The new Wi-Fi technologies actually bring a lot of advantages for businesses to deploy Wi-Fi and offer free Wi-Fi to their customers.
Here are the top 5 reasons why business owners need to provide free Wi-Fi to their customers:
# 1 - Retain your customers
Secondly, they would most likely come back to your shop knowing that they will be able to connect to the internet via Wi-Fi for free. According to a study conducted by the Yankee Group, “96% of customers prefer location that offer Free Wi-Fi and would return to stores that offer it”.
# 2 - Promote your business through Social Medias
Some tools provided by Wi-Fi vendors (Airtight) or by third party companies (Purple Wi-Fi, Cloud4Wi,...) allow the users to authenticate through their social medias account. Doing so, they use their own credentials to connect to the business Wi-Fi network. There is no need to share a password anymore! This way, it is way more secured and easier to manage.
Business owners also have the opportunity to link their Facebook Page to their Free Wi-Fi network and ask the users to “like” their page if they want to use the internet. The users will basically promote the business in exchange of using the business internet. Knowing that a Facebook like is worth 174$, setting up a Free Wi-Fi can be a very good investment!
Of course, this process also works with the other big social medias (Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+).
# 3 - Use the Free Wi-Fi as a powerful marketing Tool
# 4 - Don't stay out of the competition
# 5 - Develop & Grow your business
- Age of your guests
- Email addresses of your guests
- Gender of your guests
- Times spent in your store
- Number of people passing by your store (potential customers)
- Locations of your guests
- Number of visits (engagement)
Do not hesitate to contact us for more information! We will be happy to help you out.
written by François Vergès