IPhone development companies could use computer programs to help teach new iPhone users how to use this sometimes complicated device without having the customers step foot in a store.  By using a virtual tutor, which is a real person who pops up on the computer screen and then takes the customer who is just purchased a new iPhone on a virtual excursion of what all the buttons are and how to use each one, the iPhone companies could save thousands of dollars in employee fees.

An iPhone comes already downloaded with several buttons for various applications, and then through the Internet a customer can add buttons in order to enhance their iPhone experience.  Having a virtual tutor or a personal guide to what each of the buttons that are already on the iPhone can perform will help a new customer immensely because it is sometimes very frustrating when a person gets a new piece of equipment and the instruction booklet is not as clear as it could be or there are so many buttons and so much to understand it’s nice to have someone ‘walk’ you through it.

Additionally, iPhone application developers who use virtual tutors on their websites will have more visitors to their website then the competition who simply has a reprint of the instruction booklet and perhaps some photographs of these buttons.

An iPhone store could have computers set up in the lobby for those customers who would like to take the virtual tour with a tutor in order to discover for themselves all the great things an iPhone has to offer.  Many people do not like dealing with salespeople; therefore having computers set up in the lobby where potential customers can explore all the different features an iPhone has and any additions they could customize their phone with, more potential customers would be flocking to their store knowing they could explore on their own and then deal with a salesperson to finalize the sale.

Another way an iPhone developer or iPhone store could increase their customer database is by engaging in search engine optimization or SEO which is a free and automatic marketing method sponsored by the three major search engines – Yahoo!, Google and MSN.  These major search engines send out their “feelers” in order to locate keywords and keyword phrases within articles placed on the websites and then rank the websites according to a special formula.  Keywords and keyword phrases are the words prospective customers use in the search boxes on the search engines in order to find what they need or want.  Having a high ranking on the search engines helps an iPhone developer increase their income because the majority of people who use search engines choose from the top 10 website listings brought back by the major search engines.

Computers and the Internet can be a big help to an iPhone store and an iPhone developer.  Search engine optimization and the use of actual computers in an iPhone store will help bring more targeted customers to both the website and the iPhone store.