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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

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

Report shows 1 in 6 Canadian smartphone users scanned a QR code in December 2011

Report shows 1 in 6 Canadian smartphone users scanned a QR code in December 2011

According to the recent comScore report called “2012 Mobile Future in Focus”, 53 percent of the smartphone owners in Canada have used their mobile device to complete in-store retail related activities. Among the most popular media trends involved QR codes, which have been rapidly taking off as near field communication (NFC) continues to drag its feet to get started and may still be a number of years from becoming mainstream. The report showed that among Canadian … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, International, Mobile Commerce, QR Codes, Trends, United States

As Yahoo! and Bing make a comeback, so does mobile ad momentum in 2012’s first quarter

As Yahoo! and Bing make a comeback, so does mobile ad momentum in 2012’s first quarter

According to the IgnitionOne quarterly release, the 2012 first quarter has continued to generate solid year-over-year increases in search advertising, following a record last quarter in 2011. First quarter 2012, saw a significant search spending year over year growth, increasing by 30.3 percent, which was more than twice the spending in the first quarters of both last year and the year before. This spike has been credited to the rebirth of both Yahoo! and Bing, as … Read entire article »

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

Research shows only one in ten consumers have received a mobile discount coupon

Research shows only one in ten consumers have received a mobile discount coupon

The Mercator Advisory Group has released a report called “The Mobile Incentives: The Next Step in Device-Based Transactions”, which indicated that the marketplace is ready for mobile incentives to begin being distributed, but that as of yet the demand for them remains greatly unmet. The results of the study showed that only 10 percent of mobile phone users had ever received a discount coupon from a merchant, even though 55 percent of them had expressed an … Read entire article »

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

Domino’s breaks $1.6 million sales mark in a single week of mobile commerce

Domino’s breaks $1.6 million sales mark in a single week of mobile commerce

Domino’s Pizza has released its “Quarter One Interim Management Statement” for the first 13 weeks of this year – up to and including the 25th of March – and within it, they showed that 16.4 percent of their total sales (worth approximately £59.3 million) was brought in from one of its numerous mobile platforms. This is drawing attention to mobile commerce as a whole, as many companies have still been wondering whether or not it will … Read entire article »

Filed under: Featured News, International, Mobile Commerce