Marketing with iBeacon Mobile Apps

Course details

• Understand iBeacon which allows Mobile Apps to listen for signals from beacons in the physical world and react accordingly, this allows Mobile Apps to understand their position on a local scale, and deliver content to users based on location
• Specialist advice for both IOS and Android users
• Learn how to use a technologically advanced marketing tool, without any coding!
• Find out how to customise your app to your individual needs, and discover exciting new ways to promote your product or idea.… 

iBeacon Mobile Apps are an exciting new marketing tool with the potential to rapidly expand your business! Get ahead of the technological curve by learning how to connect with customers whenever they're near your iBeacon. Instantly send them alerts, coupons, directions and more - straight to their mobile phone! What's even better is that there is absolutely no coding required!

Instructor David has self-taught himself everything he knows about technology, so is extremely dedicated to helping others learn in an easy and engaging way. David has a wealth of technology experience and has been involved in 6 start-up companies in the Internet and Wireless industry!

With this course, you'll create iBeacon apps which trigger location-based mobile notifications for promotional material. You'll learn everything from downloading the software to publishing on Apple and Google Play, as well as customising your iBeacon app with your own icon, barcodes and QR scanning. Discover endless creative marketing opportunities and wow your customers!

• Intro
• Say hi to your fellow students!
• Share your new course with your friends!
• Introduction to iBeacons and Course Overview
• Handout - Examples of iBeacon Apps I Built

• How iBeacons Work
• Types of iBeacons
• Handout - Virtual Beacons
• Handout - The 10 Biggest iBeacon Manufacturers
• A Simple Demo of How iBeacons Work
• Creating a Virtual Beacon With Estimote

• Setting up the Design Environment
• Using the Designer to Add iBeacons
• Testing your App
• Using the Viewer to Test Your App
• Using iBeacons to Open External Web Pages and Videos

• Creating a Wish List/Shopping Cart
• Triggering Facebook and Twitter Sharing with an iBeacon
• Adding a Bar Code and QR Code Reader
• Handout - Barcodes
• Handout - What Are UPCs, EANs, ISBNs and ASINs?
• Adding Mapping Functionality with Google Maps
• Customizing the App - Beacon Messages, Icons and Splash pages
• Handout - IOS Human Interface Guidelines - Icon And Image Sizes
• Custom iBeacon Triggered Sounds

• Distributing Your App to Test With Clients (1)
• Distributing Your App to Test With Clients (2)
• Handout - Updated Building Instructions
• Handout - How to Publish Your App in the Apple Store
• Handout - Building for Android Phones with Beacondo
• Handout - Altbeacon Transmitter - Android Git-Hub
• Handout - Beacondo is Free

• Eddystone Introduction -… the New iBeacon Protocol from Google
• Eddystone - Demonstration

• Thank You and Support

• Course Quiz