Friday, January 24, 2014

Understanding Mobile Marketing

By Manny Rutz


One of the newest ways for businesses to be seen is mobile marketing. By perusing the tips found below, you can learn more about mobile marketing and how it can benefit your business. Let's start with some basic stuff, first you need to provide what your customers want. You should understand what your customers need and use that premise as your basic mobile marketing advertisement.


You should first identify what type of customers you have, because many companies create apps that are not relevant to their products and services and instead of gaining they actually lose customers. Make sure you get to know your actual customers and their needs, the more you know about what they want the easier it will be to create your mobile marketing campaign.

Mobile platforms should drive visitors to your main site. You should use your mobile abilities to communicate with new and existing customers to entice them to come to your home base. Avoid developing an entire business around your mobile platform. Changes in your market will dictate changes in your customer base. You can gain or lose customers based on outside influences that you cannot control. Mobile is still an evolving market, so technology trends can shift the market rather quickly. Know this and account for it.

Understand the capabilities of smartphones and what consumers can't and can do when using apps. Remember a mobile app is completely different to a website so you must not use the same mentality when creating your mobile app. The more important thing to know is whether or not this app will benefit your customers. If you think it will then don't be afraid to get started and get to work.

A few years back creating an app was a nightmare, these days is fairly easy considering there are people who can create a professional looking app for your business for a few hundreds dollars. Remember that the way to set yourself apart from the competition is to have more and offer more than your competitors.




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