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Local NZ businesses at your fingertips…. anything, anytime, anywhere!FindA NZ and Ventell have joined forces to launch a new local business, service and information directory specifically designed for mobile devices.
How often do you find yourself away from your PC and your business directories and you need to find a contact number or a particular business, such as a café or a restaurant? Perhaps you’re on your way to meet some-one and you’re not quite sure where the business is, or maybe you’re at home looking for a plumber or an electrician and you can’t be bothered to wait for the PC to start up?
There’s a new solution which gives you answers at your fingertips and only costs a couple of cents each time, plus usual calling charges.
Using mobile website technology, Ventell were employed by FindA to produce an on-line mobile business, service and information directory, replicating the site that FindA provides on the PC based internet.
The service is easy to use, works on all web or wap enabled phones and because it’s designed for mobile devices, the information is returned quickly and with minimal cost.
Just visit http://mobilefinda.co.nz using your phone’s web or WAP browser and type in what you are looking for. The results will be returned instantly to your phone in a format that is specifically designed for mobile devices.
Users can choose to search by company name or by type of service, and can narrow down the search results to those within their area by typing in the required suburb.
Each business listing gives you a brief description of the business, their address details, and their telephone number. Each site is designed with click to call functionality, so that you can be put through immediately to the business, at the touch of a button and the only charges you get are the few cents it costs to download the information and the usual cost of the phone call. Plus, if businesses are advertising 0800 numbers then the call can be free to the user.
Next month will see the introduction of mini-maps, to help people find the businesses.
Businesses are also able to choose to develop a more comprehensive and functional site, either through the FindA mobile site builder, or a customised solution.
There are currently 44,500 local New Zealand businesses on-line and with at least 1,000 new businesses per week being added, the service is invaluable for finding local business and service information.
On top of this, a range of real-time informational and entertainment sites are provided to give the user a full mobile experience.
Shane Bradley, Managing Director of FindA believes that with over 70,000 users each month of their PC based website, their users will find this new mobile service to be invaluable.
“People today demand information at their fingertips. They want to access accurate information quickly and easily. With our mobile site, people will be able to quickly and easily access the same useful information they have traditionally accessed from our FindA site on their PC,” he says.
FindA chose Ventell to produce their mobile site and to be their ongoing business partner for customised mobile site developments, as Ventell staff have been leading the development of mobile sites for over 3 years in New Zealand.
Managing Director of Ventell, Debra Northmore, says that mobile sites are the way of the future, as the population becomes more and more mobile, spending less time in an office and less time at home in front of a PC.
“A good mobile site is designed with the small phone screen in mind, making the experience expedient and user friendly. With good design a mobile site can offer all the functionality of a PC based web-site. This provides consumers with web access anytime and anywhere,” she says.
Ventell Limited
Level 1, 132 Symonds Street
Auckland, New Zealand
Phone: +64 9 368 7333
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