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Your Brand Is A Moat, But It’s Not Deep Enough
In the early days of consumer e-commerce, many retailers (Circuit City and Borders come to mind), despite investing heavily in their brands, were wiped out for adjusting too slowly to the web. The...
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The Shortage Of Developer Talent Is Crushing Mobile
The biggest problem facing mobile today is a shortage of talented developers. There is not enough mobile developer talent (iOS talent in particular amongst the folks we talk to in mobile retail) to...
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The Best Brands Take Lessons From Brick-And-Mortar, And Apply Them To Mobile
The best app experiences draw as much from quality brick-and-mortar stores, as they do from e-commerce. As we all adopt mobile and tablets devices, brands can apply lessons learned in brick and mortar...
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Push Notifications For Abandoned Carts: A Guide For Retailers Going Mobile
If your mobile app is dealing with abandoned carts, or you have ideas to make this better, I’d love to hear from you: ayo@hipmob.com. Between 66% and 97% of shopping carts are abandoned on mobile. As...
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iOS Is For Revenue, Android Is For Ads
The early trends in mobile commerce (iOS and Android specifically) point to a simple but startling conclusion; iOS is for selling product, and Android is for advertising. While this conclusion isn’t...
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Cyber Monday Prep: 6 Design Tips For Improving Your Mobile Retail Conversions
At Hipmob, we spend all day thinking about how to help mobile businesses better talk to customers. Talking to customers helps you understand them better, better solve their problems, and grow your...
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WhatsApp Should Charge For Photos
I’ve been a heavy user of Whatsapp since 2009. Over the years, Whatsapp has been the most reliable way to stay in touch with my friends and family overseas. Works on virtually any mobile device, and...
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How Mobile Is Accelerating Hardware Innovation
Much ink has been spilt on the recent renaissance of hardware. The Pebble Smartwatch raised over $10m dollars in 30 days, more than 10 times its fundraising goal, Ouya launched a $99 game console, and...
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Designing A Smart Calendar for Sales Teams
For the past several months I’ve used a couple of smart calendars: Sunrise, and Tempo. I used to use Cue as well before they were bought by Apple. These tools all (kind of) automate stuff I used to do...
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A Better Way To Integrate Saas Services And Marketplaces
Since starting Hipmob, we’ve tried to make it easy to use us along with the other tools that you use. With that in mind, we have over three dozen integrations with services as varied as Zendesk,...
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Location: The Missing Setting On iOS7 Control Center
As an iPhone lover and founder of a mobile startup, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make apps better, and to some extent how to make phones better (though that’s a higher hurdle). If you’re...
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