Energize your Mobile Marketing with These New Tools!
Mobile marketing is changing as quickly as the phone models are, and keeping up with all of the cool gadgets to help us traverse this useful and now-indispensable technology is challenging but fun. So to help you stay informed, here are 3 new tools we’ve found that we now wonder how we ever did without them!
Red Stamp – Red Stamp characterizes themselves as your modern-day social secretary. And they couldn’t be more spot on! Red Stamp is a free Apple app that allows users to send wonderfully customized electronic and printed cards or notes in the blink of an eye. With lots of templates to select from, you are never unable when it comes to finding the perfect design or messaging to send out. Red Stamp integrates together with your contacts, and remembers your name and address. The coolest part is though, is the cards sent via email, text or Facebook and Twitter are free! If you would like send a printed card, it is physically mailed to the address of your choice for only $1.99 each. That’s good, since I can’t ever remember what happened to my stamps. Red Stamp is indeed a time saver!
Swipely – Essentially an online payments site, Swipely has branched out to incorporate a mobile loyalty program. Those days are gone of customers fumbling through their purse or wallet, searching for that tiny loyalty card to the establishment they’re frequenting. Swipely makes it easy with a text to join application that allows users to join with one simple text message. This type of program is invaluable for restaurants and retailers who are seeking ways to keep and win new customers. Mobile loyalty programs such as these can also be great for list building, which can also expand your business. Swipely’s mobile loyalty program is free to use for existing customers.
TextUs.biz – So many people prefer to text rather than talk (roughly 32 percent) TextUs.biz has found a way to fill a very real need for an affordable price. TextUs.biz is an app that allows businesses to send and receive texts from customers via their computer, phone or iPad, everything from simple reminders to promotional sales messages. Your end users don’t even have to download the app! TextUs.biz is totally free for the first 100 messages, and is very inexpensive after that, even if you end up sending tons of texts!