CHAPTER 16 CHARACTERISTICS OF TRIAL AND ADOPTION 1. Relative advantage: Degree that a product is perceive to be superior to other products 2. Compatibility: Degree of consistency between new product and consumer perceptions of members of product category 3. Complexity: How difficult it is to learn to use new product 4. Triability: Extent to which the product can be tried 5. Observability: degree to which new products benefits are evident STRATEGIC DRIVERS FOR MOBILE MARKETING Context, growth of social networks, time sensitive, high-value, voice activation, one- click payment, security, privacy, expanded permission marketing PLANNING A MOBILE MARKETING CAMPAIGN The average social network user is 37 years old Average Twitter user is 39 years old Average Facebook user is 38 years old Average MySpace user is 31 years old Average Bebo user is 28 years old MORE PLANNING 1. Who are the customers and where are they? 2. What attitudes do members of the target marketing hold about their brand? 3. What message will be compelling? 4. When to send messages and how often both refer to important strategic drivers of mobile marketing? 5. What action do we want to mobile user to take? 6. What metrics will be used to measure the success of the campaign? APPS It is important that apps be available on a wide variety of devices and OSs New technologies have made mobile marketing more powerful than ever Location based marketing: smartphones ability to track location used to show relevant ads QR codes: codes scannable by smartphones that can link to a variety of things FIN