nomaziz

Is sms marketing for website is beneficial or worthless?

specially for asian countries.

World Marketing

It could be beneficial if you know how to market it right...In terms of in Asian countries i'm not too sure...

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PPCampaigns

I would say it all depends on what type of website it is. Some I could see it being beneficial and others I couldn't see very much use for it. It's really a case to case basis.

JennyTxtlocal

It is most beneficial.

Send a link via SMS to your mobile website! You NEED a mobile website!

16 million (UK) consumers accessed the internet from their phone in December 2010 viewing a total of 6.7billion pages of 4.8billion minutes! Source: Reuters

Get this, in 2009, 104.4 BILLION messages were sent!!

97% of SMS messages are opened within the first 5 seconds of the customer receiving them too, compared to email where you are looking at approx 2/3%!

So, SMS is where it's at and yes it is beneficial! :-)

amanchem

For good rate of conversion you need to focus on the right people . the peopls who need or require your product will give response .

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vampiro

Can you elaborate more about mobile website? Cite some examples...
I am interested in SMS Marketing too...:p

zenyatta

Hi Hemacute,

Are these restaurants located in the US or Canada?

Zenyatta

zenyatta

This is why its important to work with a true short code provider. You can report that spam and ultimately if enough people do the same the license for that short code can be suspended or revoked. SMS is a permission based or opt in system. So you "should" be only getting texts from companies/individuals that you have opted in and want to receive info from. Obviously I realize its not perfect but I do believe it is much more regulated and a better marketing system compared to email. Thats why we still have a 97-98% open rate on our messages with SMS compared to 20% on email if we are lucky.

briankoz

There are huge benefits to it for websites. In fact, I've seen benefits both for online businesses and offline ones.

To be 100% transparent, I own the www.MobileAutoresponder.com service and as such, I've seen a TON of different uses for it. Here are a few examples that I've either used myself or seen other clients use:

- For sending limited time deals and coupons (both online and offline)
- For sending appointment reminders (like at a dentist office to send it before your visit)
- For sending webinar or teleseminar notices and reminders (this works very well)
- For billing reminders
- For high end sales follow ups
- For normal promotions
- For notifications of new events and meetings (like a church group alerting members to a new meet-up)

And literally tons of other things. It's true that the open rates in e-mails typically suck, while the open rates of text messages are insanely high, but in my opinion text message marketing ads yet another way to contact your leads without the high costs of direct mail.

And these days it's not like you have to invest thousands of dollars like you did several years ago to start getting into mobile sms marketing. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.

- Brian

Kiosk

SMS marketing seems to be one of the best possible way to market any business but here database plays a huge role as message to irrelevant web numbers may prove annoying to them.

Anthony Phillips

SMS is the way of the future. People don't read mail anymore. Direct advertising will be known as simply as SMS marketing fairly soon.

Anthony

johnasthlon

Hello nomaziz,

Certainly, SMS Marketing is really worth but we have observed SMS Marketing effect for our few online business website and we have found that there is conversion ratio only 1% to 2% in our campaign. However I would like to tell you that your niche products are quite interested or useful for other peoples then you can go trail SMS plans and get the own feed back about SMS Marketing.

spabeauty

If you are interested to promote your website on asian countries then I think it's not good strategy. the reason is only that as compare with mobile user, internet user community is very low. that means if you are promoting your website on sms. mobile user just read the message and delete it. They never visit your website.

abayomi boluwatife

I prefer it

Mo Goulet

Right now I'm using sms marketing for political candidates in 4 States. As Brian stated earlier, the possibilities are endless. For those of you who would like to jump into this hot marketing bed in your area, Look at the following Facebook page I built and imagine how many candidates you could do this for where you live in the next 2 weeks. Now is the time to sign them up and they have campaign money to spend.

www.Facebook.com/MarkJohnstoneForMayor

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xlfutur1

Never thought of that niche. Thanks for sharing. What sort of enticement do you use to get people to opt into their list?

JToneyUK

What a fantastic idea for local elections!! I hate politicians too, so milking some money from them would be great!

marketingtrenches

does anybody have a good source for a sms marketing provider?

Mo Goulet

On the contact page there is an sms subscribe form for followers to sign up for election news direct from the candidate.

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samking009

what industry was your client involved in?

Was it B2B?

shubhi

It would be beneficial if it takes place in right way..
Because generally is user are busy then they cannot pay attention on messages from new no or unknown identity.And asian country like India where TRAI (The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) dont allow messages afteer a limit any more. So would be quit difficult to do SMS marketting..

steve solo

you can find a plugin free or relatively cheap if you are running WP site,.in this case you dont need to do any thing else,..hope this helps

Steve

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