As mentioned in my latest post
on this blog, mobile marketing in all its myriad forms will change
marketing as a whole in Kenya and the rest of Africa in the coming
years.
The reason for this is simple – when mobile is used as as
marketing media, it is one of the most cost-effective, ubiquitous,
measurable, targeted and scalable medias in the world today and more so
in countries like Kenya in Africa. The reach for mobile media in Africa
is over 600 million mobile subscribers and Kenya has over 28 million
mobile subscribers.
However, how can one get started? What do you need
to do and what are the pitfalls of mobile marketing. As mentioned in my latest blog post,
mobile has “sub-channels” for marketing comprised of USSD, SMS, Mobile
Web and IVR. For purposes of this post and what I know best, I would
like to talk about 6 things you need to consider if you want to market
via the Mobile Web in Kenya and/or the rest of Africa:
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