{"id":4342,"date":"2019-09-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangewebgroup.com\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2020-06-23T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:36:06","slug":"7-ways-small-businesses-can-grow-sales-with-mobile-apps-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangewebgroup.com\/7-ways-small-businesses-can-grow-sales-with-mobile-apps-orange-county\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways Small Businesses Can Grow Sales with Mobile Apps! Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0\u201cBy using this approach, small to mid-sized businesses can decrease spend, narrow their parameters and deliver targeted ads to consumers at the right time and place,\u201d adds Roger Hurni, chief creative officer & managing partner,\u00a0Off Madison Ave.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, \u201ccombining geo-fencing with SMS texts allows you to connect instantly with customers who are near your business,\u201d says Ashley Orndorff, market research analyst & copywriter,\u00a0Visual Impact Group. \u201cSet it up for your loyal customers and send them a text about a promotion built just for them, a special event or a flash sale when they are oh-so-conveniently close to your store. You’ll make them feel special, and by leveraging both exclusivity and scarcity, they’ll be more likely to stop in for a purchase or two.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cPunch cards have long been away to reward loyal customers, with some success, but prove to be frustrating for both the seller and the customer in tracking the punch card (punches, purchases, lost cards and zero purchase reporting),\u201d says Dawn Crowder, owner,\u00a0Carolina Clover, which sells jewelry and gifts. \u201cWe sought a smarter mobile solution for both the customer, who is always carrying her phone and loves a good coupon, and us the seller to gain insight to our loyal customers and communicate with them and reward them,\u201d she explains.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cOur customers make a qualifying purchase in our store [and] gain a punch through the mobile app that counts toward a larger reward after 10 punches, [when] they receive pre-programmed coupons,\u201d she continues.\u00a0\u201cFor example, if they check in on social media they can receive a coupon on their store purchase that day through a push notification.\u201d Through the app, customers also receive a birthday coupon and \u201cwe\u2019ve missed you\u201d coupons if they haven\u2019t shopped at Carolina Clover in a while. \u201cIt is all automated with options we can turn on and off, which we love and is definitely a smarter solution to the old paper punch card.\u201d<\/p>\n 3. Mobile scheduling and reminders.<\/strong>If you are a service business, such as a salon or an exercise studio, use a mobile app to allow customers to make appointments or sign up for classes via their smart phone or tablet. Then use text or SMS messaging to confirm appointments or classes and to send reminders.<\/p>\n Another advantage of using a mobile payment system for business owners is that \u201cmobile data can be integrated with other apps (via the cloud) far easier than traditional methods,\u201d says David Mercer, founder,\u00a0SME Pals. \u201cTransactions records are fed straight into other parts of the business, run by different technologies, like accounting, tax and marketing apps, making the entire business more automated, efficient and streamlined.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cApps like Slack are great to use on your mobile phone, and [they] enable team collaboration and prioritization of projects for companies of any size,\u201d says Bloem. \u201cThey allow you to interact with each other, collaborate and share documents and information all in one place when everyone is on the go.\u201d<\/p>\n Similarly, \u201cDropbox is essential for small businesses for document sharing,\u201d says Ward. \u201cIt offers private folders, shared folders, team folders and the ability to access everything on the go with a great mobile app. Gone are the days of dedicated shared drives and a VPN connection just to access a simple document.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cWe use\u00a0Zendesk<\/a>\u00a0for support tickets and requests from our clients,\u201d says Mark Tuchscherer, cofounder & president,\u00a0Geeks Chicago. \u201cZendesk has a native mobile app and we are able to monitor client support tickets and emergencies 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n With a mobile CRM solution, \u201cinstead of stashing business cards in a drawer, business owners and managers can automatically scan and add contact info straight into their\u00a0CRM\u00a0and add important notes about their new acquaintance,\u201d he explains. And \u201cby bypassing manual entry, business owners [and salespeople] can save time that is better spent on building customer relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBy employing a mobile CRM, your [sales] reps can immediately check-in, access their sales pipeline, client information, previous correspondence and quotes and orders while speaking with a client in the field,\u201d explains Sachal Pandya VP of Operations at Orange Web Group, LLC<\/a> a leading mobile app development agency in Orange County, California. \u201cIt saves time, looks more professional while providing you, the business owner, with real-time actionable insight of their performance. This insight can be used to adjust your sales strategies and ultimately build a sustainable, predictable growth model for your business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Geo-Targeting with Mobile Apps (marketing & sales).With the rapid acceleration of beacons and geo-targeting, \u201cit\u2019s become progressively simple to target key users with location-specific, time-sensitive messages via mobile apps,\u201d says Johan den Haan, CTO,\u00a0Mendix. \u201cFor example, by integrating geo-location technology into a mobile application, businesses can send exclusive & personal offers to customers who are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n
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