Do It Yourself Mobile Websites

If you have a business of any kind and still don't have a mobile website you better get moving because if you haven't noticed your customers are mobile. It is predicted that in 2013 more searches will be completed on a mobile device than on a laptop or pc.

Google, Yahoo, Facebook are all publicizing that they are 'mobile first', does this tell you something?

It should! Because Google predicts that there will be more searches completed on a mobile device than a pc or mac in the year 2013. This means that when someone searches for a product or service on their smartphone Google does not treat all websites alike. Google wants to display mobile friendly sites to their mobile customers.

So what if you have a responsive design website that adjusts itself to any size screen. Take a good look at it on a smartphone or small tablet. Can you figure out how to contact you? Can you find hours of operation or a map for directions? Probably not.

There are several ways to set up a mobile website. You can do it yourself, this is the least expensive and requires a minimum level of technical skill. These sites come with ready made templates that can be modified to suit your basic needs. These sites include features that consumers are looking for when they are searching on a mobile phone. If you don't want to create a site yourself you can hire someone else to set this up for you (usually for under $500) with a monthly maintenance fee for updates to coupons, etc. You can also have a custom site set up ($500 +) that gets rid of the all of the buttons and creates a sleek look with additional features like text messaging.

Whatever way you choose to use to create a mobile site it's important to get your MobiVantage now.

Google+ Communities

Google+ has added a new feature called Communities. Communities are groups of people that come together because of their common interests. If you are interested in learning how to use mobile marketing to attract mobile customers.

I'd like invite you to join the new Google+ community that I moderate. The community is not mine, it belongs to everyone who wants to contribute and to all of us who are still learning.

New Google+ Community - A place to learn and share about mobile marketing

Mobile Websites How to Wow and Woo Smartphone users

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Experts say we have 7 seconds to make a good impression – so what impression are you leaving your customers when they look at your website on their iphone or smartphone? Does the mobile version of your website wow and woo a potential client or are they off to find one that will? If you are like the majority of companies with a website, your website does not have a mobile version and you are not prepared to capture the attention and business of the typical smartphone user. In fact, you are probably offending them without even being aware of it. Why, because, smartphone users have certain expectations and if they can’t find the information they are looking for without scrunching and moving your page up and down and side to side, say goodbye.
The question is why does this matter to you? Because there are people that don’t even bother to start up their old PCs or laptops anymore, it takes too much time and their smartphones are always with them and always on.  (read more)