Of my nearly 350+ mobis, only a few are developed.
The rest are parked.
When you type in the domain, you will go to the parked page. The parked page is 5/5 mobi compliant. All the ads are a redirect to a dot com site. Why is that you ask?
The rest of the world has not caught up to .mobi yet.
In time, I would like to have all my mobi's up and running as sites.
So why is Wachovia redirected?
Let's use the same old worn out argument that mobi is a failure and all they are doing is protecting their brand.
Or lets use this argument...
DAMN WACHOVIA! You better get on the ball. Bank of America and Deutshe-Bank got their portable web sites up and promoting banking via mobile device. And look! The pages work!
Geeky kid places call to dad who works at the Wachovia Headquarters in Charlotte NC, which by the way is in close proximity to the Bank of America building and the Bank of America Stadium where the Carolina Panthers play (they are still smarting over that since Ericsson Phones dropped the name and B of A beat them to it while First Union and Wachovia were in merger talks...a North Carolina founded organization from the 1800's beat by out of towners).
Monday morning, May 21, 2007 meeting at Wachovia Headquarters, Charlotte NC.
Get my development team in here right now! It's bad enough we have to be literally in the shadows of BOFA with them having the tallest building in Charlotte and having the distinction as the tallest building in both the Carolinas, and the tallest between Philadelphia and Atlanta. Now we have to look out of my penthouse window on a NFL stadium that carries their name. We are letting a bunch of California surfer dudes kick our ass in our own backyard.
All of you, have a seat. Hope you had a good weekend. Nice weather we're having. I'd offer you some coffee and doughnuts but this won't take long and you will be on your way shortly.
Takes cell phone out of hands of geeky kid's father and slides it across the corporate board's mahogany meeting table.
I thought you said this shit wasn't going to work and it was years away! Look at this! Our competition is beating us to the punch and in the meantime you idiots that are being paid 6 figures a year to sit on your ass. I want this PRIORITY ONE! We are one of the largest banks in the world. I don't care if it takes 24 hours, seven days a week. I want this site up and running pronto. In the meantime, let our customers know that we are mobile. Even if that means releasing a PR statement letting them know its out there. The important thing is to let our customers know we offer the same services and more.
And if you can't do the job, I'll hire someone who can.
