Thinking about Bluetooth advertising? Consider these great uses of Bluetooth marketing for a variety of businesses.

1) Radio stations. We’ve all heard remote broadcasts at car dealerships. Imagine a radio station booking additional revenue by offering to broadcast on-site Bluetooth alerts about the hottest vehicles. Suddenly the dealership is generating leads that they otherwise may not get, because most folks don’t want to talk to a salesperson and just want the info on the car(s) they’re interested in.

2) Grocery stores, coffee shops, bookstores (basically any retail outlet). Why aren’t you using Bluetooth to broadcast coupons, new merchandise, this week’s specials, and so much more? Get a long-range dongle, buy some software, and amaze your customers with your cool factor and with the deals you’re advertising.

3) Got an oil change yesterday. Now wondering why they’re not setting themselves apart from the other oil change joint right across the street, by using Bluetooth to broadcast their car repair specials.

4) Concerts. Use Bluetooth to sell band merchandise right over the phone, to be mailed or picked up at the table in the back. Bluetooth broadcast fan club subscriptions, album info, upcoming events, etc.

5) Movie theaters. Bluetooth snack bar specials and opt-ins for your frequent movie watcher club.

Add to the above Bluetooth uses for banks, at race tracks, and more and you begin to realize that the Bluetooth possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Of course, best practices do apply–such as ensuring every transmission is permission-based and keeping file sizes small.

Perhaps the best news for any business or non-profit considering Bluetooth advertising, is that hardware & software costs are coming down significantly. One such example is Proxiblaster’s Bluecast box–a self-contained campaign manager/transmitter, which simply needs a power source to run and can be remotely programmed over any web connection.

Lucky Rock Consulting will be glad to help you get started with Bluetooth advertising. Contact us today.
Jason Anderson

Bluetooth advertising and buzz marketing consultant for businesses and ministries of all sizes.

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India is fast becoming a hot market for Bluetooth advertising. We’ve previously reported on Bluetooth marketing at the Harry’s Bar & Casino chain. Now comes news of Bluetooth advertising at Hindu temples.

While you may not agree with the religious content they’re offering, don’t let that stop you from utilizing Bluetooth broadcasting at your church.

No, you don’t need to jump off the cliff into inauthenticity by hawking religion on people’s cell phones. Yes, your church can provide helpful and potentially life-changing content via Bluetooth.

If your church campus is comprised of several buildings or if each section of your main building serves a different purpose–educational, children’s ministry and otherwise–imagine Bluetoothing church maps and intro videos to visitors. You could also use Bluetooth to facilitate service signups at ministry fairs and other gatherings.

In fact, if your congregation plays host to community events, you could reach many unchurched folks with low-key intro videos and service times via Bluetooth. Just advertise the availability of content via simple print signage, through your closed circuit TV network or by some other means.

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There is no denying that telecommunications is and will continue to be part of the world economy. In fact, companies, such as Wal-mart, Amazon and others, have used telecommunications to build global empires. As technological advancement continues to improve the telecom industry, revenues will continue to rise because of it. Bluetooth is one such advancement. Out of bluetooth connectivity comes bluetooth marketing.

Mobile marketing has become increasingly popular as an advertising channel. While traditional advertising campaigns, such as television advertising or magazine advertising, have a wider reach, it is so costly and does not guarantee attention. This system capitalizes on what most people have in common and that is cellphones. Its hard to ignore a tone for incoming calls, even the silent mode with vibrate on does its wonders on getting the users attention. One key feature of the Bluetooth Marketing Software is allowing the consumer to opt in and opt out of the service at any time.

Lets say you are an affiliate and you setup the broadcaster in a high traffic area like busy intersections or crowded parks, the broadcaster will continuously scan for the presence of Bluetooth enabled mobile devices. As soon as someone comes within range with their Bluetooth enabled mobile device, the server sends a message to the user’s phone, asking if they wish to get free content from the dealership. If the user agrees by pressing ‘Yes’ on their phone, the content is sent immediately. If the user declines, the server remembers this and won’t ask the same user again in the future.

Bluetooth is also radio-based technology and therefore broadcasting via bluetooth is free of charge. This allows you to advertise your content repeatedly increasing coverage and sales potential at the same time. You save a lot compared to the traditional advertising.

How to become an affiliate

What’s needed are just the Bluetooth Marketing Software ($499.99 – Affiliate fee included) and a 300-meter broadcaster unit with dongles ($1500). Click this link to get started today.

Return of investment

Keeping with the example, lets see how we can make money with bluetooth advertising. You can either earn money by delivering adverts. You can be paid for the number of ads delivered – say $1.00 per ad delivered during a football game. Imagine how many fans watch a football game and think about your income potential. You can also split the advertisers’ revenues generated by your bluetooth marketing system. Say you broadcasted a discount coupon for a combo meal at the nearby food store. Right after the game, football fans went to the store and claimed their coupon. So the storeowner gave you 50% commission for bringing those customers in. Now, that’s a lot.

Another approach to earning money is by way of saving money thru broadcasting your own adverts. Instead of paying thousands of precious dollars to traditional advertisers, you can broadcast your customized content – anytime and anywhere. There are many ways to return your investment but one thing is certain – it returns fast.

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The folks at the Ad Pods Bluetooth Marketing System have it setup so you can promote your enterprise locally. The employees for Bluetooth have been there and done that. But more importantly, they’ve been on the forefront of the Network Marketing Industry for quite some time. They know how “sharky” the waters can get.

Advert Marketing can be overwhelming for a lot of Network Marketers. They are more than just flyers. The pods will send pictures, videos, animation, music and virtual business cards, which stores your contact information right into the recipients phone. That is powerful!

If you use the software and pod together it’s much easier to control. As an example, you can program to send adverts on a schedule. If you have a promotion you wish to send out at ten in the morning and another one sent out at three o’clock in the afternoon, this can be programmed into the unit.

The pod can also run a blocking list. If you are using the pod at a specific location in town, and do not want to be hitting the location you are in over and over again. This program doesn’t permit error. It doesn’t broadcast a duplicate message unless you ask it to. The blocking list will also not send a message to someone who has declined to receive your message.

Although Ad Pods works by itself, it can also become mobile with an additional battery pack. Try sending off thousands of advertisements while off skiing or fishing. Wherever you go, wherever you are, you can be marketing your services and products using this product.

Using Ad Pods puts you in a very unique position when prospects are phoning you to find out more about your offer. Most of the time you’ll be contacting them cold.

Because this method of Bluetooth advertising is Opt-in advertising, it is permission based. This means that the customers receiving your adverts are not being spammed by you.

This company’s vision is to be that company that sets the standards for the future legislation that will enforce and regulate this type of technology. At the present, a vast majority of the marketplace is not yet aware of the full scope of this new technology, or where it will go.

Ad Pods Bluetooth Marketing System is poised in the edge of greatness. They have the right products and a clear vision of the future of this technology that is growing in leaps and bounds.

This company is positioned with one of the easiest, simplest, most cost effective products in the marketplace. They want top class independent distributors to affiliate market their system with them and help them make the Bluetooth market regulated.

It is a special moment in their evolution. This company knows they will grow because of their system and also because of their commitment to the customers. For more insight into their lucrative payment plans and more information about the affiliate program they offer, you can get all of the details at the company’s website.

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FOR SOME TIME NOW, I have discussed with those in the industry the void of market movement in the 56K Bluetooth modem space. So for that reason, it was especially positive to see that there were beginning signs for such products at the recent Blue-tooth Congress 2002. Two were shown at the CSR and Zeevo booths. It is looking like dial-up Bluetooth access points (AP) could be under the Christmas tree this year for the North American market.

The dial-up Bluetooth ALP will address the mass consumer market that does not want to spend $45 to $55 per month on a continual basis for broadband but is willing to spend a reasonable, onetime outlay for the benefits of untethered surfing and printing from their couch without installing a WLAN home network. If advertised and marketed aggressively enough, this could help to increase consumers’ knowledge of the benefits of products that offer Bluetooth cordless functionality then translate that knowledge into revenue. If not advertised and promoted effectively, these products could be slow to take off.

A greater level of consumer awareness of what Bluetooth is and what benefits it offers is the key to unlocking the box of consumer demand. Though knowledge is increasing, the low level of familiarity of Bluetooth by the average consumer is ensuring that mobile phone operators are still not feeling the consumer demand for Bluetooth-enabled handsets. Nokia and Motorola are very common phones in the United States, but Ericsson is not. Sony Ericsson has been the most aggressive Bluetooth-enabled handset manufacturer to date, but there has not been a significant push or driver thus far in the United States.

Since operators subsidize so many phones, it is necessary for them to see some benefit to offering Bluetooth-enabled phones to their subscribers. So they need to reap a return in terms of customer loyalty (for lower churn), obtaining new subscribers, or revenue. Driver safety alone could be a significant trump card in offering subscribers additional benefits. If operators begin to bundle mobile phones and Bluetooth headsets in an aggressive manner, in conjunction with a marketing campaign targeting hands-free use in vehicles for safety, demand could increase quickly.

On the acquisition front, comments were recently flying around regarding the acquisition of Ericsson Microelectronics by Infineon Technologies. The deal is expected to close in about two months. Infineon gains the module business via Ericsson, inroads to supplying semiconductors into wireless infrastructure and a supplementary customer list. Previously, STMicroelectronics began its acquisition of the wireline and wireless groups of Alcatel Microelectronics, while American Microsystems Inc. began its acquisition of Alcatel Micro’s mixed signal group. The acquisitions of Ericsson Microelectronics and Alcatel Microelectronics do not directly affect current market shares of Bluetooth chipsets.

Recent announcements by Texas Instruments for a $4 (BOM) Bluetooth solution via a ROM-based single chip and by Infineon Technologies for sub-$3.75 pricing (both high volumes) have set a new bar. Both use leading 0.13-micron RE CMOS processes, and volume production is planned for Q12003. Philips Semiconductors announced an affiance with Ericsson Technology Licensing for audio/video solutions. For space-constrained applications, Motorola will go into production in Q4 with a stacked chipset die solution in a 7mm-by-7mm-by-1.6mm BGA package. The price will be the same for the company’s separate radio and baseband.

Coexistence solutions were demonstrated by Silicon Wave (Blue802) and Zeevo (alternate wireless media access, or AWMA). Neither is based on the not-yet-finalized adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) scheme. These mechanisms are geared especially toward the PC market since the front-end can get overloaded in co-located situations (such as a laptop), which can still present a problem with AFH. The first coexistence solutions to hit the shelves are expected in the next six to nine months.

In-Stat/MDR estimates Bluetooth chipset shipments will climb from 10.4 million units in 2001 to 48 million this year, growing to 150 million in 2003.

Joyce Putcher is director and principal analyst of InStat/MDR’s Converging Markets & Technologies Group. She can be reached at jputscher@instat.com. InStat/MDR owned by Reed Business Information, the parent company of Electronic News.

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Bluetooth Makes it Easy for All Your Devices and Accessories to Work Together

Bluetooth is one of the latest marketing buzzwords for PDAs and cellular phones, along with PCs and especially laptops. It is a wireless technology designed to let products and accessories built by different manufacturers work together, without requiring special access codes or driver installation. Theoretically, any Bluetooth accessory should work with any Bluetooth-enabled device, and multiple accessories working with the same device shouldn’t interfere with each other.

For example, if you pick up a Bluetooth headset for your current PDA, and then in a year’s time replace it with a new PDA, the headset should work with the new PDA without any difficulties. With some older PDA Bluetooth accessories and devices, this is not always the case, but generally the more recent the design of the accessory or device, the more likely it is to work with other Bluetooth products.

PDAs, Cellular Phones, and Computers

New PDAs today resemble cellular phones as much as classic PDAs like the Palm Pilot. Most of these devices are Bluetooth-enabled, and even have the capability to link with other Bluetooth-enabled PDAs and cellular phones to exchange data. For models that are not Bluetooth-enabled, there are frequently PDA Bluetooth accessories available that will add Bluetooth capabilities to the unit. Bluetooth adapters are also available for PCs and laptops, usually plugging into a USB port, allowing you to easily exchange data between your computer and your PDA.

Just about any type of data can be transferred over a Bluetooth link, from electronic business cards and pictures to word processing documents and PowerPoint presentations. For transferring data from a PDA to a computer, special software is often needed and included with the Bluetooth adapter. However, PDAs running Windows Mobile can communicate natively with computers running Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista.

Having a Bluetooth PDA and a Bluetooth adapter for your computer can eliminate the need for a docking station or sync cable, removing one more piece of clutter from your desktop. You can even set the two devices up so they automatically synchronize their data when they’re in range of each other.

Other PDA Bluetooth Accessories

Headphones and headsets are the most common PDA Bluetooth accessories right now. Wireless headphones are great if your PDA has music stored on it, because you don’t have an unsightly wire running from your head to your pocket or purse. Headsets and earpieces allow hands-free operation of your cell phone or smart phone, which is not only convenient but is also quickly becoming a legal requirement world-wide for using your phone in your car.

Printer manufacturers are quickly adding Bluetooth capabilities to their products, turning them into convenient PDA Bluetooth accessories. Previously, to print something stored on your PDA, you had to use the docking station or sync cable to download the information to your computer, then print it from the computer. With a Bluetooth-enabled printer, you can send your data directly to the printer without the intervening steps. If your computer is also Bluetooth-enabled, it can send data to the printer as well, eliminating the need to hook up the printer to the computer or network.

There are many other PDA Bluetooth accessories available for your PDA, and with Bluetooth it doesn’t matter who manufactures either the device or the accessory. A Motorola headset will work with an iPhone, and a Palm Tungsten can print spreadsheets on a HP LaserJet. Manufacturers are constantly coming up with new PDA Bluetooth accessories to meet the demands of consumers. Bluetooth technology is making it easier for everyone to communicate.

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Network Marketing Professionals can use the Ad Pods Bluetooth Marketing System to advertise your business locally. The advertising staff have prior experience in the Business Field. They also have a pulse on the Network Marketing Field. The Ad Pods Bluetooth Marketing System knows all about building in competitive markets.

Advert marketing is so much more than a lot of marketers would expect. They are more than just flyers. The pods will send pictures, videos, animation, music and virtual business cards, which stores your contact information right into the recipients phone. That is powerful!

If you use the software and pod together it’s much easier to control. As an example, you can program to send adverts on a schedule. If you have a promotion you wish to send out at ten in the morning and another one sent out at three o’clock in the afternoon, this can be programmed into the unit.

The pod can also run a blocking list. If you are using the pod at a specific location in town, and do not want to be hitting the location you are in over and over again. The software will not let this happen because it remembers not to send this same message again unless you program it to do this. The blocking list will also not send a message to someone who has declined to receive your message.

An Ad Pods is a stationary unit, but also becomes mobile with it’s optional rechargeable battery pack. Try sending off thousands of advertisements while off skiing or fishing. Wherever you go, wherever you are, you can be marketing your services and products using this product.

Using Ad Pods puts you in a very unique position when prospects are phoning you to find out more about your offer. Usually, you have to be cold calling them.

Because this method of Bluetooth advertising is Opt-in advertising, it is permission based. The prospects getting our advertisements aren’t being abused via email.

This company’s vision is to be that company that sets the standards for the future legislation that will enforce and regulate this type of technology. At the present, a vast majority of the marketplace is not yet aware of the full scope of this new technology, or where it will go.

The Ads Pods Bluetooth Marketing System is on the verge of a major breakthrough. They have the right products and a clear vision of the future of this technology that is growing in leaps and bounds.

This company is positioned with one of the easiest, simplest, most cost effective products in the marketplace. They want top class independent distributors to affiliate market their system with them and help them make the Bluetooth market regulated.

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