Monthly Archives: August 2010

Mobile driving sales and affinity at QSR

The Pesky PIN prob­lem: Mobile PIN usage in quick ser­vice restau­rants (QSRs) as a way of dri­ving sales is as old as mobile mar­ket­ing  - suc­cess­ful pro­mo­tions hit the street ten years back in the UK. The chal­lenge has always been … Con­tinue read­ing

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MEF M-Commerce Guide is now available to download

Please link to download: http://www.m-e-f.org/initiatives/m_commerce/

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The Big App Transition

We are on the cusp of a new wave of media con­ver­gence. Today, inde­pen­dent tele­vi­sion pro­duc­ers are find­ing them­selves com­pet­ing with soft­ware engi­neers who code mobile apps, casual games and vir­tual worlds, and tar­get con­sumers directly. Not every­one believes these … Con­tinue read­ing

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Oracle: Retail Redefined

Down­load the Ora­cle whitepaper: Retail has been per­ma­nently trans­formed. Begin­ning in 2000, the indus­try began to be rede­fined by macro­eco­nomic, sociode­mo­graphic and con­sumer tech­nol­ogy dynam­ics. “The key to lever­ag­ing mobile suc­cess­fully is to see it as an inte­grated part of the … Con­tinue read­ing

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TekServe: Are Retailers Really Ready For M-Commerce?

Gary is the pres­i­dent of Impact Mobile, as well as the founder and chair emer­i­tus of the Mobile Mar­ket­ing Com­mit­tee for the US Inter­ac­tive Adver­tis­ing Bureau (IAB), and the chair of the Amer­i­cas for the Mobile Enter­tain­ment Forum (MEF) In his … Con­tinue read­ing

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How Coca-Cola’s mobile credit campaign may change shopper marketing

A Coca-Cola Co. pro­mo­tion to reward shop­pers with mobile credit via pack­ages may pave the way for other pack­aged goods com­pa­nies to fol­low suit. Here’s what Impact Mobile president/CEO Gary Schwartz has to say about Coca-Cola’s mobile credit cam­paign and its … Con­tinue read­ing

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