Mobility has already spirited into existence new sources of revenue.

Opportunities are legion: mobile shopping, mobile gaming, mobile auctions, location-specific advertising and promotion, anytime/anywhere access to information, downloads, mobile dating services, and so on.

These opportunities can be distributed across the following payment scenarios:

• Selling of Personalized Information & Services
• Pay-Per-Download
• Point-of-Sale Payments
• Person-to-Person Payments
• Rapid Contracting and Selling

Furthermore, these payment scenarios must account for the following:

• Shopping Carts
• Subscriptions
• Single Items
• Donations
• Content Feeds

The Problem: It's a Walled Garden
These revenue producing opportunities have been available on the most part to a relatively small minority of tech-savvy developers/companies or carrier-connected content providers.

Architecting and managing a mobile site with commerce ability is currently out of reach for millions of individuals & small/medium businesses.

• Individuals/Merchants need an easy-to-use tool that provides a professional looking and secure platform for reaching the mobile market with their products, offerings and content.
• Individuals/Merchants need a tool that accounts for traditional as well as emerging mobile products. Each of which require specific transaction and distribution methods.
• Individuals/Merchants need a turnkey mechanism to accept authorized payment without having to overcome technical hurdles or jump through tranactional hoops.

The Solution: mStorefront
Working together with various partners, WINKsite is looking to meet these needs with simplicity, practicality and business intelligence. The offering will be an easy-to-use and cost-effective vehicle for individuals and businesses to enter the Mobile Internet with a mobile commerce presence.

Embedded into WINKsite's mobile publishing platform will be the opportunity (optional of course) for a mobile site owner to:

• Activate A Mobile “Storefront” Channel
• Accept Donations
• Accept Paid Ads & Sponsorships
• Sign-Up Subscribers (Free Or Fee-Based)
• Charge For Downloads
• Charge For Microcontent & Specialized Feeds
• Sell Tickets To Events
• Charge For Mobile Chat & One-On-One Chat Access
• Charge For Classifieds & Personals
• Join Various Affiliate Programs
• Track & Mobilize Auctions
• Create Mobile Game Environments
• And More…

The Big Idea
As flexible mStorefront options are released into the WINKsite Mobile Community Publishing Platform various types of mobile businesses will emerge. Wireless Ink anticipates a number of business models and to be sure the mobile community will have some “fresh-n-tasty” thoughts of their own.

What's important? Enabling a new breed of entrepreneurs to capture a piece of the growing mobile marketplace. And how cool is that?

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Please Note: Final functionality and pricing for this feature has not yet been established.

Stay tuned for The Future Of “Roll Your Own” Mobile Revenues: Part 2″ – Building Your Own Mobile Business