Benefits of Going Mobile for Businesses | 3 BIG Reasons

In 2011, smartphone and tablet shipments finally surpassed that of PCs, over 900,000 Android devices are activated everyday, and the take rate of the iPad is literally the fastest ever documented in the electronics industry’s history. It has become vividly clear that the world has gone mobile, and anyone, anything, and any business that is unaware of the benefits of going mobile will inevitably fail and fall by the wayside.

So we know that the rest of the world has gone mobile, but has your business? In order to plug into today’s digital landscape, businesses NEED to go mobile in order to survive. So this shouldn’t be a difficult decision to make at all. In fact, there really should be no decision. If you want your business to survive and thrive in today’s world, you MUST go mobile. To better illustrate this, we have compiled a list of the 3 biggest benefits you and your business will experience once you finally decide to join the rest of the party.

Productivity Will Increase

Going mobile will essentially unchain you, your employees, and your colleagues from your desks. Mobile tools and cloud-based services such as Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive all allow you to send and receive files and documents regardless of where you may be. This allows for faster and more efficient communication within your company as well as with outside clients and potential customers.

There are also several mobile apps such as Evernote, Seesmic, and Chatter that allow for productivity while being on the go. These apps, along with many others, create the ability for businesses to more easily manage each and every facet of their business from a single, centralized location. That location, of course, being a mobile device. A recent report states that 7 in 10 small businesses are currently using mobile apps to run their companies more efficiently, are you one of them?

Connectivity Will Improve

With the advent of mobile-enabled services such as RingCentral, business employees and business owners can now manage every aspect of their business on the road, on the beach, on an airplane, and virtually anywhere and everywhere in between. The owner of Platinum Express Limousines, Octavio Carillo, commented about RingCentral, “It’s got everything built into it: you can send faxes, you can receive faxes, your voice messaging system is on there, you can listen to them, play them, send them somewhere, delete them…”

RingCentral’s Cloud Touch platform allows complete control over your business’ phone system using any mobile device. It has smart presence features and will seamlessly integrate with the file-storage services like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and others.

Your Employees Will Love You

Up to this point, you have seen how going mobile can benefit businesses on a number of levels. The biggest benefit, however, is the reaction you will get from your employees once they realize how much easier conducting business is using mobile devices, services, and apps. Going mobile also allows your employees to work remotely from your office. This is, of course, something that would have to be allowed by you or the owner of the business, but a recent study conducted by Stanford University has shown that productivity actually rose 12% among workers who worked from home. The researchers also noticed that attrition diminished considerably among the remote workers and noted that, generally speaking, people who worked from home were much happier and, most importantly, more committed to their jobs!

Going mobile will allow you to untether your employees from their desks and give them the opportunity to work in a mobile, on the go environment. When everyone has a mobile device with high capabilities, it only makes sense to take advantage of them. No other medium allows you and your employees and colleagues to communicate via email, fax, voice, and text all on one device, in REAL-time!

The benefits of going mobile are REAL and several companies can vouch for its success. If you and your company have not yet taken advantage of the mobile revolution, then now would be as good a time as ever! Plug into the mobile revolution today before it leaves you and your company behind!