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Top smartphone accessories for Christmas gifts

Have you been having trouble figuring out what gifts to buy for that special someone this year? There are a million things they may love, but the best thing might be mobile accessories or a new phone. With smartphones becoming our lifelines, smartphone accessories work for everyone. If it is someone close to you that …

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Text messaging the key to success for any mobile marketing campaign

There are tons of ways to do mobile marketing. When you mix and match all the different strategies, the number of possible combinations is endless. But one mobile marketing strategy that should have a place in every mobile marketing campaign is text message marketing. It’s flexible enough to be useful no matter what your mobile …

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Three mobile marketing fails (and how to avoid them)

In 2011, mobile accounted for just 6% of all web traffic. Just two years later, that number has jumped to about 25%. There are now an estimated 4 billion mobile phones in the world, and over a billion of those are smartphones, capable of accessing the internet from virtually anywhere. And with 50% of all …

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Get your curvy smartphones now in Asia

All of us Americans sure wish we lived in Asia right now. More specifically, we want to be in Singapore or Hong Kong where the LG flexible and curved smartphone, the LG G Flex, is going to be available starting this week. America is going to have to wait until sometime next year, probably, but …

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Apple trading well after expansion plans

Apple is one of the most popular brands out there when it comes to electronics. They pretty much dominate the world of tablet and MP3 technology. The iPad, iPhone, and iPod are on every street corner along with Apple computers. But how is Apple doing on the stock market considering it hasn’t produced a lot …

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How much did mobile marketing efforts work?

Many businesses have been focusing their marketing efforts on SMS and mobile. The mobile marketing efforts have taken a lot of time and money, and a lot of focus has been taken from other marketing efforts. The real question, though, is whether or not these mobile marketing efforts actually worked. One good way to test …

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Making a personal connection through text advertising

Jolla is a start-up Finnish phone maker that just released its first phone ever, the Jolla. Though a small start-up of only about 80 employees, the company is already seeing a lot of success and quite a bit of interest in their product. Since most start-up companies fail pretty fast, especially in the phone manufacturing …

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Cyber Monday text reminders

One of the best ways for your business to get sales, especially when trying to compete with large retailers, is to send text reminders to your customers. Most of the time, your customers do want to come back and buy more stuff, especially if there is a sale or if they are trying to prepare …

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Optimize your website for mobile

If you’re a smartphone owner, chances are you’ve had an online shopping experience like this one. You’re on the hunt for the perfect Christmas gift when you come across a promising website. Unfortunately, you can hardly see the text or the images on your tiny screen. You are constantly trying to pinch and zoom just …

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Last-minute text message marketing for Black Friday

Black Friday is tomorrow, and you may have missed the boat on Black Friday sales. Or you thought you did. But it isn’t too late! You can get started right now with text message marketing, and it will help you sell even more in the next few weeks until the holidays are finished. You will …

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Transitioning to mobile SEO

It’s finally happened; more than 50% of US adults now have a smartphone. According to the Pew Research Center, the exact figure is 56% up from 35% just two years ago. As the number of smartphone users continues to increase dramatically, more and more business owners are looking to take their business mobile. Remember, if …

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Switching to Android: Google’s own advice

A lot of people have realized that there is a lot of options out there for smartphones and have started looking around. You would think that iPhone users would be pretty loyal and keep getting iPhones when they upgrade, but that isn’t really the case anymore. People want new toys, which means having the latest …

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High value of smartphone browsing

Marketing is tricky because it means figuring out which tactics are more or less valuable than others. You may spend thousands of dollars just to find out your target audience doesn’t care about that method of marketing. The way to battle this is through studies that show us exactly how effective and valuable smartphones are …

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3D sensors: What could this mean for Apple?

After all the harping on Apple for lack of innovation, it seems the company has finally started to get the message and make some changes. This could be good news for a lot of loyal Apple buyers and bad news for a lot of Android and Windows phone buyers. iOS may be coming back, and …

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More businesses using text marketing

This holiday season, as I’ve been doing my Christmas shopping, I’ve noticed that there have been more and more businesses trying to get my phone number. They want to start sending me texts. And guess what. It actually works! Almost every business that asks for my number so they can send me deals gets it! …

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MMS gaining popularity among mobile marketers

Mobile advertising comes in all shapes and sizes. When most business owners think about taking their business mobile, they’re thinking about a mobile friendly website or banner ads. But the real power of mobile marketing rests in the text message. Text message marketing, or SMS marketing, is the powerhouse when it comes to mobile marketing. …

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Things you should know about text message marketing

These days, people have come to rely heavily on their mobile devices, so heavily in fact that there is now a name for the fear of being without a mobile phone contract, nomophobia. The term was coined in a British study that found that 53% of people experienced anxiety when they lost their phone, had …

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Mobile marketing success requires analytics

If you’re new to the mobile marketing game, you may not have heard of mobile analytics. Simply put, the term “mobile analytics” refers to the testing of various mobile marketing strategies to determine their effectiveness. As more and more people in America buy smartphones, becoming mobile friendly has become a top priority for many business …

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Mobile marketing tips for the holidays

If you’re a business owner, chances are you’re already thinking about your marketing strategy for the upcoming holiday season. For most businesses, the holidays are the busiest time of the year. It’s when shoppers are out in full force trying to purchase all the presents. From Black Friday and Cyber Monday to the day before …

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Galaxy Gear: How many have you seen?

The Galaxy Gear was a new invention, and people were very excited about it. They were ready to get it and take it home to show off. The real question was, however, how many people were really going to fork out the cash to buy the new Galaxy Note 3 and the new smartwatch together. …

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