More than 22.4 million people access mobile information on a daily basis-a number that has more than doubled in the last year alone. In January, 2008 the 10.8 million people accessed the web through mobile phones daily, and increased 107 percent to 22.4 million in January, 2009. Clearly it’s time for dealerships to decide not just when they are going to reach these 22.4 million potential car buyers, but how. Below are three effective mobile techniques you can use to grab more customers while they’re on the go.

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The recession has had its effect on consumer behavior online, and the watchword is frugality. Whether or not shoppers go back to their spendthrift ways, for now coupons are cool and deal-seeking is the norm.

That mindset has consequences for marketers across the board, and e-mail marketers are no exception. There is a pronounced difference between open rates for e-mails that include a coupon offer and those that do not. Open rates of around 24% to 25% for coupon e-mails dropped to just 16% to 18% for noncoupon campaigns.

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For the past decade, experts have proclaimed every year to be “the year of the mobile.” 2009 was no different, especially after Google bought mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million. However, mobile advertising isn’t as successful as predicted…yet.

Mobile advertising is far behind other mediums. It’s expected to make up $416 million in America’s ad spending this year and search marketing generates the same in about one week.

In fact, fewer than 1 in 5 Americans own a smartphone today.

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Marketers monitoring Twitter for mentions of their brand may have noticed that microbloggers are more likely to give or seek information than to sound off about a product, good or bad.

Of nearly 150,000 tweets that named brands, nearly one-half of them were simply “comments”-posts that mentioned a brand, but where the primary focus was something else. A further 18.1% were information-providing and 11.1% were information-seeking.

That left just 22.3% of tweets about brands that expressed an opinion one way or another. The good news for marketers: Twitter users were much more likely to … Continue Reading

Demographics Evening Out

As mobile Internet usage increases, men are losing their advantage in numbers. They still account for the majority of users, but women are catching up quickly.

Mobile Internet visitors were up 34% year over year to 56.9 million in July 2009. Growth among women outpaced the average rate by some 9 percentage points. Men still made up 53% of the mobile Web audience in July.

What keeps men so attached to their mobile phones for Web browsing? They make up the bulk of the audience for tech, sports and news content-and, … Continue Reading

U.S. advertisers spent $10.9 billion on Internet ads in the first half of 2009, a 5.3% decline from the same period last year, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said Monday.

Search advertising continued to represent the largest percentage of overall interactive ad spending, with search revenues reaching more than $5.1 billion in the half of 2009, up slightly from that same period in 2008, the group said in a report produced with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Display-related advertising–which includes display ads, rich media, digital video and sponsorship–totaled nearly $3.8 billion in the first six months of 2009, … Continue Reading