Some Common Question About Location Base Mobile Marketing

 With the explosion of mobile marketing, there have been an excessive number of location based SMS campaigns in the last few years. But still there are lot of question regarding this type of location base marketing can be seen, such as concept about geo-fencing and how they help to improve your campaign etc. Here are some things you should know about location base marketing:

1.    Geo-fencing: Mobile geo-fencing which is also known as Geo-targeting is a location base service. In this service brands are allowed to make a decision or take any action by location intelligence when a SMS subscriber enters a specific location. Mobile geofencing marketing is becoming part of every developer and brands as they are realizing the added value that mobile geo-fencing can bring.

2.    SMS campaign using geo-fence: Geo-fencing is a good way to increase SMS marketing open rates and SMS redemption rates as it allows the brand to tailor SMS promotions to an SMS subscriber in its real-time location.

3.    SMS subscriber location: Mobile geo-targeting or mobile geo-fencing is a layer of intelligence which allows brands to make decisions or take some action depending on a geographical area such as a retail store, a stadium, or even a neighbourhood. Brands can determine the location of a SMS subscriber by using a Network-based Geo-fence which uses a carrier-grade location data to determine the location.

4.    Opt-in option: Only those customers that have opt-in for communication will receive location base SMS from a brand. In other words to locate a mobile device you will need its permission first. There are various ways to receive the permission such as when a customer’s replying to a text message confirming they want to share their location with a brand or a customer giving permission within a web opt-in form that captures their mobile phone numbers.

5.    Tracking the location of the SMS subscriber: One of the fine ways to execute the use of geo-fencing is by sending locally-targeted, relevant content to your SMS subscribers which will increase SMS redemption rates.

6.    SMS subscriber location accuracy: The accuracy of the SMS subscriber depend on various facts such as if thewireless carrier of the SMS subscribers’ supports the use of A-GPS location capabilities as they give accurate result in outdoor environments and compared to this, mobile phones that uses G-CID, Cell ID and Enhanced Cell Ids are less accurate.

7.    Size of the fence: Depending on the business requirements such as SMS campaign requirement and expected accuracy, a geo-fence can be of any size and they can also create multiple SMS geo-fences in case they have multiple locations.