Benefits of the Mobile Marketing Campaign

Both of the above cases provide a very good example that how Starbucks uses mobile marketing to achieve several benefits.

• The mobile marketing campaigns linked the real time in store experience to the online virtual community, this is more difficult to access by other online marketing channels.
• It urges customers to develop an engagement with Starbucks, through visiting the stores regularly and interacting with the brand frequently and customers are encouraged by rewarding.
• Provides incentive for conversion, converts the virtual experience to actual sales via offering discount and e-coupon.
• Increases the acquisition, collects the customers data when they download the mobile app and every time they have redemption.

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