Mobile Shopping – Another Reason Why Small Business Owners MUST Get Online!
I can not stress enough why it is so important for small business owners to seriously start looking at ways to get all their products and services online. In this day age there are all kinds of user friendly and easy ways to get your products and services online like through Google Base, etc.
Look how this open source challenge “Android Developer Challenge“ lead to Ryan Barnes developing the “ShopSavvy” application. This application goes on mobile phones and is similar to Jeffrey’s Sharkey’s “Compare Everywhere” , both won awards for Google’s “Android Developer Challenge”. These applications will change the way everyone shops. Currently a large percentage of the market does comparison shopping at home online before making their purchasing decisions, but this will make it a regular everyday thing among consumers…AND they will be doing while browsing in your retail location!
Why is this so important?
Because the application is for mobile phones. It will be the mobile phone industry that changes the way we shop forever.
If this does not show small businesses the importance of having a very strong presence online is essential to sustained success, then I don’t know what will. These phone applications can scan all bar codes and do the price comparison on the spot. This is the future of shopping and small businesses need to wake-up and smell the coffee. The world is online and if your business is not online then you are risking losing sales to your competition who is online with all their products and services.
Don’t be scared. Get involved and start by reading blogs like this one, maybe even subscribe 
, then start finding someone who can help your business get online. There are many, many tools you can use that are geared towards the newbie to get their products and services online. Let me know (in the comment section below) if you want me make a list of great user friendly tools that a small business owners can use to help strengthen their online presence.
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Damn that’s cool stuff. And if yes, if you’re not online than you’re nowhere!
Great post Matthew – I absolutely agree with your article: this is a shining example of why small business owners must develop a strong presence online.
I just wrote an article about how AT&T offering free WiFi to their iPhone and Blackberry wielding customers is going to accelerate this trend. Your article gave me lots of details on Android that I didn’t know about.
Thank you!
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