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Auto Accessory Warehouse uses text messaging to drive sales

11/03/201111/03/2011 Sam Lambert

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 was seeking a new form of advertising that would be more effective than…

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

09/16/201109/16/2011 Jennifer Goula

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 2015 will mean $334.7 billion. The research published within the report also described the…

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

09/07/201109/07/2011 Jennifer Goula

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 would come to a halt within six weeks, and this recent announcement shows…

UK charity provides young people in crisis with support through SMS

08/24/2011 Sam Lambert

SAFE@LAST, a charity that provides young people in crisis with support when they are considering running away, has partnered with Txtlocal, a top UK communications and mobile marketing company to provide additional services using SMS. SAFE@LAST offers a number of services that range from crisis intervention to prevention. They required a new method that would allow at-risk young people to access their services easily and inexpensively, and SMS was the clear choice. Young people can now use the award winning Txtlocal control panel to send text messages to the SAFE@LAST…

Asian marketers are getting the most out of SMS techniques

08/12/201108/12/2011 Sam Lambert

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 the top priority for mobile at Coca Cola is SMS, as its reception from…