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Mobile marketing- easy means of promotion

08/07/2009 15:47

 

These days almost everyone uses a mobile phone as it has become the necessity of one's life. One doesn't only talk with others but performs various other functions on a mobile as well. Some of which are chatting, clicking pictures, sending emails, watching videos, playing games and downloading various data from the internet. Not only this, mobile phones can be used as an effective way of promotion as well.

The process of promoting a brand, product or a service through internet is known as Mobile Marketing. Ever since the SMS (short messaging service) culture has started, marketing on mobile phone has become more and more popular. Over the past years, mobile has become a very popular channel of promotion. Earlier people use to market products via e-mails but, internet users has set guidelines to avoid the unwanted mails as there are a lot of scams over internet that keeps irritating people. But, Mobile Marketing is comparatively a safer means of promotion and it also covers a large number of audiences. Marketing a product through SMS has expanded rapidly in Europe and Asia and has become one of the best means of reaching the audience. There are several 100 million advertising SMS sent out every month in Europe alone and several millions in other regions too. The advertisers contact a certain service provider who forwards their advertising messages to their customers.

Not only SMS's, one can also take the help of MMS (Multimedia messaging service) to promote a brand. These messages contain a timed slideshows of images, texts, visuals and audios. Nearly all latest mobile phones with colored screen are compatible of receiving the MMS, s. It becomes easy to explain a consumer about the theme and message if it's delivered via MMS because of the audio and visual elements present in it. There are more even more ways to promote a product via mobile phones, which is known as in- game marketing. Mobile users play various online games by connecting their mobile device through internet. The advertisers have found a very effective way of promoting their brands there as well.

You can also check the web sites online, that provides the Web, Mobile internet and SMS commerce solutions. Video Streaming and E Commerce solutions from MPP Global can be very effective in providing expertise, products and solutions in this exciting era of communications and ecommerce.

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