Wednesday, May 11, 2011

How Can SMS Advertising Help Retail Businesses

Nowadays retail businesses are growing slowly when compared to the multinational. Multinational companies spend much money to advertise their products. But while coming to the retail businesses, these businesses are facing big problem to advertise their products. If the retail businesses opt SMS advertising, it will be very easy for the retail business to advertise their products and to reach the target customer.

Benefits of SMS advertising for the retail business are

  1. Retail businesses can get more audience for their advertising. With the help of SMS advertising retail business get many customer from different places.
  2. SMS advertising helps retail business owner to target the potential customer. For example: Few products are specially designed for the students. For these products, the retail business owner can send SMS ad for students by using SMS advertising campaign, instead of giving advertisement in papers, media and other ad agencies. Due to this, there is a chance to get more sales.
  3. SMS advertising is less cost expensive to implement. With the help of SMS advertising the retail business owner can save his money. For example: If the business person gives advertisement in any other media, like paper, TV channel, and in ad agencies, the owner needs to pay much money for those channels. If the owner use SMS advertising, the owner need not pay money to others.
  4. By using SMS advertising the retail business owners can increase their sales, when there are not enough customers during that day. For example: A super market is not getting much sales during the day. But the business owner wants more sales for the day. In such cases, SMS advertising helps owner to increase his sales, by sending SMS ad for the group of people. The messages can be like “if you buy 200 worth of items today, you will get 15% discount”. In this way SMS advertising helps the retail business owner to increase sales when there are no sales.
Therefore, by studying above points, one can say that SMS advertising plays a significant role in retail businesses.

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