Agenda By Day


November 6, 2008
8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Introductions And Expectations
9:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Overview: Is The US — And Your Company — Ready For Mobile Marketing?
  • What are main types of mobile marketing?
  • Who is the prime audience for mobile marketing today?
  • What is current consumer response to mobile marketing?
10:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m. What Is The Mobile Marketing Vendor Landscape?
  • What are the different types of mobile marketing vendors?
  • Who are the leaders in each category?
  • What criteria should you use in evaluating vendor partners?
10:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Group Discussion: Choosing The Right Mobile Marketing Approach
  • What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of popular mobile approaches, including messaging, the mobile Internet, and ad-sponsored applications?
  • How should marketers determine which approach makes the most sense for a given campaign?
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Mobile Campaigns: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
  • Which US advertisers are doing mobile marketing right?
  • What are the best — and worst practices — in specific areas like targeting, campaign planning, ad creative, and measurement?
  • What can US advertisers learn from the mobile campaigns undertaken by their European counterparts?
2:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Exercise: Designing And Evaluating Mobile Campaigns

Participants worka in teams to design mobile tie-ins for current marketing campaigns — the larger group reconvenes to discuss the effectiveness of each mobile campaign.

3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. What Does The Future Hold For Mobile Marketing?
  • What technology changes will enable new mobile marketing techniques?
  • What is the timing for the introduction — and wide adoption — of these technologies?
  • How will these new marketing techniques fit into integrated campaigns?
4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Wrap-Up
  Forrester Analysts
Julie Ask, JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company, Speaker
Charles Golvin, Forrester, Speaker