Creating a mobile app for your business can improve your marketing reach, and provide a unique channel for attracting new customers or engaging with existing customers.
A mobile website is a great way to start a relationship with a customer, and an app can deepen existing relationships. Mobile apps give you unique options to engage with existing customers, as well as providing a personalized experience.
Customized user experiences start with hardware features native to phones and tablets. While it’s true that HTML5 has come a long way, making it much easier to deliver unique experiences, websites can’t track user behavior as well as an app can.
As mobile apps become easier to create and maintain though, many businesses are combining a mobile-friendly website with a mobile app. This combination can give you the best chance to expand your reach to new customers, as well as delivering a unique experience and customized content, deals, and information to your most loyal customers.
A common use case is to add language to your website, prompting visitors to download your mobile app. This gives you an excellent channel for reaching out to people, contacting them immediately via push notifications, as well as taking advantage of the capabilities of a mobile app.
Every company in every business sphere must make its own choice depending on its business strategy, marketing goals, and brand positioning. The choice is not about picking one of the two, but rather about finding the right solution that will provide the best results for your business.
So, in conclusion, you do not have to choose between an app and a website. An effective mobile strategy can reasonably include both a mobile website and an app.
Today, most, if not all websites are ‘responsive’ (i.e can adapt to any type/size of device), making it a mobile website. Here’s a quick overview of how a website compares to an app.
A mobile website can be easier for people to find when searching online. From a business perspective, a website is less difficult to create and update, as well. You don’t need separate versions of your website for iOS and Android, either.
App stores are constantly improving search functionality to make new apps easier to discover, but the app stores aren’t as accessible as the web. A mobile application requires developing a separate version for each operating system and device type.
Websites still give smaller companies a better chance to be seen than a mobile app. Think about it. The last time you wanted to search online for accessories or a product you needed, did you go to Google (a website) or did you go to Play Store or the App Store?
Creating a mobile app for your business can improve your marketing reach, and provide a unique channel for attracting new customers or engaging with existing customers.
A mobile website is a great way to start a relationship with a customer, and an app can deepen existing relationships. Mobile apps give you unique options to engage with existing customers, as well as providing a personalized experience.
Customized user experiences start with hardware features native to phones and tablets. While it’s true that HTML5 has come a long way, making it much easier to deliver unique experiences, websites can’t track user behavior as well as an app can.
As mobile apps become easier to create and maintain though, many businesses are combining a mobile-friendly website with a mobile app. This combination can give you the best chance to expand your reach to new customers, as well as delivering a unique experience and customized content, deals, and information to your most loyal customers.
A common use case is to add language to your website, prompting visitors to download your mobile app. This gives you an excellent channel for reaching out to people, contacting them immediately via push notifications, as well as taking advantage of the capabilities of a mobile app.
Every company in every business sphere must make its own choice depending on its business strategy, marketing goals, and brand positioning. The choice is not about picking one of the two, but rather about finding the right solution that will provide the best results for your business.
So, in conclusion, you do not have to choose between an app and a website. An effective mobile strategy can reasonably include both a mobile website and an app.