Showing posts with label Mobile Coupon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile Coupon. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 July 2011

Mobile Coupon (Pros & Cons)

 

According to yesterday post, I mentioned "飲食男女" app as Mobile Coupon example. Although it is a really convenient app for customer, there are still disadvantages.

Let me talk some Pros & Cons of "飲食男女" app.

For advantages, customer can download the coupon in anywhere. Moreover, user can redeem the coupon at the shop when they purchase. It can reduce the time & more environmental friendly.

For disadvantages, user can download the coupon without limit. They have not spend before download the coupons and each user can download 10 coupons. However, these users may not the target customer. People may download it first but may not redeem it at last. When the restaurant offered 1000 coupons, actually it may be only downloaded by 100 users. And the page will show "Full" after 1000 coupons have been all downloaded. Therefore, it is not really efficient.


Saturday, 2 July 2011

Mobile Coupon (example)

Today, I would like to use an example for more details of Mobile Coupon.

In iPhone app "飲食男女" which is created by the magazine, it provided a very convenient channel for customer to download the mobile coupons. When you open the app, it will show you the most updated special offer from different restaurants. User can search by "Free, Discount, Cash Coupon..." different catagories. When user found their interest, they can click in. So that they can find "download" button.


Actually, when user click on the "download" button, the coupon will be automatically save in their app. As I mentioned yesterday, customer can redeem their coupon at store.


Friday, 1 July 2011

What is Mobile Coupon?

Mobile Coupon is one of the tactis of Mobile Marketing.

In traditional, COUPON should be a printed ticket for any discount or rebate from purchase. However, when Internet was being wide spectrum used, COUPON appeared in another format. It becomes more ACCESSIBLE.

From Wikipedia, it mentioned that mobile coupon is an electronic ticket solicited and or delivered to a mobile phone that can be exchanged for financial discount or rebate when purchasing product or service. MOBILE COUPONs are ofter distributed through WAP Push over SMS or MMS, or other mobile means. Customer can redeems the coupon at store or online.

That's the reason why I said "more accessible"!



source from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon