TennisConnect MobileBuilder gives you the ability to promote your business and service your most tech savvy customers by publishing "mobile specific" pages.
Consider that your site may look like this on an iPhone or Android (hardly legible):
And SmartPhone users are looking for basic information, like:
Where several of these pages are user-defined (you create them) and several are "system generated" such as Maps, Weather, Twitter feed, Facebook feed, Email us, Call us, etc.
User defined:
An example of a user defined page is the News page:
You can create as many user defined pages as you want, but please consider the context of a mobile user. They are usually looking for highlights, news, directions, phone numbers - "critical" information about your business.
TennisConnect provides a special edition of the TCOEditor for building mobile pages, complete with Pick & Click content from the MobileBuilder Pick & Click editor.
You may also include TennisConnect Components in your mobile site by simply pasting the Component Code (like in this example of the mini-eCalendar - so your mobile site will always display your current activities)
System Generated pages (in Mobile Settings you control which ones to turn on and turn off)
TennisConnect MobileBuilder also provides several 'system generated"
pages that spare you the effort and expense developing your own mobile
features such as:
- Contact Us
- via phone
- via email
- for maps and directions
- Twitter
- Facebook
Sample screens include:
Contact us
Each function is integrated to the SmartPhone, so clicking (pressing / touching) on the "phone number" automatically invokes the Dialer with the phone number pre-loaded, and the "email us" invokes the mail client with the email address pre-populated, etc.
Sample of Maps:
Sample of Weather (from Google):
Sample of Twitter:
Note: You can update your Twitter "tweets" and status from your phone, and "stream" those messages in to your TennisConnect-powered web pages and your MobileBuilder pages simultaneously, making this page dynamically updated (great for reporting court conditions, weather alerts, court availability during tournaments, etc). Write once, display everywhere. Love it.
This is a sample of the TIA Twitter feed, courtesy of Ryan Melton, Project Coordinator and Social Media expert for the Tennis Industry Association.
For more information about subscribing to TennisConnect MobileBuilder please contact Charlie Ruddy, TennisConnect Product Manager, toll-free at 888-620-6696 XT 512.
MobileBuilder is priced at $8/month ($96/year) Or save 20% with annual pre-payment ($86/year). There is a one-time set up fee of $50 to establish your MobileBuilder database. Purchase of a .mobi domain is highly recommended but not required (http://yourdomain.mobi - learn why & how here)
Related Articles:
MobileBuilder Settings
Creating MobileBuilder pages
TCO Pick & Click Editor for MobileBuilder
Article ID: 131, Created On: 9/4/2010, Modified: 4/11/2012