Definition, classification, business use, and success factors of

mobile marketing and mobile social media

Based on article by:Andreas Kaplan (2012)

Title: If you love something, let it go mobile:Mobile marketing and mobile social media 4x4

Found in: Business Horizons, 55(2), 129-139.

Definition of mobile marketing:“Mobile marketing is any marketing activity conducted through a ubiquitous network

to which consumers are constantly connected using a personal mobile device”. (p. 130)

Definition of mobile social media: Mobile social media is defined “as a group of mobile marketing applications

that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content”. (p. 131)

Definition of ambient awareness:Ambient awareness is defined as “awareness created through regular and constant reception, and/

or exchange of information fragments through social media”. (p. 132)

Definition of mobile marketing, mobile social media, ambient awareness

Kaplan Andreas M. (2012) If you love something, let it go mobile: Mobile marketing and mobile social media 4x4, Business Horizons, 55(2), 129-139.

Kaplan Andreas M. (2012) If you love something, let it go mobile: Mobile marketing and mobile social media 4x4, Business Horizons, 55(2), 129-139.

Classification of mobile marketing (p. 131)

Two variables are applied to differentiate between four types of mobile marketing applications: (1) the degree of consumer knowledge and (2) the trigger of communication.

Trigger of communication

Push Pull

Degree of consumer knowledge

High Victim Patron

Low Strangers Groupies

Kaplan Andreas M. (2012) If you love something, let it go mobile: Mobile marketing and mobile social media 4x4, Business Horizons, 55(2), 129-139.

Location-sensitivity

No Yes

Time-sensitivity

Yes

Quick-timers(Transfer of traditional social media applications to mobile

devices to increase immediacy, e.g., posting Twitter messages or Facebook status updates)

Space-timers(Exchange of messages with

relevance for one specific location at one specific point-in

time, e.g. Facebook Places, Foursquare, Gowalla)

No

Slow-timers(Transfer of traditional social media applications to mobile

devices, e.g., watching a YouTube video or reading a

Wikipedia entry)

Space-locators(Exchange of messages with

relevance for one specific location which are tagged to a certain place and read later by other others, e.g., Yelp, Qype)

Classification of mobile social media (p. 132)

Mobile marketing applications that are neither location- nor time sensitive are slow-timers, applications that take account of time and place simultaneously are space-timers. Applications that only reflect one of these two dimensions are referred to as either space-locators (location-sensitive but not time-sensitive) or quick-timers (time-sensitive but not location sensitive).

4 business uses of mobile social media

Kaplan Andreas M. (2012) If you love something, let it go mobile: Mobile marketing and mobile social media 4x4, Business Horizons, 55(2), 129-139.

1.Marketing research

2.Communication

3.Sales promotions and discounts

4.Relationship development and loyalty programs

4 I’s of mobile social media (p. 135):Success factors of

mobile social media marekting

Kaplan Andreas M. (2012) If you love something, let it go mobile: Mobile marketing and mobile social media 4x4, Business Horizons, 55(2), 129-139.

INTEGRATE your activities into your users' life to avoid being a nuisance

INDIVIDUALIZE your activities to take account of user preferences and

interests

INVOLVE the user through engaging

conversations

INITIATE the creation of user-generated

content

4 I’s of mobile social media