Mobile Marketing Manual - Triton Digital Support
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Mobile Marketing Manual - Triton Digital Support
Mobile Marketing Manual Mobile Marketing Manual v1.2 © 2009, Triton Digital PROMOTIONS PROGRAMMING SALES Table of Contents Mobile Marketing 101 Page 1 Why use text messaging at your radio station? Page 2 Goal Setting Page 3 Additional Questions to Consider Page 5 Mobile Marketing Terms Page 6 How to Build Your Database Page 10 Your Sign-Up Form Page 11 On Air Promotion Page 16 Online Promotion Page 18 In-Person / Event Promotion Page 19 Mobile Usage Statistics Page 21 Mobile Xpress Messenger FAQ Page 23 Compatibility Page 23 Database Management Page 23 Fees Page 24 General Page 24 Messaging Page 26 Two-Way Messaging Page 27 Idea Starters Page 28 Live Station Examples Page 29 Targeting and Scheduling Messages Page 33 At-Work Contesting Page 34 Lunchtime: Drive Traffic to Sponsor Locations Page 34 Demographic Targeting Page 34 Breaking News / Weather Alerts Page 35 Traffic Alerts Page 36 Using Keywords Page 37 Artist Alerts Page 38 Text-to-AirShoutouts Page 38 Text-to-Win Promotions Page 39 Sporting Contests Page 40 Promoting Local Events Page 41 Birthday Texts Page 42 Movie Times Page 42 Opt-In @ Local Events Page 43 Notes for Sales Executives Page 44 Mobile Xpress Ad Unit Types Page 45 Sample Package: Breaking News/Weather Page 49 Sample Package: Contest Sponsor Page 50 Sample Package: Keyword Sponsor Page 51 Mobile Marketing 101 Welcome to the exciting world of mobile marketing. Text messaging is wireless communication that facilitates sending messages to mobile phones and PDAs. Station-generated generated messaging and listener-generated listener messaging are enabled via SMS gateways and specialized communications protocols. SMS stands for “Short Message Service”. It’s the underlying technology behind two-way text messaging. Anyone with a text messaging capable phone, pager or PDA can send or receive messages if their mobile service plan includes this. As you read this manual, you will see this post-it post note icon. When you see the post-it it note, think about the application of this program to YOUR station and fill in the blanks! The “X” icon denotes information on a specific function found in the Mobile Xpress Messenger program from Triton Digital Media. The Ben Franklins speak for themselves! These are parts of the manual that are earmarked for the attention of your sales staff! Mobile Xpress Messenger has some outstanding opportunities for your clients! 1 WHY USE TEXT MESSAGING AT YOUR RADIO STATION? No one leaves the house without their keys, wallet, and mobile phone. Think of this as your opportunity to place a “billboard” for your radio station in every listener’s pocket. Text messaging is efficient, versatile and easy to incorporate into any marketing or promotional campaign. Station-generated generated text messages are delivered immediately and can reach listeners wherever they are – and whether or not they are listening to the station. Setting listening ‘appointments’ and sending reminders is easy, efficient and effective. Inviting listeners to text “in” to a station for special offers, requests, polls and contests is popular with stations and with listeners. MORE INSTANT THAN E-MAIL When you have instant access to your listeners anytime and anywhere, text messaging opens up an entirely new range of promotional and marketing opportunities. Wherever they are, your listeners can receive “tune-in” “tune messages, incentives to stop by your afternoon remote, breaking news alerts, VIP passes, and more – all delivered to their hand-held hand device. Text messaging is a valuable tool for your programming department, promotions department, and sales department. 2 Goal Setting This portion of the Mobile Marketing Manual is formatted for your use in setting goals for your mobile marketing initiative. RADIO STATION CALL LETTERS ____________________________________ NAME OF MOBILE MARKETING CLUB ______________________________ (examples: VIP Club, First Alert Club, Instant Text Member, [call letters] To Go, [call letters] Mobile, [call letters] on the go) RADIO STATION WEEKLY CUME (unique weekly audience) _____________ Database Acquisition GoalsProgress SIX MONTH DATABASE GOAL ________ We suggest 1-3% of your weekly cume.. ______ / ______ Entries / Date YEAR ONE DATABASE GOAL ________ We suggest 4-6% of your weekly cume.. ______ / ______ Entries / Date YEAR TWO DATABASE GOAL ________ We suggest 7-10% of your weekly cume. cume ______ / ______ Entries / Date Key Promotional Tactics [ [ [ [ 3 ] ] ] ] On-Air Promos ( Launch Date: ________________________ ) E-mail Invite ( Launch Date: ________________________ ) Events / In-Person Person Invitations ( First Event Date: __________________ ) Website Opt-In Form ( Launch Date: ________________________ ) Think through the introduction to your text club. Make sure you inform listeners about what they will be signing up for. What are three key BENEFITS to listeners when they sign up for your text messaging club? (example = contest clues/alerts, special listener coupons, weather information, local high school sports scores, announcements of inin studio interviews with artists, ticket presale announcements) 1. ____________________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________________ 3. ____________________________________________________ The Elevator Pitch Write your :15 second “elevator pitch” (a pitch short enough to hear during an elevator ride) for your text messaging club here: ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Example: Get Hooked Up! Become a "Text VIP 2 GO" member and receive contest information, coupon specials, inside information, where your favorite DJ's will be, and VIP Entry to exclusive "Text VIP 2 GO" events directly to your cell phone. 4 Additional Questions to Consider: *How How the text club will coincide with your programming, promotions and advertisers? *Your sign–up up form questions should match the interests of your listeners for future interaction. *Where Where do you have remotes, how can you incorporate this in your sign-up sign form? *Use Use MXM as an alternative to “call in to win”, “song requests” “dedication”, “voting.” *Who Who are your major clients? Are they a major advertiser you may want to incorporate into your sign-up sign form or have them sponsor the club? *What What is your station most known for in the market – Do you have a Summer Festival, a Jingle Ball, NASCAR sponsor, Van on the Scene, Gas Giveaways, Shopping Sprees, Concert Tickets? *Is there a specific segment of your audience who you will be targeting to enter your Mobile Marketing database? *Are there partnerships in your market with companies who might share content with you for mobile distribution? (local newspaper, school closings, weather alerts, etc). 5 Mobile Marketing Terms There are several terms in mobile marketing that are specific to mobile media. Below are some of the terms that you should know as you get acquainted with your Mobile Xpress solution: Term 6 Definition Acquisition Rate Percentage of respondents who opted in to participate in a mobile initiative/campaign. Acquisition rate = total participants/total audience. Ad Impression An advertisement impression transpires each time a consumer is exposed to an advertisement (either pre-pended pre or appended to an SMS message, on mobile web or web page, within a video clip, or related media). Advertisement Action Any activity associated with a Advertisement that enables interactivity and communication between the advertiser and the consumer. For example, common actions include clicking on a phone number to call the advertiser, a hyperlink that takes the consumer to an advertiser’s mobile web portal, or a link that adds the advertiser’s contact information to the consumer’s phone book. Alert Tone An audio product that is triggered by and sounds on the handset upon a specific event, such as an incoming text message, voice message, calendar event, or other event to which the handset owner wishes to be alerted. Length of tone varies based on mobile carrier requirements. Often traditional ringtones or other audio products can be used as an alert tone. Alerts Notifications, typically in the form of a text or multimedia message, containing time-sensitive sensitive information (event details, weather, news, services updates) that are pushed to a mobile subscriber who has opted-in opted to receive this information. Note: If the mobile subscriber has not opted in to receive said information, the notification would be considered SPAM. Term 7 Definition Call to Action (CTA) A statement or instruction, typically promoted in print, web, TV, radio, onon portal, or other forms of media (often embedded in advertising), that explains to a mobile subscriber how to respond to an opt-in in for a particular promotion or mobile initiative, which is typically followed by a Notice (see Notice). Carrier (also known as mobile carrier, mobile network operator, network operator, operator company, wireless carrier) Click A company that provides wireless telecommunications services. Click to Call A service that enables a mobile subscriber to initiate a voice call to a specified phone number by clicking on a link on a mobile web site. Typically used to enhance and provide a direct response mechanism in an advertisement. Click-through The process that takes a mobile subscriber to a jump or landing page once the mobile subscriber has clicked on a link. Click-through Rate (CTR) A way of measuring the success of an online or mobile advertising campaign. A CTR is obtained by dividing the number of users who clicked on an ad on a Web page by the number of times the ad was delivered (impressions). Common Shortcode (CSC) Short numeric numbers (typically 4~6 digits) to which text messages can be sent from a mobile phone. Wireless subscribers send text messages to common short codes with relevant keywords to access a wide variety of mobile content. Cost per Thousand (CPM) A metric used to price advertising banners. Sites that sell advertising may guarantee an advertiser a certain number of impressions (number of times an ad banner is served and presumably seen by visitors) and then set the cost based on the guarantee, multiplied by the CPM rate. Data Charging The cost of using the mobile network for data services. The two main charging models are: pay-aspay you-use, which is effectively metered billing because the charges increase in proportion to the amount of data consumed by the user; the second method is charging at pre-set pre rates (over a monthlyusage period) for pre-determined pre amounts of data that can be consumed. These charges become significant in the distribution of rich media content that drives large amounts of data across the networks. The act of when a mobile subscriber interacts with (highlights and clicks on) an advertisement (banner, text link) or other actionable link, that has been served to their screen. Term 8 Definition Double Opt-In The process of confirming a mobile subscriber’s wish to participate in a mobile program by requesting the subscriber to opt-in opt twice, prior to engaging the subscriber. A requirement for premium and many other types of mobile services. Full Music Download The downloading of a complete song, versus a section of a song, for playback on a mobile device. Impressions A business metric for counting the number of times mobile subscribers have viewed a particular page, mobile advertisement on a mobile internet site or embedded within a text message or similar mobile medium. Information on Demand (IOD) Content delivered in the form of an Alert. Subscriber receives updates of weather, traffic, horoscopes, jokes of the day, etc via SMS text, at a predetermined time and frequency. Interstitial Text Ad A text page that is displayed in the middle of the MMS message. Keyword A word or name used to distinguish a targeted message within a Short Code Service. MMS Message A message sent via a Multimedia Messaging Service that contains multimedia objects. Mobile Message MS and/or MMS message sent to a handset but does not include advertisements delivered on WAP sites, or advertisements delivered into mobile games. Opt-In The process where a Subscriber provides explicit consent, after receiving Notice from the Mobile Marketer. Opt-Out The process through which a Subscriber revokes consent after receiving Notice from the Mobile Marketer. An example of an Opt-out Opt process includes, but is not limited to, a Subscriber replying to an SMS message with the phrase “stop.” Penetration The percentage of the total population that owns a mobile phone. Pull Messaging Any content sent to the wireless subscriber upon request, shortly thereafter, on a one-time time basis. For example, when a customer requests the local weather from a WAP capable browser, the content of the response, including any related advertising, is Pull Messaging. Term Push Messaging Any content sent by or on behalf of advertisers and marketers to a wireless mobile device at a time other than when the subscriber requests it. Push messaging includes audio, short message service (SMS) messages, e-mail, e multimedia messaging, cell broadcast, picture messages, surveys, or any other pushed advertising or content. Shared Short Code A short code that is utilized to run multiple mobile services and/or marketing campaigns simultaneously. Targeting Various criteria to make the delivery of a mobile advertisement more precise (age, gender, geographical, day parting, household income, etc.). Master keyword for stations opting to use Shared Short Code. Enables listeners to instantly text-in text to the station or opt-in using a pre-determined keyword that is exclusive to the station. The USI must be included in the beginning of each message. For instance, “Kiss99 Join” where “Kiss99” is the USI. CSCs that are specifically requested. It usually spells out a content provider’s name, brand, an associated word or is an easy to recall number sequence e.g. DISNEY =347639 or 88888. Universal Station Identifier (USI) Vanity Short Code 9 Definition How to Build Your Database Web-Based Opt-In A mobile marketing campaign is only effective when utilizing a high-quality high database. The type of data you have collected on each member determines the quality of your database. More information on each user—and user “permission” from each user for you to contact them generally means that you will have better success. The more you ask, the more specific you can target your messages. At the same time, you don’t want scare listeners away with long registration forms. Ask enough questions to create specific detailed campaigns. Here are some good examples of what to ask: • Name • Gender • Date of Birth • Zip Code (for hot zip targeting) • Favorite Station(s) • Interest (i.e:: Coupons, Station Announcements, Concert Announcements, etc) MXM supports 100% permission messaging. messaging Our double opt-in requires new subscribers to confirm they want to opt-in opt to your text database as to be compliant with MMA best practices. step process is widely adopted in opt-in Note: This two-step opt messaging sign-ups, as it provides better data security and prevents erroneous sign-ups that can sign contribute to spamming and other illegitimate uses of the relationship. 10 What questions should I ask listeners when they sign up for the stations text-messaging program? Asking the right questions is the first step to setting up a strong database that you can effectively use for marketing. The more information you receive from your listeners, the more you can “target” a specific group in an advertiser’s campaign. For example, if a women’s clothing store wanted to send a text about an upcoming sale to female listeners age 1818 54, this could only be done if you collected age and gender information from each member. Your Mobile Xpress Messenger sign-up up form is the most important part of your text messaging experience. It not only contributes to the success of your database, but it allows you to get to know your listeners and understand what they are interested in. With questions that mirror your listeners and your marketing interest, you can target specific listener’s profiles for optimum station reach. Remember to place your “elevator pitch” from earlier in the manual on the sign-up up form. Always sell the benefit of signing up to your listeners. 11 Keep your sign-up up form simple, yet specific. In addition to the required questions listed below, here are some examples of good questions to ask and some not-so so good questions to ask: REQUIRED: OPTIONAL: These are some questions you might consider using on your sign-up sign form. What kind of prizes would you like to win? a) Spa Packages b) Concert Tickets c) Electronics d) Cash e) Cars/Motorcycles Who would you like to receive texts from? (List your on-air on personalities) a) DJ Money Mike b) Miss Jones In The Morning c) Don Imus d) Wendy Williams 12 What categories would you like to receive text messages about? (Requires station personnel to update) a) News b) Weather c) Entertainment d) Contests e) Traffic When do you listen to WXYZ-FM? a) At work b) At home c) In the car d) Weekends What do you do when you go out? (Think promotions) a) Movies b) Dinner c) Comedy d) Clubbing What days do you go out? (Think about which listeners to target) a) Monday b) Tuesday c) Wednesday d) Thursday e) Friday f) Saturday g) Sunday What do you like most about WXYZ-FM? a) Music b) DJ’s c) Prizes d) Website What is your favorite beverage? (Think advertisers) a) Coke b) Pepsi c) Sprite d) Energy drink Collect information on this form that has some value to your advertisers. Remember… always ask, “what can I do with this information? Is it actionable? What is your favorite lunch spot? (Think local advertisers) a) McDonald’s b) Quizno’s c) Long John Silver’s d) Sbarro’s What is your favorite vacation spot? (Think promotions) a) Bahamas b) Jamaica c) Cancun d) Puerto Rico EXAMPLES OF QUESTIONS THAT ARE “NOT-SO “NOT GOOD” These are questions that have little value to your station or advertisers, because they do not lead you to anything actionable. Who’s the cutest celebrity baby? a) Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott b) Melanie Brown and Eddie Murphy c) Julia Roberts and Danny Moder d) Tom Cruise and Kate Holmes Problem: In a few years they won’t be babies anymore. Plus, who cares? What’s your favorite color? a) Blue b) Red c) Yellow d) Green Problem: This information probably wouldn’t be very helpful to you What’s your favorite TV show? a) Grey’s Anatomy b) Desperate Housewives c) Wheel of Fortune d) The Game Problem: Shows come and go every season 14 What do you think about WXYZ-FM? Problem: Open-ended What is your favorite artist/song? Problem: Open-ended ended and favorite artists/songs change What dress/suit size are you? Problem: Too personal and open-ended What are the best ways to collect data for my listener database? database First, identify incentives and prizes that you can offer for people who sign up. For instance, secure a gift certificate to a local restaurant. Then, promote that anyone who signs up this month for your text messaging program is eligible to win the certificate at the end of the month. 15 What incentives might you be able to offer your listeners to encourage more opt-ins? (In other words, what is your audience most interested in?) Some simple ideas: Concert Tickets Dinner Dinner for two and a limo ride for one lucky winner T-Shirts Shirts from the prize closet VIP VIP movie passes for everyone signed up by midnight. Also, remember to sell the benefits of joining your program to listeners. Our listeners are bombarded with thousands of messages every day. You must explain “what’s in it for them” to make your program worthy of their time. There are several ways to go about collecting data for your listener database. Have advertisers sponsor your club/sign-up club/sign form. Give them an opportunity to sponsor your incentive prizes as well as special features. (morning show contest alerts, sports scores, etc) ON-AIR PROMOTION Use Mobile Xpress Messenger to interact with your audience on specific features. You can conduct audience polls, real time listener feedback on show topics, requests and much more. On-Air On Personalities should mention the program once per shift by promoting a benefit or feature of the program. 16 Samples of On-Air Promos: YOU CAN GET AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE ON THE Q102 SONG OF THE DAY CONTEST BY SIGNING UP NOW AT Q102.COM FOR Q-TEXT Q MESSAGES. WE’LL SEND YOU A MESSAGE EVERY MORNING WITH THE NAME OF THE SONG OF THE DAY AND THE TIME TO LISTEN! LEARN MORE ABOUT Q-TEXT Q MESSAGES AT Q102.COM. THIS AFTERNOON, VOTE WITH YOUR CELL PHONE ON THE PICK-IT-ORPICK FLICK-IT IT SONG WAR AT 5 O’CLOCK. JUST SIGN UP ONLINE AT CLUBFM.COM FOR CLUB-TO-GO, GO, AND YOU CAN TEXT YOUR VOTES FOR YOUR FAVORITE SONGS EVERY AFTERNOON AT 5PM. SIGN UP NOW AT CLUBFM.COM. Remember to keep your promos concise and benefit oriented. Use the word YOU (that’s your listener’s name!). What do they gain by participating in your club? Using Mobile Xpress will allow your audience to become more interactive with show allowing you to keep listeners listening longer. Include mentions of your mobile/text club with on-air air and online contesting. Promote on the air that mobile/text club members have advantages over non-members non when it comes to winning contests. If you are running a promotion that requires appointment listening (song of the day, $95 every 95 minutes, etc), give listeners in the text club an advantage by prompting them to listen and/or call. Text listeners times to tune-in in and win or text your listeners the secret song of the day. Think of ways to get them back to listening to your station onon the-air or through your online stream. 17 ONLINE PROMOTION Integrating your Mobile Express solution with your station web site will allow you to make your radio station completely interactive. Home Page presence is a must. Use your website to show off and highlight the new mobile/text club. Use pictures of people in your target demo using your mobile service on your website to promote the program. Highlight the incentives and benefits of being in the text club with graphics, and position it above the fold (scroll) and in the promotional section of your website. Link your home page to the online sign-up sign form for Mobile Xpress Messenger. E-mail Invitations! Use the current database of email address’s in your email club to invite member of your club. Include a link to the mobile/text club sign-up up form. This is a great ‘jump start’ for stations new to text messaging. If you want a more targeted group of listeners, for instance P1s and P2s for a VIP or loyal listener population: 1. Create a subset of your existing e-mail e database, using the profiling tools available to you. For example, include all the women 18-49, 18 or everyone who resides in your hot zips. Your P1s and P2s if you’ve asked listening preference questions in your e-mail e database sign-up. 18 mail invitation to this profile and paste in a link to your 2. Send an e-mail up. Your invitation should include compelling reasons MXM sign-up. why they should sign-up. 2. Or, you may choose to invite everyone in your existing e-mail club. In either case, it’s easy to include a live link to the MXM sign-up sign form. Invitation links, which you can obtain from Triton Digital Media, make it easy to support the all-important “opt-in,” and they give all you the ability to build your MXM membership based on specific selection criteria important to your market. What if I already have a ‘points’ program’ or other e-mail loyalty e program? Great. MXM can extend the power of your points program by giving your station an additional communication channel to reach your listeners, let them know what they can win, and how. IN-PERSON / EVENT PROMOTION Remote events, concerts, and station appearances are great opportunities for sign-ups. Set up a kiosk or bring a laptop to your next remote broadcast or station event. Then, listeners can sign up for your mobile/text club at the event. Utilizing interns or part time employees at events to show listeners how to use their cell phone to text in will ensure that you have a well-trained well 9audience. Create a station promotion around your new Mobile Xpress product by holding a text-off and find the fastest texters in your audience. This will be sure to bring a crowd and a great way to kick off your new Mobile Xpress Messenger program. Alternatively, consider creating small flyers with the mobile/text up form link and a list of the benefits to joining so that club sign-up listeners can log in and join later. point color 4x6 cards at www.clubflyers.com You can print 1,000 glossy 14-point for only $75. Consider creating a 4x6 promotional card with information on your text program, and bring these to remotes and other station events. Ben Franklin says, “Consider inviting a client to co-sponsor the co flyers for text messaging by sponsoring the BACK-side of the 4x6 BACK cards.” Mobile Opt-in In addition to web-based opt-in, in, MXM now offers mobile opt-in. opt If stations choose to promote this feature, listeners can text the station’s unique station identifier and the word “join” and they will be added to the database: Example, “Lazer933 Join”. While this opt-in in method allows any listener to signup without first visiting the website, you won’t have the opportunity to collect more information that just their phone number and therefore won’t have the benefits of targeted messages to them in the future based on preferences, demographics, listening habits, psychographics, etc. 20 Mobile Usage Statistics In the US there are over 255 million wireless subscribers, that is 84% of the population. 89% of all adults in the US own cell phones and 75% of those adults use text messaging. 53% of Americans that use cell phones use text messaging at least daily/weekly. Over half of all major brands are expected to spend 5-25% 5 of their budgets on mobile in 2011. Cell users text more than they place calls! According to Neilsen Mobile, the typical cell-phone phone user sent or received 357 text messages per month, while placing or receiving 204 calls. Neilsen Mobile estimates that monthly text totals from Q2 2008 are a 450 percent increase over the monthly averages of 2006. An AT&T survey among text-messaging messaging adults ages 18-55 18 showed how important texting is to relationships. According to the survey, 40 percent of texters who are in a relationship or dating believe that text messaging plays a significant or very significant role in their relationships. Sixty-eight percent of texters surveyed admitted to sending a love note via text messaging. 21 Verizon Wireless has named Tennessee as the state with the most text messages sent and received in its study of text message habits of its customers from the southeast region of the United States. (Big City Wireless Study, 2008) You can find a tremendous amount of information for your sales staff about mobile messaging online at the Mobile Marketing Association. www.mmaglobal.com The global mobile advertising market will be valued at over $16 billion by 2011. In August 2007, nearly 40 million US consumers received SMS advertisements, and 12 percent responded to them Source: M:Metrics,, Common Short Codes: Cracking the Mobile Marketing Code A A survey of 2,400 moms reveals that the single most important tech gadget in their lives is the cell phone (23%), followed by the Internet (21%) and the digital camera (19%) Source: Babycenter.com, March 2008 As per CTIA, the total wireless subscribers in the USA is now 260.7 million. Here is the breakdown of the USA cellular market by carrier. 1. AT&T Mobility — 71.3 million 2. Verizon — 67.2m 3. Sprint/Nextel — 52.8m 4. T-Mobile USA — 30.8m 5. ALLTEL — 13.2m 6. Tracfone — 10.0m (prepaid) 7. US Cellular — 6.2m 8. Virgin Mobile — 5.1m 22 9. metro PCS — 4.4m (mostly Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, LA, Miami, Orlando, San Francisco) 10. Boost — 4.3m (southeast and west — 12 states) 11. Leap Wireless/Cricket — 3.1m (23 states) 12. Cellular South — 700,000 13. Centennial Wireless — 663,000 (IN, MI,OH,LA, MS,TX) 14. Cincinnati Bell — 579,000 (Cincinnati, Dayton, KY, IN) 15. nTelos — 421,000 (VA,WV,KY,OH,TN,MD,NC) Mobile Xpress Messenger FAQ Have a specific need or question? Call us! 212-419-2915. We are 212 here to assist you, and help you to use Mobile Xpress Messenger to grow your ratings and revenue! Our FAQ is organized into these categories for you: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Compatibility Database Management Fees General Messaging Two-Way Messaging COMPATIBILITY: Does MXM work with different carriers? end includes a gateway through which messages are distributed to Yes. MXM’s back-end with all MAJOR national carriers. Do I need any special equipment at my station to use the MXM service? No. You can access your MXM database and software tools from a Web browser, so all you need is an Internet connection to log-on. log DATABASE MANAGEMENT: Can I target my messages to sub-sets sets of my database? Yes. You can create messaging lists by filtering listener information collected on the sign-up and send targeted messages. Who controls access to my listener data? How can I protect it? Your station owns all rights to your database. We will never sell your data, share it or otherwise make it available to third parties. 23 How do listeners unsubscribe? They can text the word “QUIT” or “STOP” in a message sent to your station (via short code). Or, they can visit the web hosted sign up page to find the unsubscribe option after entering their email address. Does MXM support personalization? No. In an effort to save space for longer text messages, we have not included this as an option with MXM. FEES: Will my listeners be charged for messages my station sends? Your listeners will only get messages if they opt-in opt to your messaging database via a sign up form on your web site. They should be aware of the standard messaging fees, if any, charged by their carrier for received messages. MXM does NOT impose premium fees that your listeners will have to pay, unlike some other companies. Are my listeners charged to send messages to my station? Because you have chosen Mobile Xpress Messenger, the only charge your listeners incur is the typical fee they incur from their carrier – the same fee they incur when they message friends and family. There is never a surprise charge and no ‘premium fee’ imposed. The listener charge, if any, is the standard fee they chose from their service provider when they decided to become a text messager – generally either a per message or flat fee for unlimited messaging. Are there any limitations to the number of messages I can send/receive? You can receive unlimited MO (Mobile Originated, messages that are sent from listeners’ phones). You can send a specified number of (Mobile Terminated or messages that are sent from the station) messages per month as indicated in your agreement. This number is indexed to your AQH. You can barter for additional messages or pay 4.5 cents per message should you need more. 4 “Other charges may apply” – what does THAT mean ? This language is imposed for all station-generated generated messages – from all mobile carriers and service providers. It does *not* specifically apply to messages you send with Mobile Xpress Messenger. Rather, it is a consumer-protection consumer initiative from the Mobile Marketing Association. GENERAL: Once I sign up for MXM, how long will it take to get started? The set up and training is very quick and easy. You provide us with information you’d like to include on the sign-up up form, and we’ll take care of the rest. In about on week, you can be receiving messages from your listeners and sending messages to your listeners’ phones. What do I need to know about ‘Best Practice’s Guidelines’ ? The Mobile Marketing Association is extremely motivated to keep the industry growing in a healthy and consumer-friendly friendly direction. We support this too! MXM is fully compliant with the MMA ‘Best Practices Guidelines’ including these protocols: A FAQs page is online and will be made available to listeners in need of assistance; language complies with MMA guidelines. See rdg.com/faqs Help for subscriber: “HELP” as a message generates an auto response, the wording of which is prescribed, as follows: You’ve signed up for text messaging alerts from <>. Other charges may apply. 4help:rdg.com/faqs 8004195121 25 Automatic unsubscribe: “STOP” or “QUIT” when either word is sent as a message, will automatically unsubscribe someone from your station database. Certain footer language is required of all messages sent from stations, as detailed in the March 2006 update to Consumer Best Practices. Messaging providers risk being barred from of cross-carrier cross networks, unless this language appears. “Other charges may apply 4 help:rdg.com/faqs 8004195121 Reply STOP to end” We have ‘hard coded’ the specific text into the each message sent by your station, including the auto-responder messages. We recognize this language consumes characters/space you might rather use for your message text, but its necessary to be compliant. Consumer backlash to unwanted premium fees from other vendors and from list sales/sharing from other vendors has set this ‘protective’ stance in motion. You can review the full detail on MMA’s Best Practices at: http://www.mmaglobal.com/bestpractices.pdf MESSAGING: Can I schedule messages to be sent at a later date or time? Yes. Before you send a message, you have the option to schedule messages to go out any day or time you like. Can MXM send a message to subscribers on their birthday automatically? Yes. Under the Auto Replies menu button, select Birthday Message. Once you edit the message, MXM will automatically text subscribers on their birthday. 26 Can I set up other automatic messages? Yes. Use the Keyword Tools function to set up a message which will be sent, automatically, in response do a keyword or character string you establish. Are there any limitations to the number of messages I can send/receive? You can receive unlimited MO (Mobile Originated, messages that are sent from a mobile phone) messages. You can send a pre-determined pre amount of MT (Mobile Terminated or messages that are sent from the station) messages as indicated in your agreement. Should you need additional messages, they are available for barter or at the per-message message rate of $0.045 (4.5 cents). How do listeners send messages to my station? Your on-air air staff can mention the 5 digit short code on air and invite them to send messages – request a song – weigh in on a hot talk topic – enter a contest – text in a shout out – or vote on Top 5 at 5:00. TWO-WAY MESSAGING: What is Two-Way Way Text Messaging, and is it available through Mobile Xpress Messenger? Two-way text messaging combines station-generated generated messaging capabilities with tools to organize and respond to listener-generated generated messages sent to station. Our approach to 2-way way messaging gives stations the ability to reply to listener messages (a) sent in response to a station message, and/or (b) sent in response an on-air air mention or shout out and/or (c) as initiated by the listener. 27 Way Text Messaging work? How does Two-Way Listeners can reply directly to a message sent by your station, simply by hitting reply and texting a message back. The message will come directly into “InBox”. “ digit code which your station can use. This code For on-air mentions, we’ll supply a 5-digit is commonly referred to as a ‘short code’ or ‘quick code’. When listeners who are in your database text to this 5 digit code, the message will come directly into “InBox”. “ With Mobile Xpress Messenger, you don't have to purchase a short code for your station. This offers a tremendous savings compared to other services that force you to purchase a short code for mobile marketing. Your code will be shared with other and your interaction with listeners identified by text submission. stations--and That said, dedicated and Vanity short codes are available to stations for a supplementary fee should the station wish to have exclusive use of a short code. If listeners are not in your database, a message will be automatically sent to them to up before participating. let them know to sign-up Listeners who aren’t in your database can also text-in text using your unique station identifier (USI). For instance if your USI is “kiss99”, listeners can text directly in as long as their message begins with “kiss99”. This can also be combined with other keywords in your control panel, like “kiss99 win” to enter a contest, etc. You can refer to this code in your broadcast to invite listeners to “text in” to request songs, shout-outs, outs, to enter contests, to request information and to share opinions or comments you invite on any topic. Simply refer to the 5 digit code in your broadcast and your unique station identifier. Included in the cost of your affiliation is a short-code short shared with other stations. (We’ve developed an approach to enable code sharing without compromising message integrity or requiring listeners to include additional codes within message body.) 28 Check Out The Following Live Station Examples (Click on the links): Look at how some other stations are using Mobile Xpress Messenger. The possibilities are endless in referring listeners back to your audio streams (on-air air or online) and building new revenue! Nearly 300 radio stations are now using Mobile Xpress Messenger! 29 Examples of STRONG IMPLEMENTATION: 30 Examples of STRONG IMPLEMENTATION: 31 Examples of STRONG IMPLEMENTATION: 32 Targeting and Scheduling Messages The timing and targeting of your message should be specific to the result you are trying to accomplish. Morning Show Do you have a special feature or interview occurring on your morning show (or any daypart)? daypart Achieve more tune-ins and Time Spent Listening by sending out special alerts to your audience. You should send these messages out at least 15-30 15 minutes before the feature begins. On-Air Polling Use the Mobile Xpress tool to poll the audience on hot topics that the morning show discusses. This will allow your morning show to connect with its audience in real time. You can handle this one of three ways: Send out a message asking for the database’s opinion and elicit responses. Most polls are conducted with multiple choice answers. (a, b, c, d) Invite listeners on the air to send in their text vote as a simple answer (a, b, c, d) You can also ask listeners open-ended ended questions using two-way two text messaging (see glossary). The Triton Digital Media team is available to walk you through implementation of any tactic mentioned in this manual. 33 At-Work Contesting Mobile messaging can effectively allow listeners to sign up for at-work at promotions that your station may be conducting. For example, if you are trying to reach listeners to sign up for an at-work at contest, instruct the audience to text “Work” to 76767 (insert your short code) to sign up for the at work contest. Lunchtime: Drive traffic to sponsor locations! Have a special lunchtime offer from a local restaurant? Once per week, send out a message at 11am with a special offer (something free)) from a local restaurant for your listeners. For example, “Free appetizers today @ Damon’s for all Q102 listeners. Show them this text“ Demographic Targeting Keep in mind that Mobile Xpress can break down the mobile message to reach a specific demo such as age, location, or gender. You can also add questions about “children in household” and any other demographic qualifier. This makes it possible to be as specific or broad as you need. Keep in mind that the more specific you are in targeting, the less listeners you reach. For Example if your station is holding a “ladies night” at a local bar, and you only want to reach Females 18-54 54 in your Mobile Xpress database, you can easily accomplish this type of specific delivery. 34 Applications for Programming and Promotions Breaking News and Weather Alerts If your radio station is in pursuit of “news” and “weather” images, you may wish you distribute breaking news and weather alerts via text message to your audience. Keep in mind that if your subscriber has not opted in to receive this type of time-sensitive sensitive information, it could be perceived as spam. The most effective way to distribute news via text is to alert the audience with a headline, and invite them to tune in for more information. Example: An on air reporter or newspaper story would describe a scene at a fire and the fact that four fire trucks showed on the scene. It might state, "The fireman entered the raging blaze with axes swinging." Mobile text would simply state, "A 4-alarm alarm fire at Jacobs Street causes $1.2 million in damage. Details now on AM1030 or WXXX.com.” .” “5 inches of snow is headed for your zip code tonight. Weather every ten minutes available on 105.1FM or fm105.com.” If you are posting gas prices on your site, you might consider a message like this: “Gas prices are down this weekend. Find out where to fill up at WXXX.com.. A service of Henderson Chevy Dealers!” Note that all of these alerts may be sponsored with simple mentions of the client. (examples above) 35 You might consider placing gas prices on your site using an RSS feed from a local gas price spotting site. For example, you can find local gas prices and RSS feeds at www.gasbuddy.com and www.indianagasprices.com You can also set up an auto-responding responding keyword for the Best Gas Price today. Let your listeners know if they send you a message with the word “Gas” in the message, you will send them the location of the cheapest gas in your market that day. Get an auto center or tire company to sponsor this. Set up Keyword Auto Responder “Gas” (more information below in the “Keyword” section) Traffic Alerts Traffic alerts represent two major benefits. You save your audience’s highly valued time by alerting them of traffic tietie ups and delays. You can earn more TIME SPENT LISTENING by reaching listeners who are in traffic tie-ups, ups, inviting them to tune into your station. We suggest that you only alert listeners when there are traffic tie-ups tie that are “out of the norm” from usual traffic tie-ups tie to avoid your text messages being perceived as spam. Sponsor the traffic alerts by selling “inline text billboards” along with your traffic billboards on the air. This is an excellent way to grow the “buy” and reach for any client’s campaign. 36 You can also use KEYWORDS to administer traffic alerts. If your station is invested in traffic news, consider setting up a keyword program that, at any time, has up to date messages on conditions in key locations. Default message: All clear. No traffic trouble to report. Based on conditions, new message would be created and available when listener sends inquiry message. Key word Auto Reply West All clear. No traffic trouble to report. 405 N All clear. No traffic trouble to report. 405 S Tractor Trailer spill, single lane for 15 miles. 405 Please be specific. 405 N or 405S ? Park View Construction Delays at exit 4 East. Inner Inner Loop is all clear. Smooth sailing. Raleigh Freeway Bumper to Bumper on Bridge Approach. Using Keywords Keywords can be used to organize incoming mail into folders and/or to set up auto-replies. Keyword Auto-Replies:: whether or not you set up a Keyword Folder, you can write a message, then follow the steps to set a date/time and your message will automatically be sent when an in-coming in message contains the keyword or character string you specified. Start with Add New Keyword option and generate your message. 37 Keyword Folders:: mail containing a keyword or character string will automatically get stashed in a folder if you use the tool that way. You can use this in conjunction with Keyword Auto-Replies, Auto or you can use it alone. Start with Add New Keyword option and designate (or create, then designate) the folder. Artist Alerts When you debut the lead single from an artist’s new album, collect all the messages by adding them to a folder. That way, you can message these listeners before you play it later and get them to tune-in. tune Set up Keyword Folder: “Pink Stupid Girls” (or whatever the artist / title is) Research has shown that most 18-30 18 year old listeners use Top 40 radio to discover new music. Artist alerts are an excellent way to bring younger demo listeners back to your radio station. Text-to-Air Shout Outs All week long you get incoming messages with requests and shout outs for DJ Key’s Friday night party mix show. 38 Set up Keyword Folder: DJK Listeners should know to message DJ Mike at short code and include “DJK” in the message. Talk it up, mention on web site or email promotions. When Mike is ready to work his show, he pops open the Keyword Folder and sees what’s come in all week. Mike has the option to send individual replies to messages in his folder or can send batch replies. Text-to-Win Promotions Example: Build a contest where 5 listeners win a Honda CRF Motorcycle from your station and local dealer. To enter, listeners need to be registered in your text database and message in “ Honda CRF” in their message. Send them a thank you / acknowledgement. Keep their entries all in one place for random selection at end of contest period. Set up Keyword Folder: “Honda” Use random winner generator tool at end of promotion. Set up Keyword Autoresponder: During term of promotion: Thank them and include dealers name and location. After promotion has ended: Let them know Promotion has ended, they can show the message for a gift with test drive at dealer location. 39 Sporting contest Get your listeners to text in with who they think will win tonight’s game, the Broncos or the Browns. Set an auto reply for each team. Key word Auto Reply Broncos Routing for Broncos? Good luck. Postgame highlights at 10:30. Browns Routing for Browns? Good luck. Postgame highlights at 10:30. When the winner has been decided, extend an invitation from a local sports bar for next week’s game, with special offer. Think about sporting goods stores and local pubs/bars for sponsorship in this area! Ask yourself… How can we use text messaging to add to this promotion? In many cases, text messaging can make your promotions and programming more accessible to listeners. It’s one more invitation to use your radio station. Your new Mobile Xpress solution can jump-start jump any station promotion. The first thing you should do is review all station promotions and on air giveaways to see how you can apply Mobile Xpress to these promotions. Any way you can have listener’s text in is another opportunity for you to collect more information on your audience. 40 Make sure you include your sales staff on any of the promotions you do with the Mobile Xpress application. Use a form like the one below to send to your local sales manager(s) or interactive manger so they can find sponsorship opportunities for your station to capitalize on. This will give your sales team the information they need to sell a sponsorship for your next Mobile Xpress promotion. Promoting Local Events Promoting local events becomes a breeze with Mobile Xpress Messenger. When you have a local event to promote, use Mobile Xpress to get listeners attention. Run :15 second promos about the event and ask listeners to text in to get more information or a discount on entry. (This means that you’ll use the KEYWORD feature… see above for more information). This is a great way to build you database and spark interest at your community’s local event. 41 Birthday Texts With Mobile Xpress Messenger, it is easy to tell your audience “happy birthday” on their special day. After a listener signs up for your text club, their birthday information is automatically added to the database . Then, you can set Mobile Xpress Messenger to automatically send out birthday messages. These messages may be sponsored with special gifts that drive traffic into a sponsor location (free ice cream, special gift, etc). Look at an example of a Birthday Text: Happy Birthday From Lic’s! Show This Text For A BIRTHDAY Special! Reply to this text by textingLic’s for more specials. 42 Opt-In @ Local Events At your next major station event, you can use Mobile Xpress Messenger to increase your database entries. Using text messaging at local sporting events is a great way to get listeners to “opt in.” If you have access to the crowd, announce that you are holding a special promotion and ask them to text in to win. You can also set up “sign up booths” to encourage listeners to sign up for your Mobile Club. Concerts are a great avenue for you to get your Mobile Xpress application out in your listener’s hands. Run a contest to win tickets before the concert, and then have a kiosk set up at the event to promote how listener could have made it to that concert for free. When selling local remotes, include mobile marketing as part of the package. Tell the sponsor they will get included on (X) number of text messages, and listeners will have the option to click through for their offer. Phrase that Pays, Song of the Day, Unfair Advantage Club, Trivia, and more! Mobile Xpress Messenger will increase participation in any on air promotion. Weather it is Phrase that Pays, Song of the Day or Unfair Advantage Club: Answers to Trivia Questions, use your Mobile Xpress Messenger application to target listeners that show interest in these types of promotions. 43 Notes for Sales Executives Mobile marketing is becoming more and more relevant in the advertising world everyday. There are some incredible benefits to utilizing mobile marketing: • Quantifiable marketing results through the tracking of downloads, page visits, and listener opt-ins. • Incredibly high WOW factor—many many customers have never experienced mobile marketing first-hand, hand, which allows even the smallest brand to make its mark as a pioneer. Customers of all sizes can use mobile marketing to get all types of messages into the marketplace. • Affordability. • Heavy representation of a young audience—the audience 18 to 34 year-old demographic. • The ability to reach customers in unique and interactive ways. This marketing gives you piece of mind that your radio stations and advertisers messages are sticking with the listener it is sent to. Creating sales packages for your sales team to sell is the first step in monetizing your Mobile Xpress application. With the many promotions that Mobile Xpress creates for your station you will have plenty of opportunity to make money with this product. 44 Mobile Xpress Ad Unit Types Customize an advertisers campaign by having an option to opt in to the teaser ads. If a listener wants more information on a specific ad give them direction to text for a “Complete SMS” Ad. The Complete SMS Ad unit can be used for any type of promotional message or call to action. The advertiser should be clearly identified in the copy. The title or header of the message should reflect the consumer query or subscription that resulted in delivery of the full ad message copy. For example, if the consumer replied “HOME” to get more info on real estate, the resulting ad should have “HOME” in the first line. Click to Call: Phone numbers must be local or domestic to the country your ads are targeting. Phone numbers must be functional. Premium destination numbers that would result in a charge that exceeds normal phone call charges to the end user are not permitted unless the terms are fully disclosed in the ad. 45 Title Sponsorship The title sponsorship will be announced any time the station is running a text promotion. For example, Text “Win” now to 64646 brought to you by ABC Motors. The client would also be branded on the web site in the text sign up area. This is a great marketing campaign for a high-impact high advertiser. When running on air and online contest have a title sponsorship available for the text reminders that are sent out. The programming staff might send out clues and answers to text members. This is a great title sponsorship opportunity. Keyword Sponsorship Text messaging is one of the newest and most popular forms of media today. With Mobile Xpress you will have the ability to sell your clients specific keywords for their marketing campaign. For example if you are working with a local pizza place, then you could sell the keyword “PIZZA” “ to them. They can then use this keyword to promote specials and offers both in their radio ads and other media they might be using. For instance, “Text keyword pizza to 74747 for more information.” You can also use keyword sponsorships if you have a group of advertisers. Say you have a group of gas stations, you could sell a sponsorship to each one and list their gas prices in a text message when someone send “GAS” “ to your designated number. 46 Use your next sales blitz to flood the market with the “Keyword” marketing concept. Create urgency that your clients business might loose out on an important “Keyword” that is relative to their business. Couponing Do consumers really use local web sites to get coupons? The number of people turning to the web for coupons has soared to 36 million in 2008. That’s an increase of 10 million people from 2005. Traditionally consumers have associated coupons with the Sunday paper, but as consumers turn to the web for news they’re also looking online for savings. In an effort to learn more about these “Coupon Clickers,” Simmons/Experian Research and Coupons, Inc. conducted a survey the 2008 Printable Coupon Consumer Pulse. The research confirms the most popular sources for printable coupons are savings specific sites like Coupons.com. A June Hitwise report found Coupons.com has the largest market share for savings sites, and traffic has increased 190 percent since 2007. Source:Simmons Market Research Bureau and Coupons, Inc. conducted the 2008 Printable Coupon Consumer Pulse in March 2008. The report compiles national consumer research from Simmons and a custom survey of more than 2000 printable coupon users. Couponing is a great way to create revenue off of your Mobile Xpress Messenger application. You can help you clients target to specific demos and geographic areas. You can create the coupons to say anything the advertiser wants to promote, as well as putting a virtual bar code right in the text message. The coupon feature is very powerful when used with a specific keyword to drive demand. Integrated Packages: On-Air, Air, Online, Mobile Just like you combine your online and on-air on products, you should also create packages specifically for all three mediums. Your clients will find great success with using all three products. The ability to reach listeners through the three most used media are very powerful. When creating these products make sure to be smart. 47 Don’t overpower the campaign with too much of one thing. Here is an example of a good combo: 25 Spots Per Week (M-F 6A-6P) 1 Keyword and Coupon Package 1 Banner Ad and 1 Video Gateway Proposal based selling is a great way to package the three in one combo. It is also great to have plug-and-play play packages in place for your sales team to have on the streets with them. This is a good example of combining the three. Promote the clients keywords both on their online and on air ads. Make sure to include Mobile Marketing in every pitch. This will increase your number of asks, and in the end it will result in more mobile messaging sales. Make sure your sales staff is informed and educated so they can explain the benefits of Mobile Marketing. The following pages include sample sales sales packages. 1. Text Alerts for Breaking News and Weather 2. Contest Sponsorships 3. Keyword Sponsors 48 Breaking News & Weather Text Alerts Stay at the palm of our listeners hands with news & Text Alerts. Each time a news or weather alerts is sent to our5,000 5,000 listeners the message will be sponsored by your business. Your business will also have the ability to have listeners respond to the text to receive a special offer. What Do I Receive? •1 short SMS message at the end of each breaking news or weather text. Click thru available to special offer. •Inclusion in all on air promos about news & weather text. •Logo and link on text club page on WDMO.com Total Investment: $___________ Did You Know? According to the Mobile Marketing Association, 53% 53 of Americans that use cell phones use text messaging at least daily/weekly. Mobile Text Message Contest Sponsor Each and every day at WDMO members of our text club receive text about hints, clues and answers to our promotions on air. We also use mobile messaging to conduct the contest. As a Mobile Message contest sponsor, you will be included on all promotional contest text message to over 5,000 listeners every day. You will also receive on air promos when these contest and promotions run. What Do I Receive? •1 Short text message behind the contest or promotional text. • Ability to ad a special promotional text if a user is interested. • Logo and link on WDMO.com in on the contest and mobile club page. Total Investment: $___________ Did You Know? According to the Mobile Marketing Association, 53% 53 of Americans that use cell phones use text messaging at least daily/weekly. Mobile Text Message Keyword Sponsor Grab your customers attention by offering specials thru the use of Mobile Marketing Keywords. Pick any word that is relevant to your business to promote your special offer. For example: “Text “Pizza” to 54454 now for $3.00 OFF any order”. When the listener text the keyword the will receive a text message with a special offer and promotion code. Use these keyword in your on air, web and print advertising to reach your customers. What Do I Receive? •Choice Choice of any available keyword. • Choice of any special offer to send to listeners that text your keyword. • Included on WDMO.com Mobile Keyword section. Total Investment: $___________ Did You Know? According to the Mobile Marketing Association 53% % of Americans that use cell phones use text messaging at least daily/weekly.