Posts Tagged ‘mobile marketing’
How come some companies offer Unlimited Text Message Credits?
Unlimited Messages do not exist, at least not without a catch. Don’t be Naive. If it sounds too good to be true…
Some possibilities:
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Sent messages are not true SMS text messages, but instead messages sent through SMTP which is basically email. SMTP is totally unreliable for commercial use. Sometimes the messages arrive, sometimes they don’t, sometimes they arrive hours later. Doesn’t do a restaurant much good to send out a lunch special at 11am that doesn’t get delivered until 5pm.
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Read the Terms of Service agreement. Some companies offer unlimited messages as long as they can include their own ads or send their own ads separately to your clients’ customers. How long are your clients going to remain clients if your platform is spamming their customers?
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The provider may be taking a big gamble, betting that the customers won’t send out alot of messages. This is obviously a flawed business model. The provider may be out of business in 6 months if they underestimated the number of messages that would be sent. Imagine marketing your new text messaging business for 6 months and then having your provider go out of business.
Providers pay for every SMS text message that leaves their platform. It is totally unrealistic to think that you can get unlimited text messages in your monthly plan.
Always remember, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
Cool iPad Apps: Best 104 iPad Apps
So many cool ipad apps, so little time.
Yes, there are soooo many iPad apps – between 30,000 to 50,000 in total, and the number vaults higher every day. So among the zillions, which iPad apps are the very best? Which apps are truly “must-have”?
The iPad, after all, can enhance your life in many ways. There are iPad apps for work, fun, personal life, providing news and information, and tracking your favorite activities…..Learn more
The New Reality of Mobile
We’re all trying to “figure it out” – i.e., create a competitive advantage and valuable customer experience via the mobile channel. Naturally, we turn to 19th century philosopher George Santayana, best known for the quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
While we have seen the pitfalls of applying too literally the principles of one medium to another – brochure-ware websites, direct marketing-based e-mail programs – there are lessons to port over….Read more
Microsoft: Half of mobile searches have a local intent
BizReport : Mobile Marketing : November 15, 2010
by Helen Leggatt
You’re ambling around town when suddenly you crave Chinese dumplings. You whip out your phone and after a couple of local searches you’re well on your way to getting your fix.
A similar scenario plays out day after day as mobile users refer to their devices for local information – information that will help them navigate their immediate environment and solve their real-time needs and wants.
It’s not surprising, then, to read of recent data from Microsoft that shows over half (53%) of mobile searches on Bing have a local intent.
Hence the development of ads that, quite literally, guide consumers from “search to store”. Such ads, including Google’s Expandable Map ads, appear both on the mobile web and in apps and, when clicked, provide the user with directions to a store.
“Mobile user demand for information that can be acted on in the real world, in real-time is, well, very real,” writes Search Engine Land’s Greg Sterling, who uncovered the data in a recent chat with Bing’s Director of Search, Stefan Weitz.
“That’s what this Microsoft stat reflects. If that’s not an argument for mobile advertising in general and mobile search in particular, I don’t know what is.”
Read the rest of the story…
Chrome is up in the air, in the clouds, literally
We are reaching out in a grass roots effort to help communities of minority-owned small businesses around the country to build an online presence with free & low cost resources
- A look inside our 2011 diversity report May 18, 2012We work hard to ensure that our commitment to diversity is built into everything we do—from hiring our employees and building our company culture to running our business and developing our products, tools and services. To recap our diversity efforts in 2011, a year in which we partnered with and donated $19 million to more than 150 organizations working on a […]
- Helping students fish for a better future in the land of 10,000 lakes May 17, 2012Minnesota has long been a state that’s prided itself on its commitment to education. Now the state has taken on the mission of becoming a technology hub as well, setting the goal to become one of the country’s top five technology states by 2020. Last week, we travelled to Minnesota to pilot two new programs designed to help students with an interest in techn […]
- Shiver me timbers, the 2012 D4G Winner is.... May 17, 2012After 114,000 submissions and millions of your votes, second grader Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisc. is this year’s U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner. His doodle “Pirate Times” will be featured on the U.S. Google homepage tomorrow, May 18. Hoffman, who attends the Prairie School in Racine, Wisc., responded to this year’s theme “If I could travel in time […]
- Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings May 16, 2012Cross-posted on the Inside Search Blog Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. Take a query like [taj mahal]. For more th […]