mCommerce - The Race Against Time To Setup 60second Mobile Ordering For Christmas Has Already Begun!

Nov. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- iPhones, Androids and other wonderful flavours of smartphones are being sold at an incredible rate. The major addition to your smart mobile handset is the always-on internet connection and access to "apps" and mobile websites which are being downloaded at a phenomenal rate, some hitting millions of downloads within weeks of launch.

This growth flies in the face of most businesses, which have been squeezed from all angles over the last few years with rising costs and reduced revenues. However this may all be about to change, with many analysts predicting an even bigger impact on trade from mobiles than that of the internet and e-commerce itself.

"Mobile commerce is here, it's now and it's growing. It's projected that by 2013 mobile revenue turnover will have surpassed e-commerce turnover," Carl-Olav Scheible told attendees at the E Commerce Expo, 20/10/2010

We are at the beginning of a new commercial era, mobile commerce - or mCommerce as it is quickly becoming known. Today's and tomorrow's smartphones are more than equipped to handle fast, easy and anytime access to digital shopping on a scale never before possible. Computers may have reached the "One on every desk" level but mobile phones are even more ubiquitous at "One in every hand!"

Trailblazers this Christmas are heavily promoting their mobile apps and websites with excellent results, but what about the humble small businesses without the teams of ebay and amazon engineers at their disposal?

Adshires, a family run Manchester based company, has always been driven to help smaller businesses make the most out of the internet and mobile phones. They have developed a new mobile platform which enables any e-commerce website to provide a mobile experience for their customers quickly, easily and in time for the Christmas surge. Utilising simple product data feeds they remove all of the development work and provide a mobile skin which allows customers to order direct from their mobiles without having to negotiate websites built for the desktop PC. “The app is set up by our technicians, plugged into a payment provider, and the product catalogue is powered by their current e-commerce website and so the time frame you are looking at can literally be a few days’ states Robert Bajic, a partner of the company. He goes on to say that ‘it is our aim to get as many shops up and running with an app before Christmas as this is a huge market e-commerce sites are missing out on”.

The platform is pre-integrated with Paypal Mobile and Google Checkout allowing you to pay and choose a delivery address with just a 4 digit pin instead of having to tap in entire address and credit card details, you can literally find and place an order in under 60 seconds. So if you sell handbags, flowers or retro hand carved photo frames you now have an opportunity to sell via a mobile phone in the palm of your customer’s hand - and in time for Christmas!

‘The study from the Internet Advertising Bureau shows the urgent need for retailers to catch up with the mobile consumer and enhance the user experience to ensure they don’t miss out on sales.’ internet advertising bureau

Not all sized businesses can afford to create their own shop app - but Adshires can help change that. For more information, visit http://www.adshires.co.uk/mobile-commerce.html, or call 0845 458 9680.

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Established in 1998, Adshires is a UK based internet marketing, digital media and web design company. Adshires offer an extensive range of e-commerce and mobile solutions, internet marketing strategies and web design.