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Firms incessantly endeavor to win over the consumers where fast technological dispersion and widespread adoption has become a prime driver of competition. The Internet is considered as an integral element for all business operations (Brondmo & Foreword, 2000; Frost & Strauss, 2000). According to Vladimir (1996), the Internet is an essential mean of information sharing. Nowadays, consumers information seeking behavior has dramatically changed where they often acquire product information using distinct trendy sources, i.e., web sources, emails, social networks, various blogs, and e-newsletters (Walczak, Kellogg, & Gregg, 2012; Bawm & Nath, 2014). It is imperative for organizations to identify such promotional techniques that may aid to seize consumer’s utmost attention toward a product (Constantinides, 2004). Baumgartner and Steenkamp (1996) has explained that desire to explore the product information is always a top priority for consumers where exploratory information seeking (EIS) behavior is directly associated with cognitive stimulation of consumers. Exploratory information seeking (EIS) behavior motivates the consumer to evaluate the brand, quality, and empower their decision during variety seeking process also assists to reduce curiosity about a particular product (Raju, 1980). According to Raju (1980), exploratory information seeking (EIS) process highly stimulates the consumer’s attention and thereafter directs to buy a product.
In contrast, experts have been stated that marketing campaigns using diverse latest means of technology have a positive relationship to organizational success. For instant, online marketing (Gurafu, 2008), digital marketing (Brodie, Winklhofer, Coviello, & Johnston, 2007), viral marketing (Ferguson, 2008), electronic marketing (Coviello, Milley, & Marcolin, 2001), intranet marketing and extranet marketing (El-Gohary, 2012), mobile marketing (El-Gohary, 2012; Cantrell et al., 2017), and email marketing (Sterne & Priore, 2000; Pavlov, Melville, & Plice, 2008; Wu, Li, & Liu, 2016; Zhang, Kumar, & Cosguner, 2017). The current intention is to focus on mobile marketing, SMS marketing, and email marketing concerning to information seeking behavior of the consumers.
Mobile marketing is an advertising through mobile devices along with supporting features, i.e., short message service (SMS), multimedia message service (MMS), wireless application protocol (WAP), Social Apps, Bluetooth advertising, and JAVA marketing (Dickinger, Haghirian, Murphy, & Scharl, 2004; Leppaniemi, Karjaluoto, Salo, & Sinisalo, 2006; Smutkupt, Krairit, & Esichaikul, 2010; Persaud & Azhar, 2012). Mobile marketing is recognized with several alternatives names, e.g., mobile advertising, wireless advertising, and wireless marketing (Smutkupt, Krairit, & Esichaikul, 2010). It has become part and parcel and hip device for all the people to stay connected with all friends and family (Grant & O’Donohoe, 2007). In comparison, email marketing is communication tactic through emails (Mullen & Daniels, 2011). Information of a product or service using email is defined as an email advertising (Rettie, 2002; Zhang, Kumar, & Cosguner, 2017). Windham and Orton (2000) have claimed that email marketing is cost-effective communication tool and is a crucial factor for success. The organizations must adopt such rising wireless technologies to effectively disseminate the information and reinforce exploratory information seeking behavior of Pakistani consumers.