As consumers spend most of their time engaging in online shopping apps, scheduling business appointments and playing online games on the mobile phones, business owners have tapped into this bandwagon to develop apps tailored to their customer needs. This is a smart move by businesses especially in the 21st century where virtually everything is reliant on social media networking. In the last decade, mobile apps are enhancing business to business (B2B) and business to customer (B2C) collaborations. It is the age that e-commerce is inevitable for every entity that seeks to connect with its customers and trading partners alike. In this context, the business is seeking to assess the suitability of creating an app for its customers to use. This …show more content…
In modern-day B2B apps, there is heightened focus on core functionalities as compared to design. Unlike B2C apps, business to business apps will be utilized mostly by professionals who are in search of solutions for the company. On such requirement of B2B apps is a stellar user experience which entails fast loading and minimal lag time. The efficiency with which the user can access information is what differentiates a user-friendly app from a non-user friendly one. Thus, it is important for Company X to focus on a high-end mobile app that solves customers’ needs on the spot with minimal or no delays. This is because such delays constitute to loss of business and may tarnish the reputation of the company. Another key requirement is the visual presentation of the app which revolves around the graphical user interface. It is important that the company cover all the aspects of the project and any changes that it may elicit in the course of software engineering (D. and K., 2012). The study covers objectives and additional methods that highlight the requirements of Company X in the development and creation of the B2B mobile application. The total of all these activities will involve the input of various functional areas will form the backbone of the study. Moreover, it is of fundamental importance to borrow from past case studies on software project management to understand the gravity of the process. Objective 1: Evaluation of
We understand the importance of technology and social media in the operations of business and how technology can be an aid in our business operations. We plan on focusing our attention on sites like Facebook, Instagram, and other social media outlets to advertise our business which will provide the customer with daily information on specials as well as access to coupon programs we provide. Using social media will provide an outlet for our customers to provide reviews and feedback on our business. Many people feel that bad reviews can hurt a business; we feel that bad reviews provide an opportunity for us to make a new friend and change a process which may harm our business with future guests. Two brothers would also like to develop a smartphone application for iOS and Android which we find is also lacking with many businesses in the Wenatchee valley. This application will also provide instant access to our business as well as letting us track our market. As far as marketing outside of social media we plan to brand our image using items like car clings, bumper stickers, clothing, and sponsorship of local
app to certain business clients that will use it to facilitate their customers’ transactions. It is
First, let 's start by distinguish between what a B2B company is and what a B2C company is. The definition of a business-to-business is when businesses sell products or services
For a long time now, mobile apps have remained a mysterious place for online marketers. However, using mobile apps require that marketers re-educate themselves if they are to become successful and gain popularity in the marketplace.
E-commerce is the stores that provide service for customers via online. It sells a variety of products such as foods, drinks, and many others. It has different sectors which have many classes of businesses. For example online supermarkets are starting to grow today. Previously, have the physical stores or traditional stores but they build an e-commerce now. When e-commerce is becoming popular, they start to do it to get more profit. This essay will examine and evaluate how e-commerce has altered business practices in supermarket, including e-commerce grows very fast, profitable business and convenience for customers, enjoyable and comfortable to shop, and detail information in the e-commerce websites. It also will argue and evaluate the main tactics to increase the profit of internet trading, are convenience delivery home, having good marketing, and providing electronic transaction and good electronic assistance.
Smartphone penetration is contributing towards the growth of the industry. People with smartphones represent 25% of the global population. As these devices become more accessible, we are likely to see mobile apps expand tremendously. By leveraging smartphones, companies can engage their customers with a better shopping experience.
Social media has developed itself to be the most reliable source for application developers trying to advertise their apps to a wide variety of audience. Sites like Facebook and twitter provides developers the opportunity irrespective of its size or finances to build a wide audience of potential buyers through the technique of marketing. With the present state of competition in the app market, the social media has become the most reliable tool to advertise your iPhone apps as other old approaches of advertising are becoming obsolete, this is because its patronage is low. Such approach will be unsuccessful without a high financial input needed to advertise to reach potential buyers.
Mobile app development doesn 't just enhance sales but also creates new frontiers for eCommerce such as monetizing faster deliveries and other special logistics services, making it easier for global customers to shop and order in their native languages and changing how people browse and shop by optimizing searches through deep links that are embedded within the apps. Even regular retailers throughout the global community are now exploring the benefits of marketing B2B products, so eCommerce companies face performance pressures from constantly evolving business threats and customer buying behaviors that are often defined by loyalties to their mobile devices and favorite mobile
As a Project manager it is critical to be on the forefront of technological changes and opportunities that will improve project procurements. The opportunity to reduce cost and improve the speed and accuracy of procurement can be found in Electronic Procurements (E-Procurement). The chance to reduce cost is very tempting; however, the risk associated with the opportunity must be considered as well. Project managers have an opportunity to conduct a procurement analysis, which takes a closer look at the advantages and challenges of this new method. “What we now call E-Business arose through the proliferation of the internet as a platform for inter-organizational systems (IOS) in the late 1990s and has had a particularly significant impact
Kootenay Pottery Co. is a small business that started as a one-person operation in a home. The company makes unique, handcrafted, functional pottery items. Now the business is growing and the company started to use a process called ‘Slip casting’. Now they can produce up to 100 items per day. The equipment are really expensive. The items are sold at good price and they also have small number of customers around the world. So as a growing company, marketing is really an important factor for the business and in today’s world E-commerce is the best option to adopt for the marketing.
The interest for access to business data and applications through versatile innovations, for example, the Apple iPhone and iPad, gadgets running Google Android and Windows 7 Mobile or utilizing RIM Blackberry is surging as customer inclination and conduct overflow into the business workforce. The enormous development of reception of these innovations around the globe has numerous business chiefs thinking about how to viably position their organizations to profit from the pattern. The drive for portability is a piece of the business innovation plan for most organizations today. Clearly, then again, in a business instead of individual setting, more sorts and unpredictability of data are required, running
Marketing - getting the apps to work with the market’s distribution and making the consumer sharing ability across the board is ease and successful.
This project involved creating, marketing and managing an app idea which could be developed for the consumer. The goal was to show our lecturers that the idea concocted by each group could be made into a popular and useful app for a target market. This was
With the increasing role and the steady advance of technology throughout the recent decades, the use mobile devices as smartphones and tablets have widespread among people, and their boom continues to skyrocket around the world. Those little squares (Apps) on our smartphones, bring us new possibilities for streamlining various facets of our lives as well as a new way to develop businesses. Nevertheless, some doubt could arise among users regarding the creation process of mobile Apps; this paper outlines and unwraps the general steps (Idea, strategy, design and development) involved in the development process of mobile Applications in a direct and digestible way.
Currently mobile apps are directly helping the retail brands in boosting their sales through serving huge number of prospective customers. Groupon, Amazon, eBay, etc like big names of web are the most beneficial businesses who gained so much through releasing their own mobile apps. iOS App Store and Google Play are the prominent channels for app distribution.