M4 Group just created 8 brand new mobile website and companion Facebook mini sites as demonstrations for clients wanting to extend their online presence.

Just having these types of fusion assets integrated into your marketing system will automatically boost your business position and ranking in the search engines!

• View our Mobile Website Portfolio
• View our Facebook Mini Site Portfolio

If you’d like us to create a really great mobile website for your business, please call us at: (888) 683-8088 or complete this contact form

Mobile websites and Facebook mini site demos is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

Build A Powerful Contact List And Increase Sales With Mobile Marketing

Wondering “How can I promote mobile campaigns to my customers?”

Try these for starters:

1. Use promotional specials that ask customers in-store or online to sign up to your mobile services and receive the discounts you are offering.
2. Offer a VIP Service through text message alerts with exclusive news and specials.
3. Ensure your website has a mobile sign-up box.
4. Use your packaging, paper receipts, billboards and posters to let your customers know that you have gone mobile. Ask them to text in for inclusion to a discount, prize or to support a particular campaign.
5. Create “text-to-win contests” whereby customers can text to win things. People love the opportunity to win free stuff.

For a limited time, we’re giving away FREE Mobile Marketing Trials so here is your chance to give it a try!

If you haven’t tried it yet, give Mobile Marketing a try! is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

Local Search is the hottest marketing technique that combines Local SEO, Mobile Marketing and Fuses your traditional marketing.

What “used to work”  in marketing isn’t working anymore, and businesses that aren’t using Local Mobile Fusion are not only overpaying, but are getting farther and farther behind and even becoming invisible to consumers. For example, this week San Francisco just banned automatic delivery of the Yellow Pages to homes. Now they have to contact residents and get written permission to deliver it!

Tough Times are the New Normal

The current economic climate is changing the way people are spending money. Top economists believe this shift to conservative spending is not a passing trend but will actually become the “new normal”— much like what happened to consumer spending after the Great Depression of the 30’s. Whatever the economic hurdles ahead, it is clear that a larger portion of total media ad spending will migrate to the Internet — even if overall ad spending remains stagnant.

So as a local business owner, you need to make a 2 degree shift and know how your prospects and consumers are using the Internet.

Not only are consumers already using the internet venues and search engines available to them today, but they even are using them as a forum to talk about experiences they have with business.  They are leaving comments about you —sometimes good, sometimes not so good– in their social network forums and other places of influence.

So it’s kind or ironic isn’t it? You don’t get to decide if your business is mobile or on the web after all. In the end, the customers have already decided how they want to shop. Now it’s your turn to decide whether or not you want to be there to meet them.

You need to use these same tools in your business to get noticed, to get connected, to have a conversation, and to build a relationship with consumers.

What is working is Local Mobile Fusion, which leverages the power of Internet, and puts the search and the discovery of your business in one place–right in the palm of your prospects  hand.

Now it’s your turn to decide whether or not you want to be there to meet them.

We’ve made it real easy for you and even put together a short video for you to learn:

• how this strategy levels the playing ground for your business,
• what you need to know,
• why it is important, and
• what you can do about it.

We’ll even show you how when today’s consumers are ready to buy, they are more likely to purchase from a business:

• That they can search for on line from wherever they are
• That offers them what they want, right now
• And then directs them–from where they are in the local area—right to your business place.

We share with you how this virtual connection–especially at a local level– drives more traffic and optimizes sales conversions more effectively than traditional  marketing.

Watch the Dominate Your Local Market Niche with Local Mobile Fusion video (22 mins)

How to use Local Mobile Fusion to Dominate your Market Niche is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

New Study just out!

CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A flood of innovation involving smart phones, social media and local search will soon have a massive impact on what travelers do and how they spend their money while on vacation, according to a new study from a leading travel market research firm.

“Mobile technologies, social networks and location-based search are already having a huge effect on consumers’ trip planning.  But the impact is going to be even more profound going forward as we reach a tipping point in the adoption of smart phones and tablet PCs,” said Jon Schepke, President of SIM Partners.

He cautioned that destinations, hotels and travel attractions should have a mobile marketing strategy in place now to adapt to the fast-changing digital landscape and ensure that they are well-positioned to take advantage of these opportunities.  ”Those who move quickly to develop engaging and consumer-friendly mobile applications will gain a significant advantage in a very competitive marketplace,” Schepke said.

Don’t think this is just about hotels, travel and leisure either, the report cited mobile convergence – the explosion of GPS-empowered applications, mapping, search, digital camera, MP3 player and other capabilities available on smart phones — as a key trend that will significantly influence consumers’ future choices of activities.

M4 Group has been helping small business clients prepare for these exciting times. We’ve seen it coming and are ready! If you haven’t taken advantage of our Local-Mobile-Fusion programs give us a call.  We’ve been specializing in this area for years and can help you too!  Technologies have leveled the playing field, and small businesses stand to win big time.

Now is the perfect time to jump in!

Keep up or get left behind – your prospects determine your pace is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

If you are contemplating Mobile marketing to promote your product or service, you need to know how it works best as a medium.

Mobile marketing is a powerhouse, outweighing all other technology devices put together in the internet, communications and information arenas. The New York Times calls it “the most powerful medium ever invented.”

Yet, you’d be under utilizing the Mobile opportunity if all you ever did was educate or entertain consumers or see it as another promotional channel along with all your other media strategies. Let’s take a look at how you can make solid connections to this virtual and exciting marketplace.

Recently, I came across some perspectives and insights on this very subject at a Mobile Innovation Week Convention. It began with the understanding that Mobile is not just another place to dump content. Mobile is very good at increasing conversion because it is a communication tool, used impulsively and it lives in the consumer pockets.

Mobile is an action and buying mechanism. At its best, Mobile use engages the consumer instantly and moves them directly from one space (A) to another (B), either physically or virtually. It’s when consumers move from A to B that your business makes money.

The key is to concentrate on reach and frequency.

Simple messaging for example, is still the biggest bucket because that is what users are doing 83% of the time. They are on their mobile phone and texting more than anything else.

As always, businesses hit pay dirt by understanding consumers behavior. This is no different in Mobile Marketing.  When you find out when and where your consumer is, then follow up with them and stay on their heels.

Keep it simple and use these basic Mobile principles.

• Understand WHAT users are doing with Mobile
• WHERE they are doing it, and then
• Offer them what they want, when they want it!

At M4 Group, we recognize the urgent need for businesses to adopt specialized virtual marketing platforms to join into conversations with today’s consumers.

If you’re not reaching out to them–where they are right now–they won’t be doing business with you any time soon.

Click here to learn more about how the interactive nature of Mobile Marketing makes it one of the most engaging mediums available today. When used correctly, the technology rewards your business big time–with frequent, loyal customers!

Contemplating Mobile Marketing for Your Business? is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

FREE Traffic is Back and Easier Than Ever!

…but only for those who know how to twist Google’s big, hairy arm.

Let’s discuss why you MUST add search engine optimization to your overall traffic strategy…

Organic Search Traffic Is KING!

Organic Traffic Is Growing…Paid Is Declining

Google Admits To Puny Amounts of Traffic for paid searches

Where Are All The Clicks Going?

The first ORGANIC (i.e. non-sponsored listing) receives 41 – 45% of the available traffic, and the second ORGANIC result receives 11 – 18% of the available traffic, the third ORGANIC result receives approximately 9%…

The paid, sponsored listings cumulatively are getting a measly 1-2% of the search traffic.

Hmmm, let’s do the math on this.  There is a whopping 10-22 TIMES more free results than all the PAID listings put together.

Let me say it another way… The Organic Traffic Is FREE and dominates the searched traffic whereas the paid, sponsored listings are getting a puny residual of the traffic.  Even positions 4-10 get more free traffic at approximately 1% each.

The “Click-Shift” Has Begun…

So now that you know about this, what are you going to do about it?

Well I hope you agree that you need to do something…

OPTION 1: Continue being naive…believing (like the so-called “SEO Professionals” would have you believe) that getting ranked is a “painful process”…

OPTION 2: Take ownership of your traffic and claim all the clicks that your AdWords competitors are leaving on the table…

I hope you chose “Option 2”, because the truth is…

WE Can Do This…WE Can BEAT Google!
You see, it’s actually quite EASY to slide onto the first page of Google, and with a slight “push” even businesses with new websites can creep into the top 3 results for most niche markets.

Let’s talk about putting our perpetual traffic formula to work for you, and start getting you some of that FREE TRAFFIC!

Call now and have your calendar out so we can book a telephone appointment.

No Traffic = No Business is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

How to tap into the only source of Guaranteed Traffic left on the internet.

While getting traffic is a pretty easy task, what is more difficult is getting that traffic to give you the time of day.

Personally, I just don’t get why a business would go to all the effort of getting traffic and then simply let it slip away.  Did you know that 85% of the people that start the buying process, abandon it?  It’s not that they don’t want to buy, but at the moment of truth, they pull back because what they need is confirmation that what they are about to do is the right thing for them.

Ah you say “But, I don’t always know enough about most of my traffic to follow up with them and help them out because they never even stay long enough to complete my free form and opt in for my goodies.  What can I do about that, I can’t help someone that I don’t know.”

Wrong.  This is your traffic.  They came, they wanted something.  You just don’t know what you don’t know.

How would you like an instant and automated responder that educates your prospects, creates trust, delivers coupons, adds social proof, makes sales, prevents returns, spreads fire sales, and even sells other peoples stuff?

No problem.  You just buy the people who come to your site.  Now you can have a marketing conversation with them “everywhere” they go on the internet. Within the first 7-14 days of a new contact you will be “conversing” with these 85% non buyers daily, which literally guarantees that a substantial number of them will return to your site.  You realize this is not just any old traffic anymore, but very qualified, very well educated traffic that has come to know you and is ready to do business.

We call this Cherry Picking at its best and you’d have to be crazy not to have this automated program running on your business’ backend.

Let’s talk about putting our Boomerang secret to work for you, and give your sales path some sniper accuracy!

Are you ready?

Guaranteed Traffic! is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

Why Mobile is the next frontier for making money online, building new fortunes, building lists and growing your business.

• Cell phone use is 3 X larger than internet users
• Fundamental shift in how people communicate
• Text open rates are 95%
• 73% of mobile users report that text messaging is the most important feature on their phone
• Users leave home with their car keys, wallet and  cell phone …and if they forget one of them they go back for it!
• Times are changing rapidly - Mobile apps augment reality
• Traditional advertising mediums are loosing their effectiveness
• In fact, Mobile is even taking online advertising to the cleaners – Insight reports that mobile ad campaigns are 5 times more effective than internet ads.
  

Let’s face it. Technology and social media have leveled the playing field.

When you combine an emerging mobile market, Google places,  4Square, Facebook, FlowTown, and other technology developers accelerating their efforts, now more than ever before is the time for small and mid sized business to claim their stake in the mobile gold rush.

This is especially important for local businesses.

• 82% of local searches result in an offline action
• 30% of searches contain a city, state,  province or zip code
• 34% of all searches are done on maps via phones
• 56% of social and 60% of mobile users are more likely to search with a nearby business in mind

Imagine if someone told you what the internet would be a whole year beforehand? Do you think you would be more successful?

Well guess what?  Mobile madness is the new wild wild west, and the new gold rush, just like the advent of the internet in 1997.

Soon you will have Mobile Call to Actions and Digital images on your front door, business card, facebook, your car wrap, your menu, you bar tab, your building sign, you name it. Mobile marketing and communication will be the primary means of interacting with your clients and prospects.

The next 12 months will define your business destiny for the next decade.

The horse has left the barn folks and this stallion is leading the charge.

Check out our comprehensive Mobile Marketing Programs, and let’s get your business saddled up for a wild ride.

Do it now, before your competitor does!

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Mobile Marketing Millions is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

Tactics, trick and techniques that will increase your conversions by 300% or more.

Traffic is essential, but winning offers are EVERYTHING!

Conversion cost nothing once it’s in place.

Conversion opens marketing options you have never even considered.

Conversion crushes the competition.

Conversion attracts others to sell for you like flies.

Conversion Crushers is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic

Tactics, tricks and techniques that will build your list 10X FASTER!

• Lead Magnets
• Video
• Retention
• Interaction
• Automated “Hot List” follow up

List Building Loopholes is a post from: M4 Group Marketing Connecting Your Business with Traffic