Currently we are developing Resporter. Resporter is a new social media platform for football players playing at an amateur level. The Resporter platform has an online website and a mobile app.

Players and fans can post comments and pictures during the match. Also actions like yellow cards and goals can be added during the match. Members of Resporter can follow teams, clubs, players and competitions to stay up to date about everything that is going on around the football fields.

Resporter connects to Twitter and Facebook to make an easy integration possible and to keep Twitter and Facebook friends up-to-date. Whenever a player scores a goal, the goal is already mentioned on the players Facebook before the players leaves the football field. 

Resporter is currently focusing on the 1 million amateur football players in the Netherlands, but aims at expanding to other sports and/or countries within a short time span. 

This week, IntoApps will start a pilot of its new product: FashionWall. FashionWall allows retailers to display its collection on in-store screens or in the shopping window. Using a mobile app or website, visitors of the store and by-passers can instantly order products from the webshop. This integrates the bricks and clicks world, and allows the retailer to turn the store into a real life webshop after closing hours. Also, FashionWall makes store windows social by displaying social media messages and likes, resulting in more online attention for the brands and the collection. Not only can people interact using a mobile phone, through the use of Kinect it is possible to swype through the products by using hand gestures. 

Tomorrow, FashionWall will start a pilot in the city center of Tilburg. Shortly afterwards we will start enrolling this new innovation among large scale retailers and brands. 

FashionWall is a new product innovation based on the previous product LiveWall. LiveWall is a tool to display social media content on screens during events or as a narrowcasting solution. LiveWall is used by large B2C companies like RedBull, Nokia etc, but also for B2B purposes like for ABN AMRO, Rabobank and for example Deloitte.

Next monday PrivatAir will launch the Privat360 application created by Bizzsms.
ProvatAir will launch the application at the EBACE 2012 Conference in Geneva, a special conference for business aviation. The application allows auditors to have an in-air audit and display results real time through a web application. 

Click the link below to read more about the application

Last week Bizzsms contracted Appropriate Communications and SeaIntel Maritime Analysis for the development of a new online portal for the shipping industry. Appropriate communications is a Belgian company focusing at PR services for the shipping industry. SeaIntel maritime intelligence is a Danish company providing shipping lines with the latest business intelligence.

Both companies in the shipping industry partner with Bizzsms to create the new portal. The new portal targets shipping and import/export companies all over the world. More information will be available soon. 

1. Keep your customers happy 

Keeping the customer happy. Most companies know the importance of this simple rule. But what do customers want?  In our experience customers want to feel at ease they don’t want to worry. Hence, they want to be able to access real time information whenever they want it and through the channel they want it. Let your customers  choose themselves if they want to  track & trace their containers from a computer at work, on their ipad in the evening or on their mobile phone while waiting to catch a plain.

2. Saving Costs

It’s more important than ever for shipping businesses to operate cost efficiently. Wise companies are busy implementing business intelligence tools that save costs along the process. Strategic web and mobile apps can make processes more efficient and a relatively low investment is needed. Did you know that some of the companies have 70% online booking rates whilst others don’t offer the possibility to book online at all. Imagine the costs you can save by going digital with bookings. 

3. Apps shout: ‘We’re a strong brand, we’re innovative’ 

The shipping industry is quite a traditional business. Nevertheless, there’s a strong desire to innovate. Apps are considered innovative, fresh and are associated with healthy profitable business. Hence, they’re a great company branding tool an attract business instantly! 

4. Anytime, anywhere

Our clients in the shipping industry notice that their customers want to track and trace their containers anytime, anywhere. We live in a society in which information is accesible everywhere. It seems old fashioned and inefficient having to login on a computer or to pick up a phone to track & trace a container. And imagine the costs that businesses can save on customer service expenses.

5. Mobile is taking off 

The last reason has nothing to do with shipping but everything with the world we live in. We live in a mobile world, the app revolution is happening and ,obile is moving incredibly fast. The mobile web is growing 8 times faster than the web based web did at the same stage of development. The app store reached 10 billion downloads. The amount of smartphones sold increases every day. To sum up, businesses evolve, so will the shipping industry. 

Bizzsms helps your company promotion apps and increasing the number of downloads.  We provide a clear strategy for app implementation, create promotion material and select the right channels.

Check our presentation and see more!

 

Bizzsms just launched a new website at bizzsms.com for targeting its international customers. The new website focuses only on application development, in contrast with Bizzsms.nl which focuses on offering sms solutions and mobile marketing solutions. The website gives a quick overview of the available services.

Bizzsms is expanding its international customer base as a result of recent contracts with companies in Switzerland, Singapore, the UK and Denmark. Currently Bizzsms focuses primarily on prospects and customers in the logistics industry.

Bizzsms’ customer Safmarine is among the few shipping companies that have a mobile application or mobile website. A recent benchmark by Seaintel Maritime of the 53 biggest shipping company shows that 87% of the large shipping companies does not have a mobile solution. Seaintel foresees an increasing market “Based on developments in other industries, it appears inevitable that the carriers’ customers will increasingly want easy mobile solutions at their disposal”.

In the article special attention is paid to Safmarine:

“As a side note, it will be interesting to see if anything changes regarding Safmarine’s mobile website and apps once their internal support and management functions are integrated into those of its sister company, Maersk Line, as a consequence of the closure of the Safmarine headquarter functions in Antwerp. As it stands now, Maersk Line‟s mobile device offering is not up to par with Safmarine’s.”