Mobile Applications for Family Entertainment Centers

Everyone at your facility has a mobile phone.  How can you leverage that to improve the customer experience in your park?  Believe it or not, there are actually mobile apps out there right now that you can leverage in your park to make being there more fun and allowing you to extend your brand outside of the park.

 

One of the ways to engage guest is by offering a mobile “game” that users can play that involves interacting with your attractions.  Lavahound is a mobile application that leads your visitors to explore your park in a type of virtual “hunt” for items based on photos.  Guests find items to hunt for on the application.  They indicate when they have “found” the item, and they can find out more information, upload their own images and “share” it as well. 

The new Mini Golf Scorecard, from wddonline replaces paper scorecards and pencils with an application on the golfer’s phone.  Guests can keep score and see their score tallied in real time.  After they finish their game they can post their score to Facebook, letting friends know that they played a game at your facility.

Takeaway:  A cheap, fun and easy game to use at your in-house holiday parties.  It is fun and the results are hilarious! The Sentence Game.  Use paper with your letterhead, because folks WILL take these home.

iPhones And iPads Are Fun, But They Can Be Productive Too

Your iPad and iPhone can do a lot of fun things.  But for many people that’s all it does… a lot of fun things.  But sometimes you need to get some work done while you’re on the go.  Here are a few great downloadable apps to make your iPad and iPhone a productive business tool:

Dropbox

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.  After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad.

Splashtop Remote Desktop

With Splashtop Remote you can go everywhere with your iPad and have full access to your PC or Mac.  This inexpensive app allows you to stream video and audio from your computer, allowing your interact with all of the functionality of a home computer or laptop.

Springpad

Springpad is another free service that lets you quickly and easily save the ideas and information you want to remember – on the web, on your phone and on your iPad.

When you want to remember something you come across, just save it in Springpad – notes, tasks, products, places, websites, anything.  This is a great tool for organizing and prioritizing. 

All of this of course is designed to get back to what’s really important – doing fun things – like playing Angry Birds!