Mobile marketing researchers continually issue studies with unbelievable projections, then sell research reports to the industry that feeds them. In the current hot mobile commerce market, some research company’s forecasts are far from accurate.  In this morning’s Mobile Commerce Daily, for example, reporter Rimma Kats announced that Juniper Research recently projected mobile coupon revenues growing worldwide [...]

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As the carriers dangle 4G and tiered data plans in front of consumers, confusion reigns again. Since Verizon and AT&T have all but removed “all you can eat plans,” should customerrs choose lower-priced plans with greater risk of overages or higher rate plans protecting them from going over? Those in mobile advertising, like Delly Tamer [...]

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MobiSnippets, a new blog and podcast site from MobileBeyond, just launched, combining multiple content sources from MobileBeyond, MobileDiscoveries and IM-Mobile. (Podcasts for MobileBeyond and MobileDiscoveries are also available on the BluBrry.com Channel; MobileBeyond,  MobiSnippets and IM-Mobile also appear on iTunes.) To find a blog article or podcast, use the menus above for each site.

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Are Mobile Ads Relevant?

During the past few days, I’ve viewed dozens of banner ads appearing at the bottom of my Nexus S’ screen–many attractive, but most irrelevant, repetitious and spammy. For my ad-hoc tests, I used Republic News’ excellent app letting users choose topics by subject in a tag cloud. The mobile ads, however, kept rotating from Groupon, [...]

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Augme’s David Apple – Mobile is a chew toy & we’re teething

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Augme Technologies and Mobile Marketing You’re probably not chewing on your mobile phone, but David Apple, CMO at Augme Technologies, does it regularly as he watches poorly executed mobile marketing campaigns and ineffective uses of mobile technology. But he stops teething when you talk with him about integrated QR codes, SMS and mobile Web launches. [...]

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Mobile and Online Advertisers Get Married in 2011

Mobile and online advertising expert Joy Liuzzo of InsightExpress

  Mobile Advertising Continues Growth For several years, mobile and online advertisers had a lover’s quarrel. Mobile proponents claimed “the year of mobile,” while online, broadcast and print industry folks kept knocking mobile as a teenage love affair with iPhones and other wireless toys.

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Mobile Advertising Growth at 4INFO with Julie Shumaker

Text marketing from 4INFO with Julie Shumaker

When I interviewed Kirsten McMullen, Director of Marketing at 4INFO in  August, 2009, we discussed how SMB’s can effectively use SMS mobile advertising at reasonable costs to engage mobile phone users. Since then, the firm has added a kaleidoscope of new services for  advertisers, brands and its publishers as the industry grows globally to $3.5B [...]

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Mobile Marketing Trends with Bryce Marshall of Knotice

Retail mobile and digital marketing with Bryce Marshall of Knotice

A year ago Bryce Marshall, who is Director of Strategic Services with Knotice, a direct digital marketing firm, appeared on IM-Mobile. During our discussion, we did a role play about a fictitious furniture chain in the Midwest struggling with mobile and digital marketing challenges. Bryce impressed me with his strategic thinking. So I invited him [...]

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Mobile Marketing Review Podcast Series Launches

Mobile Marketing Group

Finding excellent podcasts about mobile marketing is challenging. As a podcaster, I know the work involved selecting guest experts, prepping for the interviews and then editing the audio files. So I’m pleased to hear that three mobile experts have launched a new online series called “The Mobile Marketing Review.” Its mission is educating the mobile [...]

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Mobile Web Content Optimization with Eric Hansen

Mobile website optimization with Eric Hansen of SiteSpect

Are you responsible for mobile website conversions and user engagement at your company? If so, Eric Hansen of SiteSpect has a few ideas to share with you. The company helps marketers test and optimize their web sites, detect important mobile device capabilities and discover how content affects user behavior and profitability. In his second podcast [...]

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Rich Media Ads from Crisp Wireless with Boris Fridman

Rich media advertising from Crisp Wireless with Boris Fridman, CEO

As Boris Fridman, CEO of Crisp Wireless, spoke with me at CTIA in San Francisco recently, I reflected on how far mobile advertising has come in only a few years. Still dominant, but with much less sex appeal, SMS creeps across most of the five billion phones on Earth. Unless you have a smartphone. Then [...]

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