Originally Posted by Jakez (Post 17904147)

Woooooow! I hit up Sly from about my horrible 1:4400 ratio and he set me up with some white labels and now I am at 1:318! :thumbsup

And we found out it's mostly celebrity traffic that I'm sending which doesn't target their tour at all. Still converts. Nice works guys.

If you can't convert mobile traffic I suggest you have them set you up like they did me. Took 5 minutes.

Originally Posted by benk81 (Post 17918892)

One final way for a site owner to make money from mobile is now available and could provide the gateway to web masters realising the value of mobilizing their traffic.
As an ad network, we serve up ads the world over on sites optimized for mobile devices and you can carry our ads and make money from them - how much depends on a number of variables including handset and location to name a couple. This is not a new or original concept and is effective and we are not the only network out there doing it well.
However if you dont have a site of your own but have traffic you can do one of the above mentioned methods but maybe it makes little or no money. Maybe your traffic levels are comparably small and/or that a 1:500 or worse conversion means the work is not worth the return.
The point is we can serve an ad to a phone in pretty much every location across the globe which means we can make money on every single user seeking adult content from a hand held device.
If you don't have a site it doesn't matter as you redirect every user to us and we will, in turn, redirect each individual user to a paying advertiser who is best positioned to convert him/her given the aforementioned variables. We can only do this as we have a large enough network of advertisers to cope with the variety of traffic available.

anyway just some musings :)

Originally Posted by Markul (Post 17921107)

Do you have more info on this?

Originally Posted by chaze (Post 17933768)

Yep, it's much worse then computer customers. It's just to have a product so small it's hard to justify paying for it. Plus it's harder to research a company on your mobile web.

Originally Posted by Miz_Wright (Post 17933719)

I dunno.

Back in the early days of the internet, it took time for users to feel comfy giving out their credit card info on the web - hell, I know people who still won't do it. Phones feel less secure to a lot of people still - beaming credit card information to who knows who? Mobile broadband is still in its infancy.

The learning curve still has to finish its upswing.

Originally Posted by benk81 (Post 17934409)

Hey liz, we should have had a natter about this at the show! :)

do you reckon the future is to give people time to feel safe using a CC or should people entering the mobile market look to have an alternate billing option. I mentioned before, some of our customers have shown us that in the EU and Tri Nations, premium rate, reverse sms or direct operator billing is commonplace and converts sometimes as much as 10X that of CC.

there are a number of companies out there who can help mobile webmasters with alternate billing but it seems some people find it hard to take the traffic outside of their own territory, seriously despite the fact it could be more valuable.