Thursday: AARP Endorses the House Health Care Bill. Friday: AARP Turns to Mobile Commons to Drive Calls to Congress. Saturday: Bill Passes the House.

While we can’t take all the credit for the bill passing, we are proud to be the choice for so many organizations – including the AARP – to drive their grass roots advocacy for so this historic bill. AARP members who were signed up to receive mobile alerts through Mobile Commons received a text Friday morning [...]

Mobile Commons Nominated for 2009 MMA Awards

Mobile Commons was just nominated as a finalist for 2 awards at the Mobile Marketing Association’s Fifth Annual Global Mobile Marketing Awards! Of course, we are excited to be selected, but we are even more excited for our customers whose programs drove the nominations. Best Messaging Program Award “Text to Remember” – National September 11th [...]

Consumers are Ready (and Waiting) for Mobile Deal Alerts

The results from a new Harris Interactive survey show that consumers are increasingly more open to receiving SMS text messages alerting them to deals at nearby stores, restaurants, and other retail outlets. Some highlights from the survey include: Only 1% of consumers say they currently receive deal alerts on their mobile phones but 27% say [...]

Text Message Reminders to Take Medication Works

The medical journal Pediatrics published a new study showing the effectiveness of using text messages to remind young patients to take their medication. There were 41 patients in the study who recently underwent a liver transplant. They showed “significant improvement” in medication compliance after 1 year. The media age of the patients was 15. Mobile [...]

Report: 4.1 Billion Text Messages Sent Every Day

The CTIA released its semi annual report this week: over 740 billion text messages were sent in the first half of 2009. That works out to 4.1 billion text messages sent per day in the United States! That’s billion with a “B”. And what’s even more astonishing is that number is twice as many as [...]

Mobile Commons in the NY Times!

A great article was published today in the New York Times: A Small Business Guide to Text-Message Marketing by Mark Cohen. It’s great to see the media and traditional press starting to see the power of text-message (SMS) marketing. The huge number of case studies and ROI analyses that have been published has made a real difference in [...]

Mobile Commons, 9/11 Memorial and NASCAR Partner on “Text to Remember” Program

Public can add name to 9/11 “Honor Roll” with option to donate $5 via text message NEW YORK – September 10, 2009 – Mobile Commons, Inc., a pioneer of easy-to-use technology for mobile marketing campaigns, today announced its partnership with the National September 11th Memorial & Museum and NASCAR in launching the “Text to Remember” [...]

Shedd Aquarium Drives Oceans of Awareness with SMS

SMS CAMPAIGN DELIVERS OVER 300% MORE CONVERSIONS THAN URLS IN TELEVISION ADS CHALLENGE In June 2009, the Shedd Aquarium needed to drive significant awareness and visitors to the premiere of a new aquatic show, Fantasea, in the renovated Oceanarium. Campaigns were created across multiple media channels, including a contest to win exclusive VIP tickets to [...]

Text to Remember 9/11

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum and the North South Motorsports team have teamed up with Mobile Commons to launch the innovative “Text to Remember” program to help raise funds and awareness for the September 11 Memorial. The SMS calls to action will be at the NASCAR Nationwide Series on September 11, 2009, and in [...]

Using Mobile Technology to Influence Health Care Reform

Mobile Marketer published an article this morning in which many mobile industry experts shared their opinions on ways the government could use mobile technology to help pass health care reform legislation. This seems like the perfect opportunity to share some of the exciting ways our customers have been using mobile to influence health care legislation [...]