Tag: text message advertising

19 June
admin

Mobile advertising is becoming more and more accepted, but most people still struggle with the mechanics of how SMS text advertising, which is the most common among most advertisers, work.  Here is a quick explanation:

1.    The small business advertiser conducts other forms of marketing and promotion in which he encourages customers and potential customers to text with a special keyword.  When the consumer does this, they have opted into the vendor’s mobile distribution list (similar to an email list).  The advertiser can market different keywords for different campaign purposes. 

2.    When a customer opts into a distribution list with a keyword, they receive an automated response from the vendor.  The vendor has to option of setting up recurring auto-responses or even different responses for consumers who have keyed in a code word more than once. 

3.    The vendor can then send out bulk SMS text messages to their mobile distribution list, or just a selected portion. 

Creativity is the only roadblock in how SMS text advertising can be used by an advertiser.  Some strategies other advertisers have used have been to notify customers of special sales, restaurant menus or to offer coupon discounts, real estate agents can send information on selected properties, and service vendors can send appointment reminders. 

Voting and contests by popular TV shows is one well-known way SMS text messaging has been used.  It could be as simple a campaign as notifying your subscribers that you have posted a new article to your blog.  It can be very effective to set up advertising campaigns to coordinate between email messaging, IM and text messaging. 

For small business owners to stay in touch with their customers and build relationships with potential customers, mobile advertising is quickly becoming one of the best solutions. 

Be sure to visit SmallBusinessMobileAdvertising.com to learn much more about how small businesses can use mobile phone advertising to grow their business. Make sure to get your free mobile phone advertising trial (and mention the promo code “mobilenow” and receive double the credits during your free trial period).


16 June
admin

Mobile advertising is becoming more and more accepted, but most people still struggle with the mechanics of how SMS text advertising, which is the most common among most advertisers, work.  Here is a quick explanation:

1.    The small business advertiser conducts other forms of marketing and promotion in which he encourages customers and potential customers to text with a special keyword.  When the consumer does this, they have opted into the vendor’s mobile distribution list (similar to an email list).  The advertiser can market different keywords for different campaign purposes. 

2.    When a customer opts into a distribution list with a keyword, they receive an automated response from the vendor.  The vendor has to option of setting up recurring auto-responses or even different responses for consumers who have keyed in a code word more than once. 

3.    The vendor can then send out bulk SMS text messages to their mobile distribution list, or just a selected portion. 

Creativity is the only roadblock in how SMS text advertising can be used by an advertiser.  Some strategies other advertisers have used have been to notify customers of special sales, restaurant menus or to offer coupon discounts, real estate agents can send information on selected properties, and service vendors can send appointment reminders. 

Voting and contests by popular TV shows is one well-known way SMS text messaging has been used.  It could be as simple a campaign as notifying your subscribers that you have posted a new article to your blog.  It can be very effective to set up advertising campaigns to coordinate between email messaging, IM and text messaging. 

For small business owners to stay in touch with their customers and build relationships with potential customers, mobile advertising is quickly becoming one of the best solutions. 

Be sure to visit SmallBusinessMobileAdvertising.com to learn much more about how small businesses can use mobile phone advertising to grow their business. Make sure to get your free mobile phone advertising trial (and mention the promo code “mobilenow” and receive double the credits during your free trial period).


14 June
admin

It won’t be long before every small business owner relies on mobile phone advertising as much as they do Internet marketing now.  More than five out of six households have at least one mobile phone, and recent studies have found that mobile advertising is 3-5 time more effective than online advertising.

Understanding how mobile advertising works can be confusing, however. Articles and reports in the media usually focus on the ways that very large businesses use mobile advertising, which can be irrelevant to a smaller company.  Here you will find a quick breakdown of the two most popular forms of mobile phone advertising today. 

Text Advertising. 

This form of mobile advertising begins with a current or potential customer requesting to receive text phone advertisements from you, the merchant.  You ask them to text a special keyword that you have used in your other marketing efforts, and by doing so they “opt in” to your mobile advertising list.  You will generally engage a special mobile ad vendor to manage your text messaging program, and you typically have the option to purchase packages or just pay as you go.   

You then send text message (SMS) advertisements to your list of subscribers through their phones.  While vendors are getting very creative with this form of advertising, coupons and notice of limited time discounts have already proven to be successful with text message mobile advertising.  Restaurants, retail stores and entertainment type businesses have experienced good success. 

In Page Mobile Advertising.

You will find the other type of mobile advertising to be most comparable to Internet search engines.  In a nutshell, a consumer will do a mobile search for a particular item they are looking for.  Your mobile advertisement appears if it is relevant to the customers search. 

Search engine databases are typically made up of merchants who are subscribers to the mobile search engine.  This form of advertising can help a merchant on a budget, as they usually charge a set monthly subscription fee to be in the database. 

Whether you prefer SMS advertising or In Page advertising, there are affordable options available to you for mobile phone advertising. 

Be sure to visit SmallBusinessMobileAdvertising.com to learn much more about how small businesses can use mobile phone advertising to grow their business. Make sure to get your free mobile advertising trial (and mention the promo code “mobilenow” and receive double the credits during your free trial period).


14 June
admin

It won’t be long before every small business owner relies on mobile phone advertising as much as they do Internet marketing now.  More than five out of six households have at least one mobile phone, and recent studies have found that mobile advertising is 3-5 time more effective than online advertising.

Understanding how mobile advertising works can be confusing, however. Articles and reports in the media usually focus on the ways that very large businesses use mobile advertising, which can be irrelevant to a smaller company.  Here you will find a quick breakdown of the two most popular forms of mobile phone advertising today. 

Text Advertising. 

This form of mobile advertising begins with a current or potential customer requesting to receive text phone advertisements from you, the merchant.  You ask them to text a special keyword that you have used in your other marketing efforts, and by doing so they “opt in” to your mobile advertising list.  You will generally engage a special mobile ad vendor to manage your text messaging program, and you typically have the option to purchase packages or just pay as you go.   

You then send text message (SMS) advertisements to your list of subscribers through their phones.  While vendors are getting very creative with this form of advertising, coupons and notice of limited time discounts have already proven to be successful with text message mobile advertising.  Restaurants, retail stores and entertainment type businesses have experienced good success. 

In Page Mobile Advertising.

You will find the other type of mobile advertising to be most comparable to Internet search engines.  In a nutshell, a consumer will do a mobile search for a particular item they are looking for.  Your mobile advertisement appears if it is relevant to the customers search. 

Search engine databases are typically made up of merchants who are subscribers to the mobile search engine.  This form of advertising can help a merchant on a budget, as they usually charge a set monthly subscription fee to be in the database. 

Whether you prefer SMS advertising or In Page advertising, there are affordable options available to you for mobile phone advertising. 

Be sure to visit SmallBusinessMobileAdvertising.com to learn much more about how small businesses can use mobile phone advertising to grow their business. Make sure to get your free mobile advertising trial (and mention the promo code “mobilenow” and receive double the credits during your free trial period).


11 June
admin

Mobile advertising is becoming more and more accepted, but most people still struggle with the mechanics of how SMS text advertising, which is the most common among most advertisers, work.  Here is a quick explanation:

1.    The small business advertiser conducts other forms of marketing and promotion in which he encourages customers and potential customers to text with a special keyword.  When the consumer does this, they have opted into the vendor’s mobile distribution list (similar to an email list).  The advertiser can market different keywords for different campaign purposes. 

2.    When a customer opts into a distribution list with a keyword, they receive an automated response from the vendor.  The vendor has to option of setting up recurring auto-responses or even different responses for consumers who have keyed in a code word more than once. 

3.    The vendor can then send out bulk SMS text messages to their mobile distribution list, or just a selected portion. 

Creativity is the only roadblock in how SMS text advertising can be used by an advertiser.  Some strategies other advertisers have used have been to notify customers of special sales, restaurant menus or to offer coupon discounts, real estate agents can send information on selected properties, and service vendors can send appointment reminders. 

Voting and contests by popular TV shows is one well-known way SMS text messaging has been used.  It could be as simple a campaign as notifying your subscribers that you have posted a new article to your blog.  It can be very effective to set up advertising campaigns to coordinate between email messaging, IM and text messaging. 

For small business owners to stay in touch with their customers and build relationships with potential customers, mobile advertising is quickly becoming one of the best solutions. 

Be sure to visit SmallBusinessMobileAdvertising.com to learn much more about how small businesses can use mobile phone advertising to grow their business. Make sure to get your free mobile phone advertising trial (and mention the promo code “mobilenow” and receive double the credits during your free trial period).