
The Future Of Location-Based Marketing Isn’t Foursquare
Over the last three years, check-in and local search start-up Foursquare has become the face of location-based services. And while the...

Taking Your Business Mobile: Mobile Website Or App?
Whether we like it or not, the mobile world is growing rapidly around us. There are over a million apps on the market and businesses...

How To Get Your Mobile Site Found
In a previous column, we covered the ways in which you can get your native mobile apps discovered using Paid, Earned, and Owned media....

Making An App: Go Lean And Mean
App-making is a good capacity to develop in your business, since the app market is in a big boom right now, and there are still plenty of...

Mobile Users: Consumers Are Buying, But Behavior Varies By Vertical
Mobile is hot and shows no sign of moving off marketers’ priority list. Not only is there an enormous, diverse mobile audience that...

The Missing Mobile Metric
In my last column, we discussed the conundrum of achieving–and maintaining–optimal visibility in mobile app stores. It’s a delicate...

The “Real Estate” of Mobile Targeting: Location. Location. Lat-Long.
There are a variety of location-based data signals available to the mobile industry which have shaped a diverse landscape of products and...

Marketing Mobile Apps
In my last column, we discussed the dilemma of when to build a mobile web site vs. when to build a native mobile app. I find this...

Ten (Or So) Services To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly
One of the most common problems I encounter in the course of my work is the issue of optimizing for mobile. If app-makers don’t optimize...

Case Studies: Optimizing For Mobile Can Drive More Conversions At Lower Cost Than On The PC
Two recent mobile case studies illustrate how marketers that make thoughtful investments in the mobile user experience and take mobile...

Which Comes First, The Site Or The App?
One of my favorites is, “What should I develop first — a mobile site or a mobile app?” It’s an easy question to answer, at least in most...

Will Siri And Voice Search Change Mobile Marketing?
Mobile phones are, after all, phones, so it’s natural that they respond well to voice commands. So it’s no surprise that voice search has...

Too Many Companies Are Ignoring Mobile Web Traffic
Marketers are all talking about the massive growth in mobile web access, both in the United States and around the world, but something...

Don’t Stop At The Click: The Importance Of Tracking Everything In Mobile
Too many marketers are relying on clicks and CTR as mobile success metrics. While CTR has validity in PC search campaigns, clicks are a...

Mobile Website Optimization – You’ve Got Options
sound advice on URL structures for mobile so it makes perfect sense to follow-up on her excellent column with some additional thoughts on...

The Value Of Google Analytics For Mobile
Why Use Analytics For Mobile? The main reasons to use analytics for mobile are the same as the reasons for using analytics on any...

The Rise Of Local Mobile Pay-Per-Call – 3 Tips For SMBs
recently reported 30 times the number of mobile pay-per-call ads in Q1 2012, when compared to Q1 2011. Since mobile devices are not only...

Does Your Agency Need A “Mobile Lead”?
Most of these questions are topics of intense debate and few have an easy answer. When it comes to mobile, there is a lot of grey and...

Beyond The Majors: Meet The Local-Mobile Ad Networks
According to 2011 survey data from JiWire, 63% of survey respondents said they were “more likely” to engage with ads relevant to their...
























