Comments on: Advertising on the Mobile Phone…

By: Angeline Mesecar

Angeline Mesecar — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:17:31 +0000

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. ~George Will

By: mobile marketing

mobile marketing — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:56:13 +0000

Mobile marketing is the most growing marketing strategy these days to promote brands, business, services and organization. Mobile marketing come in focus in recent few years, especially due to fast growing mobile phone uses across the world. Analyst Estimate that in 2008 about 3.4 billions text messages send worldwide and the response rate of these text messages were about 70%, this statistic attract shoppers, business organization to invest in mobile marketing. Today all top brands and organization using mobile marketing campaigns to promote their products.

By: Suellen Bergert

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By: oil portrait paintings

oil portrait paintings — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:01:45 +0000

Well I was thinking what if the ads go with freebies like wallpaper, ringtones, and the likes which have expiration dates? That will surely attract EVERYBODY and not just the selected ones. This will not also require logging in or being opt in before one can view or join the ad.

By: buy oil paintings

buy oil paintings — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:37:24 +0000

Advertising in mobile phones has gone a long way. Nowadays, companies advertise their services and products through contests done by sending text messages. Some softdrink companies for example, send ads through text to subscribers requesting them to join in their promo by sending codes via text. Some ads like horoscope, free ring tones, and the likes are very common nowadays. Still others include even biblical passages and inspiring quotes.

These are handy and helpful, yes. But some subscribers are annoyed. Say you are in the middle of a meeting and then your phone beeps. Thinking that it was an important message you hurried out of the room, excused yourself, and opened the message, only to find out that it was just a text ad/promo. Frustrating…

By: personalized business gift

personalized business gift — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:52:12 +0000

Let me share my personal experiences related to this. Lately, there are more ads messages coming in than important text messages through my mobile phone. There was one time that an ad told me that I’ve just received a FREE ring tone along with some other ads pertaining to gigs and latest services of the network. Since the ring tone is for free, I accepted it. After a month, the tone keeps coming. Then one day, I loaded my phone with some amount. After a while a new ring tone came in. But when I tried to send a text message to my brother, I was informed that I have zero available balance. What the…? When I investigated the whole thing, I found out that the free tone was only free for a month and after a month every tone will be charged with some $$$. But I wasn’t informed about it. I think mobile ads in exchange for free or lowered network services are as worst as phone virus.

By: Mobile Phones

Mobile Phones — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:34:57 +0000

Talking about Mobile Phone advertising, I've noticed a tendency of service providers to 'tag' advertising onto their free services. One of our service providers here in SA has something called 'please call me.' It's a free message you can send to someone, in case you don't have air-time. But, they message is often tagged with some heavy advertising.

The worst has to be these services that advertise on TV, where you can SMS a number and get a ring tone or picture for your phone etc. Doing that is like inviting spam advertising on your phone! Not only that, but you end up sending a message to the service requesting a ring tone and they charge you for it. But then, they also charge you a monthly fee that you didn't even sign up for! You've got to purposely send them another message to 'cancel your subscription' when you didn't even subscribe! You just wanted the one ring tone.

Because of the sheer number of those kind of promotions, especially on TV, I am sure there is a LOT of money in it. There is a lot of money in competitions as well (and guess what? You enter a competition, and get bombarded with advertising too!)

By: Mobile Phones

Mobile Phones — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:12:31 +0000

I find SMS text messaging a perfectly viable way to communicate. (Yes, I am probably younger than you.) I had an argument over my boss the one day when one of my staff sent me an SMS to tell me he is not coming in. I thought it was a perfectly reasonable way to communicate this to me... but he thought it wasn't. His take was that someone should always call... an SMS is simply not good enough.

I couldn't quite understand this way of looking at it. I mean, the SMS tells exactly what I need to know and doesn't take up much of my time at all.

Why I mention this is because, even someone like myself who regularly communicates with SMS, finds advertising a real pain. Especially when they send you messages late at night, or when you're expecting a message from someone else etc. Usually, it's just my network provider advertising (I really don't like putting my cell phone number down for 'promotions' etc.)

Some of the malls here in my area have adopted a brilliant Bluetooth system where you can turn your Bluetooth on and receive messages of specials. This way, they don't need your number, you just have to connect to their Bluetooth network. I think this is an excellent way of doing it – you don't want the advertising, you switch Bluetooth off. As simple as that.

I tend to keep my Bluetooth off.