Bengaluru: The business world of Bengaluru is now in your smart phone. After Coimbatore and Kerala, Bengaluru became the third city in India to have “The only OFFLINE mobile business directory”.
Call Bengaluru, a free mobile app providing service plus business directory of Bengaluru was launched by Sam Signator. Call Bengaluru service comes a few days after Bangalore officially became Bengaluru from November 1. “we would like to highlight this point – where-by this product is Patent Registered in 142 countries. It is a very user-friendly offline search engine for business data in Bengaluru, which works both offline and online. The eco-friendly service, which has eliminated the use of bulky business directories. This product is adaptable with all the smart phones”, said Mr.Sam Challa., Chairman & Managing Director of Sam Signator which is a part of Sam Gulf International Group WLL, a 25 years old Bahrain based Group Company.
The bulky, time-consuming, non-eco friendly and tough to carry conventional printed yellow pages are outdated. Call Bengaluru is banking on smartphone users who number 45.3 lakh users besides social media users who include Android (24 lakh), iOS (3.4 lakh), Windows phone and Windows 8 (10.8 lakh) and Blackberry (6.5 lakh). This product has over 4,00,000 listings in 5,000 categories besides search for special offers and pop-up option. Updating of the data is always on auto mode. Search can be done with keywords, categorywise, company name, phone numbers and areawise. There are separate categories for public utilities, Brandex, Entertainment, Events & Exhibitions, emergency service, classifieds, tourist places, RTO helpline, metro information and airline information.
From Call Bengaluru listed addresses a customer can make a direct call, direct sms, direct email, direct link to web page, link to location map, view banner ads, video, offers and deals. User can even share the app with his associates, send business cart and view all business activities.
For those in business each listing can bring in the company name, phone numbers, location, address, email ID, Web address, brands and keywords. In term of benefits for business the services leads to increase in business enquiry, instant response from users, enquiry through e-mails and web sites, options for listing preference, banner ads and promo offers besides multiple listing facility, fast updating of information and world wide coverage.