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Mobile marketing is performing better than traditional advertising

Fiksu research data has indicated that smartphone ads are outperforming those that are more familiar.

Fiksu has now released the findings of its most recent research which have indicated that the cost per engagement of mobile marketing is ten times less expensive than paid search marketing.

This study is only the most recent evidence of how advertising over this channel is succeeding.

In fact, it shows that mobile marketing has pulled ahead of traditional advertising techniques both in affordability and effectiveness. The report, “Brand building on mobile devices: measuring the value of consumer engagement,” involved an analysis of over 2.4 billion app marketing data points from global application brand campaigns that have been implementing promotions through the Fiksu Platform. What it revealed was that compared to traditional channels of advertising, these are considerably more cost effective.

Fiksu also released a new metric for measuring the ROI of mobile marketing of brands.

Mobile Marketing researchAs an element of its study, Fiksu brought in a brand new type of metric that was created to allow companies and brands to better understand the return on investment (ROI) of mobile marketing (the cost per mobile engagement). According to Fiksu, the central findings from this research were the following:

• The mobile marketing CPM (cost per thousand impressions) rates are the second smallest among all of the various forms of advertising – including print, broadcast and digital. The only lower rate is through social media.

• When it comes to major brands, mobile display advertising CPCs (cost per clicks) are up to 90 percent less expensive than desktop pay per click (PPC) campaigns.

• In mobile app advertising, the CPEm (cost per engagement in mobile) for mobile marketing is a tenth of the cost of a keyword click over desktop.

According to the Fisku vice president, Craig Palli, “Brands are waking up to the fact that mobile apps provide an incredible and very cost-effective canvas for marketing. But using CPM and CPC as sole measures of ROI eclipses the powerful engagement that mobile apps bring and which brand marketers seek.” When discussing this mobile marketing study, he went on to say that “Fiksu’s new CPEm metric is a far more meaningful tool for brands to use for planning and decision-making.”

Mobile marketing success, one tip at a time

Sometimes a successful campaign is simply a matter of following the right tips.

There are many different ways to implement mobile marketing, and the variety of options and techniques is leaving many companies scratching their heads and wondering how to go about doing it properly so that they will best engage with consumers.

Though one must always look at the big picture, the details should also not be forgotten.

Mobile marketing is already everywhere, and there are just as many brands who are using it successfully as there are companies that are missing the point. All too many marketers are making the common mistake of believing that reaching consumers on smartphones and tablets is exactly the same as regular online efforts via PCs, except on smaller screens. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth.

Mobile marketing is its own unique form of advertising and promoting and should be addressed that way.

Once you accept that knowledge, you can move on to learn the best tips for making sure that your own campaign will be successful. This will allow you to obtain the very best results for every dollar you spend on the channel, and to reach out to a wild world of consumers that you may never have been able to access without the use of their favorite devices.Mobile Marketing Success

Mobile marketing is important now, but it is about to become critical.

Allowing your business to learn the ropes now will give you a significant advantage over the competition when it becomes vital to existence. Use the following tips to help to get started in these efforts:

• Have a mobile website – whether designed specifically for smartphones and tablets, or optimized – and make sure that it is compatible with all of the platforms on the mobile devices used by your customers.

• If you use SMS messaging, make your messages powerful and succinct. It must be short and drive them to act, attracting their attention and converting them.

• Use QR codes and implement them properly. All printed ads should contain one of these mobile marketing barcodes so that smartphone users can follow the URL that you have provided, in a more convenient way than having to type it in.

• Make your mobile marketing worthwhile. Give consumers a reason to pay attention, read your ads, or scan your QR codes, by offering exclusive discounts, coupons, offers, content and opportunities.