Friday, January 29, 2010
Gumiyo makes it a point to not only deliver an exception technology platform for our partners to execute their mobile initiatives, we also endeavor to keep them up-to-date on the latest developments in the mobile space. Building upon other blog entries where we collect and publish various statistics found around the Web, the following is a fairly comprehensive roundup of the latest the analysts have to offer.
Of course, some of these numbers may conflict with each other, and it should be noted that this is an aggregation from multiple sources.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
As Gumiyo continues its growth as a mobile marketing solutions provider for newspapers, media companies, retail automotive dealers and marketing agencies; Ms. Koncar is tasked with extending Gumiyo’s reach within these industries and developing the mobile solutions market among end advertisers.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
We recently attended BIA/Kelsey’s Interactive Local Media Conference. By many definitions, mobile is inherently local and BIA/Kelsey has done a great deal to educate its constituency about the its impact, strategies, and best practices. The following are some of our notes taken during the conference.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
by Vivienne Ryan
The West Australian
The art of communicating to consumers in the commercial property sphere takes a new turn this week with the deployment of an instant messaging device, despite some in the sector saying the technology shift has yet to seep into the commercial world.
It is already in play in the residential sector but this week Realmark Commercial extends the use of its instant message technology, Gumiyo, to its commercial consumers as part of its broader shift in communication techniques.
The Gumiyo software enables consumers to reach listings and property specific information from their mobile phone by texting a code found on a sign and instantly receive detailed property information including images and property-specific details…
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Friday, October 30, 2009
As one of the voices of the retail automotive industry, Joe Webb writes about text messaging and mobile marketing in this month’s issue of Digital Dealer Magazine. As the leading technology provider for mobile solutions in the industry, we spent some time with Joe to contribute our thoughts on the subject. One point of clarification: When referring to peer-to-peer communication, we’re talking about messaging that bypasses the carrier and occurs directly between phones through a wi-fi or other network.
Read the original article in the October issue of Digital Dealer Magazine...
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Mobile Solution Enables Dealers to Offer Text Messaging and Mobile-friendly Web sites as Additional Ways Consumers Can Connect with the Dealership’s Products and Services. Reynolds Web Solutions announced today new mobile marketing products for retail automotive dealers powered by Gumiyo’s Mobile Ready platform.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Nielsen recently announced new data showing a 34% increase in Mobile Web. We at Gumiyo believe in an integrated, multi-technology approach to a mobile strategy that includes SMS, MMS, iPhone applications, and the Mobile Web. While all of these platforms have unique strengths and practical applications, many view the Mobile Web as having the greatest growth and potential due to the sheer number of consumers with access…
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Monday, October 12, 2009
How the Mobile Ready Platform enables mobile marketers to execute campaigns that are in compliance with federal communications laws
There has been a great deal of discussion and legal precedence with regard to text messaging and how it relates to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)and the CAN SPAM act. Because these laws were enacted prior to consumer and commercial usage of this technology, the FCC and the courts are still trying to determine how these rules apply. Interestingly, the current consensus is that text messaging falls under both acts. In other words, in some ways a text message is similar to a “phone call” and in other ways it has characteristics shared with email.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Gumiyo will be presenting it’s Txt2MLS solution at the Council of MLS conference in South Lake Tahoe from September 30 through October 2. Txt2MLS is a turnkey solution that enables multiple listing services to extend MLS, agents, and listings to mobile phones.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia has today launched an innovative new phone texting service and mobile phone web site for members and their customers. The new service enables agents to deliver listings to mobile devices and to connect with homebuyers quickly and efficiently.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Some of the most common questions to me from our partners are related to statistics: How many people text? How many people are using the Mobile Web? How many people can view video on their mobile phones? I wrote a bit about statistics a few months ago and much of it is still valid. However, statistics change and I thought it time to post an update. Here are the numbers:
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The new service provides a multimedia “mobile flyer” for each real estate property listing, a mobile portal for the MLS, and the ability to connect agents with home buyers on-the-go quickly and efficiently.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009
On March 18th, Rich Abronson will speak the Kelsey Group’s annual conference that looks at local interactive marketing and leveraging the Internet and mobile for better lead generation, conversion, and customer engagement.
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Sunday, March 01, 2009
Revenue strategies must include phones
By Rich Abronson
Special to California Publisher
The newspaper industry today faces a double challenge: rapidly changing reader habits in an interactive, online world coupled with the current economic situation. While these bring discomfort to many within the industry, they also present new opportunities to those who adapt. One of the best of these opportunities sits at the convergence of the industry’s challenges: The increasingly sophisticated mobile phone and its ubiquitous usage among local consumers…
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Sunday, March 01, 2009
Digital Dealer
by Richard Abronson
Much is said in the world of retail automotive about effective Internet lead management (ILM) and how to use it to boost new and used car sales. As dealers launch mobile web sites for their stores, and get their vehicle inventory on car buyers’ mobile phones in order to generate “mobile leads,†Mobile lead management (MLM) becomes an increasingly important concept for the Internet sales manager to understand.
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