The Mobile Commerce Revolution


Book Description

Your Definitive Guide to Profiting from Mobile Commerce With more than 60% of Americans carrying smartphones, your mobile commerce opportunities are immense: not someday, right now. But, to fully capture those opportunities, it’s not enough to build an app. You need to know how mobile is transforming your customers’ behavior, your organization, and your competitive environment. You need to assess and apply a wide spectrum of strategies, tactics, and technologies: from responsive web design and location-based tactics to mobile payment systems. You need to change your processes and your culture. The Mobile Commerce Revolution covers all this and more. Mobile commerce pioneer Tim Hayden and consumer behavior expert Tom Webster draw on their experience helping clients of all kinds to succeed with mobile— from startups to the world’s top brands. Packed with indispensable data and cutting-edge case studies, this guide will take you from planning to action to profit! Discover how customer mobile behavior is radically maturing and shifting Weave mobility throughout your marketing mix and business operations Prepare for the instant and impulse when your customer wants to buy Identify mobile tactics that are actually influencing purchases Earn confidence from customers that you will protect their privacy Use payment technologies to reduce friction and make it easier to buy Deliver richer, more powerful stories and mobile experiences Understand customers through “Little Data”: qualitative studies to physically observe behavior Grasp purchase attribution: why people buy




The Mobile Commerce Revolution


Book Description

More than 60% of the U.S. population now owns smartphones. Hayden and Webster cover everything you need to know to capitalize on history's greatest shifts in human and consumer behavior, from infrastructure to culture, strategy to tactics. Packed with case studies and practical guidance from small startups to large brands, this guide offers provocative and actionable insight, and will help you make the internal changes required to fully leverage the mobile commerce opportunity.




M-Commerce


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The first complete introduction to the technology and business issues surrounding m-commerce With the number of mobile phone users fast approaching the one billion mark, it is clear that mobile e-commerce (a.k.a. "m-commerce") is the next business frontier. Authored by a recognized international authority in the field, this book describes the brave new world of m-commerce for technical and business managers alike. Readers learn about the driving forces behind m-commerce, the impact of WAP, 3G, mobile payment, and emerging location-sensitive and context-aware technologies. A comprehensive look at emerging m-commerce services and business models, as well as the changing role of mobile network operators, content providers, and other key players. The author concludes with informed predictions about the future of m-commerce.




Mobile Commerce: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications


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In the era of digital technology, business transactions and partnerships across borders have become easier than ever. As part of this shift in the corporate sphere, managers, executives, and strategists across industries must acclimate themselves with the challenges and opportunities for conducting business. Mobile Commerce: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a comprehensive source of advanced academic examinations on the latest innovations and technologies for businesses. Including innovative studies on marketing, mobile commerce security, and wireless handheld devices, this multi-volume book is an ideal source for researchers, scholars, business executives, professionals, and graduate-level students.




The Power of Mobile Banking


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Today's tech-savvy consumers are demanding a more personal customer experience from their banks, and banks are discovering that mobile services deliver individualized, tailored experiences better than any other technology. The Power of Mobile Banking: How to Profit from the Revolution in Retail Financial Services gives banking and financial professionals a well-researched guide for becoming transformational leaders. These leaders can convert their traditional retail "branch" banks into streamlined systems that deliver personalized services to their customers' laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Written by Sankar Krishnan—a career banker and noted financial services industry thought leader—The Power of Mobile Banking includes strategies for adapting mobile banking practices that suit the needs of both developed and emerging markets. Krishnan also shows how bankers can make their products and services relevant to a new generation of digital natives. Krishnan explores the expanding mobile payment systems that offer a wealth of financial opportunities for banking institutions and includes information on the growth of e-commerce, which holds the potential for new and profitable ways for banks to engage with consumers. The Power of Mobile Banking outlines the practical aspects of adapting to a mobile banking strategy and shows how to put the right players in place to ensure the technology works seamlessly. Once in place, a great mobile system delivers excellent service and benefits to users, as well as real value and unique features that cement customer loyalty. The book also offers advice for bankers who want to increase their bottom line by delving into the world-wide prepaid card market. Krishnan includes a discussion on the risks and hazards of mobile banking and reveals the critical investments that banks must be willing to make in order to avoid losing customers to telecoms, retailers, and technology providers. The time for retail banking to prepare for the new paradigm is now and The Power of Mobile Banking is the guide for professionals who want to adapt, evolve, and succeed in this new mobile-driven world.




Mobile Commerce


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"M-commerce (mobile commerce) applications for both individuals and organizations are expected to grow considerably over the next few years. This book addresses issues pertaining to the development, deployment, and use of these applications. Provided is a single source of up-to-date information about mobile commerce, including the technology involved, research on the expected impact of this technology on businesses and consumers, and case studies describing state-of-the-art m-commerce applications and lessons learned. The role of m-commerce in the automotive industry, advertising, and the wireless classroom is addressed."




Securing Transactions and Payment Systems for M-Commerce


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Mobile commerce, or M-commerce, is booming as many utilize their mobile devices to complete transactions ranging from personal shopping to managing and organizing business operations. The emergence of new technologies such as money sharing and transactional applications have revolutionized the way we do business. Wholeheartedly adopted by both the business world and consumers, mobile commerce has taken its seat at the head of the mobile app economy. Securing Transactions and Payment Systems for M-Commerce seeks to present, analyze, and illustrate the challenges and rewards of developing and producing mobile commerce applications. It will also review the integral role M-commerce plays in global business. As consumers’ perceptions are taken into account, the authors approach this burgeoning topic from all perspectives. This reference publication is a valuable resource for programmers, technology and content developers, students and instructors in the field of ICT, business professionals, and mobile app developers.




M-Commerce


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This volume presents a pragmatic approach to understanding and capitalizing on contemporary m-commerce trend. It comprehensively encapsulates the evolution, emergent trends, hindrances and challenges, and customer perceptions about various facets of how physical and online retail channels are merging, blurring, and influencing each other in new ways. The rapid rise of m-commerce (or mobile commerce) has led to the emergence of new paradigms in the marketplace. The difference between physical and digital retail is diminishing, and a new “phygital retail” phenomenon is on the rise. Marketers need to understand this emerging paradigm and consider the new opportunities and challenges involved. This volume, M-Commerce: Experiencing the Phygital Retail, provides a comprehensive discussion of the contemporary m-commerce concepts along with the emerging paradigms in a pragmatic way. It presents empirical analyses and reviews on the myriad aspects of m-commerce, including both contemporary academic and business research.




Mobile Commerce Applications


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Mobile Commerce Applications addresses and explores the critical architectural issues in constructing m-commerce applications and in applying mobile technologies in different areas, including methodologies, enabling technologies, models, paradigms, architectures, standards and innovations.




MOBILE COMMERCE


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Once the treasured piece of the elite class, mobile phones have now become a prerequisite of every commoner. From schoolchildren to pensioners, from bureaucrats to fruit vendors, all depend greatly on their mobile phones now. The reason can be given to its impeccable potential to perform various applications efficiently, within no time. This book on Mobile Commerce gives an in-depth insight on the role of a mobile in revolutionizing various industry verticals, specifically business and commerce. The book, in its second edition, shows the evolution of a mobile phone from a mere gadget meant for communication to a smarter one performing business transactions. The book is divided into seven parts discussing basic concepts, technologies, key players, new products, security and legal aspects, the future trends and the case studies. The book also discusses various technologically advanced handheld devices, like Smart phones, PDA's, Laptops, Tablets and Portable Gaming Consoles, in detail. Besides, the basic technology and concepts involved in application of mobile commerce is discussed comprehensively. The important concepts, like mobile marketing, mobile ticketing, mobile computing, mobile payments and mobile banking are discussed vis-a-vis latest technologies, like wireless and mobile communication technology, digital cellular technology, mobile access technology including 5G and 6G systems. The book also throws light on the issues, such as mobile security hazards, and the necessary measures to protect against the same. A chapter is devoted to laws governing the mobile phone usage and its privacy. The Case Studies are provided elucidating the role of mobile commerce in the real-life scenarios. This book is intended for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Computer Applications, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Information Technology and Management. NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION • Introduction of 5G & 6G Technologies • Introduction of New Mobile Payment Technologies • Implementation of New Security Technologies • Development of New Mobile Commerce Services & Applications • Various Advanced Mobile Computing Systems • Implementation of New IT Rules TARGET AUDIENCE • BBA/MBA • BCA/MCA • B.Tech/M.Tech (Electronics & Communication Engineering)