friendliest at Facebook

04/23/201404/21/2014 L. Green

mobile commerce facebook social media marketing

According to a U.K. survey, that is the network that provides the best marketer experience. A social media marketing survey was recently conducted by a London based firm, which showed that Facebook is the platform that is the most preferred among marketers who use social channels to reach their consumers. There were 171 marketers in the United Kingdom who participated in this study. The participants were asked questions about their social media marketing preferences when it came to campaign development and evaluation. It was conducted by the Direct Marketing Association’s…

QR codes generate strong response rates from magazine ads

10/10/201210/10/2012 Jesse Collins

QR codes in Mobile commerce Magazine Ads

Research shows that the outcomes of those campaigns are better than direct mail. The results of a recent study have shown that QR codes that are included in the ads in print magazines are producing notably better response rates than those seen from more traditional forms of direct mail marketing. This success is generating support for the mobile marketing technique, where some doubt had remained. Throughout the second quarter of 2012, there were more than 2,200 mobile barcodes used in the top American print magazines. This was an increase of…

Unsolicited SMS spam causing frustrations among mobile users

06/30/201107/07/2011 Jesse Collins

Direct Marketing Association has released the results of a survey that showed that 43 percent of their participants had received “unsolicited SMS spam promoting accident claims or mis-selling financial services.” Unfortunately, just as has been the case with spam in our hotmail inboxes, SMS spammers have rapidly adopted this new marketing tactic to such an extent that this form of advertising platform’s future growth has now become threatened. According to Mike Lordan, the chief of operations at DMA, mobile phone users are being continually inundated by spam and they are…