Mobile Marketing How-To That You Can Use

By Stavros Georgiadis





What aspects of mobile marketing are you familiar with? Is there a marketing plan you have in place? Do you know if there are improvements you could make to it? Is what you are doing helping or hindering your business? Are you confident that you are using your plan the way you should? Check out these suggestions if you are not able to answer these questions with confidence.



Provide what your customers want. Your mobile marketing ads should be designed based on what your target demographic likes to read and see. Not knowing what customers want, means never being able to give it to them. The key to successful marketing is that you must figure out the basic attributes of your customer; who they are and what they want.



Create a mission statement in tune to your purpose on how you can stay on track when doing social mobile marketing. Stay with your principles to keep you on the right track.



Remember that it's real people that you are messaging so treat them with the respect they deserve. Realize that is an issue and act accordingly.



Independent mobile platforms require a home base or domain. Your goal should always be to drive visitors to your home base or remain in contact with others who frequent your home base. Do not focus your business on your mobile marketing endeavors solely.



As a general rule, a product's customer base is constant unless there is an industry-wide factor that causes a change. On the other hand, mobile customers are not as stable and access to them can be changed by elements that are external to your market. Technology can be a main factor in customer choice. Keep up with changes to stay competitive.



If your company has any social networking sites geared to the business, make sure to put a link on your webpage. If a customer sees a Twitter or Facebook icon on your page, they're far more likely to click it, than they are to search you out themselves.



If you are trying to reach out to people through phone calls or even texting, remember that you are in fact reaching out to people. Be sure to follow appropriate behavior when call someone's cell phone and make the conversation short and to the point.



If your site is mobile friendly, make sure it includes a great map to your location. When people are on the road, they usually have their mobile phones. That is when they might access a map. Make yourself accessible to them. Check that the maps and directions you provide display well on different mobile devices and work properly with mobile searches. Include a link that allows the customer to find your location through Google Maps.



In contrast to your main site, a mobile marketing site should focus primarily on retaining existing customers as opposed to attracting new ones. Compared with new customers, established customers are often more willing to opt-in for text updates and offers. New customers often view mobile marketing as spam.



It's important to have your social networking links on your website. Today, people are very into social networking, so giving them another option to find you will be good for your business. Many customers these days don't bother to search for a company's main site, but rather seek out their social media pages. There are many different variations of mobile marketing methods, but they all share pretty much the same fundamentals. Usually the only differences are in the level of technology involved and how that technology is utilized. Do some research to help choose the techniques which work best for you and your business.









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