3M Cloud Library and Boopsie Mobile Partnership Yields Dramatic Increase in User Acquisition
Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) January 21, 2014 -- Boopsie, Inc., the leading mobile solution for libraries, has partnered with 3M Cloud Library to provide their customers with app-to-app access.
Year-end library mobile app usage data from 3M Cloud Library and Boopsie’s soon-to-be-released Boopsie Analytics™ platform indicate that custom branded library apps from Boopsie deliver one-third of all new 3M Cloud Library users from their mutual library-customers. Boopsie’s Silicon Valley based Internet Marketing team initially focused its multi-platform app marketing strategy on helping libraries acquire new patrons and increase library circulation, but has since extended their distribution strategy to facilitate strategic partner growth.
For example, one of the first libraries to launch the integration in September of 2013 generated 31% of all new 3M Cloud Library users of the service. The other two-thirds of new 3M Cloud Library users were generated from ALL other channels combined, including: in-library promotions, community and school events, local and national news, library websites, and all other technology, non-technology and marketing partnerships.
Patrons can not only download free eBooks and eAudioBooks through 3M Cloud Library and other eContent providers, but also search their respective library’s catalog because Boopsie’s mobile app integrates with all library Integrated Library Systems (“ILS”) via its proprietary AccessILS™.
Frisco Library System added 616 new 3M Cloud Library users from September to December 2013, 39% (191 new users) of which were delivered via Boopsie. These new mobile users are taking advantage of the seamless technical integration and generating increased circulation for the library.
“In Q4, we saw a dramatic increase in libraries adding 3M Cloud Library to their library’s mobile app,” says Tony Medrano, CEO of Boopsie. “3M’s modern API enables us to jointly create a great mobile user experience, reduce user the abandonment common in weaker technical integrations, and enable our mutual library-customers to achieve a higher ROI on their investment in digital content.”
API, which stands for Application Programming Interface, is a software interface that operates in the background to seamlessly transfer information between two sources. Once a library patron logs into Their Library’s App and selects an eBook, the API passes through information from the Boopsie app and uses it to automatically log the patron into the 3M Cloud Library System, which can increase user adoption and circulation by up to 50%.
“It is great to see Boopsie deliver so many new 3M Cloud Library users in just the first few months of our partnership,” stated Tom Mercer, Marketing Manager, 3M Cloud Library. “Boopsie’s platform technology creates leverage for both the content provider and the library by delivering easy-to-use library services to patrons, which in-turn dramatically increases library circulation.”
Upcoming 3M Cloud Library & Boopsie Webinar
Libraries interested in learning more about how a simple integration of their 3M Cloud Library subscription services into a library-branded Boopsie App can dramatically increase their circulation are encouraged to sign up for the live Webinar on Wednesday, February 5th webinar, or to contact us for more details.
Visit both 3M Cloud Library (booth 1025) and Boopsie at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting January 24-28 in Philadelphia.
About Boopsie
Founded in 2006 in Silicon Valley, Boopsie is the industry-leading mobile solution for over 2,500 library locations worldwide. Customers include Seattle Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, New York University Law School and Brown University. Boopsie’s custom-branded native Mobile Apps for Libraries are affordable, easy to deploy and maintain, and enable libraries of all sizes to quickly and easily meet the rapidly changing needs of their users with world-class performance. Boopsie’s solutions are fully hosted and all apps are downloadable on smartphones and tablets including Android, iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad), Windows Phone 8, Windows 8, Windows Mobile, Kindle Fire and even Blackberry.
About 3M Library Systems
The global leader in library innovation for more than 40 years, 3M is committed to helping libraries connect with the diverse and rapidly evolving communities they serve. 3M’s eBook lending, security, and productivity solutions give librarians the flexibility to spend more time doing what they do best – helping people. Visit the website and follow us on Twitter (@3MLibrary) and Facebook.
About 3M
3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing.
With $30 billion in sales, 3M employs 88,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 70 countries. For more information, visit 3M.com or follow @3MNews on Twitter.
Tony Medrano, Boopsie for Libraries, http://www.boopsie.com/, +1 650-241-3300, [email protected]
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