Doing Business With Mobile Phones And Apps

With the advent of mobile devices and proliferation of mobile apps, doing business has become easier.

Just using your iPhone and the Redlaser app ( http://www.redlaser.com ) , you can take a picture of a product's barcode and this application quickly recognizes it. So you essentially have your own barcode scanner at your fingertips. You can then search for prices on Google that list both local and online retailers. Imagine while you're right in the store you can do comparison shopping. As a business, you can check on your competitors prices and sales without leaving your own store. There are new trends in mobile marketing.

On June 2010, eBay bought the Redlaser mobile phone application and now is using it to restructure their website which will likely shift the online auction business model.

StuffBuff ( http://www.stuffbuff.com ) is a new startup company who labels itself as a social ecommerce website. So it's social media and the online auction world fused as one. This company has the potential to become eBay's competitor.

StuffBuff's interactive live haggling concept with no behind the scenes email action is different and sure to change the way we look at online auctions. This company also uses barcode scanning which allows users to create a catalog of products to later sell on auction.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• mobile phones
• mobile apps
• barcode scanner
• public library
• redlaser.com
• ebay
• stuffbuff.com
• iPhone
• how-to instruction
• doing comparison shopping
• keep up with your competitors
• how compare prices
• mobile marketing

[dianehochman]

Hey Miriam...

I saw one of these bar codes out in the real world (not internet) for the first time the other day.

I have a feeling this stuff is gonna be common place by the end of the year.