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Thursday January 19, 2012
Free Seminar: Take Your Business Website Mobile
Elbee Foote, CalvertNews.info Staff Reporter

Come learn strategies and best practices for taking your website mobile.  This seminar will include a live demonstration of linkblots and how it can benefit your business as an affordable, low cost entry point into mobile marketing.

The Calvert County Chamber of Commerce will provide a free seminar on how and why to take your business mobile on Friday, February 24 at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Prince Frederick at 11AM.  Space is limited.  Please call the Chamber at 410-535-2577 to pre-register.
 

The seminar will be lead by Envidient, Inc., the makers of the linkblots - a QR code and mobile web marketing platform based in Dunkirk, MD.  linkblots has achieved considerable exposure in the mobile marketing industry and boasts an international customer base.

Your customers are already mobile. Are you?  By 2013 more people will use mobile phones than PCs to get online. Mobile searches have quadrupled since 2010. There will be one mobile device for every person on earth by 2015.

Users expect their mobile experience to be as good as their desktop experience. Just because you can see your website on a mobile phone doesn’t mean it’s mobile-friendly.  Mobile-friendly sites are designed with the needs of mobile user in mind. 60% of users expect a mobile site to load in three seconds or less. 71% of users expect a mobile site to load as fast as a desktop site. 78% will retry a site two times or less if it does not load initially.

A bad mobile experience can cost you customers. 57% would not recommend a business with a bad mobile site. 40% have turned to a competitor’s site after a bad mobile experience. 23% of adults have cursed at their phone when a site doesn’t work.

Customers are connecting with the businesses in their local area on mobile.  95% of smartphone users have searched for local information.  61% of users call a business after searching and 59% visit the location.  90% of these people act within 24 hours.

Businesses like yours can drive purchases with a mobile friendly site.  70% have compared product prices on their cell phones.  65% Have read product reviews on their phones.  50% of mobile searches lead to purchases.

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