Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Text Message Marketing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcxaa2KgJ8s

There is a fairly new type of marketing that companies can do through text messaging. I thought it was an interesting topic because of the huge telemarketing phase in which the marketers would call people's house phones and it got to the point where people who have to put their phone numbers on do-not-call lists. I am not sure that calling house phones or even switching over to calling people's cellphones to try and sell them things is that effective. From my own experience, everyone in my family would always reject the calls and then we ended up just getting rid of our house phone all together because the only people who would call the phone were telemarketers. I think that if a lot of companies started to send constant texts to people's phones that it would get annoying and enrage people. Yes, most of society today has cellphones but the last thing people want are to be bothered by someone they don't know, trying to sell them something. We as consumers get marketing and ads thrown at us constantly throughout the day and in my opinion I think it would just be over the top.

*Do you think marketing through texts is effective marketing?

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