The mobile web continues to evolve and businesses must adapt!
It's a fact that more and more people use smartphones and that website traffic is shifting from desktop to mobile dominated.
Many times businesses see others with an App and wonder if they should have an app for their business.
In this episode of Halftime Mike I dive into this practical question and give you guidance so your business can make a decision to meet your needs. This episode flows out of a joint presentation I gave with Nathan DeSelm of Villing at a regional American Marketing Association Meeting. Our presentation was entitled, "Battle of the Planet Apps" and I've included some images below from the presentation. (I think you'll quickly see where we got our play on words from!)
So, if you're looking for the answer as to whether you need to jump in and have a app developed, or whether a mobile site will meet your needs, my aim here is to give you the information you need to decide!
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Mobile is the way of the future. With stats from January 2014 showing that already 58% of Americans were using a Smartphone, the age of the mobile device is NOW!
So do you go mobile site or app? As a starting point, you need a responsive website (A website that responds to the device the user is viewing your site on) simply because of the sheer volume of mobile web users and the trend for all web traffic to increase on mobile devices.
This is critical in order to present a quality first impression to anyone coming to your site. The keys then are whether there is the need to go deeper and actually have an app as well.
So, it my opinion it's not really a "one or the other?" question. You need a mobile site. The second question is then whether you also need a app!
The bottom line is a mobile website is needed regardless!
It helps you have a quality web presence and is great for new visitors to learn about you. An app, on the other hand, is great where you need to drill deeper and provide existing clients and customers with more, frequently accessed, personalized information and tools.
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