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Bluetooth Marketing and Bluetooth in India
Stroll around Bangalore’s swanky The Forum Mall with your Bluetooth enabled phone in discoverable mode, and you’ll soon begin receiving promotional messages from the stores in the mall, one of 12 across India that have deployed Bluetooth enabled servers to reach out to customers in a personalized way.If multinational brands such as Levi’s, adidas and Pepsi, among others, are experimenting with Bluetooth technology to get closer to their customers, so too is the Bangalore Traffic Police. Officers now carry handsets that communicate with a central information server to instantly recall a traffic offender’s past record; a Bluetooth enabled printer can issue tickets on the spot. Other applications are quickly catching on. For instance, Bangalore-based Motvik Technologies launched wwigo (Webcam Wherever I Go) in June 2008. The solution, pronounced “vigo,” turns a Bluetooth enabled camera phone into a mobile, wireless webcam. And Phoneytunes, a mobile services company, has deployed Bluetooth enabled kiosks at 38 Sony Ericsson retail outlets across the country to allow users to download ringtones, wallpapers and songs.It is pretty impressive to see that the bluetooth technology is becoming so widely used and adopted throughout all of India, across different sectors, such that it has also been adopted by the traffic police. But this is a natural side-effect of the growing number of bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, and Bluetooth SIG figures come to back this up:
Among Indian consumers, Bluetooth enabled wireless headsets are becoming increasingly popular, thanks to lower prices and surging sales of mobile handsets. An estimated 7 million to 8 million mobile phones – 70 percent of which are Bluetooth enabled – are sold each month in India, which has a subscriber base of 250 million.
Finally, the article reports, bluetooth is also widely used in the automotive and health industries:
The Indian automotive market represents an exciting growth area, with more middle-class Indians buying cars today – even more than one per household – to accommodate the needs of working couples. While Bluetooth technology’s main automotive applications are hands-free calling and “infotainment” devices, it won’t be long before we see vehicle safety, navigation, tracking, telematics and control, according to Anant Koppar, chairman and CEO of KTwo Technology Solutions. In another market segment, the scarcity of medical facilities and doctors in densely-populated India is expected to encourage the use of Bluetooth enabled medical, health and fitness devices. For instance, a wearable Bluetooth enabled heart monitor that can send text messages to local hospitals has been successfully tested at the Sathyabama University in Tamil Nadu. India sounds like a very promising market for bluetooth proximity marketing so I am sure we are bound to hear more about new proximity marketing campaigns there. I look forward to it!
Nike Offers Interactive Bluetooth Marketing Campaigns
- the bluetooth marketing campaign they were running (at least) in Nike Town, London in 2006, where people were invited to turn on bluetooth on their mobile phones in order to receive videos and other promotional multimedia content,
- the NIKEiD campaign in 2007, that allowed the public to design their own trainers, with their photo, shoe and a line written by them, appearing in near-real-time in NikeTown, on the NIKEiD website and on cube installations on the streets of London. The NIKEiD street cubes also provided studio appointments via Bluetooth, in order to reach a wider audience.
Increasing popularity of Bluetooth Marketing
In the world of rapid changing technology, continuously we are bombarded by names such as Bluetooth, wi-fi and TIVO. Technology has become so advance that people only need to press the button for changing the channel and use the technology of Bluetooth and infrared to transform the data.
So are you looking for creative, cost effective methods to distribute rich media content? Here is the solution for you, Bluetooth marketing is an amazing system that uses wireless Bluetooth technology to target your audience at near proximity to your establishment with direct response message. Bluetooth is the latest and hottest cost effective technology which allows you to exchange data without wasting your money. You can send any sort of data via Bluetooth including images, audio-video, animated images, etc. It can be enable on the Bluetooth handheld devices like mobile, laptops, etc. The formula work when the Bluetooth enabled devices are relatively close between the distance of 12 meters to virtually any public and private spaces that are equipped with a Bluetooth transmitter or server.
There are lots of advantages of Bluetooth marketing and some of them are listed below:- you can deliver message content on any mobiles and PDA’s quickly. You don’t need to pay any transmission cost, not even by your target audience.- Price are fixed whether you send your communication via Bluetooth to 10 to 10,000 customers.- Animated images (animated GIF files), still images like JPEG wall papers, vCal (calendar event files), Audio (as WAV, MP3, MP4, RMF or ringtone files), video (as real media, 3GP or MP4 files).
Benefits include:
1. Free message delivery and 2. 24×7x365 data – exchange or deliver the Bluetooth service is enable throughout the day and the whole. Information delivery with little operator intervention required. Source: www.articlesnatch.comIn-Stadium Bluetooth Proximity Marketing
Bluetooth Marketing move to spread litter message
He said: “Getting the anti-litter message across to people who are out enjoying themselves is a challenge for the council, which is why we are delighted to be trialing such technology in Torbay.Successful Bluetooth Marketing Campaigns – Case Studies from India
- 1000+ downloads at each outlet & 10000+ downaloads over all outlets
- Increase in the use of this application
- Was held between 25th to 27th March 2008 at Renaissance Hotel, Mumbai
- Asia’s Biggest Convention on the Business of Entertainment with more than 2500 delegates from over 22 Countries
- Who’s Who from Indian Media and Entertain Industry had participated
- Participation by Global Media & Entertainment conglomerates
- The event location was converted into a Bluetooth zone.
- A Mobile event brochure with co-branding from BLACKBERRY was delivered to the delegates. A separate page was dedicated to blackberry in the brochure mentioning about blackberry and its products.
- The event updates were delivered in the form of Magic Moments to the delegates also carrying the logo of BLACKBERRY.
- Maximum Brand Recall for the college and the brands which were associated with us.
- 2500+ downloads
- Virgin Mobile in association with Channel V celebrated the launch of their mobile phone at, MMRDA Grounds, Mumbai.
- The who’s who from the entertainment industry and Media were invited.
- Convert the event venue as the Bluetooth zone.
- Enhance the user experience by delivering the information about the event.
- Deliver the Virgin Mobile ring tones to delegates mobile.
- Deliver the Videos of the TV ads of Virgin Mobile
- Deliver video files from Channel V.
- The event location was converted into a Bluetooth zone.
- The ring tones and videos were delivered
- Maximum Brand Recall for the Virgin mobiles
- 1000+ downloads
- Information management for the entire event.
- Improved mode of interaction between the delegates and the organizers.
- The Ground Floor of the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai was converted into a Bluetooth zone.
- The solution deployed, provided information at the fingertips of the participants of the event.
- Event schedule was pushed to users mobile
- A Networking tool was pushed and was activated at the event. Using this tool the delegates could network with each other and exchange their contacts. Also they could share their thoughts by sending instant messages to them.
- Reminders for the upcoming sessions were sent to the users through Bluetooth and SMS.
- Maximum Brand Recall for organizers
- Enhanced event experience and an improved mode of interaction at the event
- 1000+ downloads
- 7500+ interactions
- Information management for the entire event.
- Improved mode of interaction between the delegates and the organizers.
- The solution deployed, provided information at the fingertips of the participants of the event.
- Information about the Session Schedule, Profile of the Speakers, Topics in the Seminar, were delivered to the delegate’s mobile phones.
- Web based Management console was implemented for queries during the Q&A session.
- Solution was supported by SMS and Bluetooth options for communication.
- Information access was made easier in the event.
- Enhanced event experience and an improved mode of interaction at the event.
- Improved interface for interaction was used in the seminars during Q&A sessions
- Information management for the entire event.
- Provision for a medium to the stall owners to reach to the people in the event.
- Improved mode of interaction between the stall owners and the visitors.
- The entire event was converted into a Bluetooth zone.
- Information about the Session Schedule, were delivered to the delegate’s mobile phones.
- The stall owners sent the information of their stall and their products to the user’s mobile using our medium.
- Maximum Brand Recall for organizers
- 5000+ downloads
- Increase in the foot fall for the stalls who had used our solution.
Source: http://mobile2mobility.com
Bluetooth Marketing – On track to an affluent audience
Source: http://www.brandrepublic.com
Palisades Center IMAX theater to try selling tickets via Bluetooth Marketing
Can a movie sell out 12 weeks in advance?
That’s the question Warner Bros. and IMAX will begin to answer this weekend as they run a high-tech experiment at the IMAX Theater at Palisades Center.
Patrons can go to the large-format theater and, using the Bluetooth connection on their cell phones, download an exclusive 30-second clip from the upcoming graphic novel adaptation “Watchmen,” which will be released March 6.
At the end of the clip, patrons will then be directed to a Web site that gives them a VIP opportunity to buy tickets to the first public showing of the film at 12:01 a.m. March 6.
“We’ll be the only theater in the United States selling tickets for the midnight show,” said theater director John Jarvie. “We get a crack at it because we’re one of the top four IMAXes in the country.”
Jarvie admitted IMAX is treating this “proximity marketing” as an experiment, but he thinks that timing it with “The Day the Earth Stood Still” should hit the same demographic that will be excited for “Watchmen.”
“It should be very hot,” he said.
After “The Dark Knight” broke all kinds of IMAX records this summer, IMAX is big business for Hollywood. After “Watchmen,” films such as “Star Trek” on May 8, “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” on May 22, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” on June 26 and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” on July 17 will all be released in IMAX.
So if this experiment proves successful, expect more early ticket sales and high-tech hijinks.
Source: http://www.recordonline.com
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