Small businesses have – in the past – been wary about launching a dedicated mobile app. High costs, and the technical skill required, contributed to this weariness, with a 2016 survey suggesting that only 20% of small businesses currently have a mobile app. But costs have fallen dramatically, and apps can now be launched with…
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For better or worse, app’s change the way we do certain things. Uber has changed what we expect when it comes to customer service. Snapchat has changed the way we flirt and sext. WhatsApp has changed the way politicians scheme. And Instagram has changed the way we take and share photographs. And it has all…
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When the Apple App Store launched in July 2008, it only offered users access to 500 apps. By July 2009 this number had grown to more than 50,000, a few months before the Android Market relaunched as the Google Play Store with 16,000 apps available. As of March 2017, the Google Play Store has 2.8m…
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It is becoming increasingly difficult for business owners to ignore mobile, and that’s good. Ten years after the launch of the first iPhone, more than half the mobile phones currently in use are smartphones. And two years have passed since Google first announced that the number of searches taking place on a mobile device exceeds…
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There’s a very good reason for wanting to get users to review your mobile app, and it has nothing to do with vanity. User reviews – whether it is of a product, service, company or restaurant – act as form of social proof, and we see ourselves and others being influenced by this daily. And…
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Unlike the other app builders we have previously written about, Jan Koum lives a life that is much more low-profile. This is all the more incongruous given the fact that he created the second most used app in the world: WhatsApp. But as you learn more about Koum, you discover that it is perfectly in…
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This story will only be available for 24-hours. Or it would be if it appeared as a Story on Snap Inc.’s iconic Snapchat app. Unless deleted by you, other social networks keep everything you post, but with Snapchat, there is no history. Everything is temporary: opened Snaps disappear within seconds, Stories are only available for…
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The number of valid reasons small businesses can offer up for not having a mobile app decreases each year. And if it is fear or apathy that are holding you back, you should ask yourself what fear and apathy have done for your business so far. By now, you should be quite familiar with many…
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The use of app store keywords is a vital component in the successful promotion of your app, making it discoverable to users who aren’t aware of your business, or that your business has its own mobile app. Apple provides a dedicated field for adding keywords to your app store listing, while Google pulls keywords from…
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Uber Technologies Inc. was founded as UberCabs in March 2009 and is now more commonly known simply as Uber. Of the three original co-founders, only Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick remain, with Oscar Salazar having amicably left in 2011, soon after Uber’s services and mobile app officially launched in San Francisco. Following an initial seed…
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