A Facebook App For Your Business?

Facebook Apps, what's that? Those apps are of the same genre as games you play in Facebook. And you bet that not only games providers are allowed to operate their business as a Facebook app, any business entity are allowed to install and promote within their Facebook account their own business app to engage with their clients. Facebook is a virtual marketplace that has yet to be fully maximized by businesses.

Is having a Facebook App feasible for your business? Let us take a hard look at some facts and figures about Facebook in the Philippines.

Social media and social networking in the cloud has become one of our main activities daily. It is one of the major reason why people use any of their favorite devices - desktops, laptops, mobile phones or tablets. People are by nature socially inclined.

Research and surveys shows that social networking, Facebook in particular, engages 40% of Filipinos who have access to the internet.

Can Your Business Recover From Any Disaster?

Unforeseen events may affect us and our business with disastrous consequences. However, events and its consequences are not that hard to foresee. Events that may affect our business are identifiable and their consequences can be measured to minimize their effect. What is unpredictable is the time of their happening. And when the inevitable do happens, the question is do you have the capability to emerge from these disasters?

How To Increase Customer Engagement

As an entrepreneur, you are always on the lookout for innovative ideas. Growing your business is surely on the top of them all. There are many ways how to achieve and sustain growth for your business, prime factor of all is customer engagement. If you can find ways how to engage more with your customers then definitely you must do it.

We are in business primarily to engage with our customers. If they can be kept in constant touch with you more, the result is more business. It is a very simple logic.

SMS for Business

As a developing country, we still cannot discount the importance of SMS or Short Messaging System for business use of SMEs or Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. This despite the surge of smartphone technology.

There are several reasons why:
1. Most SMEs operate on a budget.
2. Most SMEs cannot fully automate because they cannot have their own dedicated IT department.
3. Most of them are in an environment where internet infrastructure is limited or non-existent at all.

But one thing they sure can have is the mobile infrastructure of major telcos in the country. The infrastructure is already established. The facility has overtaken telephones or landlines in reaching remote areas of the country. This is where SMS or texting comes into the business scene.

How Small Businesses Can Benefit From Online Technology

The work of an entrepreneur is tremendously overwhelming. One must have the heart and passion to overcome many obstacles that come during the birth pains of starting a business. But the results are also tremendously rewarding - not only financially but most importantly the sense of achievement.

It used to take about five years to make a business grow and achieve a semblance of stability. However, sustaining growth is not easy - a very big challenge for any entrepreneur.

Do Not Forget the Feature Phone In Your Mobile Strategy

This is a guest blog from Emmanuel Catabas. This blog explains why it is important to keep feature phones in mind while the smart phones is rampaging about.

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The report is true and we have not forgotten. We have placed into consideration the different demographic groups our clients will have. That is why with our mobile tech platform, we can reach both smart phones and feature phones at the same time.

How?

Extend Your Market Base

Let's face it, the mobile revolution is irreversible. What the PC and the internet has done in the 1990s is now happening once more. This time, its the mobile technology that is reshaping consumer behavior.

Actually this is not unexpected. Bill Gates of Microsoft has visualized it when he was still the top honcho in Microsoft. Steve Jobs of Apple put it in motion with his introduction of the iPhone and the iPad. And the technology landscape is not the same since then. It has keep on evolving at mach speed. The internet is bustling in activities. Time and place which has put limitations in online activities has been breached. People, whenever or wherever they feel like interacting with their friends, associates or shopping can do it through their mobile devices.

Organizations with Membership Need a Mobile App

If you are a church or an organization with many active and committed members, don't you wish to be in touch with them?

Certainly! Such organizations exist mainly for their members satisfaction. They also need to reach out and expand their membership. Membership satisfaction and membership expansion are important factors in any organizational equation. They should think of ways on how to take care of their members' needs according to the organization's constitution. Not to mention that their continued existence depends on their members contributions. With the newest technology that is the mobile revolution, there is no more reason for organizations not to be in close touch with their members.

Reaching Buyers by Mobile Devices

It is a fact that is hard to dismiss: Filipinos can leave home without their wallet, but he cannot leave home without his mobile device. This is the reality in our day to day lives. And it is not just another mobile phone but more likely a smartphone. The mobile phone has become the Filipino's preferred mobile device.

The mobile phone is revolutionizing our way of life. There are now more uses
for the mobile phone than in any other times of our lives. This revolutionary trend is affecting more of us like the computer has revolutionized our way of life since the early 1990s.

With this kind of mindset, it is now essential for a business to cash in on this trend. Reach out to your clients or buyers through their mobile devices.

Philippine Based Online Payment Gateways

How online payment works (Source: Bancnet On Line)

Many Filipino online sellers are maybe not aware that there are many local payment gateways. Most certainly are aware of PayPal, Volusion, Google Wallet and the likes of international payment gateways.

Why Professionals need a mobile presence?

Though a friendly competition, market for professionals are the most fierce. What with the big guns garnering the biggest slice of the pie.

In today's digital era, the playing field is slowly leveling up. Cheaper and cost effective means of publicizing the services of the real talented professionals is becoming available more and more.

This is true in the mobile world and through mobile devices. The transition to mobile by consumers must be taken advantage. Why?

Why Have a Mobile Presence in the Market?

A Mobile presence in the market today is essential to keep your business and grow.






Here are some benefits of having a mobile presence:

1. Promote and sell your products and services online. Stay with your clients 24/7 through their smartphones. With a mobile friendly web and a mobile app, your presence is always at your client's fingertip. Take the opportunity of reaching out to the rising number of mobile users.

Mobile Commerce - A Key Area of Growth

Mobile Commerce is a key area of growth

Communication Tools for Schools

Schools take care of their students, because it is there that these young fellows stay for five days a week. In fact students stay in school much longer than in their homes. They interact more with their teachers than their parents. It also the place where they build their relationship with classmates and or schoolmates more.

Schools value their relationship with their students. They strive to give the very best to their enrollees. In the digital age, one service that can be given is mobile solutions.