Mobile Apps

Creating mobile apps to work as an additional resource for the business. The app should offer useful information and services.

Online quiz

12 Best WordPress quiz plug-ins for your website

To make your website more engaging and to keep visitors on your website for longer you can a fun quiz with one of these quiz plugins.

Online quizzes can be created for any type of business or service to educate or inform people about what your industry or specialist knowledge.

WordPress has a host of plug-ins we can add to our websites, mostly at no additional cost, that improve the users experience and give us the ability to gain more leads.

 

Benefits of Quizzes

When we talk about website performance we include how Google rates our website and one of the things that gets rated is how long visitors stick around. If they don't like our website they will click off pretty quickly and that gives us a poor 'bounce rate'.

Our aim is to attract visitors to our website that are interested in our services so they will read our content and browse our site showing Google that we have something to offer.

Adding your quizzes to social media should gain interest from your target market and bring them to your website.

The quizzes can be designed to show a visitors they may not know as much as they thought and maybe you can assist them.

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1. WP Viral Quiz

This premium and popular quiz plugin-in offers two types of quizzes, personality quiz or trivia quiz.

The quiz is fully responsive so people can play the quiz on their mobile phones, anytime, anywhere.

You can earn money by placing ads around the quiz and force people to give you their email address or share the results on social media.

This plug-in is multilingual so anyone can take part, and finally the plug-in offers reports so giving you the ability to analyse the data.

Download Viral Quiz

2. Elite Quiz - Flutter App

Elite Quiz

 

Add a quiz to your business app with Elite Quiz.

  • 6 types of quiz games
  • Multiple languages
  • Mobile adverts
  • Coin store
  • Badges and rewards
  • leaderboard
  • chat options

Documentation

Download Elite Quiz

3. ARI stream Quiz

The ARI quiz allows you to collect leads using a fun and easy to use online quiz. Just create a quiz about any subject using the ARI quiz plug-in and share with visitors on your website.

Good quizzes add interest and help increase page views on your website. The quiz can be designed to highlight a pain point or a service that would suit them i.e. a travel quiz to help someone decide where to go in November.

ARI quiz integrates with ActiveCampaign, AWeber, ConstantContact, Drip, GetResponse, MailChimp, MailerLite and Zapier email marketing services and share quiz results with popular social networks: Facebook, Twitter,  Pinterest, LinkedIn, or by email.

ARI Stream Quiz allows you to create picture quizzes which people love.

Download ARI Stream Quiz

4. Quiz online

Online quiz

Mobil app quiz which is rated 5 stars in code Canyon. Easy to build with a modern look and feel.

Ad averts.

Self quiz and group batles.

Download Quiz online

5. LearnPress

LearnPress is an online course creation plugin with the ability to create quizzes for students.

Download LearnPress

6. Modal Survey

Create polls, surveys and quizzes with Modal Survey.

Offers animation and links at the end of the survey.

Download Modal Survey

7. OpinionStage

Quizzes, polls, surveys and forms for all sorts of projects. Highly versatile plugin used by many top brands.

Download OpinionStage

8. Advisor Quiz

4 quiz types and 3 different layouts.

Powerful analytics will give important data into user preferences.

Download Quiz

9. HD Quiz

 

This free plug-in is a simple

HD Quiz is a free and easy-to-use plugin for creating quizzes for a WordPress site. With this mobile-friendly plugin, you can create unlimited quizzes, set a featured image and tooltip for every question, provide images or animated GIFs as answers, and include Facebook and Twitter share buttons.

HD Quiz also offers multiple question types, basic translation features, and pagination — and it’s been recently updated to offer even more features. New features include setting a timer per question (not just for the whole quiz) and the “Select All That Apply” question type.

Download HD Quiz

10. Interact Quiz Maker

Interact Quiz Maker is designed to convert interest in customers. This quiz maker can be branded to fit right into your website nicely so the trust they feel with you is not lost on a badly designed quiz, this quiz is white labelled.

The quiz integrates with over 30 different marketing platforms.

Embed the quiz on your website, get people to your website then analyse the results, see your business grow.

The quiz is designed to generate leads, gain followers on social media and generate traffic, building credible conversions.

Choose from one of 800 prebuilt templates and design your quiz with a simple drag and drop builder.

The quiz has a scoring system to show the visitor their final results.

Download Interact Quiz

11. Quiz and Survey Master

The number 1 quiz plug-in for Wordpress.

Download Quiz and Survey Master

12. Quiz Cat

Quiz Cat is the easiest way to build viral & engaging quizzes for your WordPress site. It takes just a few minutes to set up a knowledge test, trivia quiz or viral personality quiz. These quizzes are proven to produce more user engagement, more social shares, and generate a boatload of leads.

Download Quiz Cat

Summary

Adding quizzes, surveys and polls to your website offers visitors useful interactive content to help improve their user experience, and could possibly make your website stand out from the competition.

A quiz takes time to complete so could improve your bounce rate which will improve your website analytics. You can create a quiz about anything but it is useful to test your visitors knowledge of your products or services so they learn more about what you offer.

Using a quiz to gain useful insights for your future marketing campaigns is another reason to try them today.

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New Google Workspace overview

Google Work Space

Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite) includes all the familiar apps such as Google Docs and Google Drive with a few extra new apps, all designed to help businesses collaboration, share documents, meet online and streamline business services by using cloud technology. The starting price is $6 per month.

Go to Google Workspace

Google Workspace

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Google Market Place

Google wouldn't be Google without a sales area. The marketplace offers lots of purchasing opportunities to assist your business to expand and grow effectively.

Discover more apps and features created by the Google community to help solve problems and make the business process easier.

Go to Google marketplace

Gmail

Gmail is the main Google email platform. Gmail emails are usually for personal accounts but G Suite will service business branded emails hosted from other servers using MX records.

MX records

Go to GMail

Google Calender

The Google calendar is a highly versatile and useful tool within G Suite. The Calendar offers meeting scheduling, invites and a host of other useful features for businesses.

Go to Google calendar

Google Drive

File sharing application in the cloud so you can share and collaborate with team members and customers. Google Drive is a very popular and useful tool for all types of organisations.

Go to Google Drive

Google Docs

Create and edit documents from proposals to invoices, Google Docs have templates and tools to build great looking business documentation.

Go to Google Docs

Google Slides

Google slides is a tool to create a training course or a training session for anything you want.

Go to Google Slides

Google Sheets

Sheets was designed with the needs of agile organizations in mind. AI features mean you can tap into the right insights to make meaningful business decisions. A cloud-based architecture enables you to collaborate with anyone, anytime, anywhere. Compatibility with external systems, including Microsoft Office, removes the friction of working with multiple data sources. And built on top of Google’s infrastructure, Sheets gives you the freedom to create, while helping to keep your information secure.

Go to Google sheets

Google Forms

Create an application form, questionnaire or any other kind of form for your business with Google forms.

Go to Google Forms

Google Currents

Google currents replacing Google+ as a tool for communication and sharing.

Go to Google Currents

Google Meet

Google Meet is a video conferencing application ideal for pandemic meetings, consultations and offers an alternative to Zoom.

Go to Google Meet

Google Chat

Google chat replaced Google hangouts to provide direct messaging and team chat rooms.

Go to Google chat

Google Vault

Google vault is a secure filing system of data that can be recalled easily for audit, compliance and legal professionals. It is a great tool for certain businesses that keep sensitive information.

Go to Google Vault

Jamboard

Jamboard is another of Googles acquisitions, it is a digital interactive whiteboard that is ideal for project management as it enables collaborative working with individuals in different locations. This cloud based system gives business the facility of brainstorming and has proved invaluable to many organisations.

Go to Jamboard

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Google Work Space

Setting up G Suite emails for your business

Setting up domain emails

If you choose to use G Suite (now Google Work Space) we can help you set up G suite emails for your business with gmail.

When you purchase a domain i.e. mydomain.com and host with us you can create as many email addresses as you like such as me@mydomain.com or hello@mydomain.com.

You can host your website on our servers but your business email can be directed via the gmail server by making a few server adjustments.

Benefits of using GMail

You can take full advantage of the Google apps in Google Workspace which include lots of useful resources that will help you manage your business.

MX records

Setting up G Suite email on host server

Domain emails can be used with G Suite

Setting up G Suite for a customer this morning and it occurred to me that many people are unaware of this option and why it could benefit their business.

Gmail

Gmail is the main Google email platform. Gmail emails are usually for personal accounts but G Suite will service business branded emails hosted from other servers using MX records.

Gmail

Go to GMail

Summary

You take full advantage of all the apps Google Workspace has to offer including gmail that works well with Google Calendars and good for sharing documents.

If you host with us we can set this up for you so get in touch.

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Twitter Feed

Website Facebook and Twitter Feeds

Add a social media feed from Facebook or Twitter to your website so people can see you social media activity and gain more followers to your website.

Is your website dormant? Do you lack time to blog? When was the last time you updated the website with new content? Finding time to manage your website is a common problem but Google likes an 'active website' and visitors want current news about your business, not yesterdays print.

One way of capturing visitors interest when they land on your website is to have a Twitter or Facebook feed in full view on the home page. This lets visitors know you are still trading! and that they can converse with you or follow you on a different platform.

Many of you are busy on social media but this is not reflected on the website so if you have 500 followers on Facebook then shout about it!

Facebook Feed

One of my customers Balloonarray.co.uk has been very successful on Facebook with great posts about her Balloon Service and online products. This endorsement is shown on the online store giving new customers a real sense of trust in this business. Having this feed into Facebook directs more visitors to the Facebook page gaining more and more followers who are potential customers.

 

Balloon Array Facebook Feed

 

Twitter Feed

Having a Twitter feed on your website lets people know you are still alive! I kid you not, some websites look as though they have been completely abandoned. The Tweets show last news and events and visitors can click through to Twitter to follower you.

Twitter Feed

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Summary

If you are embarrassing Social Media then put it on your website. It should be a mandatory feature for all new website projects so make sure this is added to the list of features. Having an 'online marketing package' is website and social media integration.

If this is something you would like adding to your website we can do this for you.

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IM Chat for websites

5 reasons your business should use web chat

We improve customer service and increase sales by using web chat. Adapt the way we communicate with our customers. We currently offer email addresses, contact forms and telephone numbers but web chat is instant.

Customers want their sales enquiries and problems resolved quickly and painlessly and calling 0870 numbers for “call 1 for Sales” “Call 2 for support” is costly and not stress free.

By implementing the Chat Software on your website you will be offering your customers an instant and friendly way of conversing, capturing sales enquiries and resolving customer problems in seconds rather than days or weeks.

Business benefits of using Web Chat

1. Quick and easy

Especially with e-commerce sites, if a customer lands on your website and is about to purchase a product but needs more information, having the ability to ask a 'quick question' and receive a 'quick response' reduces 'abandoned cart syndrome' considerably.

With standard business sites directing existing customers to the website to use the Chat Software, customers queries can be answered and deflected quickly so small issues don't snowball into a larger issues through 'lack of response'.

Customers don't need to complete the contact form and wait 3 days for an answer, greatly increasing customer satisfaction.

2. Reduces costs to the business and customer

Cost effective as customers are more likely to feel 'trust' and 'confidence in the business' they will be more inclined to purchase more products and having had help via Chat, find what they are looking for quickly.

Cuts down costs of telephone calls by used the web hosted solution and cuts down time spent on individual tasks and can handle multiple queries, saving time.

3. Increase sales leads

When a potential customer lands on your website and can't find the information they seek they can Chat to a representative who can lead them through the sales process, answer questions and lead them to suitable products and offers in a warm and friendly manner. This reduces and eliminates the dreaded 'bounce rate' considerably'. By using the Chat software there is the added ability to 'up sell and 'cross sell' on items too.

4. Competitive advantage

Have your competitors got this service? Are you perceived to be innovative and ahead of the game? By offering live chat you are will be perceived as a business offering excellent customer service and convenience that your competitors do not offer.

Showing creativity and innovation to your customers shows you 'care' about their experience online.

5. Great way to receive valuable feedback

You don't want customers Tweeting their frustration about your company, or using other social media platforms to create negative perceptions so by using the private Chat software customers are given a channel to vent their frustrations and voice concerns directly to you, in private. Sales leads can be given to the sales teams and customer issues can be fed back and resolved by the business quickly. All the chat feedback will by very valuable to the business, customers will prefer giving feedback to Chat as they are actually speaking to someone, as opposed to a one way email that they may or may not get a reply in about 5 days.

Guidance notes for using Chat Software

Be knowledgeable - create FAQs and Cheat Sheets so you can resolve enquiries quickly.

Open Hours - Chat can be turned on and off so leave an email address when offline.

Tone and Language - Be warm, friendly and helpful. Not too scripted.

Sales and Customer Service - You will get all manor of enquiries both Sales and customer enquiries so have the right experience.

Encourage Social - Encourage all Chat visitors to like Facebook Page and Twitter.

Queue System - Customers maybe placed in a queue in busy periods so they need to know this.

Chat features - give them the ability to change font size etc.

Chat Software available

Three online Chat software solutions we like but there are many more on differing price plans.

Formila Chat

formilla chat

 

ClickDesk

Clickdesk

Summary

Another advantage of implementing this service is that it brings traffic to your website. Once people know they can 'chat' to you rather than sending emails then your website will become a key resource rather than a marketing tool.

If you would like us to review your website to have this installed then contact us for an up todate proposal.

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