In today’s modern world, the entertainment center have become a common sight in our homes. Home audio and video equipment give you the home theater experience, but it’s the enter. center that makes the room. Home entertainment centers give you the flexibility of decorating your room in any style you desire. However, as common as entertainment centers are today, they still can cost you a pretty penny. That’s why it just might be wise to search for a used entertainment center.How to Find a Reliable Used Entertainment. center?When shopping for a used entertainment centers, it’s very important to know the numerous kinds of entertainment centers available in the market. Prices of most new models can be very high and beyond the reach of budget-conscious buyers. However, a used entertainment center does come with some possible problems and Issues.Where to LookFor starters, you can look in the classified ads in the paper or online. You’ll be surprised how many people are getting rid of their used entertainment center. And most aren’t getting rid of it because it’s broke or old. For many, they’re moving out of state or into a smaller apartment where the cost and effort to move their entertainment center doesn’t make it a practical move at all. Thrift stores and garage sales are also great places to search. Although there’s no guarantee the corner garage sale will have the ideal used entertainment center for you, it’s still worth a look.What to Look forSurface DamageCheck for any surface damage, scratches, chips, and so forth. You want to make sure that the entertainment center is in decent condition. You also want to remove any tape that may be hiding surface damage. A good inspection before you buy will save you the pain and sorrow of realizing you bought a hunk of junk later.Structural IntegrityThe cabinet should be sturdy and should not wobble when rocked. Check all the drawers, the cabinets, any slide outs and any other components to make sure everything is working and nothing is cracked. Doors should fit well and should not have any visible gaps. They should open easily and should not squeak or rub. Also, be sure to check out all the options that are available for doors in the EC before you purchase one.Aesthetic AppealDon’t get a used EC that is way too big for your place or might look awkward or ‘out of place’ in your living room. Instead, get something which can fit in your room and can easily get in through your front door, thus eliminating scratches or dents in the process. Just because it’s a deal, doesn’t mean it will compliment your decor. Buying a used entertainment center is no different than buying a used car. You want to inspect it front top to bottom, give it a test drive (a.k.a. slide all the drawers out and open all the doors), and then haggle for the best deal possible.
How to Maximize Returns From Your Business
Michael Gerber’s book, The E-Myth, is considered one of the most important business books written in the last 100 years. In this book, Gerber says that time is the most precious commodity for business owners. The idea that success is only gained by long and hard hours spent working is a myth. For the twenty-first century entrepreneur, it is necessary to work smarter, not harder. An entrepreneur can accomplish this by delegating tasks, like ordering office supplies, and focusing instead on the job of getting and keeping customers. You Must Work ‘ON’ Your Business, not ‘IN’ Your Business. If you truly want a successful business, you cannot and should not do everything yourself (or in house).Be an Entrepreneur not a TechnicianYou cannot and should not do everything yourself! Many entrepreneurs struggle when differentiating between lower-paying administrative tasks and high-income generating business growth oriented work. Essentially, time that a business owner spends on administrative duties is a lost opportunity because the owner has less time to develop the company. An entrepreneur focuses on generating income and hires others at a lower cost to maintain what already exists.Standardize Business PracticesEvery business must standardize daily practices or the company will maintain a constant state of chaos and ultimately lead to customer dissatisfaction. Many aspects of an existing business can be reduced to a step-by-step procedure that is repetitive and easy to understand. An operations manual that explains every business function in detail is great because it guides new employees, acts as a reference for existing employees, and maintains a strong company identity. Every single business, no matter how large or small, must have a ‘systematized’ way of doing things. Otherwise your business will operate in constant ‘chaos’ which will ultimately lead to customer dissatisfaction, and probably the failure of your business. A great example of excellent business systems is McDonalds. They have systematized every single aspect of their business so that any new franchisee can open up a McDonalds restaurant and their customers will have nearly the same experience as they have had at any other McDonalds restaurant across the country.Delegate and Focus on Getting and Keeping CustomersThe most successful and well recognized businesses have embraced the advice above. Delegation of menial tasks aides in entrepreneurial efficiency and maximizes earning potential. The best business owners know they cannot waste their talents on mailroom work and must instead use their time to focus on the future of their business.You see, to turn your business into a thriving enterprise you must:
Be focused on growing the business and not each of its individual activities.
Clearly separate the organizational functions as Type I or Type II.
Set up systems that make the business continually more efficient.
Delegate — that means hand off work and/or hire someone else who is probably far more capable in that area than you are. The true definition of an entrepreneur is a ‘Rainmaker’ and a CEO is the ‘Visionary’ responsible for seeing that the job gets done, not necessarily the person who does the job.
Stop and ask yourself regularly, “Can someone else do this job cheaper and more effectively than I can?” If the answer is “Yes,” then delegate the job! It’s really that simple. The only thing a business owner should focus on is getting customers in the door and keeping existing customers happy. All other WORK should be delegated!
Brainstorming The Ideas for Influencing Your Mobile App Audience
Once the app is downloaded, you have little time to take a sigh of relief, and then again start focusing on making things easier for the them till their goal is achieved.
According to the AppsFlyer, an app marketing company, the global uninstall rate for apps after 30 days is 28%. Entertainment apps are most frequently deleted, whereas apps based on Finance is least frequently deleted. No matter which app category you belong to, your strategy should be to remain in the mobile phones of users for a long time, and not just sit around but to fulfill your purpose as well.
If we analyze the encounters of users with an app step by step, it can help us unveil the critical factors that influence mobile app audiences, so that we can work upon those and achieve our purpose. Here are the details:
Step1. Finding Your App in Appstore
For this, we have to first find out what exactly users type to search an app. Based on a research, it has been found that 47% app users on iOS confirmed that they found the app through the App Store’s search engine and 53% app users on Android confirmed the same.
What have been their search queries? Interestingly, as the per the data provided by the TUNE research, 86% of the top 100 keywords were brands.With little scope for non-branded categories, most of the keywords were either of games of utility apps. Common keywords in the non branded category are: games, free games, VPN, calculator, music, photo editor, and weather.
Leaving brands aside, if we analyze the user-type of a Non-branded category, we will get two types of users:
1. Users are informed, and they know what they are search
2. Users are exploring possibilities, have no precise information in mind.
If you are a mobile app development company, targeting non-branded users, then your efforts must be directed to creating apps that compel these two types of users. To do so, we have to analyze once they are on an app store, what keywords they use to search. Regina Leuwer, with expertise in marketing & communications, bring some light to the subject. She reached out Sebastian Knopp, creator of app store search intelligence tool appkeywords, who shared with her the data of unique trending search phrases. And according to that data, in 2017, there were around 2,455 unique search phrases trending in the US.
Now, if we study these data to get information, we will find that name of the app is critical to attract the attention of the users.
If your app belongs to non-branded category, then make sure your app name is similar to the common search queries but also unique in comparison with your competitors. So that when your app name is flashed, they click it on to it, finding it purposeful and compelling both.
Step 2. Installation
Remember your users are on mobile devices has limited resources, from battery to storage and RAM to Internet. Everything is limited. So better create an application that is easy to download or say get downloaded with 5 minutes. One critical advice here:
1. Keep the application file size small.
If you are a developer, use APK Analyser to find out which part of the application is consuming maximum space. You can also reduce classes.dex file and res folder that contains images, raw files, and XML.
Step 3. Onboarding
After the user has successfully downloaded your mobile application, don’t leave anything on assumptions. Guide them properly. This you can do through an onboarding process, where users can learn the key functionality and where to begin with the mobile app. Below are the 3 things you need to keep in your mind when creating an onboarding process for your users.
Short and Crisp: The entire guidance of features and functions should be completed within few seconds, with easy options loud and clear option to skip.
Precise Information: Don’t introduce them to the app. They already know what they have downloaded. The objective to inform about the key functions and features.
Allow Users to Skip: Let the tech-savvy users skip the intro. Your app is to meet their requirement and not to have a friendly session.
Step 4. Purpose and UI
Here, the stage is set for your app and it is the golden chance for you to impress your users. What is needed here is the collaboration between purpose and UI of the app. It totally depends on the problem-solving capability and ease of use of the mobile app. Interface design plays the critical role, allowing the users to access features of the apps easily and quickly to perform the task for what they have downloaded the app. When it comes to interface design, make sure that the design is interactive and task-oriented. Here are some factors that you must take care off while creating mobile app interface:
1. Usability: The Mobile phone is an epitome of convenience and if your users find it difficult to use your app, then there is no way there are going to make the space for it in their mobile phones. From screen size to the color of the app, there are many factors that are equally critical and need attention.
2. Intuitive: To create an intuitive User Interface, you have to read the mind of the users, and develop a model based on that. The next should be precise, clear and ‘obvious’ in an interface.
3. Availability: Key features should be hidden in the drop down menu or even if so, it should be obvious for the user to look into the drop-down. An intricate work of design and research is required to make essential features available for the customers and they don’t need to navigate here and there.
If you need more help with the user-interface and innovative ideas for a mobile app, write to me [email protected] and I promise to get back to you with interesting mobile app designs.