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Five reasons your SMS campaign isn’t working

Marketers everywhere are shouting the praises of text message marketing. If you own a small business, most likely you’ve heard all the hype surrounding SMS. If you’ve taken the leap to go mobile but aren’t experiencing the success you were promised, you might be tempted to forget about mobile altogether. You may want to consider, …

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Business texting after holiday sales

Every business will hit a slow patch the week between Christmas and New Years. If anyone does show up to your store, it will either end in you losing money due to a return or breaking even because the item was returned and a new one was purchased. Few people run out and do a …

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Wrapping it up: Best smartphones of 2013

I know you were all wondering what the best smartphones of 2013 would be. Well, the good news is that smartphones in general actually did really well in 2013. We’ll take a look at smartphones this year, how they changed, and which ones were successful on a global level. Start with the iPhone We have …

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Nothing in life comes free: Windows Phone

Every company tries to get you hooked on their new products by offering free trials, free products, and anything else free you might need to get started. However, this isn’t always the best thing ever. In fact, free is often not free at all. That is something many Windows Phone users might quickly discover with …

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Understanding the hashtag

  The humble hashtag is perhaps the most misused and misunderstood social media tool. If you have any social media account, chances are you’ve seen the hashtag abused in a hundred different ways. Its repeated misuse has led many to believe that the hashtag has no purpose. In actuality, that one little symbol holds great …

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Reported losses for BlackBerry smartphones

It is that time of year again. While everyone is out celebrating the holidays, having fun, and giving each other gifts, companies have had to stop and calculate how they are doing. This can be really good news or really bad news since you have either succeeded your company goals or are lagging behind. If …

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Business texting: A new idea

What is business texting? It is a way for you to quickly and easily communicate with your customers to develop a trusting relationship. One of the biggest trends in marketing will be developing relationships. Every generation is different, so every year there are new ways to market to the young kids just barely turning 18 …

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Turning mobile into everything you want

One of the biggest frustrations in life is making a purchase knowing you can’t get everything you want. If you buy a phone with better storage, it may have a terrible camera. You can’t get that extra pass through fireplace in the new house. We are constantly making compromises with the things we buy because, …

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Mobile marketing myths exposed

If you want to know which aspects of an industry are trending, simply follow the money. Consider that mobile marketing budgets have increased by 142% since 2011. It’s safe to say that mobile marketing is a trend to watch. But with all the hype, there have been a number of misconceptions that have misled many …

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Top ways to use mobile marketing

There are a ton of different ways you can use mobile marketing to benefit your company and bring in more business. You can use it on current customers or you can use mobile marketing to bring in new customers. How, though, can you make the most of all your mobile marketing opportunities? Here are a …

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Business texting essential in 2014

Right now is the perfect time for your company to re-evaluate marketing strategies. Take a deep breath and look at the numbers. What did you do this year? Did it help? How much? What can you do better next year? Make sure you are looking year over year to get the full impact. Well, the …

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Sprint/T-Mobile Merger: Good or Bad?

There is a Sprint/T-Mobile Merger in the making, and there’s a few things we need to ask ourselves first. As consumers, is this going to be a good thing or a bad thing? For the companies, mixing a couple of the weaker links should, in theory, add up to a much stronger company, but that …

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Marketing your mobile app

Between Apple’s App store and Google Play, there are approximately 1.7 million apps. Of those, very few will achieve popularity and success. The reason? Most app developers aren’t able to combine a great product with a great marketing strategy. The first is obvious, if your app isn’t of high quality, nothing else matters. But even …

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New iPhone concepts from fans

Apple fans are some of the most crazed ones out there, and they have been working hard coming up with new iPhone designs. It’s pretty convenient for Apple that hasn’t been able to come up with a good redesign since Steve Jobs died. In fact, Apple should probably consider doing some sort of competition to …

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Five location-based marketing tips

Every day, smartphones transmit billions of location data bits. Never before have local business owners had such a golden opportunity. With the right mobile marketing strategy, local businesses can profit from the ability to use their customer’s smartphone location data. Here are a few tips local business owners can follow to use location data to …

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Make your text marketing campaign better

Small business owners are all about starting marketing techniques that could really bring in the big bucks. But that’s all they can manage to do sometimes. Actually managing all of the new marketing can be much more challenging. How many business Facebook or Twitter accounts have you seen that haven’t been updated in a couple …

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Picking a smartphone: the best voice possible

When you decide which smartphone to buy, there are probably a lot of personal factors that go into it. You have to decide what is right for you based on your current personal needs and personal income. Of all these factors, though, how many of you have considered getting a phone based solely on the …

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Switching from Android to iPhone

We’ve heard a lot lately from Google’s Eric Schmidt suggesting everyone who owns an iPhone switch over to an Android. He keeps saying it is the better phone and that everyone needs to switch, and he even created a how-to guide for moving everything over. His wisdom was helpful for those who decided to make …

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Mobile carriers working overtime to keep customers

We have gotten to a point in our society where everyone has a cell phone and nearly everyone with a cell phone has a smartphone. That means that marketing for the mobile carriers has gotten much more intense. No longer are they focused on getting new customers and showing the world how important it is …

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Text messaging: The key to mobile marketing

Every business needs to focus on mobile efforts if they are going to succeed with marketing, but have you worked on text messaging yet? It is sort of a hidden gem in the marketing world that most companies have yet to capitalize on. and that means you can be the first, giving you a huge …

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