Small business owners throughout the United States can no longer ignore mobile marketing. Internet giants Google and Apple recently purchase mobile advertising companies paying upwards of $750,000,000.
Google feels this is the most thorough and cost-effective tool for the distribution of your advertising messages, key financial alerts or church notices to smartphones, cell phones, connected mobile devices, desktops, laptops, netbooks, and iPads.
Although many feel that mobile marketing using this newer concept of SMS text messaging may not be all that flashy, it definitely provides a direct, one-on-one way of communicating between the consumer and seller as well as members and their church.
Another great reason to add SMS marketing and SMS text messages to your advertising budget is that it can make your print ads, online advertising and video marketing much more profitable. This is due to the fact that texting has a much higher response rate compared to e-mails.
One of the reasons for these high response rates is that texting is a real opt-in marketing channel which means the consumer actively seeks out information and then signs up for updates on the product or service they are interested in.
But what is truly amazing is that business owners who utilize SMS marketing by sending text messages are getting a monetary return of 13 to 41 percent in profits.
Those profit surges may sound unbelievable but they are indeed real since close to 90 percent of all SMS text messages are read by the consumer usually within minutes of receiving the alert. Overall, close to 99 percent of texting will be read within a couple of hours.
Of course, the smart business owner will jump on this proven marketing tool that communicates directly with the end user or customer. There will be those who will not utilize this advertising media but will in the end lose profits to their competitor as the selling venue is changing thanks to technology.
The small business owner in this country no longer has to have a large advertising budget to use this newer type of marketing venue. A company called KWIKTEXT offers a sophisticated but easy to use platform for less than 27 cents per day.
This low cost of utilizing SMS text messages (27 cents per day) is an incredible value for the small business owner considering the fact that approximately 52,000 text messages are sent every second of the day.
There are other facets of this marketing platform that will help you build your business. Take for example the automatic advertising it does for you via mobile website and apps. Plus many SMS marketing services will actually build you a database of excited buyers.
Successful companies are already using this marketing service and have been for years. You’ve probably heard of some of these companies like Target, McDonalds, JC Penny, Coca-Cola and American Idol who helped started this communication craze. Companies like KWIKTEXT can help you get started and best of all, do so inexpensively.
This works as an effective way of driving target traffic to your real website. Mobile Marketing Advertising Regular print and television can take months and costs thousands of dollars, maybe more. Mobile marketing is replacing traditional marketing tactics when it comes to reaching out to a target base directly.
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