Mobile Marketing Trends and Small Businesses


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Learn to build breakthrough strategies for mobile marketing Be a leader in the mobile marketing world! Mobile Marketing trends and small businesses. We all as customers buy products and services that are made available by different businesses. But have you ever wondered what compels us to buy these products and services? Is it just the product or the service? Or is there something else that tells us to buy the product? Well, you guessed it right. The underlying secret that compels us to buy a specific product or service is marketing. We do not necessarily want to buy a product or service but get so influenced by the way it is marketed that we end up making the purchase. So, it is basically the marketing techniques used in a marketing campaign that make it successful. There are several marketing techniques which are followed by all sorts of businesses these days. We have put across a compilation that gives you an idea about mobile marketing. Mobile marketing is a fairly new concept in marketing and the e-book presented before you gives you a clear idea of what it entails. Here are a few chapters from the e-book "Mobile Marketing trends and small businesses". Understand mobile commerce Mobile Marketing goes mainstream- Instigation of mobile marketing Mobile Marketing reach Affordability and effectiveness of text message marketing How does it benefit small businesses to go mobile friendly?




Digital and Social Media Marketing


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This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such as electronic word of mouth (eWOM), demographic differences in digital marketing, mobile marketing, search engine advertising, among others. A radical increase in both temporal and geographical reach is empowering consumers to exert influence on brands, products, and services. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and digital media are having a significant impact on the way people communicate and fulfil their socio-economic, emotional and material needs. These technologies are also being harnessed by businesses for various purposes including distribution and selling of goods, retailing of consumer services, customer relationship management, and influencing consumer behaviour by employing digital marketing practices. This book considers this, as it examines the practice and research related to digital and social media marketing.




Digital Marketing Excellence


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Now in its sixth edition, the hugely popular Digital Marketing Excellence is a practical guide to creating and executing integrated digital marketing plans, combining established approaches to marketing planning with the creative use of new digital models and digital tools. Written by two highly experienced digital marketing consultants, the book shows you how to: Draw up an outline integrated digital marketing plan Evaluate and apply digital marketing principles and models Integrate online and offline communications Implement customer-driven digital marketing as part of digital transformation Reduce costly trial and error Measure and enhance your digital marketing Learn best practices for reaching and engaging your audiences using the key digital marketing platforms. This new edition has been streamlined to seamlessly integrate the latest developments in digital analytics, ethics and privacy, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Including new international case studies and up-to-date examples throughout, this book cuts through the jargon to show marketers how to leverage data and digital technologies to their advantage. Offering a highly structured and accessible guide to a critical and far-reaching subject, Digital Marketing Excellence, 6th edition, provides a vital reference point for all digital marketing students, and managers involved in digital marketing strategy and implementation. Online resources have been fully updated for the new edition and include a new set of PowerPoint slides and a full test bank of questions and exercises.




Visual Marketing


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Effective creative strategies and campaigns for business owners or marketers Whether it's on the Web, in a book, or live in-person, the most effective solutions are those that unexpectedly grab our attention. David Langton and Anita Campbell identify eye-catching and thought-provoking marketing and PR tips, ideas, and creative "stunts." This compendium of winning ideas will inspire small business leaders, creative professionals, and students. Award-winning visual communication designer David Langton has worked for a range of businesses from Fortune 500 leaders to small businesses. Anita Campbell, an internationally known small business expert, reaches over 2 million small business owners and stakeholders annually. Through case studies, photos, and illustrations, Visual Marketing displays creative marketing campaigns that brought attention to small businesses in unique, compelling, and unexpected ways. Online visual marketing solutions may include apps, interactive games tools and modules; infographics; HTML emails / e-newsletters; widgets; YouTube videos; flash animation; social networking campaigns; websites, weblets, mini-sites; blogs; podcasts / MP3s; projected signage; PowerPoint / keynote presentations In print solutions may include brochures, flyers; annual reports; books; direct mail, post cards; newsletters; invitations; letters; press releases; infographics On-site, giveaways, exhibit, and tradeshow solutions may include live events and performances; signs; billboards; exhibits; banners; tent cards; posters; plasmas screens; kiosks; giveaways: tchotchkes, t-shirts, tote bags, etc.; floor graphics/vinyl graphic wraps With Visual Marketing, you'll discover 99 powerful strategies for capturing the attention of your potential customers.




Disruptive Marketing


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With 75 percent of screen time being spent on connected devices, digital strategies have moved front and center of marketing plans. Getting a message through to customers, and not just in front of them for a second before being thrown away, requires radical rethinking. What if that’s not enough? How often does consumer engagement go further than the “like” button? With the average American receiving close to 50 phone notifications a day, do the company messages get read or just tossed aside? The reality is that technology hasn’t just reshaped mass media; it’s altering behavior as well. Disruptive Marketing challenges you to toss the linear plan, strip away conventions, and open your mind as it takes you on a provocative, fast-paced tour of our changing world, where you’ll find that: Selling is dead, but ongoing conversation thrives Consumers generate the best content about brand People tune out noise and listen to feelings Curiosity leads the marketing team Growth depends on merging analytics with boundless creativity Packed with trends, predictions, interviews with big-think marketers, and stories from a career spent pushing boundaries, Disruptive Marketing is the solution you’ve been looking for to boost your brand into new territory!




Introduction to Business


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Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond. This is an adaptation of Introduction to Business by OpenStax. You can access the textbook as pdf for free at openstax.org. Minor editorial changes were made to ensure a better ebook reading experience. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.




What If It Does Work Out?


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Transform your hobby or talent into a side hustle that will provide you with inspiration, fulfillment, and a fortune. This book is the energetic motivational injection to help you overcome your fears and doubts.




QR Codes & Mobile Marketing for the Small Business Owner


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This is a very timely book that shows merchants the importance of building a data base of their current customers in order to take advantage of the explosive growth of mobile marketing and QR Codes. This book is designed for the store owner who is trying to understand the basics of Mobile Marketing, as well as figure out the best way to implement a Mobile Marketing strategy for their business.The author shows the business owner how to build their customer data base by providing the tools and training that allows business owners (many for the first time) collect their customers' personally identifiable information (email and SMS text numbers) so that they can later market to these existing customers with content rich emails and SMS texts that offer coupons and discounts for products and services. Throughout the book, the author gently prods the reader to use their smart phone technology to scan QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) embedded within the book to read articles on various websites, read portions of other books on Amazon.com, watch movies on YouTube, and read research reports on the explosive growth of mobile marketing.This book does an excellent job explaining the changes in marketing methods that will allow the merchants the opportunity to create additional profits by marketing to their existing customer base in a way that they have not been able to do so before. The QR Code technology is easy to use and implement. The author explains how to build this marketing infrastructure for the do-it-yourself business owners, and also shows the reader how to use his website (http://www.mobilemarketingqrcodes.com) to create the entire infrastructure within an hour. This book is a must read for any small business owner who is looking for more ways to drive foot traffic through the front door and add to the bottom line.




Marketing in a Digital World


Book Description

Marketing in a Digital World consists of nine essays on how the digital revolution has affected marketing theory and practice. Leading marketing scholars, including several editors of premier academic journals, provide fresh insights for both scholars and managers seeking to enhance their understanding of marketing in a digital world.




Mobile Marketing Essentials


Book Description

A digital textbook on the subject of Mobile Marketing. Written and updated by Michael Becker, Paul Berney, Michael Hanley and Mary Beth McCabe. Brought to you by Stukent Inc.