Mobile Websites

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Why Should My Business Have a Mobile Website?

Mobile web access is the future of the internet, and investing now will put you on the cutting edge. The trends are clear with constantly rising numbers of mobile phones, iPhones, Android Phones, Blackberries, iPads, iPod Touches, and Tablets all accessing the mobile web. Large amounts of mobile web users are attempting to get to important information about companies and buy products/services, but blocked by an unusable interface.  Businesses with mobile optimized websites gain all that business, while those aren’t optimized for mobile have major profit leaks.

Normal websites look very bad on mobile devices. Having all the content from your website show up on a mobile device may frustrate the visitor, making their experience slow and hard to navigate. Mobile optimized websites not only provide the user with a clean, easy experience, they also encourage opt-ins to your email list and promote quick purchases. Do you want your potential customers to be able to make an impulse buy?

People Buy Products and Services Through Mobile

1) By 2015 more than 1 billion people will regularly use mobile financial services (source). Mobile transfers and emittance are growing at three times the rate of m-banking.

2) By 2014, 50 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers will be paying by mobile.

  • Mobile commerce is predicted by experts to climb past US$115 billion by 2015. Amazon and eBay are the top mobile retailers.
  • On eBay alone, customers sold and bought more than US $2 billion in merchandise with the mobile platform in 2010.

5 Reasons To Have a Mobile Optimized Website

  • By the year 2013 more people will be visiting websites on mobile phones than on a regular PC
  • Over 20% of households in the U.S. are “mobile-only”
  • Visa, Mastercard, and American Express are in the process of turning every mobile phone into a credit card
  • 5 billion people worldwide use cell phones with over alone 290 million in the U.S.
  • 11% of mobile phone users make purchases with their phone

Now the question really is, “do I want my business to be on the cutting edge of the internet’s evolution?”