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Mobile apps are a waste of time for associations.

SocialFish

According to Pew, only 29 percent of adults with cell phones use apps on their phone, compared with 72 percent who use SMS (text messaging) and 38 percent who access the internet. Researching member use of mobile (including iPad/tablet), Optimizing email for mobile web. Remember, the adoption rate for SMS is 2.5 Maddie might.)

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

This is how you will turn your casual website or Facebook visitors into ongoing subscribers and fans. This is how you lead your casual website or Facebook visitor to take that call to action: click the link, sign up, register, tell a friend, become a fan! Make every person/client feel special. Trend #4 – Do Email Marketing!

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Will India See a Rise in Digital PR?

Waxing UnLyrical

For example, Kasturi and Sons Ltd, publisher of The Hindu , has recently launched iPad and mobile apps for its general and financial newspapers. Pitching journalists via phone calls, e-mails, and SMS’ are not the only ways of securing media coverage anymore. Holding events both online and offline is now part of media management.

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Miss My Google Reader Updates? Here Are 4 Ways You Can Still Get Relevant Tech News

Stay N' Alive

Just send "follow jesseslinks" to 40404 (you don't need a Twitter account, but that is Twitter's SMS service) on your cellphone and you'll immediately start getting news updates delivered to you via SMS as I share them. One of my favorite News reading apps for the iPad is Flipboard. Want these on Flipboard?

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Utah Just Made Government Across the U.S. a Little More Closed

Stay N' Alive

Never mind the fact that SMS and Text messages aren't even sent by means of phone numbers any more (they are mostly sent through IP addresses and similar protocols), but we'll assume they are. For instance, what if someone sends a private direct message to Twitter or Facebook over SMS?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

After Google Voice and its third-party apps were turned down by Apple due to “it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc),&# Google built a completely browser-based app , avoiding the restrictions and not having to split the profits. You know what’s not a good idea? Pissing off Google.)

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Why Apps Fail and Other Mobile Marketing Truths

Convince & Convert

You upload the document, and it then allows you to preview what the book is going to look like in Kindle, Kindle Fire, Kindle Classic – the black and white version – Kindle Color, the Kindle app for iPad, for iPhone, and for Android. SMS – Still Valid, Still Underrated. Simon: I’m still a huge advocate of SMS.

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