Smart Marketing Solutions

Smart Marketing Solutions (SMS) is a marketing and promotions agency founded by Bernard and Pinky Morada that specializes in helping local small and medium enterprises harness the power of mobile, internet and social media marketing to increase brand visibility, expand customer base and strengthen customer loyalty to boost sales and profits.

 

We provide the following Marketing Solutions:

SMS and Mobile Marketing

The number of people who own a Smartphone is increasing at lightning speed worldwide! In fact, statistics say that by 2014, there will be more Smartphones than desktop or personal computers. At the moment, over 50% of searches for local services and businesses are made using Smartphones.

And dig this, SMS lists has surpassed email lists in that 95% of text messages are read in 10 minutes or less upon receiving them making SMS marketing super powerful and effective! Check our SMS and Mobile Marketing page for more crazy stats.

So if you’re truly serious about increasing your sales and profits, you should never ever leave this marketing channel unexploited!

Facebook Marketing

Did you know that in 2010, Facebook has surpassed Google in terms of total time spent by people online all over the world?

Almost everyone is on Facebook today regardless of one’s age, occupation or interest! In fact, there are more than 800M active users on Facebook and over 50% of them are logged on at any given day. What’s more, around 45% of the active users access FB using their mobile phones. That’s 350M people who can access Facebook anytime, anywhere!

If you’re not convinced yet that you ought to establish a presence on Facebook, take a look at the other Facebook stats and facts here.

Coupon Marketing

Who doesn’t want to get great deals? Only about 5% don’t. This means that 95% of shoppers love coupons while a whopping 60% of the shoppers are constantly looking for them!

Just imagine beating your competitors by strategically offering sweet deals to your customers. You can easily pocket more profit and expand your customer base this way! It’s just too good to pass up!

Video Creation and Marketing

Everybody loves videos, Google too! So if you want to reach out to a wider audience with the most impact, you should never forget to include video marketing in your marketing campaign. And, since more and more businesses have started to embrace video marketing, the challenge for you is to stand out from the competition and rank in Google on top of impressing your existing clients.

Google Places Listing

It has always been Google’s mission to “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” Google is uncompromising about their users’ experience, and it is only rational that their dogma permeates all throughout their products including Google Places.

Google Places or Google Local, as it was formerly known, is a free to use and set-up ‘premium’ tool that lets you place your business on the Google Maps website that is accessible to any visitors worldwide. If your business does not currently have a website, having a Google Place’s listing is a fantastic way to establish and maintain a presence online to gather both leads and customers.

Anyone can set-up a Google Places listing but it takes skill and know-how to effectively rank your business and dominate your niche.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Applying search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and strategies will help you improve your website’s visibility in search engines like Google and Yahoo through organic or unpaid search results.

What this means is, if someone searches for a service or product that you are offering via Google and your website appears at the top of the search results list, then you are of course going to get more visitors from search engines. It is a fact that most people don’t go to the second and third pages of the search results to visit each site. Often, most people only click the top 5 results.

In essence, applying the right SEO strategies will help you attain top search rankings and we can definitely help with that!

Email Marketing

Although not as powerful and as portable as SMS marketing, email marketing has still become more powerful and far reaching than ever before. Research shows that the number of email marketers who are sending more than 50K emails each and every month has increased by 50%, from 40% of marketers in 2007 to 60% in 2011. Not only that but 72% of these companies have pegged their email marketing campaign’s ROI as either excellent or good.

The three critical elements to creating a powerful email marketing campaign are your mailing list which you need to build; the offer and content of your emails; and lastly the call to action to make your campaign profitable. We will help you develop all three of these elements!

 

We can help you create a powerful promotional marketing campaign using a mix of or all seven of the services above. How far you would like to go and grow is really your choice! We’ll be implementing these strategies with you each step of the way.

 

Send us an email here and let’s set a schedule to discuss your business’ unique needs.

Note that we don’t provide a one size fits all marketing campaign. Click here to get to know more about how we will work with you to grow your business.

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