Delighted to contribute to the very cool Tug Life "pop-up expo" in Old St underground station this morning. I was talking about mobile trends, the invisible glue between the physical world and our digital selves, and how the right kind of new might be over 20 years old!
(Cover photo from http://www.thedrum.com)
15. Your customers are changing
Customer support
Purchasing
Security
!Appointment
Reminders
Online banking
Satisfaction
survey
of text
messages
read within
the first
98%
10
minutes
Service alerts
19. Technology trends
The phono-sapien in numbers:
• The average American is on their smartphone
for over two hours every day.
• Asked which media they would miss most,
British teenagers pick mobile devices over TV
sets, PCs and games consoles.
• Nearly 80% of smartphone-owners check
messages, news or other services within 15
minutes of getting up.
• About 10% admit to having used the gadget
during sex.
22. Retail
IMRG’s eRetail Index guide (UK):
45% YoY growth in the use of mobile devices for retail
1 in 4 of UK mobile commerce sales from smartphones
21% YoY growth for tablets
Predicted that 1/3 of all online sales in the UK will take
place via smartphones and tablets
UK retail mCommerce sales predicted to reach
£19.9bn in 2015
Apple Pay, Apple Watch, iBeacon, NFC
Closed ecosystem with fingerprint ID for payments
Marketing
Data Driven, Mass Personalisation, Contextual Commerce
26. Customer Service
Zero tolerance
86% of customers quit doing business with a company
because of a bad CX, up from 59% four years ago
1% drop in service = 15% drop in customer satisfaction
Make it mobile
64% of consumers prefer to use texting over voice as a
customer service channel
44% of consumers prefer to send a text, rather than
waiting on hold to speak with an agent
81% of consumers are frustrated being tied to a phone or
computer to wait for customer service help
77% of consumers aged 18-34 are likely to have a
positive perception of a company that offers texting
28. The mobile effect
Good for business
“every ten extra mobile phones per 100 people increases
the rate of growth of GDP-per-person by more than one
percentage point”
Exponential growth built in:
The industry is constantly growing (because the mobile
industry is highly scalable)
Traditional (data) infrastructure is prohibitively expensive
Opportunities for rapid transformation:
Taxis -> Uber (2009)
Hotels -> AirBnB (2008)
Kodak -> Instagram (2010)
32. Use mobile as the glue…
Embrace mobile
“Operationalise mobile, don’t
treat is as a project. Its an
enabling technology that will
transform your business.”
Julie Ask, Forrester
Expect the unexpected
Nimble start ups are
disrupting massive global
businesses.
Adapt, and adopt, new
technology.
36. Joining the physical and digital
Average annual value of each an SMS
subscriber:
• Pete’s Ace Hardware in Castro Valley,
California – $401
• Brentwood Ace Hardware in Brentwood,
California – $529
• Dale Hardware in Fremont, California – $267
“Pete’s Ace Hardware now knows that each new
SMS subscriber will generate $401 in new
annual retail sales.”
38. • About the same amount to people use their
smartphones for calls, apps and SMS
• SMS is the most frequently used, calls least
used
• Just over half use smartphone for email
• Over half of people prefer to use text
messages on the go & millennials prefer SMS
• 43% are happy to give out numbers
• Email is the most popular channel for
promotional offers, SMS for time limited offers
Research
39. • SMS has a higher open rate than emails,
double that push notifications
• Emails good for promotions & purchase info
• 16% of people never read messages sent by
push
• SMS best for click and collect & order alerts
• 50% of people want “on the day” delivery
messages by SMS
• People prefer feedback surveys by email
• 60% of people would prefer to use text over
IVR for customer support
Research