Fundamentals of Mobile Marketing

In the coming years, no area of marketing is likely to explode in importance like mobile marketing. Professor Shintaro Okazaki should be congratulated for his pioneering work to provide insights, guidelines, and recommendations in this critically important area. (Kevin Lane Keller, E.B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, Dartmouth College) Okazakis Fundamentals of Mobile Marketing provides the first relevant framework for mobile marketing and communication. By simplifying the technology and relating Mobile to other forms of communication, clouds, apps, 4G and ubiquity take on meaning and relevance. In short, Mobile is the future. And, the future is now ... in this text. (Don Schultz, Professor em. -in-Service of Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University) An outstanding textbook on mobile marketing. As the author points out, mobile was overhyped for some time, but its importance has increased markedly and is poised to explode. Most importantly mobile marketing allows for much more personalized relationships with customers and here Shintaro Okazaki gets to the heart of the matter. (Charles R. Taylor, Villanova School of Business, Editor, International Journal of Advertising) In the coming years, no area of marketing is likely to explode in importance like mobile marketing. Professor Shintaro Okazaki should be congratulated for his pioneering work to provide insights, guidelines, and recommendations in this critically important area. (Kevin Lane Keller, E.B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, Dartmouth College) Okazakis Fundamentals of Mobile Marketing provides the first relevant framework for mobile marketing and communication. By simplifying the technology and relating Mobile to other forms of communication, clouds, apps, 4G and ubiquity take on meaning and relevance. In short, Mobile is the future. And, the future is now ... in this text. (Don Schultz, Professor em. -in-Service of Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University) An outstanding textbook on mobile marketing. As the author points out, mobile was overhyped for some time, but its importance has increased markedly and is poised to explode. Most importantly mobile marketing allows for much more personalized relationships with customers and here Shintaro Okazaki gets to the heart of the matter. (Charles R. Taylor, Villanova School of Business, Editor, International Journal of Advertising)Okazakis Fundamentals of Mobile Marketing provides the first relevant framework for mobile marketing and communication. By simplifying the technology and relating mobile to other forms of communication, clouds, apps, 4G, and ubiquity take on meaning and relevance. In short, mobile is the future. And, the future is nowin this text. (Don Schultz, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University)

Shintaro Okazaki received his PhD from the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid (Spain) where he is Associate Professor of Marketing in the College of Economics and Business Administration. His work has appeared in numerous journals and he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Advertising (as Associate Editor), International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (as Associate Editor), Journal of Interactive Advertising, Electronic Markets, and Internet Research, among others. The Mobile Marketing Association named him Best Academic of the Year 2008.