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Comment: Will 2010 Be the Real Year of Mobile?

A recent article from ClickZ asks, “Will 2010 Be the Real Year of Mobile?” Yes, we all agree that the Year of Mobile is… ahem… somewhat overdue. The article goes on to list the factors that the author believes makes mobile difficult for marketers. Surprisingly, the article misses the boat on how effective mobile really [...]

Support Wikipedia with a Text Message

Donate $10 to the Wikimedia Foundation just by sending a text message Wikipedia is one of the best known websites on the Internet, but did you know it’s actually run by a non-profit called the Wikimedia Foundation? Thanks to the generous support of donors over the years, Wikipedia has been able to keep their invaluable [...]

Lou Dobbs quits CNN

The big news in the media today is that Lou Dobbs has quit CNN. Mobile Commons would like to congratulate Presente.org and the BastaDobbs.com campaign. Supporters can text the word BASTA to 30644 to join the BastaDobbs.com campaign. From BastaDobbs.com – BastaDobbs.com Announces Victory: Lou Dobbs to Leave CNN NEW YORK – Responding to the [...]

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” [...]

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