10 Mobile Marketing Tips for your Marketing Campaigns
More and more marketing reports show the consistent and relevant increase of customers’ mobile usage over the last few years and the subsequent importance for marketers to focus on Mobile Marketing to reach their business goals.
For this reason, we chose to focus this blog post on 10 Mobile Marketing Tips for 2016, to provide small businesses with a set of strategies, tools and suggestions to help them improve their apps’ users engagement and retention through appropriate marketing campaigns.
1- Provide Omni-channel Experiences
Creating a consistent experience for your customers across every touch point is a must, especially for mobile marketers. Consumers expect to receive a consistent experience whether they’re in a store, visiting a website, using mobile apps, reading email, or engaging with social media.
How can your communication efforts be consistent across all channels? The answer is by integrating the data that you collect from every different channel. In other words, all the data obtained from a specific customer in his different touch points should be integrated in a single profile for that user.
2- Predict ‘Next Best Offer’
Marketers try to personalize the offers at the time people are shopping for different types of products. How can they predict the next best offer for their customers? They may look at customers’ last year’s purchase data to predict what they might be looking for. Predicting consumers’ intent when they open a retailer’s app can definitely improve the rate of converting visitors into buying customers.
3- Use Automated Campaigns
You can use automated campaigns to increase Retention and Engagement. Thanks to automated campaignsyou can;
• catch your customers when they intend to do something,
• catch their inactivity before they disappear
Catch Their Activity
What’s the most important user’s activity you want to focus your attention on? Do you want to monitor every time he opens the app or when he visits a product details page? Automated campaigns help you catch the customer X times after he takes specific actions.
Here some examples of automated campaigns triggered by customers’ activity:
- Send them a questionnaire 5 minutes after they call the call center.
- Ask them to give you a rating 5 days after they make their first purchase.
- Send them a warm welcome message and a coupon 1 day after they install the app.
- Show them the perfect matching shoes 3 minutes after they add a skirt to their basket.
Catch their inactivity
This scenario is good both for engagement and retention. You may want to engage the users further by promoting a feature that they haven’t used for a while, or you may want to reengage them when they stop showing up.
Here some examples of automated campaigns triggered by customers’ inactivity:
- Send them a message when they don’t open the app for two weeks.
- Send them a special offer when they don’t purchase anything for a month.
- Send them an interesting news or video when they have been idle for a month.
Don’t forget that if Customers’ Acquisition is really hard for mobile apps, Retention is even harder. Don’t let them forget about you!
4- Focus on Increase App Conversion and Revenue
Like opportunities, distractions are countless on mobiles. You are about to purchase something but someone calls and you forget about that perfect offer. You download an app but while you are registering a colleague asks for your help. Sometimes users need a little push to complete the steps you want them to take.
Marketers should catch users when they do something and use the obtained data. Some possible scenarios are:
- Abandoned baskets: remind users to complete the purchase when they add a product in their shopping basket but don’t check out for half an hour.
- If you need your users to register or login, you can ask them to do so after they install the app but do not login/register for a week.
- If you have a news app, you can ask your users to share the news they’ve just read when they don’t share it within 5 minutes from reading it.
- You can also promote mobile instead of other channels, especially for self-care apps: when the customer takes an action on the web, this action is also available on mobile. In this case, you will need to integrate your back end services too.
5- Use Lifecycle Targeting
Customer lifetime value is the total revenue generated from a customer over their entire lifetime with your brand and it’s a very crucial concept for every marketer. That’s why mobile marketers should focus on lifecycle targeting as well as on targeting specific events, such as clicking a button on an app or making a purchase.
To be more specific, marketers should optimize their marketing mix during the entire journey of each customer, rather than sending the same offers to every customer.
Moreover mobile marketers can create special offers for the most loyal customers and thank them for their loyalty throughout the year with an exclusive discount or a thoughtful gift.
6- Enrich Your Messages
Consumers are receiving various messages from different brands especially in the holiday season. They are bombarded with deals from every channel.
By sending offers to the consumers using supplemental images and videos will more likely inspire consumers to make a purchase.
For instance, sending an interactive push notification including a product image might be more effective than sending a text-based offer.
7- Enrich Your Segmentation
In addition to demographic data such as gender, age, etc…add location and behavior data to your segmentation process.
Be sure that your segmentation strategy uses all the data you have appropriately.
For example, instead of planning your campaign solely with demographics use segmentation including past-purchases, web-mobile visits, product preferences, social profiles and location.
8- Integrate Online and Offline
During the holiday season Marketers aim to increase sales volume both in offline stores and online channels like websites and apps.
Since consumers are taking decisions by touching brands in different channels, omni-channel marketing and integrating online and offline channels become an important issue for marketers.
When online & offline channel integration is the issue, using geo-fencing technology (especially beacons) is a great choice for marketers.
By using beacon technology, marketers can target customers while they’re close to a store or even inside it.
In addition to using location data, marketers can personalize their marketing messages on the basis of virtual and physical shopping behaviour and the context of users’ potential purchasing decisions.
In other words, instead of sending messages to consumers based solely on the location, behavioural data such as goods they’ve purchased, offers they’ve redeemed in the past and predictions of what they’re likely to be seeking can be used for more tailored offers.
9- Be There to Win Mobile Moments
Every marketer wants to ‘be there’ for their consumers especially at their mobile moments. That’s mostly because appearing in front of consumers at their mobile moments bring the highest conversions for marketers.
Being there is a chance for brands to address consumers’ needs at the right moment and help customers to move along in their decision making journey. In addition, being there helps marketers to deepen their relationship with their customers in order to increase their loyal customer base and increase lifetime values of their customers.
Being there at consumers’ mobile moments such as mobile searches, app interactions, mobile site visits or mobile video views is crucial for marketers, especially for Retailers and E-commerce firms.
10- Do Not Forget Post- Purchase Stage
After a consumer makes a decision they expect satisfaction to occur from their decision. If the product or service does not meet their requirements, then dissatisfaction might occur. At this point the marketer may lose the chance to make this customer a loyal user. That’s why savvy marketers make sure that their consumer is completely satisfied and does not develop any negative post-purchase feelings.
In post-purchase stage a marketer’s job is to provide consumers with an after sale service as well as extra benefits, such as discounts and free trials. Mobile marketers may auto-trigger some messages when the user completes a desired action within an app. It may be a “Thank You” note after a social share, a product recommendation after they add a similar product to basket, or a “request received” note after they submit a form. Moreover mobile marketers might execute the following actions:
- Send to app users status updates of their shipment i.e. as soon as the shipment is ready
- Send to app users updates about the news they are following.
- Say “thank you for sharing” when they share something from the app.
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