Leather Wallet: The Next Watch?
Mobile Commerce
Everyone is a walking cash register
$275/sec on mobile commerce
$1 million during this hour long
talk
“Wallets are becoming
as unnecessary
as watches” – Denise Lee Yohn
2025
What is Mobile Commerce
The delivery of electronic commerce capabilities
directly into the consumer’s hand, anywhere, via
wireless technology
Kevin Duffey, 1997
Emergence of Mobile Commerce
1997
Birth of mobile
commerce was in
Finland
Emergence of Mobile Commerce
1998
The first sales of
downloadable
ringtones
Emergence of Mobile Commerce
1999
A mobile platform for mobile commerce was
launched in Philippines
163%
Comscore, 2011
Since 2010, mobile
traffic to retailers’
sites has grown
$31 Billion
(and this is just the US)
Forrester, July 2011
In 2016, the M-
Commerce market will
be worth
mobile listings
800k
100m
1.8 m
new users made first
purchase on mobile Jan-
Sep Q3
new customers solely
through mobile in Q3
2012
Mobile 3-4 times more
valuable than desktop
1000 cars a week
Women’s handbags sold
every 30 second on
eBay
Mobile Ordering
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
18 months ago Today
Many from inside the four walls
1 Out of Every 3 Exclusively on Mobile
EMEA is the mobile
money hot spot
In 2011,
EMEA accounts for 41%
of mobile transactions
value
North America 35%
Asia-Pacific 22%
Latin America 1%
Yankee Group (June 2011)
Users are readily adopting mobile
banking
• Yankee Group (June 2011) predicts that there
will be 500 million m-banking users globally by
2015.
27%
13%
11%
9%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
Mobile Banking M-Commerce Mobile Coupons Mobile Payments
Gartner Predicts
2016
• 448 million m-payment users
• Market worth $617 billion
• Asia/Pacific will have the most m-payment
users
• Africa will account for the highest revenues.
Gartner Predicts
• Mobile Web is expected to dominate mobile
payments in North America and Europe through
to 2016.
• SMS is expected to remain the key vehicle for m-
payments in developing markets.
• NFC transactions will remain relatively low
through 2015, but will start to pick up from 2016.
Reach Your Customers
99%
of the time they are not in your branch
or in front of their computer
Personalization
• Permission-based
• Targeted
• “Live”
• Two-way
EXAMPLES
Pizza Hut earned $7 million in sales in the first year after launching a mobile ordering app
New Look clothing
• Full mobile strategy
– m-commerce site
– transactional iPhone app
– SMS marketing campaign
• In the first three months
– sales via mobile up 500%+
– orders up 60% +
– over 200,000 App Store
downloads in month one
alone
75,000 bookings
£10 million over a
6 month period
Walmart
Chase
• Optimized
• Branded
• Omnichannel
promotion
• Apps, web, QR, SMS,
mobile ads
Amazon
• Recommendations
• Categories
• 1-Click purchase
TIPS
Apps Drive Engagement, Browsing
Wins on Tablets
Retail Category Browsing Can Vary
Considerably by Platform
Web or App?
• Performance
• Cost
• Maintenance
• Compatibility
• User Experience
• It is not enough to apply e-commerce best
practices
• Mobile is incredibly unique
• It’s intimate, real time and local and has to be
SIMPLE and QUICK
• It should provide the exact answer you desire
Are you losing your mobile
customers?
• 47% of users abandon checkout pages due to
payment friction
– Too many fields
– Too small of a screen and keyboard
– Too much time
– Poor brand experience
Simple and Quick
A 1 second delay in a page
can reduce conversion by
7%
That’s $2.5M in sales for a site that does
$100K/day
Simple and Quick
47% expect pages to load in 2 seconds
40% leave if it takes more than 3 seconds
79% are less likely to use the site again
52% say load time is important to loyalty
Distractions are
Everywhere
RESPECT THE FINGER
No mouse
No HOVER
Fitt’s Law
Search
Search
Hick’s Law
Apple
Apple
Orange
Apple
Apple
Apple
Apple
Apple
Apple
Apple
Apple
Orange
Apple
Apple
Apple
Optimize Your Emails
56% of US consumers who have made at least
one purchase using their smartphone have done
so in response to a marketing email
ExactTarget
36%
33%
31%
28%
30%
32%
34%
36%
38%
Mobile Desktop Webmail
Open Rate
Carts Across Platforms
26% of females and 16% of
males abandoned a cart
because they wanted to
complete the purchase later
Starbucks is now averaging a million mobile transactions/week
tenfold increase year-over-year since January 2011 launch
Free card reader at stores
Starbucks infusion
Mobile POS
HOW NFC FITS IN
53% Phones NFC-enabled
by 2015
46% Mobile Phones Will Be
NFC-Enabled by 2016
MarketResearch
Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan
42.3%
Europe’s mobile
payments in
2015 via NFC
Visa Europe forecasts breakout year
for NFC
40 Mobile contactless
payment issuers in
Europe (2013)
80 Types of smartphones
certified by Visa
500M NFC devices in
use by 2014
ABI
Gartner
Cuts NFC mobile
payments
forecast by
40%
Berg Insight
One in
Three
mobile phones
to come with
NFC by 2017
Strategy Analytics lowers NFC
payments forecast
NFC will not power US mobile
payments: Forrester
• Google Wallet separation
• iPhone reluctance
Jumio updates card scanning tech for
faster mobile checkout
FINAL THOUGHTS
Shaping the Future
• Customers spend more time on their mobile
devices than desktops
• Mobile shoppers are more focused
• Click-through rates are higher on mobile than
desktop
• Mobile shopping peaks at night
• The importance of the mobile web
The Zero Option
Drivers
• Virtual Gift Cards
• Wallet
Virtual Gift Card
The future of the Mobile Wallet
is not in payments,
but in organizing it
Passbook
• Store
– Loyalty cards
– Promotions
– Coupons
– Tickets
• 82,000 Sephora Beauty Insider cards added in
first week
PayPal + Samsung fingerprint
Three Important Developments For
The Future Of Mobile Commerce
• Snap to Buy with mobile image
recognition
• Apps that go beyond simple online
shopping
• Better engagement with brands
Remote Control of Shopping
• 31% of consumers highly trust retailers to
protect their personal data.
• 34% of consumers are interested in
scavenger hunt promotions
• 35% of consumers are interested in ‘beat
the clock’ specials
• 29% of consumers were interested in
getting on-demand advice
FUTURE CURRENCY

SMTULSA Conference Presentation: Mobile Wallet