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= Email Marketing =

United Kingdom
The Government of United Kingdom requires that companies need to state who they are, what kind of products they are selling to, and clarify what kind of promotions it is, when they are sending commercial email to their customers. The essential thing of doing email marketing is that firms are only be allowed to send commercial email to customers when they give the permission to the companies. Moreover, companies need to use Email Preference Service to make sure not send unsolicited marketing email to customers. Besides, customers need to have the right to opt out of further commercial email. It means companies need to give the cancellation options to customers when they send marketing email to them. Furthermore, companies need to guarantee that whether or not they have the permission to use an email list form which are buying and renting form a third Party.

Types
The email marketing can be inbound or outbound.

Outbound email marketing means company sent the marketing email to current and potential customers. It is one of direct marketing strategies and is to encourage the further purchase from customer. Outbound email marketing could help company to manage customer relationship.

Inbound email marketing means the email is sent by customers and customers are seeking out solution and interacting with company.

= Mobile Advertising = Mobile advertising appears is due to the increasing number of Short Messaging Service (SMS). Also, with the development of mobile devices, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) based mobile advertising emerges when the mobile industry move to smart phone era (Leppaniemi, and OKarjaluoto, 2005).

Mobile advertising trends in the United States
According to the rapid development of wireless network technology and the huge increase of mobile devices, mobile advertising becomes a predominant promotion method in today’s marketing industry (Bauer et al., 2005). Over past 10 years, mobile phones become an important and indispensable product in people’s daily life. There are 90% of people in America have their own mobile phones, and nearly 35% of American are using smart phones. Therefore, 75% of the United States firms are either doing mobile advertising presently or planning to do it in the future (Kaplan, 2012).

Three conditions of Mobile Advertising
Kaplan believed that there are three conditions of mobile advertising.

1. Ubiquitous network
Ubiquitous network implies that consumers can be associated by a combination of diverse network. The switch between diverse networks occurs in a fluent and intangible approach and it is an important factor of ubiquitous network.

2. User need to access the network constantly
There is no doubt that the longer of connecting time between consumers and mobile devices, the success of mobile marketing will be. Although the penetration rate of mobile phones is high nowadays, the usage hours of mobile devices still rely on the users. Therefore, how to make sure mobile devices operate 24 hours is an issue that need to consider.

3. Use of a personal mobile device
To make mobile advertising works, the mobile device need to be owned by one person. In other words, the mobile phones cannot share with other people. Each mobile device need to be unique and have its own SIM card.