Mobile marketing is gaining pace as the must-do marketing for local businesses.

Here are just a few reasons why you need to look at MOBILE MARKETING for your business:

• Consumers are using their mobile devices to access the Internet more than ever before – and it’s expected to grow at astonishing rates over the next 12 months and beyond.
• There are approximately 4 BILLION mobile subscribers across the world.
• Most mobile device users keep their phones within arm’s reach over 90 percent of waking hours.
• Nielsen predicts that smart phones will account for nearly half of worldwide mobile sales by 2013. This is a clear indication of how much more the Internet will be accessed via mobile devices.
• Americans today are spending an average of three hours per day on the Internet from their mobile devices.
• Over the past few years, the shipment of mobile handsets has grown 16% annually – reaching 400 million sold in the last quarter of 2010. Mobile device companies sold a total of 1.39 billion units in 2010.
• Approximately 30% of U.S. mobile phone users have a smartphone according to Nielson. This number is expected to grow to approximately 43% by 2015 according to eMarketer.
• In 2009, approximately half a BILLION people went online using their mobile device. This number is expected to double within the next 5 years.
• By 2014, mobile Internet usage is expected to exceed desktop Internet usage.
• According to Nielson, 70% of mobile users plan to upgrade to 4G service within the next year so they can have faster Internet speed while using their mobile devices.
• According to founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, customers around the world have ordered more than $1 BILLION U.S. dollars from Amazon.com using a mobile device.
• Gartner also predicts that by 2014, more people will access the internet from their mobile devices than from their PC desktops.
• According to Facebook official statistics from January 2011, more than 200 million users (out of over 600 million Facebook users) access Facebook using their mobile devices; also, mobile Facebook users are twice as active as non-mobile users.
• More than 200 million YouTube views occur on mobile devices every day.
• 86% of mobile Internet usage happens while the users are watching TV.
• Mobile marketing methods have proven to be effective in acquiring new customers, providing service to existing customers, and driving repeat business through relationship-building.
• When combined with other marketing methods, mobile marketing has proven to increase conversion rates.
• Studies show that as time goes on, people will prefer to deal with technology over human interaction.

… and the trends show that in next to no time nearly EVERYONE will use mobile devices as their PRIMARY source of local business information!

In the meantime, here are some of our popular mobile marketing services:

• Custom Apps – Yes your business can have its very own smart phone app!
• QR Codes – If you don’t know what these are, I guarantee you will do soon. They will be EVERYWHERE within the next 2 years! And you can use them to increase your profits dramatically!
• SMS Campaigns – people open and read emails, sure. But only about 10% of the emails sent actually get read. With SMS, the read rate is around 95%!
• mCommerce - Let people buy your products or services on their mobile devices!
• Mobile Sites – Have you taken a look at your website on a mobile? How does it look? We can create mobile ready websites to ensure your business gets the very best response from mobile based visitors.
• Mobile optimisation – You’ll have received lots of calls from people offering to optimise your website for the search engines, but do they really know the best ways to optimise your site for mobile?
• Mobile Social – At any given time, 46% of people on social networking sites are accessing it through a mobile device! You NEED to be using mobile based offers in your social media marketing!

So, stay one step ahead of the competition and contact us now to find out what we can do for you.