Mobile marketing is evolving as quickly as the phone models are, and keeping up with all the cool gadgets to help us traverse this convenient and now-indispensable technology is challenging but exciting. So to help you stay informed, below are 3 new tools we’ve discovered that we now wonder how we ever did without them!
Red Stamp – Red Stamp calls themselves your modern day social secretary. How true that is! Red Stamp is a free Apple app that offers users the cabability to send electronic and printed cards or notes with only a few clicks. Designing and customizing is easy, and there are even content suggestions if you’re having problems. Red Stamp can pull up your contacts, and recalls all of your vital information as well. However, the best thing is the cards sent via email, text or Facebook and Twitter are totally free! If you would like go all traditional on us and send a printed card, Red Stamp stamps it and physically mails it to the address of your choosing for only $1.99 each. Red Stamp is an excellent app that Hallmark should beware of! (or buy!)
Swipely – Starting out as an online payment processing site, Swipely has added a mobile loyalty program to its offerings, and it’s a hit! Forget about searching high and low for that (usually) lost loyalty card or keychain fob. Now it’s all done by using a single text to join message, and you’re in! Swipely can make it a snap to sign up with any participating loyalty program. This kind of program is incredibly useful for restaurants, retailers and professionals seeking ways to keep and win new customers. Mobile loyalty programs could also help you build a customer email list, which is by necessity and definition a permission based list. I’m sure you are likely already thinking of what you can do with that!
TextUs.biz – With 32 percent of people preferring to text as opposed to talk, TextUs.biz has uniquely positioned themselves to fill a need for a very reasonable price. TextUs.biz enables businesses to send and receive texts from customers via their computer or iPad, from appointment reminders to promotional messages. TextUs.biz is free for the first 100 messages, and is very inexpensive from then on, even if you prove to be a superuser!