Referral Marketing In Store & Mobile

80% of your company's future revenue will come from just 20% of your existing customers.
— Gartner

One of the best ways to grow your business is through word-of-mouth, otherwise known as referral marketing. This is when your customers are incentivized to communicate about your brand, product, or service in order to generate more buzz and attract more consumers to your storefront.
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Referral marketing is similar to affiliate marketing, except that referral marketing requires use of software and communication platforms by customers in order to spread. Affiliate marketing requires a more active approach from business owners.
In order to help businesses get more referral opportunities, here is the perfect, inexpensive way to grow your can use for your business:
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If you are still not convinced You Need REAL MOBILE MARKETING
 
Check out these stats!


    91 percent of adults keep their smartphones within arm’s reach.
(Source: Morgan Stanley) Guilty as charged.

    Even more important to entrepreneurs: 9 out of 10 mobile searches lead to action. More than half lead to sales. (Source: SearchEngineLand) Stunning.




Do we have your attention? Read on:


    There are 6.8 billion people on the planet at present. 4 billion own mobile phones.
(But only 3.5 million use a toothbrush. Oy!)
(Source: 60SecondMarketer.com)


    As noted 91 percent of adults have their smartphones within arm’s reach. And that was as of 2007. 
We would wager the sum is closer to 100 percent now.
(Source: Morgan Stanley)
   
Twenty five percent of Americans use only mobile devices to access the Internet. 
(Source: GoMoNews.com)
   
There are 5x as many cellphones in the world as PCs.
(Source: ImpigoMobile)
   
82 percent of U.S. adults own a cellphone.
(Source: Pew Reports)
   
There are 271 million mobile subscribers in the U.S. alone.
    51 percent of U.K. mobile subscribers have a smartphone. 49 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers own a smartphone. On this front, at least, the British have the Americans beat.
(Source: MobiThinking.com)
   
Brands using SMS successfully reach 95 percent of smartphone and non-smartphone users.
(Source: GoMoNews.com)
   
90 percent of text messages get read within 3 minutes of delivery.
(Source: ImpigeMobileStrategy.com)
   
As earlier noted, 9 out of 10 mobile searches lead to action. More than 50 percent lead to sales.
(Source: SearchEngineLand)
   
Here’s a golden gem: Mobile perform 4-5x better than online ads for key metrics such as brand favorability, awareness and purchase intent.
(Source: Neilson Study)
   
37 percent of people who check in with a service like FourSquare do so
from Android. 34 percent check in from the iPhone.
    70 percent of mobile searches lead to action within one hour.
(It takes a full month for the same percentage of desktop users to catch up.)
(Source: MobileMarketer.com)
   
40 percent of mobile users have admitted looking up information about a t.v. program at the same time they were watching the show.
(Source: ImpigeMobileStrategy.com)
   
74 percent of people use their mobile phone to help them while shopping, with
79 percent making a purchase as a result.
(Source: ImpigeMobileStrategy.com)


    Neilson reported an 89 percent increase in mobile data usage from 2010 to 2011. Cisco is doing them one better: the company predicts an 18x increase from 2011 to 2016 as reported by FierceWireless.com.
    Mobile coupons receive 10x higher redemption rates than print coupons.
(Source: GoMobileBook.com)
   
The Weather Channel gets 600-700 percent higher click through rates on
mobile display ads over desktop banners.
(Source: MobileMarketer.com)
   
Total reach of Apple’s iOS (including iPhone, iTouch and iPad) exceeds the reach of
Android by 59 percent.
(Source: Comscore)
   
16.7 million mobile subscribers (including 76 percent of all smartphone users) use local check in.
(Source: Comscore)
   
81 percent of smartphone users have done product research from a smartphone
and 50 percent have made a purchase via their phone.
(Source: Prosper Mobile Insights)
   
33 percent of U.S. mobile users prefer offers via text to mobile Web (21 percent),
Apps 11 percent and voice mail (8 percent).
(Source: DMA.org,).
   
According to a February 2013 report by Mobile Marketer, however, a full 42.3 percent of consumers prefer SMS deals versus bar-code scans or push message coupons. Surprised?
    50 percent of survey respondents report responding to a text offer. Of that same group, 32 percent have scanned a coupon via a QR code.
(Source: Marketingcharts.com)
   
30 million consumers watch television content via their mobile phone. 
(Source: Nielson)
   
Data from JumpTap STAT reports men are more inclined than women to click on ads.
    Apple iOS produces nearly double the click through rate (72 percent) of Android (41 percent).
(Source: JumpTap.com)
  
 73 percent of smartphone users say they used the mobile web to
make a purchase instead of using an app.
(Source: JumpTap.com)
   


    Time spent on mobile devices is largely dominated by online games (49 percent) and
social marketing (30 percent), respectively. SpellTower, anyone?
    In 2013, mobile phones have overtaken PCs as the most common web access devices worldwide. (Source: Gartner.com)


    “I’m oughta here.” 60 percent of mobile users expect a site to load in 3 seconds or less. 74 percent are willing to wait only 5 seconds for a site to load before leaving.
(Source: Compuware.com)
   
95 percent of smartphone users have used their phone to look up local information. After doing so, 61 percent called and 59 percent visited.When asked why they would scan a QR code, 87 percent of smartphone users said it was to access a coupon, discount or deal.
    42 percent of tablet users admit to using their tablet at the same time they’re also watching t.v.
(Source: Nielson.com)
   
Not surprisingly, the majority of 25-34 year olds and 19-24 year olds (64 percent and 53 percent, respectively) now own smartphones.87 percent of mobile app downloaders have used Deal-of-the-Day sites like Groupon or LivingSocial.
(Source: Nielson.com)
   
Opportunity Alert: Adults spend 10.1 percent of their media time on mobile,
but only .9 percent of ad spends are on mobile.
(Source: eMarketer.com)
   
The average mobile campaign significantly outpaces online in ad awareness.
(Source: DynamicLogic.com)
   
16 percent of smartphone users have made a purchase because of a marketing message they received on a phone.And half of those who purchased made the purchase from the smartphone itself.
(Source: ExactTarget.com)