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The Importance of Measuring ROI for your Mobile App

0000Mobile apps have become the main focus of many businesses, from restaurants to the construction industry. Aside from the aesthetics, apps can work as a tool to streamline all facets of the businesses, helping them improve production exponentially. Traditionally, the cost of creating apps is very expensive, so it is difficult to retain a high ROI in the field.

Definition of ROI

Return of investment, according to Wikipedia, is the financial benefit an investor receives from a particular investment. ROI is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment, or to compare its profit to other investments. In the business apps world, measuring the ROI can help to increase such metrics as customer value, customer engagement and retention, audience engagement – the list goes on.

Measuring ROI in business apps

For a quick overview of the ROI for a certain product, one can use the development costs and the key performance indicator (KPI). KPI is a type of performance measurement. It is usually evaluated by measuring the success of a certain product, but this can differ across organizations. Some examples of metrics used in KPI are customer loyalty, the amount of defects and net revenue. Comparing the KPI and the development costs will give you a good idea on how effective your product has been in the market. Also there are multiple equations for mobile app ROI measurement. You can find some of them here.

Success does not have to include a lot of expenses. Snappii, a codeless app development company, allows anyone to create powerful mobile apps for a fraction of what it would take to hire a team of developers. Now, you can provide your business with a mobile solution that does not require coding or deployment. Snappii puts the power in the hands of the user, and enables them to make a complete business application in as little as a few hours, so they can see an improvement in their business in days. And we are sure that ROI of Snappii apps will be high. Try it right now!

 

3 Reasons for the DIY Approach in Mobile App Development

000Not long ago, custom mobile business apps were available only for large companies able to spend thousands of dollars to hire a team of app developers and designers. Some entrepreneurs still choose this path to mobile app development; others, having discovered codeless app development, build high quality mobile apps themselves, thus saving thousands of dollars and time. In fact, today any business owner can see how app development has advanced and become an active participant of this process. The DIY approach has firmly entrenched in the mobile app industry, and here are several reasons why it is here to stay.

No Programming Required

The creation of mobile apps is not just for programmers anymore. With a special online app development platform, robust but intuitive interface, ready-made templates, and a drag-and-drop editor, this process can be mastered even by a student. For instance, the Snappii codeless app development platform has been recently used by the University of Southern California in a class to teach students to design, create and deploy mobile apps without programming.

Flexibility and Agility

With the DIY approach, you have total flexibility and control over your app development, can instantly adjust it to the ever-evolving market, and are able to make necessary changes at any stage of the development, like adding more features or changing its design. For example, using the Snappii codeless app development platform, you can create an app in a powerful WYSYWYG editor and instantly see your ready-made product in the Preview App right on your mobile device.

Thousands of Dollars Saved

Keeping costs down without compromising quality is a common challenge for any business owner. In the app development sphere, it can be easily achieved by employing the DIY approach. Snappii offers its users a 15-day-free trial for app creation and charges a reasonable fee only when your app is ready to be published.

Not convinced yet? Try Snapppii’s unique codeless app development for free today and see for yourself.

Improving Business Efficiency through Inspection Apps

Improving Business Efficiency through Inspection AppsAny company has a thousand of things to worry about daily, while growing competition is pushing them to produce better products and increase efficiency, thus lowering costs and reducing downtime. Business mobile apps are designed to assist them in these by simplifying and accelerating their operations and offering flexibility. One example of how enterprise mobile apps can be successfully utilized is when conducting inspections.

More Efficiency, Less Downtime

Usually carrying out inspections is associated with stacks of paperwork and constant trips between the office and inspection sites. Mobile inspection apps eliminate this excessive paper use and make the inspection process more convenient and efficient. Let us to show the real benefits of mobile solutions by providing a few examples of Snappii’s inspection apps.

If your company deals with any equipment, which requires periodic inspections, Quality Inspection App, Construction Equipment Inspection App and Heavy Equipment Inspection App, will significantly increase its lifespan and reduce downtime. Moreover, our inspection apps are particularly useful in data collection and management, allowing inspectors to easily collect all details while in the field, instantly create reports, and then share them or print them out. All the collected information will always be accessible on your smartphone or tablet and can be edited or deleted at any time.  The apps also include notification tabs and discussion forums for better communication of employees. Last but not least, a lack of Internet is not a problem for these inspection apps as they can work offline as well.

Build the App You Need Yourself

What makes Snappii’s inspection apps particularly special is their 100% customization. Each of the apps can be configured for your company and, in this case, you act as a real app developer. You can make necessary changes yourself by using Snappii’s extremely simple codeless app editor or by ordering customization.

When you are using Snappii’s inspection apps, you get:

– Increased productivity;

– Responsiveness;

– Improved work quality;

– Accelerated processes;

– Advanced operations.

Visit Snappii’s webpage and start enjoying all these benefits now!

Make a Fortune with Your App Business

2016-05-20-roman-drits-barnimages-006-300x200“The average iPhone owner in the US spent $35 on apps last year,” according to Sensor Tower, an app marketing company. Developer Economics survey has shown that “43% of enterprise app developers make more than $10K per month”.  When you read the success stories of such app developing companies as Seriously, Grail, Evernote and Smule, you realize that everyone can build a unique mobile app which thousands of app users will rave about. You don’t have a large team or budget to start off.  Thus, for instance, Seriously launched Best Friends with only 11 people and a very small marketing budget. The company behind the phenomenal CARROT apps is even smaller: it is actually just one self-taught man, Brian Mueller.

What unites all these leading app developers is honesty, focus on the users’ needs, perfecting every feature they offer, never stopping to learn from their learners, and a creative approach to social media marketing.

– “I think if you’re honest with people and you explain it well, they’re going to be more than happy to pay that fee if there’s a good reason for it,” explains Brian Mueller his pricing philosophy.

– “How do you get users to stay around longer?” asks Jeannie Yang, Chief Product and Design Officer at Smule. “You build a better product. Build better features. Build more reasons for them to come back.”

– “The game launched with only 11 people and a small marketing budget. We only had 80 levels at launch, so we focused on doing a few things really, really well,” says Matt McMahon, Vice President of Business Development at Seriously.

– “What is most important is your attitude — to learn from the users, learn from the culture, learn from the market. That will be the source of love for your product, “ strongly believes Hitoshi Hokamura, Special Advisor to the CEO at Evernote.

– “We want the community to be the Chief Marketing Officer for our brand,” says Phil Hickey, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Seriously. The company constantly interacts with its users and invites followers to vote on characters or levels they would like to see in the game in the future.

Another thing that all these companies have in common is that they paid thousands of dollars to programmers to build their products. However, you don’t have to. With Snappii, a unique mobile business app development company that provides both a codeless cloud-based platform for rapid app creation and a great collection of powerful and feature-rich white label solutions, you can start building and selling killer mobile apps in a matter of days.

We offer:

– Simple but powerful codeless app building platform,

– Steller customer support,

– Very attractive price.

Among Snappii’s partners are such successful companies as GE, Allianz, Driscoll’s, Hyster, NationaLease. Please visit our partners’ page for more details or contact us at support@snappii.com.

How QR Codes Can Benefit Your Business

How QR Codes Can Benefit Your BusinessQR codes are two dimensional quick response codes that can be scanned by smartphone cameras to instantly pull up text, photos, videos, URLs, etc. Such codes can contain a huge amount of information, which makes them quite popular all over the world. Nowadays many businesses use QR codes as a means of marketing. “QR codes demonstrate just one of the ways in which mobile marketing can effectively be integrated into existing media and marketing campaigns to help reach desired consumer segments,” says Mark Donovan, the Chief Marketing Officer at comScore, Inc.

Scanning a QR code can trigger a range of actions, such as connecting to a website, downloading an app, sending a message or email, adding contact info, and direct purchasing. Here are additional ways to utilize QR codes in your business.

QR Codes to Promote Your Business

We all know that to make things easier for your customers means to show concern for them. When placing a QR code on your business card, you give them a quick and ingenious way to reach your website or mobile app with the click of a button, thus saving them time and improving their overall experience.  However, it’s important to remember that QR codes are scanned by smartphones, so whatever you link your QR code to should be optimized for mobile devices.

QR Codes as a Call to Action

QR codes can be used for quick and convenient registrations, sending emails, booking, mobile payments, etc. For example, people can find a QR code at the Pizza Hut website and instantly download its app, thus avoiding visiting the Google Play or Apple App Store.

QR Codes for Data Analysis

You can track the number of people who have scanned your QR code to identify potential customers and modify your business strategies.

Snappii, a rapid mobile business app development company, offers Snappii QR and Bar Code Scanner App, which can become an indispensable tool for both businesses usage and personal needs. It is an ideal app for scanning QR and Bar codes at any time and from anywhere. Moreover, most Snappii’s business apps have the QR code scanning feature. Please visit our website and learn more about various mobile solutions for your business.

Free Webinar. How to Convert a Paper Form to a Mobile App in 10 minutes

Free webinar. mobile formsFree Webinar. Thu, May 26, 2016 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT. Join here

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All attendees to the Webinar will get a FREE help from our Support team to help you build convert your first form into an App!

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Paper forms are

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– Require retyping of data into computers. Double entry

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Snappii Announces 8 Brand New and Customizable Transportation and Logistics Apps at No Cost

Snappii Announces 8 Brand New and Customizable Transportation and Logistics Apps at No CostTransportation and logistics companies were among the first who started using mobile devices in their business. Now every transportation and logistics company can afford to use unique Mobile Apps to save time, improve customer service and make any operation more effective. Snappii offers powerful feature-rich apps for multiple operations. Continue reading “Snappii Announces 8 Brand New and Customizable Transportation and Logistics Apps at No Cost” »

Gartner Predictions about New IoT-Centric Solutions

Gartner Predictions about New IoT-Centric SolutionsMobile apps are now one of the leading tools enabling modern businesses to improve internal operations, venture into new markets and provide new revenue streams. That being said, the app development industry doesn’t stand still and regularly offers innovative business apps and enhanced processes for the creation of even more advanced enterprise apps.

New Gartner’s Prediction

The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) and utilization of Platform as a service (PaaS) have induced the research firm Gartner to make a prediction that “by 2020, more than 50% of all new applications developed on PaaS will be IoT-centric, disrupting conventional architecture practices”.

“IoT adoption will drive additional use of PaaS to implement IoT-centric business applications built around event-driven architecture and IoT data, instead of business applications built around traditional master data, “said Benoit Lheureux, a Research VP at Gartner. “New IoT-centric business applications will drive a transformation in application design practices that focus on real-time contextually rich decisions, event-analysis, lightweight workflow, and broad access to Web-scale data”.

IoT-Centric Solutions

Lheureux explained that “most new IoT-centric solutions will be implemented on IoT platforms, a form of multifunctional comprehensive PaaS that is a hybrid, architecturally coherent integration of application platform as a service (aPaaS), integration platform as a service (iPaaS), IoT device management, orchestration and business process management services as a platform (bpmPaaS), database PaaS (dbPaaS) and analytic services”.

Advanced Container Services

Gartner also predicts, “Through 2018, more than 70% of IT organizations planning a private PaaS will deploy a container service (rather than PaaS framework software). Instead of constructing a private PaaS using a PaaS framework, many organizations adopt a container service. An advanced container service provides subscribers with self-service access to container-based infrastructure. It hosts, orchestrates, schedules, scales and ensures the reliability of containers. It may also provide other capabilities, such as monitoring, load balancing and securing container communications”.

You can find more detailed information in Gartner’s report “Predicts 2016: PaaS Innovation Continues Unabated”. Also, you might be interested in attending the Gartner Application, Architecture, Development & Integration Summits of 2016, which will be held on May 23 and 24 in London and July 25 and 26 in Sydney, to learn more about the challenges around postmodern application integration.


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