While cofounder Bill Gates stepped away from the CEO’s job in 2000, handing over the day-to-day running to lieutenant Steve Ballmer, he cannot be blind to the obvious: his legacy is about to be undone. Unless Microsoft gets its product and customer focus right, it will wither on the vine.
Discussions around mobile in 2013 should no longer focus only on technology or marketing, but include a harsh reality about to hit marketers.
For several years, retailers have struggled to use mobile messaging effectively. It is an enticing proposition – reaching roughly 300 million U.S. consumers on a device that is almost always nearby.
Extreme leniency from Wall Street, venture capitalists and angel investors in the past two decades has enabled flights of fancy and the launch of ventures that would never have lasted a year in the pre-Internet era.
Most dialogue within marketers and retailers focuses on how to tap new technology and marketing to hang on to consumer relationships. What they should be discussing is the sea-change in consumer behavior expected in the next three to five years.
The past couple of years have been dominated by one-upmanship within the mobile advertising and marketing ecosystem. It seems the only way one mobile channel can succeed is by demeaning another. This must stop.
YourVersion is aiming to make holiday buying decisions easier for tech-savvy shoppers via a mobile application that lets them view the latest products, news and reviews.
If retailers don’t watch their back, Amazon is on its way to becoming synonymous with mobile commerce.
With the economy on the mend – gullible enough to believe the data – it’s time for luxury brands to get out of hibernation and seriously launch mobile marketing and commerce efforts.
Applications will get special attention this week at the International CTIA Wireless 2010 conference in Las Vegas. But aside from the lavish praise on this mobile channel, it is time to call for some critical scrutiny.
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May 24, 2013