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Digital marketing needs continuous update. To sustain in this market, you need to channelize your business in complete digitalization. The main thing is to create an impression by launching an audio visual in the social networking site. Follow buzz marketing techniques to make it viral. Live streaming is the best way to gain market importance. With the rise of relationship marketing, there will be a rise in the cost of digital marketing. Marketing automation and virtual reality are the key process to enhance digital marketing. Moreover location search is gaining popularity than online presence.

To read, follow: http://www.forbes.com/sites/miketempleman/2016/03/08/your-guide-to-mobile-digital-marketing/#1de28212523c

It's no more difficult to shop at a new place with Location Based Marketing. We often look for the unique and best products, when we visit a new place. A common practice is to inquire about the best deals, with the people around who are aware of the new place. But with everything becoming techy we have Location Based Marketing to rescue. It integrates mobile marketing with location based services. The motive behind this is to make mobile users aware of your presence, while they are in the areas nearby. Most relevant display ads as per user's location are sent. Their interest can be pulled by either providing some discounts or some other perks. This benefit both the user as well as the business. Read more about it in an article written by Jack Simpson (a Writer at Econsultancy) at: https://econsultancy.com/blog/67418-what-is-location-based-advertising-why-is-it-the-next-big-thing/

Mobile Marketing is the use of the mobile medium as a means of marketing. According to a report, the IoT device market will double the size of smartphone, PC, tablet, connected car, and wearable devices combined by 2019. The Internet of Things provides a network of physical objects or things embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, thus enabling collection and exchange of data. To know more about how it can hit the target mobile marketing, follow the article written by Arun Bhattacharya (author) at: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/mobile/how-to-add-wearable-devices-to-your-mobile-marketing-strategy/

Mobile is a much more personal, interactive, engaged platform than desktop, and should be used as such. - By Ari Brandt (CEO and co-founder of MediaBrix). In this competitive era, if a company won’t recognize the opportunity first, a chance of losing the games increases. And mobile phone is one of the biggest opportunities to maintain a close relationship with your customers. But most of the ad companies are failing to recognize the demands, challenges and opportunities of mobile phones. Rule to crack the opportunity of mobile phones:
• Leave old ad methods behind.
• Take advantage of unique mobile capabilities.
• Put the customers first.
• Leverage new measures of campaign success.
Read more at: http://mashable.com/2015/06/11/mobile-marketing-innovation/

With increasing use of smart phones in today's life, most of the viewers are using smart phones for research and buying online. This is the biggest opportunity to the companies. Mobile is not just an e-commerce channel, but it can be used for building relationship with your customers. Brian Rigney (CEO at Zmags) in his article “Maximize Marketing Reach: A Glance at the Customer Is All You Get” at marketingland.com, discussed about four simple steps to deliver rich and creative campaigns at the right place and says, “52 percent of Web traffic to retail websites globally currently comes via smartphones and tablet devices.”  Steps are:
• Think for omni-channel and use holistic approach.
• Develop sites, offers and experiences in different ways to serve different channels.
• Create, adjust and preview the sites.
• Tap the knowledge base to understand what works for your organization.
To know more about these steps, follow this link: http://marketingland.com/reach-glance-get-often-small-window-130011

Millennials are the young adult between the age group of 18-34 years and according to reports total buying power will fetch $1.3trillion annually.  Millennials are diverse in terms of attitude, behavior and language, due to which marketers are facing problem in targeting them. According to Sujan Patel (Entrepreneur and Marketer, VP of Marketing at When I Work), there are some common characteristics shared by all of them. He discussed some tips on targeting millennials, they are:
• You should have an attractive mobile marketing
• Target social groups, instead of life stages
• Be relevant and engaging
To know more about these tips, please follow this link: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246199

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is a type of e-commerce conducted through mobile devices such as mobile phones and other mobile devices with a wireless connection - including smart phones (iPhones, Google Android), tablets (iPad, Amazon Kindle) and notebooks. M-Commerce also brings new opportunities for selling online, and mobile marketing can be used to extend online reach. Four things a company must consider while developing m-commerce marketing strategy are:

·         Reach: Tap into the uniqueness of mobile-first consumers.

·         Curate: Trigger impulse purchases through well-crafted offers.

·         Entertain: Make shopping fun and easy, not just cheap.

·         Lock in: Capture the loyalty of mobile shoppers early.

Read more at: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/consumer_and_retail/learning_from_south_koreas_mobile-retailing_boom

Consumers these days are using social media for communications. Mention of brand names is done in huge numbers among which 76 percent mentions were neutral, 17.6 percent were positive and 5.8 percent were negative. . Majority of the neutral mentions comprises of queries about the company’s process and products.

Apart from increasing engagement, building brand awareness and marketing this study has been found to play a major role in customer service.  The names of companies are mentioned on social media more on weekdays than on weekends. Moreover most posts are mentioned in English followed by French and Spanish. Thus social media is a tool for global communication and social mentions increases exposure. Read more at:http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/social-media-equals-modern-day-customer-service-43281/

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People are constantly checking their email and social sites from their mobile phones. This blog talks about a few instructions on creation of victorious copy for mobile marketing operation.1) Mobile Tech build electronic mail fundamental: People using smart phones or tablet have email associated to it and check it constantly. 2) Visualizations  Are significant phone  Copywriting: Use of visual content such as infographics must be used to make sure that people will check your content which help them to get the knowledge without reading the text. 3) Small Content: Always keep the text of content or visuals like infographics short.4) Get your trip rapidly: We require to convey the thing fast without giving a large summary. 5) Use Bullet Points to push People to Read More: This is an important thing to consider as bullet points help readers to go through main information without wading through plenty of passages

. Read more at:

http://socialmediatoday.com/expresswriters/2532711/5-tips-successful-copywriting-mobile-marketing

If you are a marketer, then you must agree that social media has brought in an entirely new change. Most likely, you have also started to leverage the power of social media for the success of your business. But, at any time, do not think yourself as a social media expert, a social media guru or the like. Even, if someone tells you that ‘I am an expert in social networking’, do not believe. You must be thinking why! The only reason is social media is still evolving. And, if something is developing, how can he or she be an expert?

Think of mobile marketing. In the past, had you ever imagined how social media will make a mix with mobiles now? At present, it has exploded and at every moment, way of interacting in social media is changing.

While you may be knowing many things about social media, these are the things that you may not know: http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2014/05/16/4-things-marketers-may-not-know-about-social-media-marketing/  .

Mobile phones have done a paradigm shift in marketing products and services. It has created an entirely new marketing channel which cannot be ignored. You, as a business owner, marketing manager or alike, have definitely noticed it.

Fixing budget for marketing your products or services is really a daunting job. With mobile marketing, this job has become more difficult. The growth of mobile usage will not make a halt and as technology will continue to make an upward slope, sophisticated consumers will purchase more through mobile interfaces. So, when mobile is the future, the key to a successful marketing campaign lies here and you must unlock it to make use of its full potential. For this, you will have to rethink over the budget you have allocated for your marketing campaign and you have to lay much importance to the mobile space and justify why you are doing so.

Having said that, are you confused about setting your budget? Here are some statistics on mobile marketing from which you can take cues: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/05/04/10-mobile-marketing-statistics-help-justify-budget/ .