In 2010, comScore estimated that more than 45.5 million Americans owned a smartphone. That number has since grown to 65.8 million people as of January 2011. While many businesses have created mobile versions of their websites and/or optimized their existing sites for use on a mobile phone, small business owners lag behind. In an app-driven world, taking your small business marketing can be daunting. With quotes of $10,000 or more to create a custom app, small businesses often assume that mobile just isn’t feasible. There are plenty of ways to leverage mobile marketing for your small business mobile without a large investment. Through creating a mobile website, optimizing local search and using mobile ecommerce, there is often no need to create an app. Navin will take attendees through the basics of mobile marketing. He will look at how mobile lends itself to many different industries from restaurants to real estate to independent retailers. Small business owners will leave with executable strategies and tactics for taking their businesses mobile.
