4. Mobile location based services; 3 divisions:Consumer: Mobile App relied upon by 4MM+ consumer for local discovery & personalized place recommendations. Synchronized with where.com WHERE Ads: The largest location-based mobile ad network with 350+ publishers and over 50MM consumer reach Merchant Services: making location-targeted mobile advertising and offer promotions easy and accessible for small businesses
5. What We Do WHERE App & Where.com Brands & SMB Merchants Local Consumer Audience WHERE Ads™ SMB Portal WHERE creates the conversation between local consumer audiences and the merchants that want to reach them
7. Today’s Agenda The Growth of Mobile Why Mobile is Important for Businesses The Mobile Ecosystem Establishing a Mobile Presence for your Business “Location-based” mobile advertising How Businesses Can leverage Mobile Marketing Mobile Commerce and Mobile Payments
8. Smartphone Use 50% of Americans will have smartphones by year end Mobile use of the web is growing faster than desktop use in the 90’s Source: Nielsen
15. An App or a Mobile Website? Apps Pros – Load quickly Don’t require connectivity Cons – Discoverability OS Fragmentation Maintenance Mobile website Pros – Works across all platforms Less development Cons – Load time Optimization for all devices THINK ABOUT THE MEDIUM!
73. Case Study: NorthEast Nursery $40 of merchandise for $20 generated 469 sales in three days totaling $9400: Northeast Nursery selected the radius that they wanted to target and WHERE emailed that deal to opted-in consumers in those locations. WHERE also ran a mobile ad campaign promoting the offer. Within 24 hours, we had sold 203 vouchers for Northeast. NorthEast Nursery emailed the offer to their Constant Contact list. Within hours, we saw the total sold raise to over 300. The offer was shared via Social media (FB, Twitter): the deal increased to 469 total sales in 3 days