Location Based Marketing - Theory and Practice

October 5, 2007

Location Based Services (LBS) are increasingly back on the mobile marketing agenda, as both operators and independent technology companies seek to promote the technology that allows us to track the whereabouts of users’ mobile phones. For marketers, the theory goes, this potentially represents a very powerful opportunity – the means of targeting customers not only with the right message at the right time, but now, in the right place.

The promise held out to marketers goes something like this:

Published by: Russell Buckley http://mobhappy.com/

Full Paper: http://www.matr.net/files/LocationBasedMarketing.pdf

(Many thanks to Friedrick Schweitzer http://www.txtbus.net for passing this along. Russ)