Map Out Your Geo-Fencing Strategy

Geo-fencing is one of the most advanced technologies you can use to enhance your marketing strategy locally for your small scale business and there are plenty of ways you can improve the geo-fencing strategy and help yourself out.

When we talk about the use of mobile geofencing advertising we talk about using smartphones to target the consumers. These consumers get a message or a notification about various products and services your or any small scale business is providing and that helps the business to grow locally.

So what exactly is geo-fencing?

There is a difference between geo-fencing and geo-targeting. The term geo-fencing refers to a particular virtual perimeter that is basically established around a particular physical shape. It can be either near your retail area location, the airport, or maybe covering a sports arena. The choice of the perimeter completely depends on you and you can decide which place should get the geo-fence perimeter.

So how can your geo-fencing give you what you want?

There are a few ways you can improve the experience of your geo-fencing technology. Here are those ways –

1.    Understand your customer well. You must know what kind of things your customers prefer the most or what will be the best discount option for them. Understanding who your consumer is, the context surrounding their mobile use and how they're using the mobile phones can be instrumental to building a successful campaign. Point-of-interest targeting, e.g. geo-fencing ads around locations where your consumers are can be especially relevant.

2.    The term think outside your box matters a lot here because you need to be quite smart and creative while using geo-fencing. The most important thing you must know is, your potential customers will for sure visit your rival business or the rival store. So what you can do is, rather than setting the geo-fence area near your store’s place, you can set the geo-fence area near your rival store’s location. That way, whenever your customer will visit the other store you will be getting the notification and you can send them your best deals via messages.

3.    Before you use your customer’s location, it is very important to be transparent and tell them you will be using their location. Being transparent helps you win the trust and most of the mobile customers are open to receive discounts and other deals. All you need to do is make them understand about your service the right way.