• FAQ
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    Q: What is Bluetooth proximity marketing ?
    A: Bluetooth Marketing system is the operation of pushing contents via Bluetooth radios to surrounding bluetooth-enabled devices.
    It specializes in providing information, entertainment, discounts, coupons, and other promotional materials to users of mobile phones and other Bluetooth-enabled devices.
    Bluetooth technology is now the latest medium for advertising and marketing. It's the newest way to contact with potential or existing customers.
     
    Q: Are Bluetooth marketing messages SPAM?
    A: No, because each message requires "permission" from the mobile users. Besides, if the mobile users reject the message, then the bluetooth device will not send the message to the mobile phone again.
     
    Q: When is proximity marketing at its most powerful?
    A: It works best when there is a captive audience, and the audience has waiting time (eg in a football stadium or cinema),
    A significant number of Bluetooth phone users are within range, and messages can be easily transmited to the users’mobile phones for their needs or interests.
     
    Q. Does the Bluetooth advertising equipment work with all mobiles?
    A. About 85% of mobile phones are currently Bluetooth enabled. This number continues to rise and new phones tend to be multimedia compatible.So Bluetooth Marketing System will enjoy a potential  market.
     
    Q: How reliable is your Bluetooth server?
    A: As long as the mobile users are within range of the server, the server will detect the mobile phones and send campaigns to the mobile phones without any difficulties.  
                                 
    Q. What other accessories do I need to control your Bluetooth marketing Device?
    A: Our Bluetooth system is stand alone model, no need additional accessories.
     
    Q. Can your Bluetooth server run from batteries?
    A. Yes, we can provide a completely independent batteries package.
     
    Q: How long can the battery run continuously?
    A: The Operating time of the portable bluetooth devices about 15 hours and it takes 6-8 hours to fully recharged.
     
    Q. How many phones can your Bluetooth marketing Device reach at one time?
    A: Our Bluetooth marketing device can reach 14 and 28 mobile phones at the same time, and you can use multiple servers to increase connection rates.
     
    Q. Can I manage multiple Bluetooth advertising equipments?
    A. Yes, we provide a software solution to manage multiple servers.
     
    Q: I am planning to have different devices in one area such Carrefour hypermarket. The problem I will face that each device will detect the mobile and will ask him to receive the same Bluetooth messages. Can we connect all devices at same time and let them operate as one device?
    A: Yes, you can connect all the devices at the same time via Lan, so that the mobile users can receive the same campaign only once.
     
    Q: Once I name a device, load the information into the Bluetooth marketing Device by u-disk, can I change the name again?
    A: Yes, you can change the name of the device by USB or by LAN.
    You can right click the device name, click "copy device" and " paste device", then you can input the new name here. And then update it to the device by USB or by LAN.
     
    Q. Can I manage my own Bluetooth campaign?
    A. Yes, you can upload your own Bluetooth campaign and advertisement files to the Bluetooth marketing Device and set the sending policy and work mode according to your need.
     
    Q. What size message can I send?
    A. Files up to 1MB work well. Download times will increase for larger files.
                                                                                                                  
    Q. How many messages can be stored on Bluetooth marketing device? How often we need to clear the "statistic"? Is there a way to know the capacity occupied percentage?
    A: The storage of our Bluetooth marketing Devices is 512MB. And it's composed of 3 parts:The fixed documents, the campaigns and advertisement files in the device and the sending statistics.
    The fixed documents will occupy about 30MB. So there will be 480MB left.And the last part the sending statistics: 1 sending statistics will only occupy about 200 bytes. So it can store about 2,000,000 sending statistics.
     
    Q: What is the difference among the device name, campaign name and context files.
    A: What appear in the mobile phone is the "campaign name" and the "advertisement file". Not the device name.
    The device name is just for the bluetooth software to identify different device(eg, supermarket, food court, McDonald's, KFC and so on) and send to different devices the right information from the software.
                                                                                                                                 
    Q:Can we link the device to computer via flash cable and save the files directly instead of saving in flash memory then plugging the flash to the device?
    A:Our bluetooth marketing devices is stand along work mode.
    Please do not use USB cord to connect directly from the unit to the PC.
    And here is the steps of upload a campaign to the Bluetooth Device.
    Firstly, make a campaign in our Bluetooth Software.
    Secondly, Save the campaign to a USB Flash Device via " USB disk" tab.
    Finally, connect the USB to the Bluetooth Device (via a USB cable for P14/R14 Bluetooth Devices).

    Q: Where do you save the sending statistics ? If a "Clear statistics" action is done, all the record will be lost, right?
    If both "Access statistics" and "Clear statistics" are checked on, what will happen in both LAN and NET modes?
    A: All the statistics will be saved in the Bluetooth marketing device.
    And if you click" access statistics", then the statistics can be seen either in the statistics report in our Bluetooth marketing software tab or in the USB.
    If you click" clear statistics" , then all the record will be lost.
    If choose both" access statistics" and " clear statistics", then our Bluetooth marketing software will get the sending statistics first.And after that, it will clear all the statistics. So if you click" operate" in the " LAN" tab or click" Receive from the device" in the " Net" tab, then the statistics will also appear in the blank.

    Q:  How can I get the statistics of each Bluetooth marketing device?
    A: There are many ways to get the sending statistics:Via USB/Lan/Net tab.
    Note: every time when update the device, please choose " access statistics" and " access blacklist". 
    A) Via USB: Plug the USB to the bluetooth marketing device to read the statistics from the device.
    Option 1: plug the USB to the computer and find the "getstat" folder then "statistics." text to read.
    Option 2: plug the USB to the computer . Double-click the a campaign in the " USB disk" tab in our software and then there will pop out a windows task, please click the USB and click " Open", then the sending statistics will appear in the left bottom of the Bluetooth software.
    B) Via " Lan" Tab. Click a campaign in the " Lan" tab. Click " access statistics" and click " operate". Then the sending report will appear in the right bottom blank.
    C) Via Net. Click a campaign in the " Net" tab and click" Receive from device". Then the sending report will appear in the left bottom blank.
     
    Q: I noticed that I was uploading many times new file to theBluetooth advertising devices, I think the device overwrite new files on the old files. Am I right?
    A: Yes, our bluetooth advertising device will overwrite the new files on the old files.
     
    Q: I noticed that after receiving the message and if I switch off the Bluetooth advertising device and switch on again it will ask me to receive the same message which I received already. Where can I set it that if the mobile receive once, he should not receive again even if I switch off and on the device.
    A: Our bluetooth advertising device will save the sending statistics every hour. So if you switch off and then switch on again, maybe our bluetooth advertising  device hasn't recorded the sending statistics, so it will send it to your mobile phones again.
     
    Q. Can I rebrand our company logo in your Bluetooth Software or Bluetooth Proximity device?
    A: Yes, we will rebrand your company logo in our Bluetooth marketing Software for an order of above 10 units and rebrand your company logo in our Bluetooth proximity device for an order of above 100 units.  
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