Mobile Marketing and Advertising Implementation Strategies

July 21, 2010

Mobile advertising Advertising is defined as “any paid form of nonpersonal presentation and promotion of products, services, or ideas by an identified sponsor (Kotler and Zaltman 1971, p. 7).” This definition and many others (e.g. Wells et al. 1992) suggest that advertising uses mass media. However, nowadays the meaning of mass media is blurred. That [...]

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Marketing Strategy to Mobile Marketing Campaign Implementation

July 21, 2010

Mobile marketing Although it is beyond of this article to provide an exhaustive review and analysis of mobile marketing literature, a short commentary should be made on divergent conceptualizations and development of mobile marketing. Leppäniemi et al. (2006), in their detailed review of mobile marketing research, observed that marketing communications in mobile media has, implicitly [...]

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Mobile Marketing Strategy in Action

July 20, 2010

Strategy can be an ethereal thing and leave us asking how we practically address marketing problems with mobile. Let’s look at a number of popular sectors and assess how mobile might be used to tackle typical communication problems in these industries: Consumer Goods FMCG manufacturers today face a number of unique challenges; competition from private [...]

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Mobile Marketing And It’s Frequency

July 20, 2010

When Should we Deliver our Message? Timing of our mobile campaigns will be determined by the purchasing habits of the consumer, but the message should have greatest impact when the consumer is deciding to buy. A housewife may create her shopping list and decide what she will buy on a Friday but she may make [...]

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3 Principles of Mobile Marketing Strategy – Part 3

July 20, 2010

What’s our Message to them? The message will largely be determined by the overall marketing strategy and whether our product is ‘high consumer involvement’ or ‘low involvement.’ This will determine whether the message will be informational or emotional. Whatever the message, unique skills will be required to translate it, and the accompanying advertising metaphors, to [...]

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3 Principles of Mobile Marketing Strategy – Part 2

July 20, 2010

What Should they Feel? Brand owners generally believe that to be effective, their advertising has to affect what people believe about their brand before they can expect a change in their purchasing behaviour. Some modern marketing practitioners however hold the contrasting view, first discussed by Erenberg and Barnard in their 1998 paper Advertising and Brand [...]

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3 Principles of Mobile Marketing Strategy – Part 1

July 20, 2010

I. Where are our Customers? Advertising is directed at a target market to enhance or change its behaviour. They may be heavy users of a competitor, or infrequent users of our brand. They may have low awareness or negative perception of our brand so we may wish to shift the pendulum of consumer perception back [...]

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Mobile Business And It’s Market Study

July 20, 2010

Have You Considered the basis on why Mobile Marketing is the best investment there is? Let’s go through the four phases that Mobile Marketing has to put in consideration before putting it in the market. i. The adoption of flat rate mobile broadband Internet access by all UK operators. ii. The wholesale migration of Web [...]

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A Mobile for Each and Every One Of Us

July 20, 2010

Did you know that in United Kingdom alone, there are 3.2 billion SMS messages sent daily and 1.4 billion mobile internet pages viewed each month? The fact of the matter is that, there are more mobile phones in circulation than the actual population of the UK. This only means that that many consumers now own [...]

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The History of Mobile Marketing

July 19, 2010

How did the Mobile Marketing industry started? How was it able to Integrate mobile into the mix to increase brand awareness,generate leads and win sales? These are just a few questions that a mobile marketing entrepreneur has in mind. And knowing its history can be admirably useful in pursuing your dream of venturing in this [...]

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