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Understanding mobile loyalty platforms that are transactional

Understanding mobile loyalty platforms that are transactional

There are many different types of transactional mobile loyalty platforms and, like the old punch card and plastic cards with the magnetic stripe, each of these new programs designed for mobile devices has their own benefits and drawbacks. Consider the following types of mobile loyalty platforms that are of a transactional nature: • Optical character recognition (OCR) mobile loyalty platforms To take advantage of these platforms, consumers must download a dedicated app into their smartphones and snap the … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Payments, Near Field Communications, QR Codes

How retailers are taking their first steps into the mobile commerce world

How retailers are taking their first steps into the mobile commerce world

When new technology comes into common use, it isn’t always obvious how it should best be used, and mobile commerce is no exception, but retailers – both online and in actual physical space – have been making their first attempts at using smartphones and tablets to their best advantage, each in their own ways. Retailers weren’t typically a part of the first wave of commerce. There were a few trailblazers, but other than that, mobile devices … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Marketing, Trends, United States

Commerce has gone mobile and it’s time to join in

Commerce has gone mobile and it’s time to join in

Mobile commerce for every business type budget Though there continues to be an increasing amount of attention paid to online commerce, many companies are overlooking the true trend that is currently in the middle of an explosion, and that is mobile. It seems that with every passing day, consumers are being provided with a new way to use their devices to enhance their mobile shopping experience, whether that be by scanning a QR code on a bus … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce

Amazon gives its mobile commerce a boost

Amazon gives its mobile commerce a boost

Mobile commerce and Amazon go hand and hand According to Bloomberg, Amazon has been trying out a new service that will allow tablet owners to use mobile apps to make item purchases. This is expected to give the online marketplace’s tablet, called the Kindle Fire, a significant place in mobile commerce among its users. ABI Research data has shown that over the next five years, the total revenues from mobile apps – including in-app purchases and pay-per-downloads, as … Read entire article »

Filed under: Entertainment Industry, Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Tablet Commerce, Trends

Google offers a year of free mobile hosting and site customization

Google offers a year of free mobile hosting and site customization

Free mobile site from Google Google has announced that it is going to make a massive effort to help bring more sites to the mobile web, and that for a year, it is willing to pay the bill in order to accomplish that goal. The search engine giant is working with Duda Mobile, a mobile web optimization startup, to offer 12 months of free mobile site hosting and mobile website optimizing to help to fill in and … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Marketing, Trends

Sport Chalet introduces new mobile commerce site for smartphone users

Sport Chalet introduces new mobile commerce site for smartphone users

Mobile commerce trends in the retail world Sport Chalet has unveiled its new mobile website which offers consumers a number of different features and tools that can be used with their smartphones and tablets, such as real-time inventory checks and hero shots. The sports equipment and apparel site, which also has brick-and-mortar locations in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, as well as a successful e-commerce site for the regular web, has launched its new mobile site that … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, Mobile Commerce, United States