{"id":7154,"date":"2021-09-22T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T02:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2021-09-22T19:01:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T02:01:44","slug":"instant-everything-is-instant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/09\/22\/instant-everything-is-instant\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant &#8211; Everything is Instant."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With today&#8217;s mobile culture, the satisfaction of one&#8217;s needs and wants has never been easier. Purchasing goods can never be easier; this can be done by sitting on the bus, standing in line, working in an office, etc. Below are a few examples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Instagram&#8217;s newer features is the shopping button. Stores can set up their Instagram store and users, like us, can click and purchase the item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An app called Shopthing was something new that I discovered recently. This company hired shoppers to shop at luxury stores and host live events for shoppers to buy items. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UberEats, Skip the Dishes, and Door Dash has been very handy to satisfy hunger needs and cravings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent analysis done by Smart Insights showed that there is a growing popularity to purchase goods through a mobile phone (Chaffey, D, 2021). However, most people are still using computers or desktops to purchase their items. Although there is an appetite in using the mobile phone to purchase goods is growing in popularity, many consumers are not entirely confident of the process. Some consumers are finding it hard to see all of the product details, navigate the website, browse on multiple screens to compare items, enter in details, and trust the security settings (Chaffey, D, 2021). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you think the accessibility of our mobile phones impacts our consumer behaviour and what does this mean for our future generations? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chaffey, D., 2021.\u00a0<em>E-commerce conversion rates 2021 \u2013 how do yours compare?<\/em>. [online] Smart Insights. Available at: &lt;https:\/\/www.smartinsights.com\/ecommerce\/ecommerce-analytics\/ecommerce-conversion-rates\/&gt; [Accessed 23 September 2021].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With today&#8217;s mobile culture, the satisfaction of one&#8217;s needs and wants has never been easier. Purchasing goods can never be easier; this can be done&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/09\/22\/instant-everything-is-instant\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instant &#8211; Everything is Instant.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}