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  • Popularity of Bluetooth Increases – by
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 30th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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    In the world of rapid changing technology, continuously we are bombarded by names such as Bluetooth, wi-fi and TIVO. Technology has become so advance that people only need to press the button for changing the channel and use the technology of Bluetooth and infrared to transform the data.

    So are you looking for creative, cost effective methods to distribute rich media content? Here is the solution for you, Bluetooth marketing is an amazing system that uses wireless Bluetooth technology to target your audience at near proximity to your establishment with direct response message. Bluetooth is the latest and hottest cost effective technology which allows you to exchange data without wasting your money. You can send any sort of data via Bluetooth including images, audio-video, animated images, etc. It can be enable on the Bluetooth handheld devices like mobile, laptops, etc. The formula work when the Bluetooth enabled devices are relatively close “between the distance of 12 meters” to virtually any public and private spaces that are equipped with a Bluetooth MediaServer.

    There are lots of advantages of Bluetooth marketing and some of them are listed below:

    1.Free message delivery – you can deliver message content on any mobiles and PDA’s quickly. You don’t need to pay any transmission cost, not even by your target audience.

    2.24×7x365 data exchange or deliver – the Bluetooth service is enable throughout the day and the whole. Information delivery with little operator intervention required.

    3.Fixed cost – Price are fixed whether you send your communication via Bluetooth to 10 to 10,000 customers.

    The content that can be delivered with the aid of Bluetooth are – Animated images (animated GIF files), still images like JPEG wall papers, vCal (calendar event files), Audio (as WAV, MP3, MP4, RMF or ringtone files), video (as real media, 3GP or MP4 files).

    Bluetooth advertising or marketing can be integrated with other visual communication like billboards, sinages, posters for high impact etc. Bluetoothmarketing.ae is an innovative mobile marketing service offered by Image matters advertising.

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  • Parachute and Hypertag use Bluetooth Proximity Marketing – by
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 29th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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    NORTHBROOK, Ill. — Northbrook, IL based Parachute Marketing Group has brought cutting-edge Bluetooth proximity marketing to the Mid-West by deploying Hypertag units at events over the last several months. Overall, Hypertag units have been present at 5 different events and have directly reached about 60,000 people.

    As the sole authorized U.S. partner of Hypertag, a UK-based Bluetooth proximity marketing company, Parachute has brought Bluetooth marketing to consumers at the Chicago Bears Fan Festival (March 31-April 1) Bluesfest (June 7-10), Summerfest (June 29-July 8 in Milwaukee, WI) and the Taste of Chicago (June 29-July 8). Hypertag has also been in operation at Busch Stadium in St. Louis for the entire Cardinal’s season.

    One of the nation’s largest cellular carriers used Hypertag’s technology and its industry-exclusive Bluetooth wearable marketing tool to conduct an “instant-win” campaign through user’s mobile phones at the Taste. Promotional staff wore the eye-catching and lightweight Hypertag devices and intermixed with the crowd, sending out electronic coupons. Winning coupons were sent out based on the numbers of hats and shirts to give away, but the “losing” coupon gave users a second chance to win an item from their booth. Hypertag’s industry-leading “fingerprinting” technology ensures that each cell phone only has one chance to win by recognizing the unique Bluetooth address of each phone and is set to only give out the number of coupons specified by the client.

    “It’s been a great summer for Bluetooth marketing in the U.S. and for Hypertag,” Parachute Marketing Group President Brett Cutler said. “The consumer’s willingness to view content on their most cherished device opens up huge new opportunities for advertisers in an increasingly difficult environment. Hypertag’s incredible ease of use and innovative tools make it the perfect tool for companies seeking a cutting edge solution that can track the consumer from first interaction through purchase.”

    “We are very encouraged by these numbers and will continue towards our goal of making Hypertag the #1 choice for proximity marketing campaigns in the U.S.,” Cutler said. “As consumers and advertisers turn away from their televisions, print and radio and towards alternative media, the market for mobile phone-enabled advertising and marketing will only increase. We are here to supply the technology and provide the support and knowledge to help mold the campaigns to take advantage of the ever-expanding reach of the mobile phone.”

    ABOUT HYPERTAG

    Hypertag (www.hypertag.com) is a proximity marketing technology provider which allows brands to deliver rich, interactive content to consumers based on their proximity to a fixed physical location. This ensures that brands can reach their target audience at a time and place that puts their offer into a direct and relevant context when a consumer is most receptive.

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  • Plantronics Discovery 655 Black Bluetooth Headset
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 27th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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    • Cell phone accessory delivers a mobile experience unlike any other
    • Plantronics Discovery 665 sets the standard for style, mobility and performance
    • Features Digital Signal Processing (DSP), the latest in audio technology
    • Reduces noise levels to provide enhanced sound for clear conversations
    • Weighs 9 grams
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    • Digital Signal Processing for crystal clear sound
    • Sleek, stylish design for discreet connectivity
    • Ultra-light and comfortable at only 9 grams
    • Easily recharge from your PC

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  • 2.4G USB 2.0 Wireless Bluetooth Dongle Adapter
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 27th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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  • More than just adverts – by
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 26th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

    Bluetooth advertising is becoming more and more popular and fast becoming the most cost effective way of getting the message out. Companies around the world, including a number of major multi nationals, are investing their budget in proximity marketing.

    However beaming adverts to prospective customers is only one use for these boxes. These are now being used for a number of other purposes

    Recruitment

    In the UK, the army and RAF careers are using bluetooth to get the message to their potential recruits. They target an age range that have the best chance of having bluetooth enabled and have huge success rates with it, sending GIF’s to entice people into careers offices.

    Police

    Major UK police forces are harnessing the power of proximity to get serious messages across. From securing valuables out of sight in cars to serious missing person cases, bluetooth ads can get a message to many people in targeted area very quickly. A box located at the site of an incident can appeal for witnesses and people who come to the same spot again can be contacted straight away.

    Councils

    Local councils get public service messages to people, again with ease and for no cost. Litter campaigns, clean up after your dog or recycling advice can be sent quickly to peoples phones and get a message out so much quicker than conventional methods.

    The world is waking up to the hundreds of uses for proximity advertising. What started off as a simple way to get an advertising point across could end up saving someones life. Whilst their is always a market for these to beam adverts, its clear that soon bluetooth will be used in many diverse ways to maximise its potential.

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  • Bluetooth Proximity Advertising Marketing – Blue2media
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 26th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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  • New Bluetooth 2.0 Dongle USB Mogo Adapter Dapter EDR
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 25th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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  • Mobile Marketing New Trend: Proximity Marketing – by
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 25th, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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    Proximity marketing, also known as Bluetooth marketing, is a new trend in mobile marketing. This new marketing method enables an advertiser to establish a connection with Bluetooth enabled phones located within 20 meters of a designated hotspot. Since 2006, proximity marketing has turned out to be a highly efficient free advertising method, reaching millions of customers with incredible ease. At proxiblaster.com you can purchase proximity marketing software and receive maximum feedback for a minimum initial investment. With our Bluetooth broadcasting software you won’t have to pay any hidden costs or annual fees.

    A marketing campaign is successful only when it is able to reach a large number of people. Marketing methods are meant to attract target consumers and inform them about your products and services. Traditional marketing techniques are not only difficult to elaborate but also very expensive. Just think about the costs of a TV advertisement or promotional banners. And you won’t even have the certainty that the message has been received by your targeted audience. Proximity marketing software is an easy way to make sure your potential clients have received your message. At proxiblaster.com you can purchase Bluetooth broadcasting software that’s easy to install and use.

    So how does proximity marketing software actually work? The purpose of any Bluetooth broadcasting software is to deliver media files to the potential customers’ mobile devices. The software automatically sends out media files to all of the Bluetooth enabled devices within a range of approximately 10 meters. Receivers will be asked for permission to view the media on their mobile phone screen. If the potential customer accepts, the Bluetooth media file transfer will begin. The transfer is absolutely free – customers won’t have to pay anything to view it and the advertiser won’t pay any additional fees after purchasing the proximity marketing software. If the user refuses to view the advertisement, the message will disappear from the mobile phone’s screen.

    Proximity marketing can turn out to be more efficient than you’ve imagined. Users that receive the media are generally pretty interested to know what it’s about. Therefore, your message will reach more than 90% of your targeted audience. That’s a lot more than you can account for other marketing methods. Furthermore, the costs for this type of advertising are incredibly low. At proxiblaster.com you’ll only have to purchase the Bluetooth broadcasting software and will never have to pay for any additional fees.

    Making your business a success is all about intelligent marketing. You don’t necessarily have to spend a lot of money in order to broadcast your message to a large number of people. By using proximity marketing software you will be able to send a media file containing your advertisement to any number of people within a 10 meter range. Proxiblaster.com is where you’ll find Bluetooth broadcasting software at a very convenient price.

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  • Mobile Health Care Service – by
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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    MPro Care is the first two-way mobile diabetes solution that provides automated reminders and accepts readings using standard mobile phones on all major U.S. service providers. mPro Care was developed to help improve patient medication and treatment compliance for improved health care outcomes and reduced cost of care for patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, coronary artery disease and hypertension, asthma and obesity.

    “We’re very excited about this whole mobile healthcare division, and we’ve partnered with content providers and complementary platform providers to create this mobile command center platform,” said Alan Stern, CMO of Gold Mobile, Clark, NJ. “We’re trying to create solutions that can be implemented in multiple locations, from doctors’ offices and hospitals to call centers and medical labs.

    “This platform provides a rapid notification alert system with lots of capabilities for patients and their families, physicians and local authorities such as appointment confirmations and SMS reminders 24 hours before so you don’t have to have a nurse make these phone calls,” he said. “This allows them to send and receive text messages from a Web-based console to a cell phone and handle multiple calls simultaneously.

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    “We created categories that can be customized based on whatever the hospital’s needs are.”

    “We’re in the process of demonstrating this to a dozen-plus hospitals, and some are about to adopt it, while others are in the early stages.”

    There are currently over 23 million diabetics in the U.S., about 8 percent of the total population, with approximately 2 million new diabetics diagnosed each year.

    Medication compliance, proper nutrition and exercise are major factors in diabetes management, and mPro Care sends custom-tailored medication reminders, motivational and behavioral trigger messages and condition-reading requests to patients’ mobile phones via SMS.

    It will be great when we see this applied in hospitals, as I truly think such services can improve the quality of life of people with such diseases. I hope we will soon see more such services surfacing, because they are excellent examples of how the mobile technology can be put to good use and help us protect our lives and health.

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  • Insights into Proximity Marketing – Interview with Mr Antoniadis – by
    By Bluetooth Marketing Box on July 21st, 2009 | No Comments Comments

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    * How long has your company been doing what you guys do? Give us a bit of background.

    Cytech Ltd, started off as a technology provider for the mobile marketing field back in 2001, by building mainly sms marketing tools for bulk sms, and interactive sms services. Based on that very positive experience and success – mainly in the greek market – we decided to invest in bluetooth marketing by purchasing a share in a bright startup company then called Bluebird. Bluebird later evolved into Bluevibe, the company that develops the synonymous proximity marketing product for us.

    I am quite pleased to say we identified the potential in the mobile marketing field very early on, and we are very happy with our choice! (laughs) At the time we invested in Bluevibe, it was the only proximity marketing platform built in Greece, and one of the very few worldwide. Since then, we have concentrated on constantly pushing our product one step ahead of the competition, in order to be able to cope with marketing giants from around the world developing their own solution. Today our system is the only system in the world that can offer free web access via Bluetooth wherever a Bluevibe Hotspot is covering the area.

    * In your experience, do you think people are still afraid of using Bluetooth? – Is that any different in Greece than abroad?

    I am not sure if the word “afraid” is the right one but it is definitely right that most of the people are circumspect about accepting files over Bluetooth. The main reason is that they have heard that viruses can infect their mobile phones and they are coming from Bluetooth. This is something common all over the world. From my point of view there is only one solution and this is trust. When a well known brand runs a mobile marketing campaign and makes it visible to the people, they tend to trust it. According to our experience if the brand informs people about the proximity marketing event the penetration rate doubles. So there are hesitations about accepting mobile content over bluetooth but there is always a way to overcome them.

    * You’ve run a couple of very interesting campaigns lately in Greece.. Do you see the market opening up?

    Indeed, we have run a number of different campaigns, in expositions like Thessaloniki International Expo (Helexpo) or Taxi Show and DTE-Comdex, in events like the Dont Drink and Drive campaign we are currently running, and of course at the Athens International Airport. We are in the proximity marketing field for about 4 years and we know that you have to be patient. We see that marketing agencies adopt this medium day by day and that in the next years will be part of their tool set. In the beginning we had great difficulties to make marketers understand the role of this new medium at the whole marketing landscape. Now we receive daily phone calls and emails all over the world asking about Bluevibe. They know the basic features and want to know more about centralized management, web access over Bluetooth etc.

    * What is your favourite mobile marketing campaign / proximity marketing campaign, from any that you might have seen?

    I have read a great number of campaigns all over the world and many of them were very successful. But I have to say I am biased. My favourite campaign is the one we are currently run with Johnnie Walker. I like it because it is in combination with other marketing activities, field promotion, internet marketing and because the mobile application we send is very useful. It is not easy to run such a campaign as the events take place at squares where there is no electricity or network coverage and sometimes you have to overcome issues like bad weather etc. I will come back if you want with numbers when this campaign is over.

    * How do you see proximity marketing in the economic crisis?

    I think that proximity marketing and mobile marketing in general will benefit from this crisis. No one can say for sure, but my thinking is that these types of marketing media are relatively cheaper that the legacy ones like press or radio. Marketeers are trying to find new media to use, cheaper that the ones already have because the marketing budgets are lowering. We ll see about that in the next months but I have to say that the demand for Bluevibe is greater than one year ago.

    * Do your customers prefer opt-in campaigns, or opt-out?

    As you understand opt-out campaigns are easier. There is no need for acceptance and there is no need for special mechanisms to manage the opt-in lists. So, in the beginning, customers try this type of campaigns. They soon understand that even if the numbers are good they tend to lower as people get used to proximity marketing. During the first campaigns we run, people accepted to receive mobile content, most of time because of curiosity. They didn’t know what exactly this bluetooth message is and they wanted to see. Now most of the people and mainly young ones, are accustomed to the whole procedure and they want to receive only valuable information. They dont want to be disturbed and as proximity marketing events are more frequent, they want to know what they will receive before the click on OK button. I am sure that opt-in is the magical word for the next year and we, as technology providers, are obliged to provide the appropriate technology to support it.

    * How do you avoid being thought of as SPAM?

    This is one of the first things we tell our customers. It is crucial to inform people about the proximity marketing event so they are not annoyed. In addition, Bluevibe platform has a number of features to ensure that the person who says no will not be receive anything in the future. But I think the final and more antispam policy is the Bluevibe mobile application. One of the most advanced components of the platform is the interactivity. Bluevibe mobile application is installed at the user’s phone and it is s/he that begins the interaction with the system. There is no need to send him/her nothing and on the other hand s/he has access to rich content like multimedia, internet websites, facebook, wikipedia etc. Finally, in order to void being thought of as a spammer you have to:

    o inform people,
    o give them the right to opt-out easily
    o and, if the application permits it, provide interactive services.

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