Author posts Alex Bakman

In recent years, there’s been an uptick in investments for green technology. People are filling their roofs with solar panels, companies are making innovative, energy-saving gadgets and venture capitalists are increasing support of green tech projects. While some of these initiatives are lucrative, yielding a large return on investment, others might not be the most profitable.

Green mobile business apps might be one such example. The market is already flooded with green applications. The EPA’s My Green Apps page lists 290 green mobile business apps to help consumers go green and protect the environment. With so much competition, is creating your own green app worth it? Continue reading “Are Green Apps Worth the Investment?” »

Building your app is just 30% of the entire lifecycle of your startup. The toughest part is to get customers use your app consistently.

Three years back, if you had launched an app on the App Store, you would have had a better chance at traction than today, as there now more than two million mobile business mobile business apps across app stores. That said, there are many ways to get your app noticed through various forms of marketing — some paid and some free. In fact, you can refer to one of our earlier articles on 10 Tips to Market your Live App. Continue reading “How to Increase mobile app downloads” »

Looking back in time of the business world, one of the craziest tasks was preparing expense reports. Being back from a business trip and trying to find those little receipts to get them into the report was a nightmare. Even though it meant all the work-related expenses are going to be reimbursed.

Things are different today with mobile mobile business apps that turn this nightmare into a bit of fun. Now you can easily and carelessly let those little paper receipts fall into the wastebasket right after snapping a photo of them with your smartphone or tablet. Expense tracking mobile business apps take the photo, read barcodes, allow adding notes, email the ready reports to you and store all the information in the accumulative database.

Snappii offers its Expense Report mobile app that allows to instantly create custom PDF expense reports on the go. Continue reading “The Expense Report mobile app by Snappii” »

DURHAM — It may seem hard to believe, but there’s a shortage of mobile-app developers in the United States.

It’s a challenge for small-business owners looking to create a mobile app for their company. The trouble starts with the need to satisfy growing consumer demand, a lack of resources in information technology departments and the large price tags domestic app developers charge. These limitations force many business owners to seek services outside the United States, where app creation can be done cheap. Continue reading “Snappii Stimulates Customers’ Economic Growth” »

The importance of filling out and submitting daily logs and reports cannot be overestimated. It allows to track of progress, check site information, receive extra work requests etc. Moreover there is no better way to prove your position in case of any disputes that may appear.

But keeping handwritten daily logs is not the best option.

Snappii offers its Construction Daily Log app that allows your team to enter logs with the click of a finger. It’s much faster and easier than old-fashioned log books. Continue reading “Construction Daily Log mobile app by Snappii” »

According to comScore one in every three minutes spent online are spent on devices other than a PC.  It’s a no-brainer that you need a mobile strategy for your business, however big or small your company is.

But, building an app can be quite overwhelming when you have to think of a solution for your business. Should you build an app to engage or monetize, should you build a native app or a mobile website and what do you do about building in-house verses outsourcing?

Lots of question. And to answer them you need to first think about the following options: Continue reading “3 Steps to Creating a Mobile Development Strategy” »

Snappii, a platform for rapid mobile app development enables users to design, build, and deliver feature-rich business mobile business apps in days versus months. Using Snappii’s flexible WYSIWYG Visual Editor, users can build feature-rich enterprise mobile mobile business apps once and deploy across all major platforms including iOS, Android, and HTML5. In addition, since the platform does not require mobile coding skills, programmers and non-programmers can deliver mobile business apps quickly and easily, saving time and money. The platform also makes it easy to manage applications and make ongoing changes.

The Snappii Platform continues to create more useful, feature-rich mobile business apps for various industries, and is glad to announce its brand new Job Estimate and Repair Order for iPad. Continue reading “Job Estimate and Repair Order for iPad” »

Have you ever felt like you don’t have a good handle on time — when you have to be tracking employee working hours or your own billable hours for clients? You can use your smartphone or tablet to access internet services dedicated to small-business time tracking and billing, such as eBillity or Yast.

But even if your company isn’t committed to an online time sheet or billing service, your mobile device can be a valuable aide for logging billable hours, employee hours, or client-related expenses. There is an app for that – iBillable Hours App for iOS and Android. Continue reading “Manage your Billable Hours with a Simple must-have Mobile app” »

Having a mobile app for your business today is essential.  Websites are no longer enough. Mobile devices are more popular now than PCs, and are more frequently used. People simply spend most of their time using smartphones and tablet rather than sitting at their laptops and computers. That is why a mobile application can make a big difference to your business and having it is important. Mobile mobile business apps can increase customer engagement, help to promote specific products and services, provide better customer service and more. But how can a business app be created quickly and affordably for businesses of any size? Continue reading “Visual app creation as the fastest and the easiest way of getting fully functional mobile apps” »

Congratulations! Apple has accepted your app and now it is live in the AppStore. Now you just sit there and wait for downloads?

Don’t expect to suddenly see thousands of downloads. That, unfortunately, very rarely happens unless you promote your app. Here’s a check list to help you get the word out to potential users. Continue reading “10 Tips to Market your Live App” »