Ways Mobile Marketing Strategies Accelerate Foot Traffic
Martech Outlook | Tuesday, March 16, 2021
To attain customers’ attention and drive foot traffic, firms will need to market where the customers are.
FREMONT, CA: Foot traffic is an essential measure when it comes to running a brick-and-mortar store. Improved traffic means improved opportunities for sales and customer engagement, which in turn leads to higher revenues. There are many things firms can do to increase store traffic. To get customers’ attention and drive foot traffic, firms will need to market where the customers are. Increasingly, that is on their mobile devices. Here is more about mobile marketing and some of the key mobile marketing tools and strategies firms can use to drive foot traffic to the store.
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• SMS Marketing
[vendor_logo_first]SMS marketing is marketing through text messages. It is also known as text message marketing or text marketing. This is a permission-powered mobile marketing strategy where firms send promotions, deals, coupons, alerts, and more straight to the customers’ phones through text messages of 160 characters or less. SMS marketing is such a potential mobile advertising strategy because text messages have high deliverability, open, and engagement rates.
• Social Media
Smartphone users use them to access social media. All of the major social media platforms have billions of users, making sense to leverage social media as one of the main mobile marketing strategies. Social media makes it seamless to create a personal connection with the customers through comments and messages. And firms can make their business more appealing with customer referrals and recommendations.
• Location-Based Marketing (GPS)
Location-based marketing leverages the GPS function on smartphones to help marketers show promotions and needed content according to users’ locations. Sometimes location-powered marketing is called geotargeting or geolocation marketing. The majority of marketers experience more success with promotions when they are location-powered. This marketing type results in improved engagement and better response because it is more needed to where mobile users are and what they are doing.
• Proximity Marketing
Proximity marketing is another type of location-based marketing. This lets firms use Bluetooth to figure out where potential customers are and target them with promotions. Beacon marketing relies on physical Bluetooth-powered devices in or near stores. These send short-range signals to mobile devices, which people see when they are at the nearest location.
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