The Facebook Marketing Conference was held in New York City this weekend – the first of what will be an annual event – and made a number of new large announcements that targeted their brand/business page owners and that make it ever more clear that the social networking site cannot be ignored in mobile marketing. Beginning March 30, 2012, all of the business pages at Facebook will have undergone their new timeline format conversion. However, business page administrators already have the ability to tinker with the new features in a…
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Beginning a B2B strategy in mobile marketing through social optimization
Though marketers can see that there can be an opportunity waiting for them where mobile technology and social marketing meet, the majority of them have yet to determine precisely how to go about getting started. The use of mobile devices has skyrocketed and is continuing to do so. For this reason, B2B marketers are scrambling to identify the best ways to access that rapidly growing audience through the use of mobile optimized sites, display ads, and applications. According to the director of mobile strategy, Prat Vemana, from the Staples Inc.…
Read MoreMobile discount coupons focus on QR code and social media compatibility
Modiv Media has announced their newest product called Modiv Social, which allows consumers to collect discount coupons from any source they’d like, and then use them or share them over social media such as Facebook. This uses a concept that is not at all new, but that has yet to be fully leveraged over the mobile channel. Email marketers have been told that their effectiveness and survival will require the use of social and mobile platform links for some time now, but it wasn’t until mobile couponing arrived that this…
Read MoreVerticalResponse unveils new social media marketing app for mobile
Leading self-service marketing solutions provider for small businesses, VerticalResponse, has now unveiled its new iOS mobile app for its social media marketing platform called Roost by VerticalResponse. The company provides a wide range of solutions, including social media marketing, email marketing, online surveys, direct mail marketing, and event marketing. Roost by VerticalResponse provides small businesses with a dashboard that allows them to quickly and easily develop, deploy, manage, and measure their various campaigns through social media. Now, the new mobile app – which is now available at the Apple iTunes…
Read MoreSuper Bowl Sunday broke mobile pizza order records
This last Super Bowl Sunday brought a number of victories, not only in the game itself and its players, but also in the mobile marketplace, where records were broken for the number of pizza orders that were made for pizza delivery during the broadcast. Mobile use as a whole were very popular throughout the Super Bowl game, especially in terms of mobile social media platforms. In fact, there were approximately 12,000 tweets generated every second through the final three minutes of the game, alone. That said, social media wasn’t the…
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