Let me ask you 3 questions.

1. Do you carry your cell phone with you everywhere you go?
2. Don’t you think most people do?
3. Wouldn’t the cell phone be the most obvious place to promote your business?

THEN WHY AREN'T YOU USING IT??

Times are changing and you need to change with them in order to stay ahead of your competition. You need to learn how to advertise your business in a way that reaches the target. You need Mobile Text Marketing.

Immediacy is so important in today’s society. Consumers demand it now and are unwilling to wait. They are constantly on the go so reaching them has proven to be a challenge. Mobile Text Marketing helps you meet this challenge by delivering value to the consumer through the creation of an instant promotion.

5 Reasons Why You Need Mobile Text Marketing Now

1. It will create an additional source of revenue to your business by driving in sales created by your instant alerts, contests, surveys and coupons.

2. It is the easiest and fastest way to reach your target market and influence their behavior. If you have to advertise, you might as well have fun doing it.

3. It is the next generation of marketing. It will soon make traditional forms of advertisement obsolete. You can send out a promotion in minutes.

4. You need to get it before your competition does because the successful businesses eventually will.

5. Most if not all of your customers and potential customers have a mobile phone. You can literally reach all of them. Once a consumer receives your coupon it can be forwarded to friends, family and co-workers thereby multiplying the reach of your promotion. And here is the best part. They cannot lose the coupon. It stays on their phone.

There are so many ways on how you can advertise your business and have fun doing it. Here are some examples.

• Create your own Holiday and send out a discount coupon for the occasion.
• Send out a trivia question and the first 5 people to send in the correct answer get a prize
• During school months, anyone bringing in a straight "A" report card gets a discount
• Send a song snippet over a voice broadcast for a "Name that Tune" discount
• Entertainers can ask trivia about the band to win a free CD

I think you get the idea. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination. The objective is for you to interact with your customer on a more personal level in order to build customer loyalty. I wish someone would send me a discount coupon on my birthday. It would sure make me think that I matter to that business.

If you are looking for fun and creative ways on how to advertise your business, you should consider all the possibilities of mobile text marketing today.