With more than 2 million orders of the iPhone 5 placed within the first 24 hours, the consumer mobile movement shows no sign of waning. Mobile touches every demographic regardless of gender, age, race, and even income.
Many advertisers now recognize this and plan to integrate mobile into their overall marketing and media plans. However, given the high quality, ready to buy nature of the mobile consumer, advertisers still aren't fully capitalizing on the opportunity.
At a recent Mobile Marketing Association event, one ROI firm recommended that marketers allocate 7 percent of their budgets to mobile with growth to 10 percent by 2016. I disagree. Mobile monetization opportunities are high and should be commanding a much higher rate of ad budgets.
The xAd-Telmetrics Mobile Path to Purchase Study, conducted by Nielsen, found that local mobile searchers are converting at dramatic rates – more than 60 percent of those surveyed say they ultimately make a purchase.
In the travel category alone – which has a longer path to purchase than the restaurant or automotive categories that were analyzed – nearly 50 percent of those surveyed say they ultimately made a purchase and one-third convert the same day (regardless of smartphone or tablet usage). In fact, 20 percent are looking to make a purchase immediately or within the hour, revealing an important window of opportunity for marketers to reach users at this final stage of their path to purchase.
Also in the travel category, 75 percent of mobile travel users reported that they notice mobile ads and only 25 percent have a preferred brand before the search. Marketers have an opportunity to influence these searchers with the right mobile content as more than 50 percent say they clicked on an ad because it was targeted to their needs or recent search behavior.
These findings are in line with mobile call duration statistics across our call measurement network. Mobile call duration is the amount of time a consumer is on the phone with a business it contacts via a mobile ad and is a common proxy for measuring lead quality.
Mobile call durations average 3.5 mins/call, longer than call durations stemming from other media including print and paid search, and longer calls indicate a positive propensity to make a purchase, representing higher quality leads/increased conversion opportunities. As many as 47 percent of mobile travel searches result in calls (compared to up to 73 percent of mobile restaurant searchers – where immediacy is more prevalent for reservations, confirming hours and checking availability), according to the Mobile Path to Purchase findings.
Here are three tips for mobile marketers ready to allocate more to their mobile budgets and fully leverage the mobile opportunity.
“Know Your Mobile Consumer” – This is the first thing to accomplish before making your campaign. Not only will you know their expectations, but once you get particular with your target demographics, it will be easier to layout your consumers’ needs-dedicated campaign.
ReplyDelete“Understand Smartphone vs. Tablet Nuances” – It is definitely important for marketers to take note of this, as they need to familiar themselves with the tools that they and their target audiences use. More importantly, they need to check if there any disadvantages the scheme can bring to their business, and consequently find solutions to make up for it.
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If you plan to use mobile platforms to promote your products/services, you should make it interactive and interesting. This new platform has lots of potential. For instance, using QR codes to download coupons and other info about your products/services is one of the popular strategies in mobile advertising. There sure are lots of ways you can develop to take advantage of mobile advertising.
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