People Buy My Products From Their Cell Phone (I Love Internet Marketing)

by Daniel E Taylor

Posted: 14 years ago 32 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I just realized that I get a few sales every week
from people's cell phones!

I didn't realize it until I kept checking the sales
and I kept seeing "Mobile-User" And I didn't
know what that meant.

Then I found out it means someone used
the mobile version of the shopping cart.

Amazing times we live in!

So I went through one of the funnels myself on
my Iphone. and realized what happens

I send out a broadcats and it goes right to their
cell Phone.

They click the link in the email from their phone.

It takes them to my sales letter.

And then they click the buy button and it takes
them to the mobile checkout (Which was created
for mobile users).

Now we are optimizing every sales letter
to be mobile friendly. That means where
we use video we have to replace it with
sales text for mobile users who can't view it.

10 years ago could you have imagined that?

Daniel

#buy #cell #internet #love #marketing #people #phone #products

XRay 14 years ago

Congrats on your success Daniel
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jaiganeshv.com 14 years ago

Great thing. But could've shared more on that..

Thank you.
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- Daniel E Taylor 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by jaiganeshv.com
  
  Great thing. But could've shared more on that..
  
  Thank you.
  Jai
  
  Could have shared more on what?
  
  Are you just posting to promote your sig? lol...
  
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  Woody C 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Daniel E Taylor
  
  Could have shared more on what?
  
  Are you just posting to promote your sig? lol...
  
  DAniel
  
  Hey Daniel...I don't think he was just promoting his signature, but was looking for how you got them to buy through their phone.
  
  Basically, what kind of site do you have where they can buy on their phones or do you market to mobile users somehow?
  
  I think the idea of someone buying a product through a phone is still fairly new, even to us Warriors.
  
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Jesus Perez

14 years ago

I do tons of browsing on my iPhone. Especially at night when I'm winding down.

I find most website do not cater to the iPhone...and none have iPhone-compatible videos to watch. What a shame.

This is indeed a huge market.

Jan. 2009: AT&T says it activated more than 4 million iPhone 3Gs in the previous six months. In that period, Apple had sold 11.25 million iPhones. Again, AT&T's activations represent about 35% of the total.

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Nick Brighton 14 years ago

Hi Dan,

Is your niche a tech savvy niche out of interest? I wonder how many different demographics now use mobiles to surf these days...I'm thinking this is a significant trend due to mobiles being so darn popular these days.

Cool times indeed!
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- Intrepreneur 14 years ago
  
  Great idea and i hope it kicks off and works for your personally.
  
  If it's as good as you think it might be then make it a USP and ensure you get broadcast for your new USP as much as possible. I'm thinking go mobile then go to the nearst high traffic website or magazine that will get your sites in front of the right audience.
  
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selma 14 years ago

AWESOME... congrats!
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Rohit Shah 14 years ago

Yes really technology is improving and everything is getting more convenient. Amazon and ebay also sees lot of sales through mobile devices.
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miellas 14 years ago

Daniel,

Congrats on the mobile conversions. As per the videos that your site may offer for visitors to see, it would be a wonderful idea to convert your vids to either 3gp and mp4 files for mobile viewing. Hope this helps and keep us updated on your mobile success.
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- joeykissimmee 14 years ago
  
  cell phone marketing is hot...
  
  I bought this course on cell phone marketing. it was great...
  
  Don't worry guys, not doing any promos...
  
  I know my rules here. lol
  
  anyways just saying it's an untapped market ;-0
  
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TelegramSam 14 years ago

Well done Daniel.

I keep getting people phoning me via their computers :-)

Oh what a weird world we live in!

Life was much simpler in the old days...
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zoulkifl 14 years ago

I do lots on my phone and i get ticked off when i can't see a video on a sales page or an educational video. Cell phones should be improved when it comes to this. But yeah i've also bought something straight from my cell phone. It's great.
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Gary King 14 years ago

It opens the conversation - what does YOUR site look like on a mobile phone?

Congrats on your success Daniel.

For the rest of us, visit your web site on your phone. If you can't find a teenager somewhere, they sure can. Can you actually *use* the site? If not, well...
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fitz10 14 years ago

My cell phone is circa 2005 so I don't buy anything on my cell but I was shocked by the amount of people who came to some of my Amazon websites and appeared to buy from their phones. I never realized how many people shopped on their cell phones because it's not something I'd ever do.
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paulie888

14 years ago

If you're planning to target the cellphone market, you definitely have to test your landing pages to make sure they load properly, and flash videos are a big no-no (something a lot of us IMers like to use!) What I like to do is test them out on my iPod touch - there's a tip for people without iPhones, get an iPod touch (which is relatively cheap at about $200 without any monthly fees), and you'll be able to see how your ads/landing pages appear on an iPhone.

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reapr

14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulie888

It is amazing how things can look so much different on an itouch ... uses safari browser. Flash and on page video is out.

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paulie888 14 years ago

Apple for some reason has obstinately refused to enable flash video on the iPod touch or the iPhone, and they seem to be standing firm on this issue. This means any ads and webpages will have to be tailored specifically for these machines, and you probably need to also come out with a different version for regular phones with web browsers, to account for the decreased screen sizes on them.
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bizfox 14 years ago

Thanks for the tip. I'll research more about this mobile market
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paulie888 14 years ago

Things are going to get even more complicated, as Google's new phone (the Nexus One) is supposed to be able to handle full flash videos and the resolution is far beyond that of an iPhone's (the Nexus one has 800X840 resolution), so it's more like a tiny notebook than a phone.
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George Wright 14 years ago

So True Daniel,

I'm loving my droid. Signs into paypal, sends cash, uses google payments etc.

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paulie888 14 years ago

George, so I take it you really, really like your Android phone? I'm still a little torn between upgrading to an Android phone or the latest Blackberry Tour (coming out in about 1-2 months).
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- Jack Duncan 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for this great info...
  
  I've never tried to create a page specifically for a mobile phone user...but it could be quite fun and interesting.
  
  Does anyone know if there is a good script that can detect a mobile user and serve them a different "mobile enhanced" version of a page?
  
  Maybe serve them different videos, based on the mobile phone device they are using. (Browser detection?)
  
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  dbarnum 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for this great info...
  
  I've never tried to create a page specifically for a mobile phone user...but it could be quite fun and interesting.
  
  ...
  
  If you head to GoDaddy / Wild West's Website Tonight packages, they have mobi templates you can use in a few quick clicks. Here's an example on one of my main company sites:
  
  http://ohiohelpgroup.com/mobi
  
  (note: it color-coordinates with the rest of our site - - and you can change that, too)
  
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miellas 14 years ago

Hi Jack,

In reference to your question in reference to a browser detection service for your site I would recommend Andy Moore's Detect Mobile Browsers code. There is also Device Atlas provided by mtld the owners of the .mobi tld. Hope this helps. If working with worpress there is also a couple of other worpress mobile plugins available.
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Rod Cortez 14 years ago

Daniel, that is the shiznit......pretty soon they'll be ordering from their TV, fridge, microwave oven, automobile, toilet, and in 2024 they'll be ordering from Apple's very own "mirror tablet".

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Sagar Mehta 14 years ago

That's really amazing and intriguing indeed, Daniel.

Just like Rod, I think all of this is only going to see a rise in the future as the Internet reaches all multimedia and other devices that we have today.

Mobile phones are just the tip of the iceberg that is to reveal itself.

Good on ya', mate!

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jig 14 years ago

Very cool. I did a lot of work with newsletters and segmenting, and it's amazing how small tweaks can make conversions skyrocket. Very cool to experiment with this stuff, especially when the newsletter reaches hundreds of thousands of people who are engaged.
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DogScout 14 years ago

Someday you will have to careful sitting on a toilet for fear of pressing a 'buy here' button!
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ArnelRicafranca

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Daniel E Taylor

Now we are optimizing every sales letter
to be mobile friendly. That means where
we use video we have to replace it with
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10 years ago could you have imagined that?

Daniel

What are you using for a checkout that is automatically converts so it is mobile friendly?

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miellas 14 years ago

Arnel you can use paypal's mobile version for checkout. I think it automatically detects if I am not mistaken when viewing from mobile device.
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