You are probably anxious to start making money with your mobile website, but your first must get it properly set up optimized, tweaked, and visible to the mobile directories. Until you have these things done it will be very hard to make money with your mobile website.
You can put a major amount of time in the learning XHTML and learning exactly what WAP means and studying every mobile operating system they have ever come up with but, the one factor that you need to keep in mind is much more basic than all of that.
Do you want to know what it is?
Keep it simple, do not overcomplicate things.
If the truth be told you really do not need to become a professional mobile web designer. There are many tools and site builders available online, and many of them are free to use. You can find simple one column templates for mobile blogs, plug-ins to make an existing blog mobile and whole websites dedicated to the subject of how to build a mobile site.
One fact it may surprise you is that the rest of the world is way far ahead of the United States when it comes to mobile technology. So we have a little bit of catching up to do, and hopefully that will spur you on to get started on your mobile website.
Once you get your mobile site live tweaked and optimized there is no sense in wasting time, start monetizing it immediately.
Here are some ideas of how to do that.
- Either create or have someone create an application for you that you can offer for free, then offer an upgrade to a paid version.
- Use hyperlinked keywords that point to products on Amazon.
- Create mobile e-books that can either be given away in trade for list building are sold.
- Write keyword optimized pages about specific products that would be of interest to mobile users and that you can earn a commission on
That’s just the tip of the iceberg of the ways that you can monetize your mobile site.
There are benefits to positioning yourself as an expert in mobile technology. Now you don’t want to be dishonest about this but just make the most of your diligent and proactive learning curve. It will always be a case where you know more than some people and less than others. So some will look at you as an authority and others will look at you as an upcoming authority.
There are other advantages to going mobile they’re not quite so obvious that will help you make money.
The truth is the most important monetization factor of mobile is not the money that you make selling stuff are advertising space it is the result of the benefits that you gain by keeping in touch with
- Your target customers
- your industry
- the latest trends in your niche
- the latest and greatest opportunities
Many people are surprised how operating both a mobile and a PC-based business actually simplifies things. The reason this is that the mobile aspect enables you to deal with things instantly. The available deal instantly are take note of things through your mobile, be able to respond to frustrated customers instantly, are even track down a missing order quickly with your mobile aspect. This will actually give you more freedom and get you away from your desk and PC. You will be able to conduct business any time and anywhere.
By being able to deal with things instantly and easily you’ll probably deal less with the problem of procrastination.
If you think about it are not very many good reasons not to go mobile with your website.
You might as well get used to the idea because mobile technology is growing rapidly, and here to stay.