6. Growth of Mobile
⢠88% of American adults have a cell phone
⢠46% of all adults own a Smartphone
⢠44% of Smartphone owners access the
internet on their device
⢠57% have a laptop
⢠19% of adults own a tablet
⢠19% have an eBook reader
Source: PEW Research Center
Did You Know?
14. One Half of all Local
Searches are performed
on Mobile Devices
Customers who visit a
mobile unfriendly site
will likely go to a
competitors site.
With more & more people accessing websites through
mobile web browsers, itâs time to
Mobilize & Grow Your Business
16. Mobilize & Grow Your Business
⢠Engage customers
â One click to call
â Maps and directions
â Share news
â Video (YouTube)
â Image gallery
â Enable visitors to share information on your
business via Facebook, Twitter, Google+
17. Mobilize & Grow Your Business
⢠Offer better customer service & experience
â Provide business hours
â Call back (customers can request a call back)
â Leave a message
â Reviews / testimonials
â Custom forms
18. Mobilize & Grow Your Business
⢠Increase traffic (exposure for your business)
â Highlight products / services
â Offer coupons
â QR Codes
⢠Increase sales
â One click to call
â Custom order form
â Shopping Cart (Paypal or Google Checkout)
â Take reservations
19. Viewing a Desktop Web Site
with a Mobile Device
⢠Navigation is difficult, if not impossible
⢠Scrolling necessary to access information
⢠Data downloaded too large for mobile devices
⢠Contact information static
20. Desktop PC vs. Smartphone
⢠Screen size 19â â 24â
⢠Horizontal or sidebar
navigation
⢠Mouse clicks
⢠Small check boxes /
links
⢠Images are large and
static
⢠Contact info is static
⢠Screen Size 2.75â â 5â
⢠Collapsible widgets /
sliders
⢠Finger taps
⢠Large check boxes /
links
⢠Images adapt to
browser size
⢠Contact info interactive
Desktop PC Smartphone
21. You need a mobile-friendly website
or app if youâre going to survive in
this mobile worldâŚ
22. Primary Goal:
⢠Get Noticed â You need to be found where
customers are looking ⌠on the mobile web
⢠Get Listed â Being optimized for mobile will
improve your listing in top search engines
23. Focus of Mobile Website or App
⢠Task oriented
⢠Simplified navigation
⢠Calls to action
⢠Clickable phone number
⢠Clickable address
⢠Fast loading
24. Options to Mobilize Your Business
⢠Build a mobile version of your website
â Mobile Responsive Website
â Hosted Mobile Website
⢠Build a Custom Mobile or Web App
⢠Think mobile in all your advertising campaigns
or marketing efforts
25. Mobile-Ready Audit
⢠Simplify the web design to be mobile-friendly
⢠Make sure mobile users can find what they
want quickly & easily
⢠Include big icons or buttons for navigation
⢠Simplify content - shrink the text and use
visual graphics or videos to convey your
message
28. Mobile Responsive Website
Pros:
⢠Highly optimized for all mobile devices
⢠One site to develop & maintain
⢠One URL
Cons:
⢠Still a bit âcutting edgeâ with vendors being
difficult to find
Cost: $800 & up, plus on-going maintenance of
site & URL
32. Hosted Mobile Site
Pros:
⢠Reach a more global audience
⢠Highly optimized for mobile devices
⢠Less expensive to build and maintain
⢠Online tools to build and manage site
⢠Link to or feed content from main website
Cons:
⢠Two websites / URLs to maintain
Cost: $300 & up, plus ongoing maintenance of two
sites / URLs
34. Native Apps vs. Mobile Apps
NATIVE APPS MOBILE APPS
Viewable by everyone
with a mobile browser,
regardless of their choice
of hardware or operating
system.
35. Custom Mobile Phone or Web App
⢠Needs to be focused on the end-userâs
experience and expectations
⢠Like desktop computer software
⢠Store resources locally
⢠Utilize the computing power and memory of
the mobile device
⢠Perform operations instantaneously
⢠Can be tied into the functionality of the device
(iPhone, Android)
36. Custom Mobile Site / App
Pros:
⢠Content highly customized for your customers
⢠Designed for a single screen size or a smaller range of sizes
which gives greater design control over the user interface
⢠Need to be promoted / advertised
Cons:
⢠Viewable only with appropriate device(s)
⢠Requires an HTML5, Android or iPhone/iPad web developer
⢠Ongoing maintenance by web designer
⢠Updates may require submission approvals and require
users to download updates
Cost: $500 - $5K, plus monthly hosting fees of $30-$50 and
ongoing maintenance of two site designs
40. Mobile Apps for Business Operations
⢠Quickoffice Pro â All-in-One MicrosoftÂŽ
Office online / offline tools
⢠Dropbox â cloud-based file storage that saves to
your computers, phones and Dropbox website
⢠Expensify â Ability to snap photos of receipts and
categorize or sync them with your tax and
accounting software
⢠Evernote â Record and remember everything
that happens (text, photos and audio notes)