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What is mobile app development, anyway?!

Mobile application development = processes and procedures involved in writing software for portable computing devices like smartphones, tablets and watches.

The demand of mobile apps has escalated in all businesses. To keep businesses updated with the latest technologies, we become your accelerator to design and develop brilliant mobile apps from the ideas you have been sitting with. We offer mobile app development services for iPhone, iPad and Android.

These devices have literally become extensions of us in a large way. Our devices are being used more and more over our own desktop and laptop computers; we'd prefer to begin the work or finish the work on our devices while it is still fresh on our minds. Share on X It’s even more common to own a smartphone than a desktop or laptop computer.

More people have access to mobile apps

mobile-app-development-growthMobile technology and consumer habits are paving a new and exciting way to reach your customers. The possibilities are endless with the only limit being your creativity. Brands are able to reach customers through authentic communication that provides value and builds trust, rather than through a giant billboard in their face. For the most popular social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, 80% of their most active users will primarily use mobile to connect.

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Because of mobile app development,

  • 61% of emails are opened on mobile
  • 90% of text messages received are read within three minutes of receipt. These messages could be appointment reminders, promotions, or time-sensitive updates.
  • Mobile users are also 3x as likely to view a video than a desktop user
  • With an app, a customer has the ability to spend more time with your brand
  • About 49% percent of mobile users said push notifications cause them to use an app more

With all of this progression happening in the mobile technology, mobile is changing the marketing game! So what’s holding you back from getting a mobile app for your business?

3 Types of Mobile Apps

There are different types of mobile apps. Three types of apps to be exact!

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Native apps are normally what you think about when you think about apps. They are available in app stores to install on your devices. They do not fully rely on web viewers built within the app to work. The cost is generally higher than a hybrid or web app starting at $8000 per platform. They are much like the familiar apps you are usually working with on your phone like the camera app the calendar app, the notes apps, the map app, Waze, or Pokeman Go.

Hybrid apps are like the native app + web app had a baby = hybrid app! It’s installed like a native app from the app stores, but it’s mostly web app inside which means it relies on a web viewer built within the app to work with some of the features. You still have access to the device’s features just as a native app. The cost generally starting at $3000 per platform. These apps are great to use for MVP (minimum viable product) for startups and if your goal is to put something usable into your users’ hands as quickly as possible. This option is also great if you’re short on resources or maintaining a minimal business budget, and if you need to create a simple version of your product that still provides value. The hybrid apps allow you to see whether people will download and use an app on their device; which makes it a great option to use before upgrading to a native app. Examples of hybrid apps are Evernote, Gmail, or Uber.

Web apps are typically responsive websites. They are not installed in the app stores. These apps are accessed through your device’s web browser. They totally rely on access to the internet in order to work. Progressive web apps are currently on a rise. We will talk more about this in later posts. Examples are Lancome, Twitter Mobile, Washington Post, and our favorite Paperplanes.world.

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Can Mobile App Development Help Your Business?

Well, that’s a resounding YES! There are many larger companies that have all 3 types of mobile apps such as Walmart, Facebook, Twitter, to be sure to accommodate all of their users. Owning a mobile app all depends on how you’d like to market your business, how you’d like to help others, or how you’d like to entertain others. Our goal is to help your businesses grow through affordable mobile apps and mobile marketing with our mobile app development services! Give it some thought and grow with technology. Contact us today to see how your idea can come to life!

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We design and develop brilliant mobile apps from the ideas you have been sitting with. We offer mobile app development services for iOS and Android. Read more: http://virtualpea.com/what-mobile-app-development/

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Imagery is the secret to having captivating social media marketing, and FREE stock photos can certainly help in getting started. There are some pretty hefty price tags on some of the images you’d love to use for digitally marketing your business.

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We put together a list that can help you with this. Below is a list of sites that provide free stock photos which includes images, vectors, audio clips and videos. Some of these we actually use for our clients (along with the hefty price tag ones). We have a list of free images as well as really inexpensive images that can help:

Pixabay

Pixabay offers free images, vectors and videos!


PicJumbo


PicJumbo has lots of great photos you can add to any blog or social media post.


Unsplash


Unsplash also provide great free stock photos. Heck, if you’re a photographer or want to show off some of the photos you’ve taken, you can upload your photos to their site of community photographers that so graciously bless us with great art!


Pexels

Pexels another good one that has great, unique photos! We love it for great styles and pizazz!


Our partners also come with inexpensive images that are great to use. Any of our clients that purchase our services get these items at no cost as it’s already included in the service we provide. If you are not one of our clients and would like to purchase from any of these sites, please feel free to click and purchase at very reasonable rates. There are great sources here such as:

Creative Market


Creative Market comes with a plethora of goodies including great ideas.


Adobe Stock Photos


Adobe Stock Photos (formerly Fotolia) has a few plans and pricing with tons of options to choose from.
They even give free stock images too!



We hope this list is a helpful tool in your business journey. We love sharing resources that have supported us in helping our clients’ businesses reach its full potential. Set aside time to go through each of these and find just the right image, photo, video, and/or audio you may need to help you with your digital marketing. If you find that you just don’t have the time or this task is consuming a lot of time that you can use for other areas of your business, you can always count on us to help you out. Just let us know and we’re here to help!

 

 

 

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Voiceovers for anything you need. From children voices to a voice for a thriller movie. We can put some things together for you as your virtual assistants.

Let us know how we can help!

We sound it out for you to enjoy.

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One of the best ways to stay focused in growing your company by attracting more clients, making sales and growing profits is by keeping your business organized with the help of a virtual assistant. Having a virtual assistant that can help you with tasks is great! It’s deciding which tasks to outsource to your virtual assistant that can be a task especially when you’re just in the middle of starting and growing your business. Here are a few tasks you to look over to help you map out your week/day/month:

1. Web Development and Landing Pages Creation

Your website is the first thing that helps visitors build an impression on the nature of your business. It’s important to have a place where people can sign up to join your mailing list or get your products/services. With the help of a virtual assistant, you can take back your time so you can keep creating irresistible offers.

2. Email Management

Sometimes, it becomes a task to manage large volumes of emails that you receive in your inbox. You probably have newsletters and coupons and marketing emails coming in every day along with all your important business email. Sure, you could organize it yourself, but there’s SO MUCH. Virtual Assistants (VA) are pros at organization, so this is a job that’s perfect for us. A VA can come to your rescue by organizing your email, i.e. answering your mails on your behalf, checking promotional messages and deleting spam mails effectively.

3. Email Marketing

Your email list consists of a bunch of people that have signed up so they could hear more of your wisdom or grab lots of your goodies. These are also a bunch of potential customers! It’s important to send emails consistently to your list so they can remember you and why they signed up. A VA format and send those emails for you.

4. Opt-In Creation

Remember that email list you’re building? You also have to convince perfect strangers that you’re worth hearing more from. The best way to do this is to have an irresistible offer like a freebie or a lead magnet – mostly called an Opt-In! Your VA can totally handle putting together an opt-in for you. Outsourcing this to a VA can save you lots of time and stress.

5. Blog Post Content Creation with Editing

Blogging helps with SEO, it lets your customers learn your voice and it gives you great content to post on all your social media channels. This takes a LOT of time, especially if you’re not a natural writer. Depending on your relationship with your VA, you can take back a lot of time by letting your VA ghostwrite as well as edit your posts. You can even have them schedule them to post on your blog, including adding graphics and optimizing them for search engines.

6. Search Engine Optimization

It is the process of drawing in more traffic to your site from the search engine through search results. A VA would search the relevant keywords for your articles and blog content, and perform periodic assessment on the search engine analytics to send you a comprehensive report status of your business.

7. Video Editing

Yeah, if you played around enough in iMovie, you could probably figure it out. But why waste your time? You are already bringing the value in the content of the video. Let someone else take care of the editing.

8. Social Media Content Creation and Scheduling

This task may seem easy and quick, right?! Well, it is! And when you have to post all the time for your business, it adds up fast. Creating content such as finding or making graphics, figuring out what to actually post, compiling and sharing links, along with scheduling everything which includes making sure that you have actual content to share, organizing it in a way that makes sense and fits your brand, and making sure it’s posting at a time where it will reach your audience. Do that for just once social network and it can take a great bit of time. Do it for more than one social network and say ba-bye to a full afternoon. You don’t need that nonsense in your life! Give it to us! A VA can handle these tasks efficiently freeing up more time for you to handle your business.

9. Online Course Setup + Maintenance

Having an online course is a lot of work up front, yet a great way to bring in passive income. If you have content you want to share, your VA can help polish it up and make it ready for whatever platform you’ll be using to sell your course. The process of setting up a course can suck time right out of your schedule. From creating slides from the videos, making worksheets and workbooks for each lesson, editing the videos, stripping out the audio, and then uploading and organizing everything– this will be an excessive amount of work for our client! By outsourcing to us, you are able to focus on creating more content for the course!

10. Research

Facts make your information credible. If you need help scouring the internet for an upcoming blog post or an ebook or anything you’re researching, hand it over to your trusty VA. Sure you might be able to do this one yourself, but imagine how many more things you could get done if you didn’t have to worry about the possibility of falling down an internet hole? Conducting online research can be extremely time-consuming. Outsource the research work to your VA who would look for any kind of information on the web for you. Don’t forget to share the important credentials, such as ids, passwords etc., along with specific instructions to get the best of their assistance.

There are many more tasks you can outsource to virtual assistants such as online marketing, app development, data presentations, bookkeeping, and much more. We provide VAs that specialize in different areas and work together to accomplish tasks. Once you let us know what you need, we get busy getting it done. Partner with a group of our VAs and take your business to the next level of success. Connect with us today!

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