Archive for the 'Mobile Shopping' Category
Digital Marketing & Traditional Print Ads, Combined?
Published by Stephanie March 3rd, 2010 in Advertising, Branding, Consumer Brands, Fashion, Innovation, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Online Advertising, Retail Marketing, Technology, digital publishing.The NY Times reported today that Condé Nast will be releasing several of their magazings in full-length versions, as iPad applications. These will be available to iPad users, just like a traditional magazine, at a fraction of the weight and waste. “The first magazines for which it will create iPad versions are Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair,The New [...]
Handmade Shoes, Designed by Consumers
Published by Riley February 10th, 2010 in Consumer Brands, Design, Fashion, Innovation, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping, eCommerce.‘Shoes of Prey’ is an Australian website where die hard shoe fans can design/create their very own pair of dream shoes. When you hunt for the perfect pair of shoes, you typically already have a pair in mind. Avoid disappointment when retailers cannot provide you the shoes of your deepest desires because ‘Shoes of Prey’ [...]
Discount vouchers directly from your iPhone
Published by Angie February 4th, 2010 in Advertising, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping, Retail Marketing, Shopping Center Marketing, Social Media, eCommerce.Voucher Cloud is an app developed by Invitation Digital that allows users to get discount vouchers straight to their mobile, as well as locating nearby businesses with special offers.
To make things easier, Voucher Cloud takes your current location via GPS and serves up the offers closest to you. This seems to [...]
What are people buying right now?
Published by Riley February 3rd, 2010 in Advertising, Measurement, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping, Retail Marketing, Shopping Center Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, eCommerce.Spin off of Twitter’s question “What are you doing?” Now we get to see your credit card transactions! Good idea?
As the Internet matures, slowly but surely everything we do in the real world is going social. But there’s a limit to how much information we can explicitly share on all the various services. A new [...]
iPhone credit card payment system
Published by Angie December 9th, 2009 in Mobile, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping.Not to be outdone by tech visionary Jack Dorsey — one of the brains behind Twitter — and his Square cellphone payment start-up, point-of-sale veteran VeriFone struck today with the announcement of PAYware Mobile.
Not dissimilar from the Square iPhone application and accessory, which The Times profiled last week, PAYware targets small businesses with its subscription-based [...]
Mobile Shopping’s First Christmas
Published by Angie December 3rd, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Retail Marketing, Uncategorized.U.S. consumers are shopping via cell phone more than ever before. According to Deloitte’s 24th Annual Holiday Survey of retail spending and trends, published in October 2009, one in five shoppers plan on using a mobile phone to assist with holiday purchases, from researching prices and other product information to actually buying presents. Retails Systems [...]
Online Holiday Shopping Continues to Rise
Published by Tim November 18th, 2009 in Mobile Shopping, Retail Marketing, eCommerce.Here’s a great little article for a blast from the past, Chart of the Week: Online Holiday Shopping 1999-2009. It details that back in 1999, the dial-up internet age, about 0.64% of all holiday retail sales were made online. Now, analysts are predicting that this year it will be up at 3.7% (or up 8% from [...]
Enabling the Mobile Wallet
Published by Angie October 29th, 2009 in Consumer Brands, Innovation, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping, Retail Marketing, Technology.The mobile phone as a payment and promotional device is coming to retail. The questions are when, what processes and under whose governance?
The RIS mobile survey published in May 2009 suggested an answer about when and processes. The survey finds that 47 percent of retailers will have a plan or be in pilot mode by [...]
Increase on Retail Apps for iPhone
Published by Angie August 13th, 2009 in Advertising, Interactive Advertisement, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Shopping.No retailer has yet become a master at M-Commerce, but many are getting involved by launching iPhone applications, which have taken off like a skyrocket due to the phenomenal popularity of Apple’s brilliant iPhone. Several elements have emerged as being critical: Product information to help make purchasing decisions, Web site traffic building, coupon targeting through [...]
Buy your toilet paper online
Published by Tim July 2nd, 2009 in Innovation, Mobile Shopping, Personal Shopping, Websites.Here’s a great new site, well that is if you are like me. Recently launched Alice.com provides customers with the ability to order everyday household items online. From batteries to plastic wrap it’s all here. Alice.com currently serves the continental U.S. Be sure to check it out.


