Tag: mobile commerce sales

Mobile commerce revenue at Google Play approaching that of Apple’s App Store

Sam Lambert
Mobile trends Commerce Apps on smartphone

The earnings from the two different application marketplaces are starting to near par with one another. The results of a new data analysis have just been released by Distimo, and have suggested that the mobile commerce revenue being brought in by Google Play for Android is experiencing a rapid growth. This success is indicating that the app revenues from Android devices is approaching that of Apple’s. Distimo is a trusted mobile commerce app store analytics provider for developers. This firm’s data has, therefore, indicated that the opportunities for developers of…

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M-commerce sales in April 2013 rose by 74 percent

Sam Lambert
mobile commerce trends

This was the achievement of 18 retailers from among the clients of Branding Brand. The latest report from Branding Brand, an m-commerce technology provider, is that among 18 of the company’s customers, they saw an increase in sales of 74 percent when compared to the year before. The results in April 2013 were considerably better than what was seen in April 2012. The company also reported that m-commerce made up 10.8 percent of the total online sales of these companies, bringing in $76 million in April 2012, but that this…

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Bring Your Business to Customers’ Hands: How to Optimize Your Website for Mobile Use

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mobile

Small business owners without a mobile presence are missing out on an enormous slice of the consumer sales pie. EMarketer estimates that mobile commerce sales, including purchases on tablets, smartphones and mobile devices, rose 81% to about $25 billion last year. This statistic alone should be sufficient to galvanize businesspeople into immediate action. U.S. Consumers will access the Internet more through mobile devices than through personal computers by 2015, estimates the International Data Corporation Worldwide New Media Market Model. Now is the time to optimize your site for mobile or…

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Mobile commerce made up 10.2 percent of 2012 online sales

Jesse Collins
Mobile Commerce sales

Retailers selling through Bigcommerce saw one in ten purchases from smartphones and tablets. According to a report issued by Bigcommerce, the retailers that sold thorugh this vendor saw 10.2 percent of their sales generated from shoppers who were using mobile commerce on their smartphones and tablets. The report showed that among those purchases in 2012, iOS devices made up 84.6 percent. That meant that Apple mobile commerce was worth $84.3 million to those retailers in 2012. There are currently approximately 30,000 small and medium sized merchants around the world that…

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Mcommerce has yet to lead to big sales

Sam Lambert
MCommerce

Retailers have yet to achieve consistent large sales through smartphone shoppers. Though there has been considerable hype around the subject of mcommerce over the last while, many retailers have yet to feel excited about the channel, as they aren’t yet seeing sales that make them feel that all of the effort, funds, and resources that it requires to work into a strategy are worth it. A new report has now shown that retailers may be right in their suspicions, as it generates only a small fraction of sales. Though this…

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