Indaba Mobile

Connect. Community. Communicate.

Submitted by gumcarrots on Thu, 2010-07-01 14:45

Indaba Mobile provides businesses with the tools to connect with customers,
build a community and communicate with them.

Connect:

Connect with your
customers and allow
your customers to
connect with each 
other.

Community:

Use these connections to
build a virtual community.
The most important
community of all - a
community made up entirely
of your customers.

Communicate:

Once a community has been
created, use these connections to
communicate your messages to
your customers. Get to know them,
communicate with them and get
the conversation started.
 
Indaba means communication

social media trends

  • There are more mobile phones in South African then Taxis + TVs + Radios combined and more active simcards than citizens.


    Source: Chris Rawlinson

  • Mobile Trends predicted for Africa by 2020: Banking will be purely on mobile phones and mobile phones will replace ATMs


    Source: Mobile Trends 2020 Africa

  • 2011 will see more youth doing mobile transactions.


    Source: Bradley Maseko for Bizcommunity

  • Africans are more likely to have a Facebook Account than an email address because they are signing up via Facebook Mobile.


    Source: Hermione Way for thenextweb.com


  • -        ‘Mobile money’ service will become Africa’s version of the credit card for online payments.


    Source: Mobile Trends 2020 Africa

  • In 1996 only 2.4% of South Africa’s 16+ adult population had access to a cell phone, today 74% of the 15+ population has access to a cell phone.


    Source: Mark Buwalda for Bizcommunity

  • There are 48 million people in the world who have a mobile phone but do not have electricity at home.


    Source: Cisco January 2011

  • 2011 will see a continued rise in online advertising, targeting the youth, from both local and international perspectives.


    Source: Bradley Maseko for Bizcommunity

  • The intersection of mobile and social offers opportunity for a brand to have direct relationships with consumers.


    Source: Mobile Marketing.com

  • Africa has become the most promising mobile and social media market


    Source: SEOptimise
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Submitted by gumcarrots on Sat, 2010-07-03 07:09

terminology

indaba : \in-’daba\n.
A gathering of people to discuss matters of importance. Chiefly South African.

mobile: \mo-bil’\ adj.
  1. Possessing the capacity of moving or of being moved from place to place.
  2. Informal (n) for cellular phone. 

indaba mobile: \in-’da-ba-mo-bil”\ n.
  1. A virtual ‘gathering’ of people to discuss matters of importance by means of a mobile phone.
  2. A fundamental shift in the way businesses communicate with their customers.