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Innovative Use of the iPad – Part 1

We have been talking about iPad being a useful communication tool at company events. And, you have also been thinking about how to effectively put it to use.

To give you ideas, we will continually bring you examples from the industry on innovative uses of iPad.

1. Burberry, London Fashion Week – Burberry used iPad for an Enhanced In-Store Experience, converting viewing into purchasing Burberry, the high-end fashion wear brand conducted a private viewing of the Burberry collection at the London Fashion Week. They handed over an iPad to the in-store customers to buy the collection immediately through a custom-built Burberry application. Burberry stated that the app “creates luxury customer purchasing experience,” and allows the customers to view relevant video look-books and films. They now have included iPad for customers in 25 Burberry stores in 16 countries.

2. iPad to enhance guests’ experience at hotels - People are surrounded by technology in today’s times. When customers are travelling and staying in a hotel, they suddenly go back in time to 1965, because of not being connected. In order to make their stay better connected, Hotel Indigo in San Diego offered guests with iPad carrying an app to that connects to room service, concierge, housekeeping, and bellman services. Some hotels have also stated to keep iPads at the front desk and allow the guests to use for a short while, making their stay more complete.

3. For the ease of Wine Lovers - South Gate, a restaurant adjacent to New York City’s Central Park, introduced a simpler product search using an iPad. It was the first restaurant in the city to digitize its wine list, in which customers could instantly sort wines by price and type, and gain information about each wine. They had an inventory of over 650 wine labels that usually consumes 30 sheets of paper. The iPad provided a relief for both the management and the diners of South Gate.

We will keep sharing case studies with you and help you think of newer ways to implement it in your events.

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Why an iPad?

There are LEDs, laptops, Macbooks, then why an iPad?

Whether you are on business event or personal leisure, iPad is the perfect thing for you to have. It’s a product that combines technologically advanced features, ease of use and handling. And everyone eyes it!

What more would you ask for?

iPad is your perfect choice for any event where you are looking to get more eyeballs. We know you are not planning to buy one. That’s where we are there to help you. SGPad has a fleet of iPads for you to rent. Renting will allow you to have the freedom to use the iPad for a specific time span depending on your requirement.

- You can rent it for as many days as you wish.

- You may use it as you like, watch movies after the event

- You get free delivery and pick-up

- You also get apps you require

- You get technical support round the clock.

SGPad offers you easy rental plans starting from a single day to a whole month. We rent iPads to businesses, events, conferences, seminars, tourist groups. Our gadgets are top-notch, in perfect condition, offering our clients the ultimate iPad experience. Our efficient team ensures that you are always taken care of, at every single step, right from order placement till the iPad pick up.

Your iPad is just one step away from you!

Go ahead, contact us at www.SGPad.com today or email us at Rental@SGPad.com now!

It’s our promise, you will never be disappointed!

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‘Shouldn’t we buy our own iPads?’ We know that’s on your mind.

Let’s show you how you benefit by renting an iPad vs. buying your own.

Just when you hear or learn about an iPad rental, the first question that comes to your mind is ‘Why rent, I might as well buy my own?’

Of course, you surely can. There are a lot of factors to consider when you make this decision. We list down a few for you:

  1. Advancement of Technology: Today, the world is evolving at a much faster pace than we can imagine. Along goes technology. By the time we decide to buy a gadget, a newer version is already there or almost being launched. Your investment in gadgets is not worth when you have a newer version following you just after sometime.

  2. Maintenance: Every gadget requires maintenance and updates, so, the expenditure doesn’t end at buying it. You will require newer accessories, technological upgrades, application developments and repair cost allocations, in case of a situation.

  3. Safe Storage: All gadgets call for a specific storage space, which might need you to create the space or allocate the space from something else.

  4. Quantities: If you are a big company, you are definitely planning to have lots of iPads, which requires manpower, buying and maintenance costs, storage spaces, etc. If you are a start-up or a small business, you would not want to invest in a gadget right now, but still want to leverage their capability to attract people.

  5. Customized App Development: You would also need customized presentations, apps, or programs that are helpful in promoting your company. Again, all of this calls for extra costs and manpower allocation.

Not sure, if you still want to buy iPads for your business. Don’t worry, we are here to solve your problem.

We, at SGPad rent iPads for a daily rental, with no extra costs, free maintenance during your rental term.

That’s not all; the best part is that we also provide you with customized App to effectively market your product / services. These are developed by our iPad Engagement Specialists who have worked with the leading banks, consulting companies and government agencies. They have relevant exposure and intellect to come up with an engaging App suiting your needs.

What are thinking about, contact us on …… or write to……

We’ll get back to you in no time.

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SGPad Success Story with Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered’s Country Managers’ Meeting

Our journey has been a really interesting one so far and today we would like to tell you a story of some of our most  happy and satisfied customers. One of them is Standard Chartered Bank.

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Earlier this year, on the 17 – 18th of January, they held their Annual Country Managers meeting and brought together 55 of the bank’s country managers from all over the world. They met and discussed key points of action for the upcoming year as well as spend some time hearing from thought leaders from around the world.

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Fiona O’Shaughnessy, the person-in-charge at the bank got in touch with us. She is the Head of Delivery Standards, Leadership Development and she was exploring ways to make the session lot more interactive, engaging and productive.

Technology was a core driver of the bank and they were willing to work with us to transform how their events were conducted. Based on their requirements, our team developed a version of Micepad that had a never been implemented before. We introduced a Live Polling feature that allowed the speaker to selectively pull out poll questions to the CEOs about different strategic options in real time and instantly get feedback on their preferred choice.

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The team also value added to the event by suggesting the use of the Micepad Discussion Board to post summaries of teams’ findings during breakout activities.

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During the event, one of the speakers wanted to use Micepad Discussion Board summary in his presentation but with a customised view of the comments being projected on the screen. Our Micepad Technical Support team immediately sized up his request and implemented a completely new customised web view within 15 minutes.

“The Micepad app creates a more refined used experience for our senior leader events. They appreciate the ability to find the information they need like delegating biodata or breakout groups immediately. It has also helped us deliver one of the key parts of the events such as capturing brainstorming sessions and outcomes – all without paper or tedious note taking.” says Fiona.

The MicePad execution at the event resulted in Fiona meeting her objectives in organising a more engaging and productive meeting. Everyone could record all discussions and get on-the-spot poll results. Micepad also helped the bank to reduce printing of paper, resulting in reducing their carbon footprint.

Fiona happily mentioned, “We have both reduced our carbon footprint by eliminating our printing requirements as well as created a more engaging employee experience for delegates who attend our events.”

Fiona recommending SGPad, also put a kind word in for us and said, “They are passionate about what they create, are a joy to work with, are creative and will build on your ideas to improve them. Work with them – you won’t regret it!”

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Why rent iPads from SGPad?

Shouldn’t we buy our own iPads? We know that’s on your mind.

Let’s show you how you benefit by renting an iPad vs. buying your own.

Just when you hear or learn about an iPad rental, the first question that comes to your mind is ‘Why rent, I might as well buy my own?’

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Of course, you surely can. There are a lot of factors to consider when you make this decision. After servicing hundreds of clients, allow us to list down some of them for you:

  1. Advancement of Technology: Today, the world is evolving at a much faster pace than we can imagine. Along goes technology. By the time we decide to buy a gadget, a newer version is already there or almost being launched. Your investment in gadgets is not worth when you have a newer version following you just after sometime.
  2. Maintenance: Every gadget requires maintenance and updates, so, the expenditure doesn’t end at buying it. You will require newer accessories, technological upgrades, application developments and repair cost allocations, in case of a situation.
  3. Safe Storage: All gadgets call for a specific storage space, which might need you to create the space or allocate the space from something else.
  4. Quantities: If you are a big company, you are definitely planning to have lots of iPads, which requires manpower, buying and maintenance costs, storage spaces, etc. If you are a start-up or a small business, you would not want to invest in a gadget right now, but still want to leverage their capability to attract people.
  5. Customised App Development: You would also need customised presentations, apps, or programs that are helpful in promoting your company. Again, all of this calls for extra costs and manpower allocation.

Not sure, if you still want to buy iPads for your business. Don’t worry, we are here to solve your problem.

We, at SGPad rent iPads for a daily rental, with no extra costs, free maintenance during your rental term.

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That’s not all; the best part is that we also provide you with customized App to effectively market your product / services. These are developed by our iPad Engagement Specialists who have worked with the leading banks, consulting companies and government agencies. They have relevant exposure and intellect to come up with an engaging App suiting your needs.

Need iPads for your events – but minus the hassle? Contact us at www.SGPad.com today or email us at Rental@SGPad.com now!

We’ll get back to you in no time!

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Micepad: Professionally Customised Conference Apps!

Hey all! I know we’ve been really silent on the blog and on Facebook lately but the team has been working real hard on deploying, improving and marketing our latest product Micepad!

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All you need for a conference of the future

What is Micepad?
Micepad helps event organizers implement paperless conferences via mobile applications. Neatly display thousands of pages worth of content on the iPad while engaging your audience via our exciting enagagement tools.
Organizing a conference of the future has never been easier especially with the complete support of our Micepad Engagement Specialists.
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Micepad’s Core Features

We’ve managed to deploy Micepad with established banks like Standard Chartered as well as international forums like the Global Social Innovators Forum 2012 and would love to meet up with any of you who is interested in organising awesome paperless conferences!
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iPad 4 LTE Rental in Singapore

SGPad is the only iPad rental company in Singapore to offer LTE iPad Rental. Get up to speed with the fastest mobile broadband speed in Singapore and twice the processor performance of the earlier generation iPads. Our latest iPads also comes with HD Retina front-facing Camera and dual-band wifi offering data transfers of up to 150mbps.  For more information on renting the iPad 4, please contact rental@sgpad.com or call 6677 1533.

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Zuji Singapore’s Top Secret Hotel Event

SGPad proudly deployed iPads last week for Zuji Singapore‘s launch event of their new product launch – Top Secret Hotel.

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During the opening of the event, VIPs and guests were given new identities of secret agents and were all tasked to complete a Top Secret hotel mission. Unlike the traditional way of booking hotels, Secret agents simply choose a date and destination using iPads on the spot and Zuji Singapore will give them the hotel’s location, star rating and description.

So whats the secret? Well, Secret agents don’t know about the hotel that they have booked until their have completed their booking. When the secret is revealed, all the Secret agents were pleasantly satisfied with their bookings knowing that Zuji only work with top hotels of 4 to 5 star ratings with a lowest price guarantee.

Do check out this innovative product from Zuji that promises a brand new experience of hotel booking! Below are more photos taken from the event held at Ann Siang Hill.

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SGPad organizes iPad Training Workshops!

Over the past few weeks, the SGPad team has been actively working with a team of fellow entrepreneurs from the Meet The Entrepreneurs (MTE) organization to raise funds for D’Artistes, an organization which aims to help intellectually disabled children realize their full artistic potential.

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D'Artistes in action!

In order to raise funds, the team has been organizing a number of business related events that leverage on the shared experience of the six team members. So far, we’ve organized two business networking nights, a branding workshop organized by Healing Touch founder and CEO, Mr. Joshua Lung, and an iPad Basic Exploration workshop organized by SGPad’s very own Marketing Dragon!

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Our Marketing Dragon conducting the workshop!

The focus for the iPad Basic Exploration Workshop was to help introduce tablets and popular apps to those new and unfamilia with smartphones and tablets. We had an amazing time guiding our attendees on iPad basics – on how to use Skype for teleconferencing, Pulse to read their favourite blogs and even Dropbox to keep all their files with them on the go! (If you have a group of interested individuals who want to get together for an iPad Basic Exploration workshop, please do drop us an email at rental@SGPad.com).

This week, we’ll be organizing a more advanced workshop aimed at helping businesspeople fully understand the capabilities of current generation smartphones and tablets, as well as how they can transform their businesses by leveraging on the power of mobile applications. Support us if you’re free tomorrow evening!

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Here are the details:

Mobile Power Made Easy: Transforming Your Business With Mobile Apps

Date, Time, Venue: 24th July, 7:15pm, MTE Cafe, 23A Smith Street.

Course Fee: $20 (extra contributions for charity are welcome if you really feel like you got great value out of this)

Course description:

Millions of dollars are made every day because people and business understand the growing power of mobile technologies.

Caught without a technical background but want to stay current? Want to learn the principles behind designing unique solutions to supercharge your own business (just like how Mark Zuckerberg put Facebook in your pocket)?

You’ll discover the answer in the enlightening, welcoming session with a young but experienced mobile startup founder, Managing Director of SGPad.com, Mr. Kevin Chan.

In the course, even non-techies can:

1. Understand the capabilities of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets

2. Comprehend new and upcoming mobile trends like NFC

3. Without any prior experience, design app concepts that can transform your own business.

All proceeds will go to our charity of choice, D’Artistes, a charity that supports the artistic development of intellectually disabled children. Do great charity and future proof your business in one awesome night – what are you waiting for?

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Rent an iPad Mini?

Rumors have been circulating on the internet about iPad Mini, a 7” iPad which is purported to be as thin as an iPod Touch and due to be released before the holiday season this year. Size does matter for our iPad rental customers. Our business customers may find the 7” iPad too small to browse the web or run productive apps comfortably while our education customers will find it ideal for outdoor learning as it is both lighter and more portable. Looking beyond the size of the next iPad, we certainly hope that Apple will put more focus on its features and not forget adding 4G support for Singapore and the region.