Peoria Mobile Coupons - Peoria Mobile Coupons. Get mobile coupons through Local Search. Mobile Coupons: Download the Free Coupon Sherpa Mobile Coupon App for iPhone & iPod Touch. Mobile Coupon Clipping – A New Location-Based Money Maker. The trend towards location based marketing is growing and getting some well-deserved attention with the recent developments and statistics provided in regards to consumer use of mobile coupons.
"Our research shows that consumer interest in mobile coupons continues to grow, giving brands, merchants and marketers a powerful new opportunity to establish and maintain relationships with consumers," said Greg Stuart, CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) which defines mobile coupons as "electronic coupons or rebates that traverse the full redemption process without the requirement for conversion into a paper or other hard-copy format. " Starbucks realized this powerful opportunity when O2 Media recently revealed its You Are Here campaign debut for the company that resulted in a recall rate of 93% to promote the company’s Via instant coffee. With a strong outlook for the future, other companies are buying into the mobile coupon service community, as well. Continued on the next page.
Appoola Mobile Coupons. Yahoo! Partners with Coupon Inc. for Mobile Coupons. Yahoo!
And Coupons Inc. are launching a mobile coupon platform. Coupons Inc. is a leading online coupon distribution network and has relationships with 800 brands. The mobile network will immediately be available to all brands within the network. Mobile Coupons. The Mobile Coupon Guide. Photo: joepemberton When Asa Candler and the Coca Cola Company (KO) introduced the first printed coupon in 1887, how could they have imagined that couponing would become an art form and their invention would someday be sent electronically to portable devices around the world?
In 2009, U.S. consumers redeemed 3.3 billion coupons for consumer packaged goods, according to Inmar, which processes returned or recalled products, promotional transactions and pharmacy claims for pharmacies and retailers. Manufacturers issued 367 billion coupons, at an average face value of $1.44, indicating that despite a tough economic climate, they understand the appeal of savings to consumers. No matter what the state of the economy, shoppers turn to coupons to unburden their budgets — and that has been particularly the case in the past couple of years.
Get Facebook Likes With Momentus Mobile Coupons. Momentus Media has jumped into the Deals arena with the launch of insto.re, an application that creates coupons to get people to “like” a Facebook page.
So far, the application has no visible fees for page administrators, who can create their own coupons by going to the web address insto.re. The site connects to your Facebook profile to obtain your page(s) and if you have more than one, asks you which one you wish to promote. You get to decide whatever you want to offer in exchange for a “like,” along with whether you want to collect the email addresses of those who click. The address for your promotion will show up at an address that begins with — and the resulting coupon looks good on both mobile devices and computer screens alike. Three Steps to Start a Mobile Coupon Strategy.
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Bargain hunters may be savvy with scissors or an online coupon code, but consumers are just getting used to the idea of redeeming coupons through their mobile devices. This means the people and the technology behind your point-of-sale need to be equipped to troubleshoot issues with new paperless price reductions. As a small-business owner, one advantage is that you don’t need to invest in pricey technology to make your coupons easy to use. Mobile coupons help retailers track customers. Last month, Tara Kuczykowski walked into a Target store in Columbus, Ohio, pulled out her mobile phone and handed it to the cashier.
The cashier scanned the digital coupon on the phone's tiny screen, and Kuczykowski got $1 off sandwich-size Ziploc bags. Target got something, too: another entry in its database about her. Invented over a century ago as anonymous pieces of paper that could be traded for discounts, coupons have evolved into tracking devices for companies that want to learn more about the habits of their customers. Although they might look similar to the ones in Sunday newspaper circulars, many of today's digital versions use special bar codes that are packed with information about the life of the coupon: the dates and times it was obtained, viewed and, ultimately, redeemed; the store where it was used; perhaps even the search terms typed to find it. Originally from Las Vegas but traveling in Seattle? There's a trade-off. Pioneers on the phone Also in March, J.C. Beam up savings. Starbucks runs mobile coupon loyalty program - Mobile Marketer - Database/CRM. By Dan Butcher April 22, 2009 A Starbucks 2D bar code mobile coupon delivered by Codilink Starbucks Coffee Co. is running a loyalty program based on 2D bar-code coupons deployed via SMS.
Cellfire Mobile Coupons for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Target. Mobile Coupons. WOWPONS Mobile Grocery Coupons. Peekaboo Mobile - mobile coupons for retail stores, restaurants, venues and more. Groupon Sets Record With Latest Mobile Coupon Deal; Sells 70,000 Burgers In 72 Hours. Group buying mega-site Groupon never ceases to amaze, as one of its latest mobile coupon deals has shattered records and turned even more focus to the power of mobile coupons.
In what’s nothing short of an amazing campaign, Groupon announced recently that a recent Groupon for a fast food restaurant in Hong Kong helped sell over 70,000 hamburgers in less than 72 hours — 40,000 of which were sold in the first 24 hours following the initial offer. The restaurant is called “Triple O’s,” and the original offer was this: ”spend $25 on food and drink and get another $25 for free.” The offer was facilitated almost completely via mobile redemption and was so successful that it now resides at the top of Groupon’s worldwide performance charts for “F&B Restaurant Coupons.” Results and PR like this definitely help the company as it ramps up to go public in the near future. Target offers mobile phone coupons; simply swipe your smartphone at check-out for savings. Discounter Target Corp. announced today it will offer coupons that shoppers can receive on their cell phones.
As they check-out, shoppers simply scan the bar code visible on their phone's screen to get the discounts. Target says it's the first national retailer to offer mobile coupons, which customers can register for at Target.com/mobile. Or, shoppers can go to m.target.com on smartphones or text "COUPONS" to 827438 (TARGET). The mobile coupons can be used only once and have expiration dates. Moms Want More Mobile Coupons. Coupons You Don’t Clip, Sent to Your Cellphone. Smartphone Users Want Mobile Coupons, Barcode Scanners & Location-Aware Ads. Once upon a time, smartphones were mostly about connecting busy professionals with their email accounts while on the go.
Now that smartphones have reached the mainstream consumer market, however, people are looking for more than just email access - and a surprisingly large number of smartphones hardly ever leave their owners' homes. According to a new study from Web analytics firm Compete, 74% of smartphone owners now primarily use their devices for personal reasons, and they often spent the most amount of time with the device at home. As we noted last October, when they leave their homes, a lot of consumers with iPhones and phones that use Google's Android operating system are now also using their devices to compare prices and look up reviews while they are out shopping.
Compete looked a bit further into this market and found that more than 35% of consumers with smartphones would be interested in receiving coupons on their devices. Mobile Coupons – Coupons on your cell phone from MobileCoupons.com. Chris Brassington: Mobile Coupons Are Failing to Catch On: Why? According to a 2010 Juniper Research study, mobile retail opportunities in coupons, smart posters and advertising will together create a market worth more than $12 billion by 2014, up from $4.1 billion in 2009.
Forrester Research also predicts that in 2014, interactive marketing will approach $55 billion, representing 21% of all marketing purchases. Many existing marketing solutions, such as coupons, incentives, and advertisements, are now working in mobile, delivering a functional and profitable experience. For the consumer, mobility delivers the added benefit of portable savings and information... Mobile Coupon Startup Gets Clipped. Peekaboo Mobile, makers of an iPhone and Android app for finding nearby mobile coupons, has been acquired by local advertising provider nSphere for an undisclosed, seven-figure sum.
The startup, founded in 2010, gives business owners the ability to create coupon deals, which are then accessible via the company's mobile applications and partner network. Peekaboo Mobile's partner network includes location-based discovery app Where and membership card management service CardStar, which added a digital coupon clipping feature to its iPad app last year. "Through these relationships we can reach over 50 million consumers," Peekaboo Mobile founder Ben Dolgoff says. Mobile Coupons on iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and BlackBerry. Toys"R"Us Launches Mobile Coupons. Toys"R"Us is playing in the mobile space. The retailer, never known as a big innovator in digital, this holiday season is equipping its retail outlets with scanners that can read coupon bar codes on mobile phones and is launching a text messaging program alerting shoppers to deals.
Customers can get the coupons by joining the Toys"R"Us and Babies"R"Us mailing lists. When the mobile version of an e-mail is displayed on a smartphone, the retailer can scan it in a store. The effort builds on last year’s introduction of eGift cards. Last year, Toys"R"Us customers had to print out those cards to redeem them, but now, they can get them scanned from their phones as well. Starbucks began testing a similar program in late 2009 and Target launched one back in February. Shopkick Brings In-Store Mobile Coupons To Android Phones. Fresh off a partnership with Target, Shopkick is bringing its geo-coupon system to Android phones with a free app. Now Android users can access in-store coupons from Best Buy, Macy’s, Target, American Eagle, Sports Authority and more. Instead of checking in, as you would with a geo app like Foursquare or Gowalla, shopkick automatically recognizes when someone with the free shopkick app on their phone walks into a store.
Once a shopkick Signal is detected, the app delivers reward points called “kickbucks” to the user for walking into a retail store. Kickbucks can then be redeemed across all partner stores for gift card rewards or for Facebook Credits. User can also receive special discounts on specific products at Macy’s, Best Buy or Target. Of course, shopkick is rolling out the Android app just in time for the holiday shopping season and Black Friday. Coupon codes and discounts for 100,000 online stores! RetailMeNot. Www.mmaglobal.com/mobilecoupons.pdf. Grocery Coupons.