Dear all,

As you may know, I fully concentrated on global mobile marketing&advertising opportunities that Turkcell could benefit including conferences, benchmarking studies and workshops with operators, mobile marketing agencies, service providers and ad Networks. Therefore, I would like to have a 1 month Exchange Job or Full-time Intership in USA, NY area hopefully in August, 2009 in mobile marketing&advertising area. That could be great if you can introduce me to a firm in mobile marketing&advertising sector. I am keen to share my mobile marketing&advertising experience with a global firm and increase my knowledge during the exchange program experience.

Just a short bio about myself, I received my bachelor degree from Koc University in Economics with %100 scholarship in 2006. Same year, I started to work in Turkcell, leading company in Turkey listed in NYSE (TKC) and IMKB ( TCELL ) Stock Exchanges. Now, I am in mobile advertising&marketing division as a product manager responsible for new product&business development such as Tone&Win, Sponsored SMS, Ads in Mobile Tv, iPhone Apps. Tone&Win, managed by me, selected as best mobile advertising service of the year in GSMA, 2009. I also attended conferences as a keynote speaker in Israel, Austria and UK in mobile marketing. I directly report to Melis Turkmen who is selected as one of the 10 mobile marketing gurus in the Globe in mobithinking awards.

Please feel free to visit my web site www.marketingmyself.net and linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/evrimdirik

Success of Tone&Win ( http://blog.tonlakazan.com/en/ )

Sincerely,

Evrim Dirik

Telstra Codes selected as best mobile advertising service in GSMA Asia during 2008. Forget about the awards, search for the success stories! I had the chance to know more about QR Codes, (Please read more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code)

I realized that  technical requirements are low for the application called QR CODE READER. If you have a camera in you mobile, I am sure it supports QR Code! Anyway check it out @ http://www.upc.fi/en/upcode/suitablephones/

DoCoMo i-mate supports QR Codes and it is the leading operator that use QR Codes which is a bridge between digital and hardcopy ( magazines, cans, outdoor etc…)

Pepsi UK printed QR Codes to 400 million cans ( incredible!!!) and I am sure they are waiting to become a success story! Please  visit http://www.pepsi.co.uk/qrcodes.aspx

The difficult part is assuring people to install QR Codes to their mobiles, if you are an operator its easy for you! But not, you should think twice before you plan a mobile marketing campaign using QR Codes.

The GSMA announced the winners of the 14^th Annual Global Mobile Awards at a gala dinner at the National Palace in Barcelona, hosted by the rising star of comedy, Michael McIntyre. The ceremony, one of the highlights of the Mobile World Congress, the leading event for the mobile communications industry, also revealed the Global Champion of the GSMA’s 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award Competition.

Turkcell’s Tone&Win (TonlaKazan) selected as Best Mobile Advertising Service in GSMA Awards 2009.

Please visit http://blog.tonlakazan.com/en/ to know more about Tone&Win.

Great News ! Turkcell’s TonlaKazan ( Tone & Win ) shortlisted at GSMA Global awards. Please visit http://www.globalmobileawards.com/nominees.shtml or visit TonlaKazan web site www.tonlakazan.com

I’ve just try to categorize all telecom awards especially focused on mobile marketing and advertising. I realized that I spend my time to find them, so you don’t need to

Here it is some web links;

http://www.globalmobileawards.com/ Closed to 20 different category!

http://www.asiamobileawards.com/8 different category! You service should be alive in Asian countries

http://www.visiongain.com/Conference.aspx?cid=150 /Bridging the gap between online and mobile through effective strategies

TonlaKazan, world’s first AD RBT platform, selected as Best Value Added Service in Golden  Simcard Awards / Turkey in 2008. I guess that is just the beginning… Ad RBT is the new revenue streaming service for operators. I’ve just become aware of OnMobile with its Ad RBT platform nominated as Best Mobile Advertising Award in GSMA Asia. But Telstra Corporation, Australia for Telstra Mobile Codes is the award winner for this category. Mobile Codes and Mobile Ticketing is future of integrating events with mobile. I guess operators should cooperate with  event technology providers like Ticketmaster to increase the penetration.

By the way please visit Nokia Mobile Ticketing case: Nokia Mobile Ticketing

Wikipedia defines RBT as; “A Ring-back Tone (RBT), or Audible Ringing Tone or Ring-back Signal, is the audible ringing that is heard on the telephone line by the calling party after dialing and prior to the call being answered at the receiving end. This tone assures the calling party that a ringing signal is being sent on the called party’s line, although the ring-back tone may be out of sync with the ringing signal.” RBT is one the best revenue generating value added service for telecom operator. There are two main revenue generators of RBT;

• Monthly subscribtion: Each subscriber has to pay a montly fee to use RBT platform unless he bought nothing as a RBT content.

• Content fee: When you subscribed to RBT, you also buy RBT contents to let your callers listen.

Now we should add a new revenue generator for RBT service; AD RBT! Professionals talks about advertising through Ringbacktone platform since 2003; and finally Turkcell & 4Play launched TonlaKazan ( Tone&Win) at May, 2008 (www.tonlakazan.com). Ad RBT launch of Turkcell excited other telecom operators/service provides and new AD RBT platforms announced. Lets see all!

Company: Turkcell- Turkey- TonlaKazan

Ad RBT Tags: World’s first Ad RBT Platform

Web site: www.tonlakazan.com

Details: This is not just a RBT platform adding some ads to the content management system. TonlaKazan is world’s first AD RBT platform launched by Turkcell while 4Play Digital Workshop is the service provider looking for international expansion! TonlaKazan positioned itself as a loyaly program for subscribers. Please wait for more details about TonlaKazan.

Company: Onmobile – India – Ad RBT

Ad RBT Tags: CPC Model, DTMF enabled, Caller Profiling

Web site: http://www.onmobile.com/ringBackTones.html

Details: Onmobile partners with Vodafone. CPC is the main performance indicator for this service. Lets say Coca Cola says “Coca Cola presents Coca Cola Weekend, Press *12 now and get you wallpaper for free” so at each time consumer press *12, Coca Cola will be charged. Sounds good! Consumers also win airtimes and units!

Company: Orange – Spain – PromoTones

Ad RBT Tags: Auto Renew

Web site: http://movil.orange.es/servicios/promo_tonos/

Details: I guess Orange launced Promo Tones in July, compared to TonlaKazan this is not a advertising platform. It simple uses RBT platform and added some branded RBT ( Coca Cola, Ikea vs. ) let and subscribers select them as RBT. They also have rewarding program.

Company: Ringco- South Africa- A-Tones

Ad RBT Tags: DTMF enabled, Launching in March 2009

Web site: http://www.ringco.net

Details: They plan to launch the service in March 2009, it seems like they would like to be Admob of the Ad RBT.

Watch that RingCo!

Company: Xipto

Ad RBT Tags: Donation based rewarding program

Web site: https://en.xipto.com

Details: Different than the competitors, Xipto implies that you have the option to donate what you earned from Ad RBT platform.

Watch that Xipto!

Welcome to my web site! I was a junior student when I created marketingmyself.net . I aimed to present myself when I graduated and looked for a job! Actually it worked and helped me express my experiences and background info.

Now I work for Turkcell as a product manager in mobile marketing team. I focus on new product development and manage products such as  TonlaKazan ( Tone&Win),  Mobile TV,  Mobile Search,  Sponsorships. I read articles about mobile marketing and I believe I have some experiences that I could share with you. Enjoy it and do not hesitate to add your comments to any article.

Evrim