Attract a Larger Brand Following With Mobile Marketing

In order to be effective in reaching your target market your business needs to be active on places like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram with mobile video and live stories. Mobile marketing is essential to build your brand and draw more traffic to your website.
In fact, eMarketer reports that 16 percent of Internet users in the United States go online through their mobile phones instead of on a computer.
Pew Research reports that 95 percent of Americans own a mobile device — most users keep their phones within arm’s reach over 90 percent of waking hours. Americans are spending an average of three hours per day on the Internet from their mobile devices.
Offline purchases in a store are also done primarily through mobile according to Omnicore. About half of all search are through voice assisted technology or AI as shown in their study:

When combined with other marketing methods, mobile marketing has proven to increase conversion rates, especially through a promoted ad on places like Facebook and Instagram.
There is still a small number of businesses who have responsive websites that are mobile enabled. According to an article on Marketing Land only 18.7 percent of 100,000 top-tier websites in an Akamai study were responsive.
57% of online shoppers will skip over and not recommend a business with that is not showing up correctly on their devices in a socPub study. Have you checked your website yet?
It’s not as expensive as you might think to update your website to be mobile friendly. You can create a new one or update and existing website in several ways:

• If creating a website from scratch you will need to hire a web developer and designer to write the proper code
• Most hosting companies include WordPress, which you can install and use to purchase a high-quality responsive template and plugins
• Choose shared hosting such as WIX, Squarespace or Weebly, which are automatically mobile-ready

If your visitors can’t view your landing page quickly and easily the moment they arrive you could be missing out on prospects who now primarily use their mobile devices to find information and make purchases. Here are a few more reasons your brand needs to start leveraging mobile marketing:

• Google’s search engine factors in mobile ready designs

• Reach targeted buyers through live video, stories, and mobile ads

• Instantly send a message to your subscribers through messaging apps and SMS

• Connecting with your audience in a more personalized way right from their devices

• Gain better insights into who your target market is and what they are looking for

• Increase in subscribers and word of mouth marketing

The best social networks to focus on when it comes to mobile marketing are Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. Your target market research will confirm exactly which ones your particular audience is active in the most. For example, Snapchat has experienced a downward trend, but is gaining traction again through targeted ads to a younger audience. Let’s take a look at the top performers and how these can benefit your branding strategy:

Mobile video on YouTube

There are approximately 1.9 billion active users on YouTube with over 30 million who are active daily according to Omnicore. They point out that 1/3 of Internet users are on this growing video platform. The best performing content are videos that are professional, can clearly project what the topic is about, answering a pressing need or question, and has a strong call to action.

Live stories and video on Facebook and Instagram

The advent of instant reach began with Snapchat. After Facebook’s failed attempt to acquire the company the social media giant developed its own version of live stories, as as well live video, which has been expanded to Pages. This is one of the fastest ways to capture an interested audience and take them behind the scenes of your business. Instagram in particular is growing in popularity over Facebook, and has recently expanded its stories features to include 15 second uploads.

Video on Twitter

Users on mobile especially gravitate to video both live and uploaded on Twitter, which reports that 82 percent watch video from and hand-held screen. This includes breaking news, live events, television show clips, celebrities and branded videos. Promoted content is now experiencing an up-swing as well with an overall positive brand sentiment according to the social network.

Augmented Reality through Facebook Messenger

As the demand for better visual content has grown social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have been working on developing 360 degree realistic worlds in which the user can experience a product, service or story. A GrowthEnabler reports that the “market for AR in 2022 is expected to reach US$117 billion as compared to US $34 billion of VR.”
At the end of 2017 Facebook launched its own AR technology inside of Messenger, which allows users to express themselves through photos, videos, emojis, stickers, and GIFs. This is a great opportunity for brands to capture their audience’s attention as well as receive feedback from them.
A well-rounded mobile marketing plan will enable your business to stay on top of the latest trends for your target market, which places you ahead of the competition. This will attract an entirely new audience who are quickly jumping away from their computers and conducting their transactions on the go.