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Mobile Website Vs. Mobile App: What Should You Get
Limiting your website capacity to only fully function on desktop is almost just as bad as not having a website at all. We became dependent on our mobile device for almost a anything – pay our bills, shop, check destinations, manage our schedule and connect to the interwebs. There’s really no question whether you should get a mobile version for your own website or not. Some of us would go on though for a quest to find out whether to get a mobile website or a mobile app.
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Mobile Website
The mobile Web refers to browser-based Internet services accessed from handheld mobile devices, such as smartphones or feature phones, through a mobile or other wireless network.
Mobile website made by Pixel8
It’s usually included in the price of designing your website that works with both iOS and android system. Although it’s low to almost no cost for maintenance there’s no push notifications or offline access. Poor web design can cause problems like: performance issues, cluttered design and unresponsiveness.
Preferable for:
Website that provides short and quick information
Process of simple transactions
Excellent web design support for mobiles
Mobile Application
A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications that run on desktop computers, and with web applications which run in mobile web browsers rather than directly on the mobile device.
Its advantages include push notifications, offline access, optimum performance for mobile devices, smart design. However, getting a mobile application costs extra expense and licensing for app / android stores.
Preferable for:
A wide catalogue or gallery of products
Multi-transactions like online banking or payment systems
Newsfeed for articles or blogs that can be read on the go
The Verdict
If you have loads of funds for marketing you can absolutely get both and get better results. But if you have a limited financing, you can just get the right one and save the other for later. Mostly if you need to provide an offline touch base for your customers, you can get the app. You can use a well done website design to work for mobiles, too – by sticking to the mobile version and polishing it to fit nicely and work perfectly.
You can never go wrong with Pixel8 Web Solutions whatever choice you come up with choice because make mobile apps that works well on all devices tested on iOS and android devices. We also make websites that is mobile ready if you opt to have that.
Bag, Shoes, Clothes and Everything Flashy for Online Shopping
Who wants bags? And shoes? Maybe the right question is who doesn’t? We all love a good pair of treat now and then. This is why the demand Want to hop in on the online shopping craze? Do you have a home grown business of bags, or accessories?
Get a guaranteed digital solutions for your online shop.
Get your own website! Handpick a product and feature everything you love about it in your own space.
Create your own unbounded catalog.
Get you a system to facilitate taking orders, payment and shipping.
Save your energy only to do tasks that can’t be done by technology yet.
We are offering content management along with web development so we can continue to curate the online shop for you. You can focus on expanding your market and strategizing supply and demand.
Website Development for Online Selling
Big online shops didn’t grow overnight. They are made up careful planning and sometimes risky takes because marketing breaks doesn’t come in comfort zones. We primarily develop websites customized to a business needs. The thought process is simple, put ourselves in the shoes of our clients and think: what would we want our customer to see so they buy what I’m selling. By investing on a website, you invest on valuing customer experience which is a real treat if you want to keep you customers and expand your market out of your existing customer base.
Social Media Marketing
Social Media marketing is a hot pot for all online sellers at the moment. It became so powerful that one would think they won’t need any other medium to sell their products. You can do better though! We can help expand your business to other platforms, reaching out to untouched market. We can run ads and schedule posts in a strategically not wasting any money on unnecessary advertisements. At Pixel8, we have a dedicated team for social media marketing as part of our comprehensive digital marketing plan.
Content Management
Feature your products like how one will put it in a centerfold without having to pay the cost! Create contents that would sell your products then and there. The digital age makes everything instant and fast that it lacks the human touch. Don’t get disconnected by leaving your business dangling online and just getting fed to unlikely customers. Who pays attention to ads that seems like spam, right? Targeted advertising is the key to effective marketing.
Some of the most successful online stores using Instagram as their market place
1. Neon Island Instagram – 69k+ followers
2. indioeyewear – 12k+ followers
3. happyskin_ph – 170k+ followers
4. shopseektheunique – 46k+ followers
5. shopisola – 4k+ followers
6. Heir Clothing – 3k+ followers
Happening Now: 2nd Bicol Construction Expo
Construction expo is not new here. BiConEx hosted the first construction expo last year and it came out with great success. Aiming to gather all construction supply chain and services, build partnerships and expand opportunity to all participants and attendees of the event.
This year, The City Government of Legazpi in celebration of Ibalong Festival once again presents Bicol Construction Expo 2017. With the growing demand of establishments in the region this expo gives a space for exhibiting best resources available for consumers and business owners alike.
Pixel8 Web Solutions partnered with BiConEx for creating a digital version of the event through a functional and efficient website that works well on every device. In the website, all the information needed for the event is published so it’s a one-stop site for all interested body. You can register, view your booths or sponsorship through the website, provide feedback and enquiries, check and review sessions, view gallery, find the map and contact person of the event.
The other main sponsors of the event are: Ibalong Festival, City Government of Legazpi, United Architect of The Philippines, Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers, Davies Paint, Legazpi City Tourism, 3E-vents and Rotary Club of Legazpi.
What to Expect at BiConEx 2017?
Day 1
Ribbon Cutting and opening program
Day 2
Series of sessions and sharing of best practices from participants:
10AM – 11AM by Pixel8 Web Solutions & Consultancy presentation
11AM – 2PM by Magna Prime presentation
2PM – 3PM by Greenfield presentation
3PM – 4PM by Davies Paint presentation
4PM – 5PM Globe presentation
Day 3
Engineering and Architecture sessions
Come and join us on a 3-day packed event and meet people, shake hands, exchange business cards or event seal a deal! Register from www.bicolconstructionexpo.com and print or show a digital copy of the confirmation email as your easy access to the event. See you there!
Say it Louder with Good Content Management
Remember when we were in class, about to make a report on something complicated but equally important. What do you do? First, you gather all the resources and reference that you have on the topic. Then, study them, make notes as you go on, highlight important information and quote references. How you will make these information into something comprehensive is the core of content management. It does count when you can make people listen to you when you report, and it’s another thing to keep them listening.
When you have a business proposal, you have to sell it to all kinds of people regardless of their need and priority. Being a person with competing priorities, the common tendency is to turn down anything that would probably disrupt one’s budget or time. The challenge of being heard and paid attention to is finding the perfect package for your goods that would appeal to everyone.
Advantages of Good Content Management
- Good rating on search engine ranking
- Unique strategy on each content
- Adds premium value on products and services being sold
- Increase website traffic for first time and repeat visitors
- Builds up credibility of the website and increases chances of referral
8 Best Tips on Content Management
- Short and simple texts
- Categorize contents with clean layout
- Use common alternative to technical words; if the alternative is not available, define terms in context
- Follow good SEO protocol. One guide that we commonly use is Yoast.
- Update and refresh content on a regular basis
- Include multimedia attachments and presentations to support your statements
- Support statements with statistical data and study if possible
- Review on-page and off-page contents to make it rank higher on engine searches
At Pixel8 Web Services & Consultancy we believe that there are no shortcuts on accomplishing something great. We believe in every product we sell including our clients’. We envision to make each and every client sell their goods competitively without losing integrity. This is why we work hard on creating content specific for each goal of each of our clients.
We offer extensive packages on content management depending on your needs. You can check the complete list of our packages HERE. For project that has specific requirements you can get a quote from our Get A Quote page and talk to one of our sales specialists.
Do I need a website for my upcoming event?
Is social media enough to market your event? You are organizing a big event in 2017 where anything can go viral and be forgotten the next day. Sure you can utilize social media for advertising your event but most people wouldn’t go browsing the news feed for 5 minutes just to reach your post.
Advantages of a dedicated website for an event
- A dedicated event website doesn’t limit your exposure online. You can put up your ad and run it all the time when people visit your site.
- It gives more credibility to your event. A point of solid reference with all the information needed for your event makes a strong impression that you are committed to it.
- More opportunity to get sponsors and partners to contribute to the success of your event.
- Feature what best represent your event without following strict restriction, like word count and image size.
- Open a space for people to register and subscribe to updates.
- Link all social media accounts and contact number in one page. Earn people’s trust by providing accessible communication lines.
A compelling website are greatly accounted for an event’s success. It is important to have a platform to allow interested attendees to register for an event online, provide feedback and contact the organizers for any issues. As for the organizers a website will serve as their biggest marketing strategy and automation of administrative tasks like data gathering from visitors.
Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy has been supporting events that gave us extensive experience and knowledge on developing websites for events. Delegating such a new way of doing business might be hard for most of us but we are committed on making the project with our partners so they can be involved as much or as little as they want.
eCommerce: The New Market Place To Be
An Electronic Commerce, also well known as “eCommerce” website is a way of trade online becoming familiar nowadays. It is growing exponentially over the past years and has been adapted by most businesses now. eCommerce entails online goods services, retail services, marketplace services, payment, ticketing, and customer services.
eCommerce Businesses May Employ Some or All of The Following:
- Online shopping web sites for retail sales direct to consumers
- Providing or participating in online marketplaces, which process third-party business-to-consumer or consumer-to-consumer sales
- Business-to-business buying and selling
- Gathering and using demographic data through web contacts and social media
- Business-to-business (B2B) electronic data interchange
- Marketing to prospective and established customers by e-mail or fax (for example, with newsletters)
- Engaging in pretail for launching new products and services
- Online financial exchanges for currency exchanges or trading purposes
Top 5 eCommerce Websites in the Philippines
Its sites launched in March 2012, with a business model of selling inventory to customers from its own warehouses. In 2013 it added a marketplace model that allowed third-party retailers to sell their products through Lazada’s site; the marketplace accounted for 65% of its sales by the end of 2014. As of April 2016, Lazada is majority-owned by Alibaba Group.
Philippine classified ads site Sulit rebranded as OLX in 2014. The merger in the Philippines between OLX and Ayos Dito redirected Ayos Dito users to OLX as of 2015. OLX had 11 billion page views, 200 million monthly active users, 25 million listings, and 8.5 million transactions per month in 2014.
Cebu Pacific
Cebu Pacific, is a Philippine low-cost airline based on the grounds of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA Terminal 3), Pasay City, Metro Manila, in the Philippines. In August 2009, Cebu Pacific became the first airline in the Philippines to use social media. The airline created a fanpage on Facebook and Twitter.
Zalora is an online destination for everything fashionable in the Philippines. Bringing you an insight on global trends, they feature your favorite international designers and the most relevant Filipino brands.
As a undisputed market leader in Southeast Asia when it comes to discount vouchers, MetroDeal works hard to present you the best deals on the best things to do, see, eat, and buy in your city. They claim on their site that they only sell items that they would want to buy online.
eCommerce Worldwide
eCommerce bridged the wide gap between customers and sellers. Through this medium there are no barriers and limits for transactions. It takes the extra time of going to physical stores to “look around”. Customer service is almost always accessible through a few clicks.
eCommerce has started a global revolution for buying and selling. It is a common language that everyone understood and as we move on to the future, we expect to apply it to almost anything we need. In 2012, eCommerce sales topped $1 trillion for the first time in history.
Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy makes eCommerce website. Multiply your products or services sales through an efficient website that works well across all devices. We design and optimize sites according to the business needs. Whether you are just starting up or have been on the business for some time and just decided to take your business to a bigger market, we take the challenge of creating competitive spaces for your products or services.
What is Domain Registration and Web Hosting Service?
A quick search on Wikipedia will tell you that Domain Registration is the process of acquiring a domain name from an organization or commercial entity that manages the reservation of Internet domain names – like getting a newborn’s name registered on a birth certificate. A domain name should not only be easy to recall, but should be simple to type. Web Hosting Service on the other hand, allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible through the internet – like your local statistics office.
Why is domain registration important?
Each website is assigned an IP address and remembering one is almost impossible. Domains are like shortcuts that people can easily remember. It is more than just a shortcut because it provides name recall for your business, too, if you’ve chosen a good one. There is a very thin line between strong online presentation and getting buried in the internet. This is why it’s important to put a lot of thought and research on choosing a domain.
- Your business benefits from name recall. The easiest your domain is to remember, the more traffic you’ll get.
- Private domains gives credibility to the services and products you provide. It shows how established and systematic your system is.
- Domain names plays a big part in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), where it helps your website or content to show up in every search engine.
- Serves as an advantage with marketing attracting walk-in customers to trust you.
- Registering your own domain support your brand advocacy. It promotes loyalty and accessibility to your existing customers.
How to Register a Domain
There are many other ways on registering a domain, especially if this is part of a package or internal arrangement as part of outsourcing. This is the standard step by step procedure if you want to register on your own.
- Settle on a domain that you’d like to use.
- You will need a credit card of Paypal account for paying your domain.
- If you have a web host, you’ll need the names of their primary and secondary nameservers. You’ll need the information to point your domain name to your website after you buy your domain.
If you don’t have a web host, a temporary website specially set up for you to reserve and secure your domain name. Most automatically park your domain by default
Top 5 Domain Registrars
Namecheap, Inc. is an ICANN accredited registrar, which provide services on domain name registration, and offer for sale domain names that are registered to third parties (also known as aftermarket domain names). It is also a web hosting company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company claims to manage more than seven million domain names for its approximately three million customers.
iPage is a web hosting and domain registration company owned by the Endurance International Group. They offer a wide range of web hosting solutions for online businesses and webmasters to create websites. iPage offer one of the cheapest and low-cost shared web hosting packages which are highly suitable for small sites.
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. As of May 2017, GoDaddy has served approximately 17 million customers and had over 6000 employees worldwide. The company is known for its advertising.
Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 1.9+ million domains with its sister companies, HostMonster, FastDomain and iPage.
InMotion is one of the great hosting providers due to their outstanding support services and feature rich plans. You can reach their customer service through Skype. You can also learn on your own by searching the information from the knowledge base maintained on their website.
Web Hosting Services
Web hosting services makes it possible for websites to post on the internet. They allow storing and posting of data through servers. Paying for web hosting is like paying for a safe storage of your files that can be accessed online anywhere, anytime.
The concept of domain registration and web hosting can be a little intimidating to most people. This is why our packages in Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy is quite flexible in its terms involving domain registration and web hosting services.
8 Digital Solutions You Didn’t Know You Need
The whole digital experience of a customer is made up of different essential components. After substantial research and testing we came up with 8 digital solutions that would deliver not only best customer experience but dynamic business and customer relationships.
Getting digital solutions is not just another additional cost to your business. It actually gets you quality work done over a strict time limit and regularly delivers results. We provide a timetable for each of our projects and work transparently with our clients creating mutual trust and enough room for big ideas.
Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy Services
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Defines your online presence
Companies now do much of their business online, so an effective online presence in the digital space is vital. Even if most of your activities take place offline, customers still refer to your website and social media accounts as a yardstick for the credibility of your business.
We can support your company, agency or startup with high quality, fair-cost website and IT solutions will mean your online presence practically manages itself. We use a flexible mobile-friendly web development platform, so you can be sure that your website will look great on any device, and be favored in Google searches on mobile.
What good does a comprehensive website do to a business? It’s innumerable! Although we gathered all the top advantages from our best resources and studies and we have to come up with this list:
- Wider reach to customers
- Cheap and accessible way of marketing
- Measureable response and ROI
- Interactive communication with customers, clients and prospects
- Highlights value added services
Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy features 5 packages for Website Development:
PROFESSIONAL – professional web development package start-up, small scale networking
CORPORATE – business type website for private sectors, small business
E-COMMERCE – business website with online shopping
GOVERNMENT – government website with complete compliance to iGOV Guidelines
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)
Be found and stand out
SEO has been a concept of for webmasters and content managers since 1990s but it didn’t get widely known until 2000s. It is now a key player in doing business online. We provide a full package website audit and analysis to maximize all opportunities to show up in Google searches. One business will be different from another thus we create different strategies for every project. We build links, increase traffic, establish and protect your online reputation. Along with these goals comes a frequent and systematic evaluation to the progress and provide effective recommendations.
Advantages of SEO:
- Get more traffic to the website and get repetitive visitors
- Plays an important role in online business websites as well as other interactive sites through link exchange
- Affect the revenue for the site
- Maintain the position and ranking on the search engines like Google, yahoo and others
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
Does the legwork from your desk
The number of people using social media is expected to reach some 2.95 billion by 2020. People spend an average of 6-10 hours per day. With these statistics, social media plays a major role in marketing now. The number of people using social media is expected to reach some 2.95 billion by 2020. People spend an average of 6-10 hours per day. With these statistics, social media plays a major role in marketing now. We conduct geographical and cultural profiling for a period of time to get the best strategy for your business’ best interest and maximize return of investment (ROI).
- Increase brand awareness and loyalty
- Run targeted ads with real-time results
- Increase website traffic and search ranking
- Share geotarget content faster and easier
- Provide rich and interactive customer experiences
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Mining the content gold
We provide complete web content management from the landing pages to blog pages. We collect, manage and publish information related to your website. As part of the promise that we will maximize all opportunity to appear on search engines, we will utilize SEO in every page backed with internal linking and metadata – the technical things we do in the backend to boost your content online.
- Convenient way to distribute content and do updates
- Draw-in more revenue or traffic to the site
- Content is always fresh and up-to-date
- Improve communication by providing a collaborative environment for content sharing
- Personalized touch on press release and campaigns
MOBILE APPLICATIONS
App Solutions perfectly crafted for your mobile
Mobile use increased exponentially over the years. People has become highly dependent on mobile phones with their everyday tasks. Along with website development, it is important to pay attention on mobile app equally to reach more people. We make Mobile App with the best programming language to make a seamless experience on every device with front and backend support access.
- Provide more value to your customer’s experience
- Build a stronger brand
- Connect faster and easier with customers
- Boost revenue
- Real time update
INFORMATION SYSTEM (IS) DEVELOPMENT
Tailored fit Solutions at its finest
Information systems is a study of systems with a specific reference to information and the complementary networks of hardware and software that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and also distribute data.
We create database system, point of sale system, expert system and more information systems molded with your business need. We create the perfect match of technology to your business to make the most out of it.
- Business can be open anytime anywhere, making purchases from different countries easier and more convenient
- IS application promotes more efficient operation of the company
- Improves the supply of information to decision-makers and chain of command
- Having immediate data converted to useful information presented to people who can act upon it
- High adaptability to change with the need
BRANDING DESIGN
Polish your corporate brand with the Pixel8 Touch
The Brand is the most valuable asset that represents your business. If done right, this will benefit your business in the long run. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had your business for a long time or you’re just getting started – branding vs rebranding.
Making your business stand out in its own unique identity is one of our best offers. We build it from the logo to marketing collateral including business cards and letterheads. We work with our clients closely to get every tiny detail right.
- Business can be easily recognized and remembered
- Promotes loyalty to customers
- Builds up image of quality, experience and stability of business
- Opportunity to lift economical value of products and justifiable premium price
- Lower marketing expenses
IT CONSULTANCY
What would experts do
We expertly advise, estimate, manage, implement, deploy, and administer IT systems on behalf of our client organizations. We have packages for when a client wants to outsource all or part of the IT services from a specific company or a temporary help during a one-time project.
- Continuous creative and efficient innovation
- Utilization of technology for accelerated business growth
- Improved local and global marketing
- Systematic resource and data management
- Accessible customer support and satisfaction
Most are skeptical about the arrangement of outsourcing, even more with a new concept of doing business digitally. Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy absolutely understands this and are willing to take the extra mile of meeting you to take the big leap. Leverage your online presence through Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy, where we create digital solutions pixel by pixel.
How Information Systems can do the Legwork and be Your Ultimate Virtual Manager
Information systems (IS) is an organized system for the collection, organization, storage and communication of information. Specifically, it is the study of complementary networks that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and distribute data.
Computer-based information systems are essentially an IS using computer technology to carry out some or all of its planned tasks. The basic components of computer-based information systems are:
- Hardware – all of the devices which work together to accept, process, show data and information.
- Software – are the programs that allow the hardware to process the data.
- Databases – are the gathering of associated files or tables containing related data.
- Networks – are a connecting system that allows diverse computers to distribute resources.
- Procedures – are the commands for combining the components above to process information and produce the preferred output.
Imagine you are running an institution or a small business catering to hundreds of customers everyday. All of these customers have an individual data sheet. Would it be so much easier for you if you have a database where you can pull out every information in just a few clicks? It is important to note that customer satisfaction follows an efficient system.
Advantages of having an Information Systems
- Accelerated processing time for transactions
- Organized safekeeping of customer’s information
- Multi-user compatibility that allows multiple transaction at once without system break
- Accessibility to any device bound by the limits of your provider
- Sophisticated security on storage of information
Hiring an additional employee that would look after all the information safekeeping is a common argument against information systems. We could all agree that human is still superior than any machine or software but comes with more limitations. Such limitations are: time restrain, unavailability, unprecedented errors and single-handed.
Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy offers Information Systems services that goes with Enterprise Resource Planning Structure, Simplistic User Interface, Multi-User Level and Permissions, Browser Application Platform, Multi-Format Print-outs among other value packed services.
