A new breed of customer has emerged—and they’re in charge. The smartphone has enabled consumers to be plugged in, always on, and completely in control in a way that changes the fundamental assumptions of marketing and customer service. Businesses have already adjusted to reaching consumers in the digital world, but connecting with them in a mobile world requires a new set of principles and best practices.
In The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile, Chuck Martin—CEO of Mobile Future Institute and Director of the Center for Media Research at MediaPost Communications—offers a roadmap that will help companies understand both why and how to interact with customers through mobile platforms. Through original research and interviews with industry leaders, Martin offers an overview of the mobile landscape—the mobile startups, the businesses that leverage those services, and the “m-powered” customers. What’s more, he offers a horizontal view of the ways companies can connect with customers in the space—from simple text messaging campaigns to sophisticated location-based marketing, and everything in between.
Going beyond a mere exploration of the technological advances that are being made in the field of m-commerce, Martin lays out the new laws of mobile marketing in full, equipping managers, chief marketing executives, and business owners looking to connect with their customers with the full range of mobile marketing options.