A brief overview of the benefits of using mobile communications and marketing to grow your business. This presentation presents the growth and reach of the mobile market along with best practices of how to create a successful mobile campaign.

2. Why Use Mobile? TODAY: 3.6 BILLION People around the world have a mobile phone

3. Why Use Mobile? Over 285 million Americans are mobile subscribers, about 91 percent of the total population. Source: CTIA Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey

4. 187 Billion Text messages sent monthly in 2010 vs.9.8 Billion in 2005

5. By 2014 Mobile will become the most common way of accessing the Internet. Source: Nielsen - http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/smartphones-to-overtake-feature-phones-in-u-s-by-2011/

6. What Do People Do On Mobile? Besides text & talk

7. 82% Research and Read news 65% Keep Entertained 45%Manage and Plan 89% Stay Connected

8. 68% Used an app 81% Browsed the Internet 77% Used a search engine 48% Watch videos Source: The Mobile Movement Study, Google/Ipsos OTX MediaCT , Apr 2011

9. How Do I Benefit from Mobile?

10. Mobile Drives Traffic 79% of Americans use their phone for shopping related activities Source: The Mobile Movement Study, Google/Ipsos OTX MediaCT , Apr 2011

11. Mobile Drives Sales 74% Of American smartphone shoppers made a purchase as a result of using their smartphone. Source: The Mobile Movement Study, Google/Ipsos OTX MediaCT , Apr 2011

12. For Communications & Marketing SMS is the most effective channel for marketers because of its simplicity, adoption (or) familiarity, and unbiased reach. Virtually all phones are SMS capable, which means you can deliver you message to approximately 5 billion phones Source: Emarketer Sept. 2010

13. Bulk SMS is One-to-Many:

14. Use Bulk SMS to: Send out special promotions and sales alerts

15. Send text alerts to students & faculty

16. Text employees who are out in the field

17. To Drive Sales Mobile is Transforming Everyday Shopping Behavior Mobile coupon redemption is 10x that of traditional coupons Nearly one in five users ages 18 and older will redeem a mobile coupon, representing growth of 117.6%. Source: Borrell Associates, April 2010

18. Redemption rates for digital coupons are higher than those for paper coupons, falling somewhere between 5% and 20%.

19. Other Mobile Tools to Engage Consumers

20. Mobile Polls/Voting

21. Mobile Text-To-Screen

22. Mobile Text Reminders

23. Mobile eCards

24. QR Codes

25. Best Practices for Mobile Marketing

26. Design for Mobile WRONG for Mobile!

27. RIGHT for Mobile  Design for scrolling thumbs, not a wandering mouse

28. Let Users Opt in & Opt out

29. Get found via mobile search because consumers regularly use their phones to find and act on information.

30. Combine Mobile Tools in Your Marketing campaign

31. Make Your Mobile Campaign: RELEVANT INFORMATIVE FUN

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