Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

The cat is definitely out of the bag regarding location-based mobile targeting. This post from Marketing Land’s Greg Sterling encapsulates the trend well: Most mobile marketers are usinglocation-based targeting, and they’re using it as a proxy for audience segmentation.

Although I think this trend needs to go from “most mobile marketers” to “all mobile marketers” sooner rather than later, I won’t focus on that. Instead, I’d like to share some tips from the front line: caveats, insights and more gleaned from our client campaigns, ranging from midsize to Fortune 500 companies.

Whether you’re new to location-based mobile targeting or looking for a way to refine yours, you’ll want to pay attention. (And note that some of these tips may look familiar; they’re pretty tried-and-true digital tenets with surprising resonance in the mobile realm.)...

Americans are going SoLoMo. They shop socially, search locally and do it all on mobile devices. And if you’re not going SoLoMo like they are, you will quickly be left behind. Recent research by event-promotion company Eventility indicates the importance of SoLoMo for small businesses: 97% of consumers now search for local businesses online, 72% trust online reviews, 61% of young people refer to social media to decide where to go when they go out. Most compelling: 78% of small businesses now get at least a quarter of their new customers via social media....