Tricks: Shopping Via Text Messaging
Sam HarrelsonAffiliate Programs, Tools, Tricks, web2.0 May 30th, 2007
Here’s one for the “what if?” crowd…
What if we were to be able to put an affiliate link into the mix here with participating merchants in order to more easily (and efficiently) track offline to online/txt conversions?
Could be an intriguing model as summer begins here in the Northern Hemisphere and more people are escaping their cubicles and laptops to go see movies, travel and enjoy the weather.
We turn to self-serve checkout lines at the supermarket and shop online in order to save time, so why not shop by text message? By registering your information with ShopText, you can purchase items by simply texting a keyword from a ShopText ad and confirming with a unique PIN attached to your ShopText account. However, while we’re all for efficiency, making it this easy to shop - well, it could be lethal for my bank account.
