We will describe powerful mobile marketing methods you can implement in just a few minutes. We will investigate what the industry and the technology allow us to do today, how to persuade people to sign up for your service, and which file formats to use when you deliver your Content. We will also take a sneak peek at what will happen with mobile marketing shortly.

Practical Mobile Marketing

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The hands-on experience is based on solving marketing problems with the Help of InfoNU (www.infonu.com). InfoNU is a free web-based mobile mass communication platform that supports the latest trends in mobile marketing. With InfoNU, you can:

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• Send SMS messages such as personalized alerts and mobile coupons.
• Push mobile Content like banners, mp3 songs, ringtones, video clips, visiting cards, and Java games.
• Push links to mobile websites
• Create and schedule mobile campaigns
• Sign up and manage consumers
• Get your icon next to the address book and calendar to publish mobile Content without the cost.

View statistics on how users receive mobile marketing efforts.

As in all sectors in explosive growth, bright people gravitate towards mobile marketing, create start-up companies, offer solutions, and create a big creative mess full of definitions, standards, ideas, and solutions. This article series is the author’s attempt to untangle the web of technologies into easy-to-use patterns you can use in your everyday marketing of your brand, company, products, and services. The second part of this article is planned. In Part 2, we will look at advanced concepts in mobile marketing, like tailor-made mobile applications and mobile community services.

Permission Marketing and What Mobile Marketing Is NOT

A mobile phone is a highly personal communication device. Mobile marketing is not about spamming uninterested people with irrelevant SMS messages at 2:00 am. Marketers have to respect this. Never send messages to someone without their permission. Sending unsolicited SMS messages to people is not good marketing. Aside from the ethical aspect of spam, it does not work and costs you a lot of money. Please do not do it.

Marketing activities that depend on the consumer’s permission are referred to as permission marketing and are central to mobile marketing. Embrace permission marketing and protect your list of consumers. It is the people who have permitted you to speak.

The Mobile Marketing Dance

Instead of sending unsolicited SMS messages, the trick in mobile marketing is to persuade people to sign up for your service and then find a balance between providing sales-driving information and offering value so that your customers are informed and happy.

How to Persuade People to Sign Up for Your Service

What can you offer that makes your consumers accept the commercial side of your company? Here are a few suggestions: In other words, Send something back as a Thank you for signing up. Give your new user something for free. Give your new user the possibility to win something nice. At least a thank you SMS.

To configure InfoNU so that you automatically send something back when new consumers sign up for your service, log on to your InfoNU account, select Settings in the Intranet Home menu followed by SMS Signup settings, click on Details for your code word and enable Respond automatically with an SMS message. You can send back an SMS message, mobile Content like images, video, music, a link to your mobile website, or a Java application.

To integrate your website with InfoNU, as in the fifth example above, select Help in the Intranet Home menu, Integrate InfoNU, and click Generate Link.

File Formats to Use when Distributing Mobile Content

Since virtually all mobile phones support SMS messaging, sending SMS messages is the simplest and most reliable way to reach mobiles. SMS message areas, we all know, are limited to 160 characters but can contain links to mobile Content. Not all mobile phones support the same media formats. If you have no apriori knowledge about your consumer’s phones but still want to reach the biggest possible audience, use the following file formats:

Media, File Format, File Extension

• Images, Portable network graphics, .png
• Sound, MP3 songs, .mp3
• Video, 3GPP video 3gp
• Ringtones Midi music .mid

This list of file formats comes from analyzing mobile phones produced by the biggest manufacturers and ranking them based on how ordinary each phone is in practice.

Three other interesting file formats can be used for more specialized tasks:

Media, File Format, File Extension

• Visiting cards and address book entries, card, .vcf
• Calendar entries, card, .vcs
• Java games, Java application descriptor files, .jad

Distributing links to mobile Content with InfoNU is performed the same way regardless of the file format: You log on to your InfoNU account, select Uploads, and upload the Content from your PC to your InfoNU account. To distribute the Content to a single person, click that person’s Communicate Link. Make sure that Upload is selected as Tthe type of Content.

If you want to send an SMS message to many people, create a campaign by clicking on Campaigns in the Intranet Home menu, followed by the New Campaign. With InfoNU, you can also schedule campaigns for a specific date and time. Go to Campaigns and click Schedule Campaign to define tyour campaign’s start date.