subject: Text Messaging For Money [print this page] Mobile marketing is the new age of advertising. As everyone who has ever done any advertising can tell you, it can be expensive especially if no one see it or reads it. At that point it is just money down the drain. This article will show you how the information age is driving businesses to find different ways to draw in customers.
1.Typical advertising consists of 4 main medias. Radio, newsprint, television and internet. As you may imagine radio and television are the two most expensive but grab a lot of potential customers. The internet is complicated to set up and your not sure if you are reaching your target market or not. Lastly there is news print which only gets seen by a few and out of those few is only being read by even fewer.
2.Mobile marketing and advertising is the new age of marketing. How many people do you think read every single advertisement that hits their email inbox? Not very many right. The first thing they do when they open their inbox is delete all of the advertisements so they can get to the mails they really want to look at. So would you agree that email blast are not as effective as the people that are paying for them would hope for? Ok now think about your cell phone for a minute. Everyone from 8 years old to 80 years old has a cell phone in his or her hand 90% of the time right. How many times do you get a text message and you immediately open it to see who it is from and what it says. If you said over 90% of the time you would be right. For advertisers this is an untapped resource they can use to get their customers message out fast and with a high return rate on their investment.
3.Text Messaging for Money should be a part of every mobile marketers bag of tricks. It should also be part of every business owners marketing strategy. Think for a minute about restaurants in your area that want to increase their lunchtime traffic. What would it do to a restaurants business if a mobile marketer sent out 2000 text messages at noon that simply said This message is good today for %20 off your lunch bill at Joes dinner at 110 NW 70th street. While people are trying to figure out where to eat lunch they get this message. Everyone is going to automatically out of reflex open it to see what it is right. Do you think Joes dinner is going to be flooded with customers at lunch? Probably so! Do you think Joe is going to be more than happy to write an advertising check to his mobile marketer? Most definitely.
All you need to do to cash in on this untapped mobile marketing strategy is to find out how it works and start implementing it as a mobile marketer. For more information on how to get started mobile marketing and advertising visit this site: http://tinyurl.com/textmessagingformoney
