Are Mobile Phone Replacing Landlines for Businesses?
Landline phone invention dated way back in the 18th century as opposed to the first Motorola mobile phone invention in 1973 so this is like 107 years later. With this information being established, we can see that businesses in those days relied heavily on landline business phones for back and forth communication with their Customers, Clients, Suppliers, Business Partners and the list goes on.As I write this article, it begs the question, What other means of urgent contact were there to get in touch with your suppliers or customers if they were not present to take your calls on the other end? Bearing in mind, the first mobile phone came in over a hundred years later. You might ask, What about an email? But then from research, the first 'text' was sent from a computer system to another computer system beside it, in 1971. I would suppose that not having alternative means of communication in those days, possibly resulted in loss of revenues not only for your business but also for your suppliers business and probably loss of local customers.
So, then as years went by, we have seen vast improvements in technology as it relates to communication. Most if not all of us have been partakers of these technologies over the years. In my humble opinion, I don't think that cell phones are replacing landline phones for businesses, I think that we have to look at a landline phone and a mobile phone in terms of their LIMITATIONS and CAPABILITIES. In so doing, we can decide which one is more appropriate in a given situation.
For a business owner operating his business, he would want to ensure that he can get in touch with his Suppliers in a timely matter and so he wants to utilise all communication means necessary for the effective running of his business. He does not want to know that his customers are turned away from his business because he could not get in touch with his suppliers. This would be loss of revenues for his business and possibly loss of customers.
A landline phone is not so much a portable tool and so, that's one of its limitations. He will now have to invest in a mobile phone which is a portable tool, therefore he will be able to make contact wherever he is. With all of this being said, in the early days of mobile phone design, my thinking was that its only purpose was to make calls and receive calls. I was really thinking wrong.
We are seeing the power of technology being played out in this piece of communication tool as we enter the 21st century. The capabilities of mobile phones today outweighs that of a landline phone. A mobile phone with its applications and features today have now become a massive piece of marketing tool for any business today, but as I have said earlier, they both have their appropriate place in any Organisation and I believe this will be the case for years to come.
Businesses locally and globally have seen and realise the power of this piece of technology (Mobile Phone). Hence, apps on mobile phones have become a powerful marketing tool for any business. This can increase foot traffic to the business, increase the revenue stream of the business, provide customer loyalty and much more. So, what's the importance of mobile phones in businesses?
Mobile Applications for businesses
Millions of mobile apps are now on the google play store and apple store whether for free or at a cost.Millions of customers and potential customers now own a mobile phone and are browsing and downloading millions of apps daily. Business owners would want to ensure that their businesses are in the hands of customers and so it make sense to invest in mobile applications for businesses. Mobile apps are used for different purposes, we use apps for;
- Weight loss
- Fitness
- Recipes
- Banking
- Real Estates
- Schools
- Churches
The cool thing about this app building process is that anyone can now build mobile apps.
You might ask, How is this possible? We may think that we need to have years of programming experience before we can take on the challenge of designing and building mobile applications. Well, the truth is, you do not necessarily have to be a programmer or simply having any CODING SKILLS to start building apps.
Developers have realised that app building does not have to be a difficult and tedious process and so they have come up with the clever idea of inventing a system or tool which one could use to build mobile applications with NO CODING SKILLS. This I believe is quite amazing because it allows people like myself who want to enter the mobile app business, to do so without the worry of no programming background. The images below are three (3) pre made templates that anyone with a little computer experience can customise and turn them in money making apps for businesses.
HOW DO WE BUILD MOBILE APPS WITHOUT WRITING CODES?
With the help of a DRAG and DROP app builder interface, app building have been made easy. The image below is a snapshot of the Apptitecture Mobile App Builder Interface, this is a very interactive and responsive platform with a number of pre made templates and loads of Features made available to integrate into our apps simple by the drag and drop process. This is really cool. Probably it would take you hours of coding to design and build your apps with all these features, but with the drag and drop process, life has been made easy. Thanks to our developers. Not only are these platforms being used by people without coding experience, great app developers are also utilising this method.
A lot of time and energy is saved using this drag and drop method. Below, is an app I developed for my Family using the My Apptitecture App builder Platform. This app was built in less than hour. The amazing thing about this process is that you are able to see your apps as you build them via an Emulator. Using codes to build this app would surely take an hour or more. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that coding knowledge is unnecessary or is not worth having, but if you are enthusiastic about app building and want to inter this business industry, this is the way to go.
I am Leonard Henry the Founder and C.E.O. of Apptitecture Mobile App Design Solutions. We design and build mobile apps for businesses globally . We also offer business Opportunity to Innovative Entrepreneurs who want to start their own mobile app business with no coding experience. Visit us at: https://www.myapptitecture.com for more information.
