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Next year is set to be the year of truly mobile marketing.

Next year is set to be the year of truly mobile marketing. With smartphone penetration reaching 50%[1], and 52% of consumers already using their mobiles during the shopping process[2], it pays for your business to be mobile. Savvy shoppers are using their phones to research products or services, che...

 

Consumers are misbehaving because brands can no longer control the relationship their customers have with them, push messaging and controlling public relations spin now only serves to push customers away and make them more suspicious of the values and belief of the brand they once held dear.

Brands need to approach their customers in the same way that two adults approach each other in conversation, if brands are open in the tone and content with which they communicate, if they are clear what they expect from their customers and what they will get in return and if they are authentic in ...

 

Last weeks Sunday Times ran this head line "After a year’s work, out goes the “Make the most of now” tagline, in favour of the simpler “Power to you”. Instead of dictating to customers, Vodafone wants to let them know that they, with phone in hand hooked up to the mobile internet, are now in charge."

This week Campaign ran the headline 'Giffgaff encourages users to get involved with the brand’.  It is a new mobile phone company which puts the customer at the centre of its business. The proposition is that as a customer, the more you give Giffgaff the more you will get back, they want advertis...

 

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