Making $4000 per wk with mobmarketing

[QUOTE=ElenaEn;5122948]Guys,
i so agree with azurews - we are on the go, and no time to download any apps, just need to know this one piece of information.

And in addition to the scenario of a late hungry shopper, think through other common scenarios (and think "I" or "me"):

1. Shopping at a store and notice a significant discount on a brand item I heard nothing about and I am curious how durable the item is before I can decide to buy ("This is $30 cheaper.. if I knew it would last me, I'd buy it right now, but I don't know, therefore.. ")
2. I am having a surprisingly bad experience in a restaurant I frequently visit, and would like to let the owner know ("I hope they fix this, otherwise - will let the world know how bad this place. After all, I've spent way too much money here")
3. I am travelling for business and doing a mobile search for a local wifi-enabled coffee shop ("None of these Google map listings show if there is wifi or not.. I guess I'll just drive to that Starbucks.")
4. I am in a financial hole working 3 jobs and visiting a used car parking lot after hours, and really like this 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer, but I have two other options from Craigslist waiting on my prompt decision ("I need to give the other seller my decision by 10am tomorrow.. The price on this one looks right, if I just had a VIN number to run a check.")
5. I have a 3 month old and about to go on a trip, so I am at Target at 11:45 pm selecting a portable crib with "assembly under 5 minutes" being my main criteria. ("If I knew for sure this was easy to assemble, I'd buy it now, but who knows if this assembly is going to require an engineering genius, so ..")
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Agreed on your point, some thoughts

1) if the item had a "keyword" on the tag (store would have to do this, Best Buy has) you could send a text message and get reviews link back on that product. Decide for yourself.

2) The place your eating should have a text survey on the table tops, and when you opt in it would bounce back (3) questions about your service. This could also be triggered by waitress giving you the bill. Then you can give them feedback via text

3) text

4) text

5) Similar to point 1

:-)

We can do all these things without a mobile app, not to say mobile apps aren't extremely useful in many cases, or profitable to market.

One of our recent customers called me, said " we are sick of users forgetting passwords, instead of a reset procedure when they can't remember the email account password, can we just text them"....... Yes ! we developed a web form, the user provides three pieces of info, then we text them reset password to mobile number. No more support inquiries. $100 bucks per month, they use about 3-5 messages per day (our cost). Customer pays automatically on corporate VISA thru paypal account... going on 9 months of happy service.

A Newbie 2 cents.... :-)

Thanks for clearing that up. I thought he was talking about building native apps.

I dont think technically, that without any code provided You could have the result, You fear so much.
Nope, if You ask me. (EDIT: Other way round: Yes, with a website You can force a browser to do aynthing)

I guess, to add to the general discussion, the person opening the thread wanted to know why anybody will earn a respective amount of money.

In my eyes there are two main points:
1. A mobile website serves anybody using a smartphone when searching locally during being on the road, where an app (want an Androis, iOS or Symbian APP?) can't do this. I say this because in my opinion local busines owners are the ones that have the most out of a mobile webpage ( I am not thinking WAP).
2. Apps can bring viruses fast (I know websites too, but which normal user does know?), scam and other stuff, still need to be installed, so leave data and footprints on Your hardware and I think and App will not be serving a market that wants, what a website also delivers.
And the run on websites some 15 years ago was unbelievable.... So is todays mobile website chances.

Cheers.
Andre

Yeah the title of this thread reeled me in...dude should sell a course on writing headlines...LOL.

OK my 2 cents on the app craze.

Well I purchased Amish's APP Code (google it if you don't know what it is) but essentially it's about creating apps for iphone, droid and windows and getting ads in them (like adsense) and getting a ton of them out there so that you get a lot of downloads and hopefully make money when someone clicks one of the ads. I'll comment more in a sec.

The other topic I see on this thread is for the small biz having their own app to reach out to existing customers and send push notifications etc....

Yeah it all sounds so great and if you market the apps to small biz at $3k a pop you will get rich quick. Wrong!

This new app craze and all the products promoting apps to make money....are so freakin bogus. I bought them so I can comment on them.

Yea if you want to generate 200 apps and get them out there and have them network together and create this network so you can sell them down the line...well keep dreamin there too. The payout on these apps (ads that are clicked on) are so miniscule that it is more beneficial to have a 20 page adsense site.

As far as selling to local biz..well go out and try that too. Most shops that want one...don't want to drop $3k on it. Those that do have the money....well you better be prepared to hand-hold them through all the new-ness....or rick losing the client and them bad-mouthing you.

About the only way to really pull in money with apps....is to create a game that goes viral and you charge $.99 and make money.

Oh I forgot...the title in this thread talks about mobile marketing and making $4000 per week! Ha what a laugh that is. Bought the course mobilemonopoly too when it came out and spent about $500 promoting offers via mobile through offermobi and a few others....and made about $50 back. Ouch.

Bottom line...if it sounds too good to be true...well you know the rest.