How many of you have experience monetizing cell based internet visitors? I know in Japan cell phone web browsing is huge and with the invention of the iPhone and the proliferation of the Blackberry and other such net based phones I see a lot of potential for monetizing the mobile internet. What avenues are available? Are there any particular platforms that monetize mobile visitors better than the average offer? Are there any "pay by SMS" platforms that work on US customers or can be utilized straight through mobile internet (while remaining low resource for bandwidth concious browsers)?
Nobody has any ideas on how to monetize the mobile internet? Or is this more of a not wanting to share them deal? Or am I in the wrong forum for this?
This is pretty new territory for most people. I know nearly nothing about it and the people that do probably aren't about to tell us what they're doing. But put some work into it. Find out what kind of stuff you can do. Like make a website for phone applications like java games, apps, etc. There's a cool program called Nimbuzz.com that you could look into. Sell .mobi domains, etc. There's a lot of mobile business for someone who knows that's hot right now. That isn't me however.
I made a post about a month back about my issues with hosting a mobile adult entertainment site. Doing 2TB + a month is bandwidth is not an easy thing to accomplish when your site is 25 days old. Long story short I went with PPC.
Did you find any successful strategies for monetizing your adult mobile traffic site, Linkbait? Were you trying to convert to adult sites with revshare? If so what was your conversion rate? I haven't seen much affiliate data in this niche but I think if we figure out the ways to properly monetize the niche it could be huge. Japan and other parts of the world use cellphones more for Internet than actual PCs. I'm thinking of some sort of text messaging service attached to different mobile niche sites that text you and allow you to text for more information using one of the bulk sms/txt APIs. Costs around $0.06 to $0.025/message so if you create compelling content and give them a reason to pay then you can probably get a few paid accounts so long as you have a few free trial txts. I'm using this technique with a new site I'm launching, but I'm wondering if there's other ways to monetize this niche. Does anyone know a way to charge directly to their cell through the net? This sort of system would definitely be preferrable since it reduces the barrier to entry and makes them not even really think about the charges.
The real revenue (from people browsing the mobile internet) will be and is, from mobile advertising and ad serving. Too many people are getting hit with big phone bills from premium sms services, and standard sms services are everywhere (but users have been dropping consistantly from its peak in 1999). David handsetdetection.com
Honestly, i don't see much money to be made there. To me its like comparing to making money from people viewing the internet from laptops or desktops...theres just no real difference besides the obvious.
You're contradicting yourself here - there's no difference really and as the handsets get more usable and capable that will become more obvious. You need to think about how you make money on the net already and just make sure that your site is accessible to mobile users. There's also the killer mobile application - if you could write something that mobile users would find specifically useful then you could make good money there. Good luck Cheers, p.
There is 4 cell for 1 laptop. There is a big opportunity for business to capitalize on mobi websites. Does somebody knows what code I need to create a web site. Is that XTML? Thanks chipT