While vacationing in Mexico this week, I could not help but notice that even in this developing country, mobile is not the future – it’s here now, and bigger than one might have expected. Regardless, it’s clear the next step is to consider what you should be doing to prepare for the inevitable shift toward mobile in the communities your business serves? For those interested in statistics , in the most recent quarter, Apple more than doubled its sales of iPhones from the previous quarter – with an approximately 40% rise in iPad sales. Photo Credit: terrydu. MORE >>

If you are not preparing your organization for a mobile web , you will lose competitive positioning. Many brands have dabbled and experimented, but have put off mobile media as they struggled to swallow social media. Social media is now in its best practices phase, while mobile media via tablets and mobile phones has hit the tipping point. Mobile media has brought the Internet into every aspect of our lives now. This was evident throughout SxSW and the travel between DC and Austin; mobile media was everywhere. Even Mike Tyson gets mobile media. MORE >>

Or How Mobile Devices will Make 90% of Your SEO Efforts Obsolete in the Future. Mobile devices have spread around the world and statistics show that about 260 million devices are in use actually and this number will grow by 2014 to more than one billion. When people are on their mobile device they do not go to the web browser to research for a restaurant or retail store. Also in the B2B sector more CEOs are researching for products and services on their IPads, IPhone; Blackberry and Android. Consumer Trend in Mobile Purchases. Infographic: Mobile Warming. MORE >>

With the virtual/physical, online/offline worlds becoming so merged together, not only through the mobile, but through other home media devices, advertising, in store displays, and so on, there are new opportunities for your business to be at the water cooler – to be where conversations are taking place, capture and showcase those conversations and make something out of them, and actually provide your services to your customers when they are using these devices and be ‘the elbow of the deal’ Where are People? To do this, we need to answer the question, where are people? MORE >>

What do you make of the meteoric rise of the iPhone and iPad ? Dennis Crowley of Foursquare was recently featured in a TV ad for Best Buy where he boasts that his smartphone is the only thing that he'll go back home to get if he forgets it. Take a look at the Twitter mobile application, then take a look at your mobile experience. foursquare. mobile experience. People will talk about the cool factor, the sleek design, the speed of the computer processor, how many pixels the camera has, the connectivity and more. Simple is as simple does. Forget about it. MORE >>