Apps
Digital, Mobile & Tech
Mobile apps for Business Professionals
Send potential clients your total digital portfolio in one text.
Everything customers need to know about your business, in the palm of their hand. Use push notifications to announce deals or sales, and other features including: news, photos, events calendar, videos and more.
Usual Suspects mobile apps are focused on top smartphone and tablet platforms.
Creative Content Management
Put your business in your clients pocket with your own mobile app
We support most major content feeds and web services and are adding new partners to our platform every day.
If we don’t support a stream that you need, we would love to hear from you.
We leverage your users’ existing social graphs by using Facebook Connect and Twitter Sign In to connect users inside of your mobile app.
All content and activity generated inside your mobile app (comments, likes, shares, etc.) can be published to the major social networks with links leading back to your website and building your traffic.
We support most major content feeds and are adding new partners to our platform every day.
After setting up your mobile app, you can continue publishing content through your existing channels and we’ll take care of mobile distribution in a single user experience.
Structure your feeds into categories, promote certain categories on your home screen, and build a full featured browsing app for your users.
Users can comment, like and share your content to Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare with links that lead back to your website and help build traffic.
Tell your fans about your app during shows and live appearances, interviews, etc. Create pocket-size cards that promote your app, hand these cards out and have them available at your merch table.
Include your app in your online store, linking fans to iTunes for download
Smartphones with built-in GPS capabilities have opened a new dimension of staying connected.
Features
All apps are now local and all services should offer locally relevant content to their users. Usual Suspects mobile allows you to:
Create custom local categories
Tag locations with custom information
Promote local businesses to your users
Allow user-generated venue comments, reviews, photos, game mechanics (badges)
Offer maps.
Events
Usual Suspects’s mobile platform let’s you create event listings that your users are interested in and more:
users can check out who is at the event
you can organize events and invite friends
promote events for your partners (pizza Tuesday, wine tasting, etc.)
Allow user-generated event content: shouts, photos, checkins (and badges)
Share to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Community
Finally, since you will be maintaining a community that uses your app on a daily basis, you want to display all the action in an easy-to-understand interface.
We’ve been building mobile apps for years and have taken everything we’ve learned about mobile communities to design our best-of-breed mobile community page:
Post status updates (shouts), photos, checkins, comments
New event announcements
Friends, messages, invitations
Ability to switch from public to friends-only mode
Add exclusive music to your app that can’t be heard anywhere else. This will be a huge motivation for fans to get your app.
Usual Suspects apps are available for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch, Android devices (OS 2.2 or later), andBlackberry touch screen phones web based (HTML5). Apps are currently distributed through theiTunes store, the Google Play (Android), and your website.
As an added bonus we’ve packaged our web based apps (HTML5) with QR code icons for you to place on merch, CD jackets, flyers, and practically anywhere. This specially encoded barcode enables fans to scan the icon wherever they see it, and instantly link into your app without having to downloading it to their mobile device.
Contact us to start today or pricing quotes on additional features.
*Custom design fees not included
*Group rates for small to large businesses.