subject: Mobile Marketing - A Growing Trend [print this page] Mobile phones have become a necessity these days. Many people cannot live without mobile phones due to the fact that these phones help them in daily transactions and businesses. Mobile marketing is a good alternative to other marketing strategies available to promote business, products or services. This kind of marketing is not acceptable to some parts of the world due to spamming, although there are some who believes in this kind of marketing since it is cheaper and more targeted.
Since many issues came out, guidelines were set in order to provide a system or order for mobile marketing but until this day the process of mobile marketing is still questionable for some. There are many who believe in the potential of mobile marketing but there are also some who say that it does not stand a chance at all. There are always two sides of the story.
There are various forms of mobile marketing. It can be through SMS, MMS, Bluetooth, and Infrared, Sound, web marketing and many others. By the use of mobile marketing, consumers will be able to get alerts about offers, promos and services from companies who are using this kind of marketing.
The Do not call list are for those consumers who like to stop the messages from disturbing them and their privacy. Many use this service to put a stop to spammers who keeps on flooding them with messages. Freebies are available for those who have subscribed to alerts. You have the option to reply to these messages, take action and provide satisfaction to those who sent you out the messages or you can simply ignore, delete and put a halt to the messages being sent.
Although security issues, spamming as well as privacy issue continues to haunt mobile marketing, it cannot be denied that it is indeed a growing trend in the world today most especially in business. If you want to try mobile marketing, try to get a good grasp of it first then proceed.
