Read it sometimes ago in one of the studies by Gartner that “Website design that is not formatted for a smaller screen will become a market barrier…” It’s been some years now that the mobile applications have made a prominent place for them in the market.
When marketing a business, it’s wise to include social media, paid search, review sites and, most pertinently, mobile. Mobile marketing strategies are gaining momentum due to the ever increasing use of mobile devices by consumers. These days more than half of the internet browsing is done on the mobile devices. Hence, it is absolutely important to have a website and that too the one that’s optimized for mobile use or even a mobile applications.
The time is changing tremendously and we have already left behind the time when it wasn’t clear why it is important for our business to be mobile and how it can change the functioning of the business in various ways. Today everyone understands and is quickly adapting to the demand of the changing times. By now most of the companies have already gone ahead with having their initial mobile applications and others are gearing up to have one. However, out of the ones who have already experimented with the apps later realized that they have chosen to have a mobile application without having properly strategizing for it and those who have some strategy in place do not know yet how effective it proved for their business.
Therefore, as it is a need of the hour to have the mobile web and mobile applications it is equally important for them to craft and effective strategy beforehand.
It is critical to understand well in advance as how to build and effective strategy? Here are some tips for you:
- Just having an app is not effective: More than 20% mobile applications in the mobile market are never downloaded and this clearly says that just having an app is not enough. For getting into the perfect grove of getting an effective app that gets you some ROI is to understand well in advance the consumer behavior and how? what? Do they do to get the information about your business? Most likely consumers resort to checking out your website either on the web-browser or now on mobile webs. So, first step here is to have a responsive design of a website (Our another post on responsive design)
It’s critical to understand that these days customers to have set standards In terms of what they expect out of what a mobile website does and provides as compared to their desktop counterparts. Once all this is on track we can get to see impressive conversion rates from out targeted mobile audience.
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Understand the ROI: People these days are using mobile devices to browse the net, connect to social media, shop unparallel and this is only slated to grow more from here. One of the tips to consider while strategizing is to know how the competitors are doing in this regard. What kind of mobile applications do they have, how good their responsive website is. This can give you the insight as to what is there in the market already and what you need to do to stay ahead in the competition.
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Understanding mobile marketing tricks: Mobile web is not just about the mobile applications and the responsive websites but it can do lot more than that. So, it is imperative to understand what tools and tactics you can choose to promote your business. One such is to know completely of various sources compatible with various hand-held devices that customer make use of. Another is directing the potential customers to your landing page; hence it is equally important to make use of mobile optimized landing page in an effective way so that the conversion rates get high.
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Right technology: The most critical part of mobile strategy is to zero down on the right approach for building apps. Developing a mobile app is extremely different from developing for web or desktop. There are countless options available for creating mobile applications; however, it depends on requirement to requirement due to cost involved at various stages of its lifecycle. The effective way is to find out the total cost of ownership of that app for various development options that you have zeroed upon. This will include comparing the software, implementation, expected maintenance after the delivery, security, support and service agreements etc.
Considering all the above and some more can help you stay focused and craft an effective mobile strategy for your business. Going forward you can let us know if you already have a strategy in place for mobile applications or are looking to have one. We would be delighted to help you in any way we can.