
There are a range of companies seeking to bring mobile marketing to the masses of US small businesses. But, in a way, it's as if the mobile publishers and platforms have to re-learn the difficult lessons of conventional Internet marketing: it's expensive, frustrating and difficult to acquire small business advertisers -- especially with a self-service platform.
NearU is seeking to do just that with a new self-service SMS marketing program it calls Qpons. In our as yet unpublished research on small business online marketing we found the following regarding attitudes toward mobile marketing:

Source: Opus Research/AllBusiness.com (8/08); caution: preliminary result