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Overcome Business Problems with Technology
Spread Your Contact Info – You want people to call you, but let’s be honest — almost nobody is going type all of your contact information into their phone. However, you can use technology to make it easier for them to call. By using a mobile friendly page, they can download and save it in seconds with the push of a button. When that technology is linked from your business card, it becomes the perfect way to solve this problem.
Making things easier for smartphone users is just part of good customer service. Gary Huff and the fine people at Premier Capital Corp used this technology to overcome business problems they faced.
Educate Your Clients – A weight loss physician wanted his prospective clients to see his seminar before they became clients, so he spent time and effort to create DVDs of his seminars. Then he had to order and stock the DVDs, distribute them, collect for them, replenish them, and also get hard copy verification that the patients had watched them. This process was labor intensive and prone to errors, so he looked to technology for a solution. Now the seminars are always available on a streaming server, and patients have to log in to view them. There are no more DVDs, no paper trail, and very little labor involved to achieve the goal. Dr. Jay Piatek of The Piatek Institute uses this technology to overcome business problems today, and he is glad that he does.
Take a Client Survey – A local organization wanted to know which of it’s entree’s was most popular in their food tent at the State Fair. However, getting a hard copy paper survey filled out after eating seemed to be problematic, as well as expensive due to the cost of labor to count and record every answer. They asked how technology could help, and decided to do a mobile survey. After eating, mobile users scanned a QR code in the tent and quickly submitted their preferences. A database captured the data, and an automated report sent the results to the owner without the need for human labor. Sarah Ford of Indiana Pork overcame her problem with technology and is glad she did.
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Over 40% of Email Was Read on Mobile Devices!
Did you know how much email was read on mobile devices?
During the last six months of 2012, 41% of all email was read on mobile devices, which equates to hundreds of billions of emails. The information came from a report published by Knotice, of Akron OH.
This means that people are opening the messages on the go, which is sooner than if they only read them at their desk, but it also could result in negative effects for the sender. If your email has a link to your website but your site is not mobile ready, they are likely to be annoyed and get a negative impression of your brand.
According to Google, companies without a good mobile site drive 61% of mobile traffic to their competitors.
Can you afford to lose that many people trying to get your information on their mobile device?
Make sure that every ad you run and every email you send will take viewers to a good web experience regardless of what device they are using. A smart site is programmed to recognize the device before it sees the page, and to send the best display for that device. With billions of mobile users in the world, you can’t afford not to have one!
ProVim mobile web sites begin at just a few hundred dollars.
Call us today and let us create one for you! http://provim.net/mobile/
(317) 299-5150
“Don’t penalize users for visiting your site on smaller devices.” — Brad Frost, Responsive web leader and publisher
Millions of Mobile Users Looking for Your Business
Mobile Users are Looking for You!
With more than 6 billion mobile users of smartphones and other devices in the world, a good number of them must be looking for a business like yours. Marketers have seen these trends:
- the number and dollar volume of mobile purchases is increasing
- mobile users frequently do local searches to find a source close by their location
- after finding a source, mobile users act quickly by calling, visiting, or buying on-line
- mobile users have a very short attention span
- mobile users will not waste time on a non-friendly website
About 400 million mobile devices are active in the US, and sales continue to soar. This chart shows that over half of those users go online often, and usage is expected to increase.
If your business does not have a mobile-friendly website to attract them, you are missing many potential customers who will find your competitors before you.
Let us help you join the Mobile Era. Prices start at just a few hundred dollars, so they are very affordable, and because of their simple content. it usually doesn’t take long to build one. We have created many of them, and we’d like to help you with yours.
Give us a call at 299-5150 or email us at info@provim.net
Source: Pew Internet’s study of US adults, “Cell Internet Use 2012”
Mobile Access for 504 Small Business Loans
New Mobile Website Getting Great Reviews
Premier Capital Corporation serves as one of Indiana’s leading certified development companies accredited by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). They work as a partner with bankers and business owners to provide small business loans via long-term financing for real estate, machinery and equipment.
In order to make it easier for people to compare small business loans, they developed a calculator on their website that produced estimated payments using their SBA 504 loan program. That worked well for a number of years. However, with the recent growth of mobile internet access and mobile device usage, Premier decided they needed a mobile version also.
In cooperation with Provim, an Indianapolis mobile web developer, the team created a mobile website that was launched in May and was enthusiastically received right away. If you have a mobile device with scanner, you can scan this image and see it for yourself.
Here are some of the features that make it so popular:
- it is a branded mobile site with custom colors and logo
- simple, finger-sized buttons make it easy to use
- the calculator visually leads you through the inputs
- one touch comparison results for 504 loan versus a 7a loan
- one button “send pdf” emails the loan structure and payments
- home page has “save to phone” button
- all staff members are shown on one page linked to individual pages
Staff members like additional features:
- every staff member has their own page with photo
- one-touch to dial for their direct phone number
- every staff member has a unique QR code to their page for their business cards
- one touch “download my contact info” for each staff member
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Make Your Business Easy to Find
Your Business can be Easy to Find with a Mobile Website
Potential customers are trying to find you by using local searches on their mobile devices; if you don’t have a mobile friendly website, those customers are likely to find your competitor first. This is especially true for restaurants.
According to Google, 92% of US smartphone users use internet search find local businesses.
89% of them have taken action (such as call, visit, or buy) shortly after finding a local source for the service or product. Furthermore, 82% of them say they perform a phone search once a week or more, so they provide a lot of search traffic. An impressive 48% of smartphone users say they have visited a local business they found on the mobile web.
The top category for local searches is restaurants.
They have the most to gain from being easy to find on a mobile website. How often have you heard “you decide” as you consider going to a restaurant with someone? If you don’t know all the restaurants in that area, your smart phone can show a list of them or a map of them with flag markers. The probability that you will choose a restaurant that shows up on the map is very high, especially if you can click a flag and see mobile friendly information.
If you have any kind of retail or service establishment that people visit in person, you should have a mobile website that makes you easy to find. There is no reason not to capitalize on the trend in local searches to put money in your pocket.
Prices for simple mobile websites start at just a few hundred dollars.
Give us a call at 317-299-5150 and get mobile today!