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Originally Posted by Why
of the countries whose numbers you show above, the ones worth billing have credit cards, or Direct debit abilities. the rest are too poor to pay a decent amount, and the phone company takes half. so you sell your product for pennies.
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i hear you 100%. The only *small* problem nowadays is that surfers are not willing anymore to pull out their credit card and get billed monthly 29.99... I have been in this business for 8 years and i have seen credit card conversions ratios decreasing from 1/100 to 1/10,000 ....
So offering the SMS payment solution as an addition is perfect for these people. I have some webmasters making 6,000 or 7,000 sms a day, at 1 euro per SMS, that's 7000 euros/day =
210,000 EUROS per month. These webmasters would never do that much with Credit Card, it's not 2001 anymore!
Also look around you, in every country i travel in Europe, all content that you see on TV or on newspapers is billed by SMS. Because it's the most convenient way to pay, it's cheap for the users and everyone is now used to it.
Im saying : keep billing your customers by credit card membership although this is decreasing and will keep on decreasing in the future month, and add SMS onto your sites for additional customers and additional $$$ and amazing conversions (1/80 on some countries).