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White Label Mobile Websites

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If you are a web developer, marketing agency, publisher, or small business owner, there is no better time than NOW to open a new revenue stream by selling white label mobile websites. Today’s consumers are mobile and if your customers don’t have an optimized mobile web presence, they are going to lose business.

If you are wondering, “how can I sell White Label Mobile Websites”, here are some quick facts to help you in your endeavor:

  • 85 percent of all U.S. adults own a mobile phone and 56 percent of these use their mobile phone to access the Internet
  • Mobile devices make up about 20 percent of ALL web browsing — and the number is rising
  • 59% of mobile users spend 40 minutes or more per day accessing the mobile web
  • Over 20 percent of Google searches happen on mobile devices and 50 percent of mobile searches are local
  •  64 percent of smartphone users only wait four seconds for content to load
  • 67% of users are more likely to buy from a mobile-friendly site; while 61% of people said that they’d quickly move onto another site if they didn’t find what they were looking for right away on a mobilesite

The reasons why businesses need to have a mobile-friendly website are plentiful, yet many small businesses face a number of factors holding them back.

The main reason for their business to have a white label mobile website is that their customers are mobile, bottom line!  Which in turn means, their business needs to be mobile, too.  Not only are we using our smartphones while away from our offices and computers, but we are using our mobiles and tablets while watching TV. and movies.  We are using them from the comfort of our couches and at our kitchen tables.  We are using them to access information quickly and easily.  If I can’t access your site from my smartphone or tablet, I’m leaving.  I will find a site that provides me the information I need somewhere else.

The simple question to ask each business owner is “have you mobilized your site?  If not, why not? ”

Check out more info on our site: http://www.avidmobile.com/white-label/advantages/white-labeled-sales/

Mobile Marketing Private Label – Keeping what’s yours … yours

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Differentiating yourself from your competitors is crucial in business … maybe the most important thing. That may include companies like your technology provider. You sold the business, why shouldn’t you be responsible for it? We are help to help you, not vice versa.

That’s where your Mobile Marketing Private Label comes in. As of the release of our new, and highly touted AvidMobile 1.5, no longer will any elements of AvidMobile’s branding be exposed to your clients … a critical step forward in protecting your brand while using the best tools in the business. Including the use of our advanced mobile website builder, new kiosk creator, and a variety of shortcodes, you can offer your clients everything, without offering them too much.

As always, you still have the choice of using a full white labeled product for the most robust option in brand development and recognition. But our private label is unused, unmentioned in any search engine result or forum board (you’ll note that I’m specifically not mentioning the brand here!) and will never lead your clients back to the business behind your business. After all, you earned it. And we’re not doing to get in the way.

So call us for a demo today and let an account representative tell you what a Mobile Marketing Private Label can do for you or your business, and let us explain the AvidMobile advantage. And if you’ve tried us before, you should come back and check out AvidMobile’s new 1.5 platform, with increased functionality, security, protection, and top of the line technological tools mixed with a real-world friendly interface, for everyone from the tech geek to the computer challenged.

Let no one forget this is a business about people, and about you. Don’t let the identity of your tools get between you and the success you are capable of earning.

Resell Short Codes

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In order to send or receive messages between mobile phones and a software application, carriers use a special phone number called a Short Code which is typically a 5-6 digit number. Short Codes are available in two formats: Shared and Dedicated.

A Shared Short Code is a Short Code that you will share with other businesses.  Keywords are used to separate one business from the other in terms of program traffic.  For example, if you are a coffee shop, you may select the keyword “coffee”.  Messages sent from this coffee business would come from the Short Code 72727 or 28748 and may or may not display the keyword “coffee” to the recipient.  When a recipient replies to a message, her or she enters the specific keyword, so the message is properly routed to the intended company.

Any company can utilize multiple keywords to differentiate between marketing campaigns, business divisions, products, etc.  Shared Reseller Short Codes are limited by the fact that specific keywords may no longer be available.  Once again, this is a key selling and buying point when choosing the right provider, do they have the access to unlimited keywords at no extra costs and multiple short codes for you to choose from?  For example, another company may already be using the keyword “coffee”.  If they are and you are partnered with a company that is only supplying you with one shared short code, then you may loose this client to a competitor of yours because they have the access to multiple short codes to free up the keyword “coffee”.

AvidMobile offers Shared Short Codes for U.S. markets. Shared Short Codes offer two major advantages: low cost and quick set up. Our Shared Short Codes have already been provisioned by carriers to provide a fast and simple way for you to get started.

You know you want to utilize Mobile Marketing, but which do you need? A Dedicated Short Code or a Shared Shortcode?

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Your business is your baby. As your baby grows, people recommend that you dress it a certain way, that you only feed it this, and don’t get it involved with that. There are people that will try to sell you everything under the sun to get the business “feeling better” and to help optimize the impact of every dollar that goes out.  But the only true way to gauge EVERY type of ad that you are putting out there is to be able to have a trackeable stream of contact and engagement for each campaign. We do this through the use of Keywords and Shortcodes. You know you want to utilize Mobile Marketing, but which do you need? A Dedicated Short Code or a Shared Shortcode?

With Avidmobile, you have options. With many SMS White Label providers out there, you are limited to what kinds of Short codes that you can set your mobile marketing campaigns up with.  Many of those providers offer just ONE Shared short code, and limit your number of keywords. With Avidmobile, you can have access to as many as 3 Shared short codes at the same time, which drastically improves your chances of getting the keyword availability that you want. If a client is set on having every keyword available on any particular 5 or 6 digit short code, they can actually pay a premium to lease their own Dedicated Short code. The Short code must be available and not in use, and those can be checked at www.usshortcodes.com . Once you have found the Short code that your company wants as its own, we can reserve that short code and create your company a Marketing center to start broadcasting videos, sending mobile website links, sharing mobile coupons, and collecting data via text message to build a vast database for long-term re-marketing efforts. Granted, all of this can be done via Shared short code as well, but for those clients that want some exclusivity, the Dedicated short code is the way to go.

When you are looking to start up your own mobile marketing campaign, and are deciding on A Dedicated Short Code or  Shared Short Code, remember that a lot of your company’s objectives can be met with the Shared short code’s accesses and abilities. Remember too though that a lot of that depends on your provider themselves. And not any provider can provide the service you need to make a Dedicated Short Code campaign run smoothely. Don’t get taken for a ride, give us a call today at Avidmobile and keep your company at the front of your customers’ minds,  and be available at their fingertips.

Call Avidmobile now at 877-511-6624, or learn more at www.avidmobile.com

 

 

Private Label SMS Marketing by AvidMobile

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We are a national provider of mobile marketing services but we do more than just your typical mobile marketing. It’s mobile integration, it’s strategic marketing, it’s creating sophisticated and engaging messaging that your audience wants to hear. We are real people, real marketers, we have been in online generation for years now. We work with national brands and we have a lot of experience over the years now and all of that is very important to somebody who is coming to us and looking to us as a partner. The main thing is whether your a reseller, a media company, a digital company, advertising company, whatever it is looking to add our product line on or whether your a retailer or a restaurant looking to produce the greatest amount of return on investment. You are looking for a fast and economical solution because marketing is done in the streets. We have a deadline on Friday and we have to be able to get the right mobile message into that, in real time, to be able to make that marketing effective. That kind of entire philosophy behind our company is the reason we don’t charge for keywords. We don’t want our brands that we work with to not be able to track those advertising mediums. We want our brands to be able to put any keyword they want on all of their promotions to actually track the effectiveness of those marketing mediums. That way they use the technology, that way they can actually build a database and use it to lead generate. Our company looks across the board to integrated mobile strategically across everything that they are doing to drive the behaviors that they want. We work point of sale strategies, we integrate into the broadcast media or the event marketing with a sexy engaging message to pick up leads. We do that as a way to grow the customer base and ultimately retain those clients.

To learn more check out our website: http://www.avidmobile.com/white-label/advantages/white-labeled-sales/

Sophisticated and Timely Marketing

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Sophisticated and Timely Marketing

            Comparing several providers? Getting bombarded with a variety of strategies and methodologies about how to run your business? While going through and doing your comparisons, one thing you should place in the category of being “necessary” is a short code. They are the easiest to market, most effective method of delivery and most timely.

First, when you are out reselling short codes to a business, it is significant for them to understand the importance of building databases and the marketability a short code possesses. Think about it, how easy is it to remember to text “Hutson” to “72727” when you see it on print pieces, or even hear it being broadcasted over the radio. Several other forms of text marketing are far more complicated and harder for a client to retain, thus effecting the growth of your database.

Second, short codes are hands town the most effective and timely method of sending SMS promotions. Several other gateways have limitations as to how many messages can be send hour by hour (Long-Codes) or have deliverability rates ranging from 30-50% (SMTP) and even those messages that deliver may not get there in a timely fashion. While reselling short codes, you are capable of driving a customer’s behavior by sending them timely messages. With an open read rate of 95% within the first 5 minutes of sending an SMS promotion, you can send out promotions 30 minutes before the lunch rush, or the day of a big event and feel secure knowing all your subscribers got the promotion you wanted them to receive.

So as one can see, short code messaging is the only route to go if you want to succeed in this industry and make the most amount of money possible.

For more information check out our site: http://www.avidmobile.com/aggregators/shared-shortcodes/

Finding an Easy to Use Mobile Website Builder

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Having a mobile friendly website is a very important feature in today’s world when most customers are searching on there mobile devices versus a regular desktop site. If you do not have a mobile enabled site it can distract the end user from finding the information they are needing to quickly receive on the fly and therefore it can turn them away from your website completely. In order to avoid that it is very important that businesses have a mobile friendly site that is easy on the eyes, straight to the point and gives the consumers the information they need on the go. The tricky part is finding a good, reliable and easy to use mobile website builder to accomplish these goals for your client.

There are many, many different types of mobile website builders out there in space so finding the best one to use is key. You want the best price as well, so you can turn around and sell those mobile sites to your clients while still making money for taking the time to build the sites as well as residual income for updating and making changes to your client’s sites for them. Or giving them access to go in and make changes to the site themselves on the fly if that is what they are wanting to do. You will need the flexibility and options to do all of these things to accommodate each different client you may have. With our company we give you access to the most user friendly site builder out there to date, as well as the best pricing on the cost of each site and the cost of hosting each site on our builder. You are given tutorial videos, example websites that have already been built by our experts to show as examples to your potential clients as well as much, much more.

Affiliate Marketing vs White Label Partnership

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As one of the leading providers in the mobile marketing industry, we receive several inquiries into partnering up with our organization to offer our services. One popular demand is how to become an affiliate to AvidMobile and what are the downsides if any.

While being an affiliate can lead to success, I always advise anyone comparing these two options to choose a white label partnership. First, you are building your own brand and in control of how your business operates instead of someone else. At the same time every client you close belongs to you and if you decide to sell your business or even move on you are capable of doing so and controlling what happens to your entire book of business. In addition a white label reseller makes far more money. For instances most affiliate programs give you a small commission and residual off the set up fee and monthly fee you close a client at, however the real money-maker is the volume of messages each client sends out. Think about it, what if you closed a client that builds up a customer base of 1500 numbers and sends two promotions a month? If you are only making three cents off each text message, that is an additional $90.00 of residual income going right into your pocket. Not to mention as a white label partner you set your own rates and if you were to charge a $299.00 set up, the entire fee would go right into your pocket.

Not comfortable on how to price out clients? No worries, we have a full certification course that walks you through the entire process of pitching and closing mobile marketing. We will not only teach you how to price out clients, but also how to pitch and close them effectively. Along side all the training, we have several sales tools including re brand-able pricing, proposals, agreements, power-points, etc.

When you sit down and compare the options you have, you’ll come to two very clear conclusions. AvidMobile & a white label partnership will give you the best chance to succeed and make the most amount of money possible in this industry.

Why AvidMobile is Your Choice for a Short Code Marketing Reseller

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In the emerging world of SMS marketing and taking your business to new frontiers, there are a lot of new names … and a lot that will be forgotten soon.

The nature of any market development has followed this pattern since modernization. But there are a number of reasons that AvidMobile should be your choice as your Short Code marketing reseller, and it’s more than just dedicated support, real world marketing experience, and the best technology. It’s because we’ve been right where you are now … yes, you, reading this blog post. And we know what works, and what doesn’t. And we’re here for the long haul.

Our Short Code Marketing team has dedicated, protected short codes on a limited number of clients, which provides value two-fold. One, it enables us to defray the high cost and hassle of establishing one’s own short code, only to use a fraction of its capability. And two, it gives you an experienced team watching technical issues and compliance like a hawk. Such peace of mind of uptime and carrier communication can only be obtained through experience, and we are willing to put that to work for you.

Have you considered the possibilities of your short code? The team at AvidMobile has, and would love to tell you about exciting ways we’ve found to succeed in an emerging market with a potentially limitless upside. This world is yours for the taking, you just have to reach around … to us.

So why wait? Our account managers will be happy to talk to you not just about offering you a product, but how you can build your business to succeed. Feel free to look around if you like. I think you’ll find that when it comes time to select a Short Code Marketing Reseller, you’ll come back to AvidMobile. And you’ll be more than happy that you did.

Should I Use a Dedicated or Shared Short Code?

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In the world of text marketing there is one thing that is a constant. That is the short code. It could be 5 digits or it could be 6 digits but regardless of the length, its an important part of the process.  Now the question becomes…should I get my own dedicated code or use a shared short code? Lets take a look at some of the differences and benefits of each.

Lets start with a dedicated short code. Typically you will find that the sort of businesses that are utilizing a dedicated short code are fortune 100 and 500 companies. The reasons for this are two fold. The main reason is because they can afford it. The cost to set up and provision your own dedicated short is expansive. Typically the cost to set up a dedicated short code is about seven to ten thousand dollars and that’s before you can even use the dedicated code because it takes typically at least 3 months to get it provisioned. Then about twelve thousand dollars a year to maintain. The benefit to this however is great. These companies don’t have take the risk that someone else using the short code may make a mistake and do something to get the code shut down by a carrier. In addition they will want to run a variety of campaigns, spread over a large amount of  territories and specific keywords may be crucial to these campaigns. As a rule of thumb, the more people using a code in the shared code scenario, the fewer the premium keyword availability will be.

Now lets take a look at the benefits of using a shared short code. The major benefit is that is much more cost and time effective. By essentially leasing a code from a Tier 1 provider you eliminate the high cost of establishing your own short code and can literally be using the shared code the the same day. Of course there are some risks involved with sharing a code with a pool of other companies, but your major providers do a very good job of regulating these risks according to the CTIA’s guideline of standards.

Should I Use a Dedicated or Shared Short Code? In conclusion, if you are looking to start your own mobile marketing company from the ground up, or just looking to use mobile marketing for your business, then there are plenty of shared code solutions for you out there. Leave the dedicated codes for the fortune companies…for now. You can read more about shared codes here.