Internet Retailer’s Mobile Commerce Conference debuted in Chicago IL this past Oct.12-13, 2010.
The mobile commerce conference tore through the two days in Chicago like a tornado: Hundreds of attendees from all over the world whirled in to catch the latest on mobile commerce trends and insights from both m-commerce exhibitors and expert m-commerce speakers.
With only two days to collect a mass of m-intel, it was an full-out scramble all the way until the curtains dropped.
29 mobile commerce expert speakers addressed some of the most pressing questions on the minds of both mobile commerce merchants and would-be mobile commerce merchants. The keynote speaker was Will Pinnell, Director of Mobile Strategy for Travelocity/Sabre Holdings. Other top expert mobile commerce speakers included Jessica Yo, VP of Product Development for Fandango and Movies.com, Tim McCauley, Mobile Commerce Director, Walgreen Co., and Todd Cabell, Senior Manager of Web Strategy at Crutchfield.com.
While mobile commerce stats. indicated a strong growth trend for 2010, it was apparent that the buildup has just begun. Ecommerce merchants serious about seeing mobile traffic convert are already in the development stages of creating mobile friendly webstores to complement regular ecommerce sites.
FastPivot President, Matthew Ledford and E-Business Consultant, Jonathan Poston led the official Tweet-Up & Tweet Out for Internet Retailer Mobile Conference (#IRMCF10) this year. Both Ledford and Poston tweeted mobile commerce experts quotes, re-tweeted conference participant discussions, and networked with the entire mobile conf. Twitter crowd for the duration of IRMC.  For the full conference tweet script, visit FastPivot on Twitter and look through the dozens of posts discussing m-commerce stats. & growth talk.
There were approximately 35 mobile commerce vendors on site, which according to the IRMC website was “the world’s first exhibition devoted exclusively to mobile commerce solutions.”¬†FastPivot-Mobile was among the vendors networking with hundreds of m-commerce focused attendees.
Since 1997,¬†FastPivot has concentrated on designing world class custom Yahoo! Stores, but since the rise of mobile commerce, FastPivot Mobile has been on the scene. FastPivot’s mobile store designers have been extremely busy this past summer developing mobile friendly websites for a hefty list of top national e-retail clients. The good news is that FastPivot mobile site developers have become extremely efficient at creating mobile friendly websites, which means a live site in a matter of weeks.¬†Order a FastPivot mobile friendly website today to reach a new 2011 market.
For more information about this year’s IRMC, contact Jonathan Poston at [email protected]
Since 1997, FastPivot‚Ñ¢ , a leader in Yahoo! Store solutions, has challenged Yahoo! merchants to increase profitability through strategic initiatives that include: Yahoo! Store design, FastPivot-Mobile Friendly Yahoo! Store Design, Social Media Design, Social Media Education, Social Media Management, SEO & Site Health Analysis Consulting, and FastPivot Software Solutions. FastPivot’s strategic, development, creative and now mobile and social media departments tailor their extensive knowledge of online commerce to each customer’s specific needs.
