Tips And Advice For Mobile Marketing Beginners

By Morreau Michael


Mobile marketing can give businesses the opportunity to grow their audience and expose their brand to a wider range of individuals. The market penetration rate for smartphones, tablets and other mobile gadgets is really high.

Tie your marketing to big events or holidays. Special occasions can make your marketing really work. Give special vouchers to ladies only on Mother's Day. Hold contests on big sporting event days to give your brand a presence. Give your clients a short code number where any person who send in a text message has a chance of winning.

Use QR codes to attract customers. QR codes are scannable codes that take a customer to whatever site you link them to. These should be large and clear so that the mobile phones have no difficulty reading them. Customers love ease and simplicity, so if you hook your site up to one of these it will get used.

Hire a consultant. Not everyone is technologically savvy, so if you are not so inclined, it may be best for you to hire someone to do your dirty work for you. You should look heavily into this person's background to make sure they are respectful and professional, especially if they will be a permanent member of your team.

Shorten your URLs, both in text form and for QR codes. The more difficult and lengthy the URL is, the more complex your message or QR code will become. Make these simpler for people to access by using a URL shortening site, and customers will be happier with the end results.

Make sure you're keeping track of your social media presence as a mobile marketer. If you have a Facebook or Twitter page, you want to monitor what people are thinking of you and how many folks like/dislike you in general. This will allow you to fix some things to better cater to your audience.

Your mobile marketing campaign should never replace an existing campaign; it should simply complement it. You should be using mobile marketing in order to keep your current customers and/or to cater to mobile users within your market niche. Just make sure to keep your other campaigns running.

Remember that the audience you are targeting are people and they are busy, just like you. Act accordingly.

There are a lot of tools available to you as a mobile marketer, so make sure that you're always willing to utilize them. Today's modern mobile devices not only have the ability to call and text, but they play and record videos too. This means there are quite a few ways you can interact with your customers.

Try to limit the amount of offers you're sending via your mobile marketing campaign. It can be a little tedious for you to sit there and devise so many alert messages and call-to-action lines to send out, and it can be really annoying to the people receiving them. Keep your messages at a minimum unless you really have something to say.

Remember to link properly when using mobile devices. Do not link to your home website, link to the mobile version of your website so that your customers can get the entire picture. If you do not have a mobile version, you really need to get to work on it and have one for the mobile users.

As more and more people purchase mobile devices there will be a tremendous opportunity for mobile marketing. Before too long mobile marketing is going to be up there as one of the primary ways to reach your potential clients. Follow these tips to stay ahead of your competition and reach out to your audience. Good luck!




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