When I heard about this Mobile CMS offering, I thought it is expensive - but considering what it offers small businesses that want to get in to the mobile space and have their presence, then it is not bad as you don’t really need to be a programmer to develop your business's Mobile App. It is basically a web CMS like DotNetNuke, Wordpress or Joomla for the mobile world. They also allow web developers to create apps for their clients too, so there is a reseller program of a sort.

BiznessApp wants to make mobile apps affordable, customizable, and simple to make for the small business owner. Thus, the start-up offers a DIY iPhone, iPad, and Android app platform that enables SMBs to create, edit, and manage mobile apps without any programming experience required. You start with a template, customize them to suit your business, and then Bizness Apps makes them native apps and distributes them on iTunes and the Android Marketplace.

iPhone, Android, HTML5, & iPad apps
Instantly update your mobile apps online
Risk free - 100% satisfaction guaranteed
No set up fee! Starting at just $39 a month!

At Bizness Apps an owner can start by picking an industry-specific template; there are offerings for restaurants, bars, gyms, and others. Bizness Apps focuses on small businesses, It allows users to easily create, edit and manage an app online without any programming knowledge. Some people consider this Mobile CMS to be cheap. Compared with what I have been used to, i don't think so. However, since the service and that the apps are custom-made for each business - I sort of agree that BiznessApps or other offerings like this do have great potential. A little like in Wordpress, DotNetNuke and other open source Web CMS world, I am sure that the mobile CMS world will also be soon getting some open source alternatives.

Here are some nice aspects:

works on multiple os's iPhone, iPad, HTML5, & Android
Bizness Apps allows you to simultaneously create, edit, and manage an iPhone,
iPad, and Android app online using our powerful content management system.
Every app created with Bizness Apps is a native app that appears in the iTunes
app store and the Google marketplace.

once up you don't need programming
The Bizness Apps platform enables anyone to create beautiful mobile
applications without any programming knowledge needed. Our easy to use content
manage system allows for beautiful app design, customization, and
functionality across a broad range of mobile devices.

Instantly update like a CMS
Update your apps content or appearance whenever you'd like using our powerful
content management system. Modify everything inside your app without having to
send your app for a lengthy update with Apple or Google.

Good for small businesses
Bizness Apps was built from the ground up with small businesses in mind. From
our easy of use to the features that we offer inside our apps - we are
specifically designed for small businesses. We believe that you shouldn't have
to be a large company or have to spend thousands of dollars to take advantage
of mobile app marketing.

Available modules;

GPS Directions
One Touch Calling
Tell-A-Friend Feature
Business Information
Points Of Interest Feature
Event Listings Feature
Multiple Ways To Contact
Email Photo Feature
Native Image Gallery
Fan Wall Feature
Push Notifications
GPS Coupons Feature
Flexible Counter Feature
Mailing List Feature
Tip Calculator Feature
QR Coupons Feature
LinkedIn Integration
YouTube Integration
WuFoo Integration
Campaign Monitor Int.
Constant Contact Int.
Get Response Int.
iContact Integration
MailChimp Integration
OpenTable Integration
Podcast Integration
SoundCloud Integration
Help Center
Download Analytics

However for us at Salaro, even though we have the in house expertise to create native mobile app development, there is a problem. We cannot at the moment handover a native App that we created to a client so they can start manage it further in-house. So we would need to continue supporting them for every change to original specification and do it for them and upload them to Apple or Android Market Place.

White Label Reseller Solution would allow us theoretically to help clients with setting it up for them and then hand it over to them so they can continue to manage it themselves like any other typical CMS. We have been doing this for clients using DotnetNuke and other web CMS or Open Source E-commerce systems for years.

On the Mobile space there are however, other players like iSites, SwebApps and Mobile Roadie are targeting a similar endpoint. But Bizness Apps has a real advantage in the fact that its product is easy to use, designed well, yet remains affordable. The price for using either their iOS or Android platform is $39, while those that want to create both Android and iOS apps pay $59. This affordability is very appealing to small businesses looking to take advantage of mobile business without having to fork over thousands of dollars to do so.

Provide in-house mobile app development for clients!
They offer white label reseller solution for clients that are looking to build more than 10 apps per month. So one can effectively upsell their apps to enable reasonable profit potential from one's existing clients.

Complete white label solution
White label BuznessApps's technology under one's own agency's brand. For example seamlessly integrate mobile apps into Our Salao's company's product offerings. (so we will test it out this months.

Full brand customization
With the Bizness Apps white label reseller program, theoretically we can have complete control over the look and feel of the mobile app platform we offer.

How It Works from Bizness Apps on Vimeo.

Comments

By Alex @ Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:23 PM

The issue you will run into with Bizapps is that you really can't change the templates. Basically you can change colors and button sizes. That's it. They need a WYISWYG editor like Snapppii

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