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The 1 Question To Ask Before Starting Any Mobile Marketing Campaign

Wouldn’t it be nice to see the world through your customer’s eyes?

Can you imagine how your business could grow?

See, if businesses tried to look through their customer’s eyes, they’d realize what problems they’d have to solve.

By asking yourself one question you put yourself closer to executing a successful mobile marketing campaign.

Are you solving your customers problem? 

Another way to ask this question would be, “How can I make my customers life easier?”.

Check out this short video where I share a great example of a business using mobile to solve their customers problem.

See how by just understanding your customers problem you can create a campaign that truly delivers results and solvs your customers problem? Every initiative you execute shouldn’t start until this question is answered. Sonia Simone wrote a great post called, What Problem Do you Solve ( I recommend you read) where she states:

At some point, you need to ask what problem you’re solving. (Whether that’s with your business, your nonprofit, your project, your committee.) What problem do you wish you solved? Is it a real problem? Does it matter to someone other than you?

A lot of people don’t ask themselves this question because it’s a bit intimidating. What if your answer isn’t good? It’s ok if you’re answer is weak because you would have realized that before getting started. Now, you may have made the biggest mistake in mobile marketing and answered this question too late in the game. If so, you’ll soon realize it’s much more painful when you find out too late. I’v done this and lost a lot of time when building my first SMS marketing platform.

Do yourself a favor when you go to execute your next mobile marketing initiative and ask yourself:

Am I solving my customers problem?

 

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