News Release
For Immediate Release
October 20, 2009

Taking It to the Streets –
App Publishing Creates DIY Mobile Store Maker

PORTLAND, Maine – Two new smart phone applications promise to improve trade for thousands of small businesses in the US and across the world by giving users the ability to charge credit cards and creating a mobile store.

App Publishing, LLC, located in Portland, Maine has created the Mobile Store Maker and the Mobile Invoicer, which allow businesses to show and sell their products on a smart phone using a secure credit-card processing program, PayPal or Google Checkout. They can create and send invoices by email or text that their customers can pay on their own smart phone or their computer.

With more than 150,000 small businesses in Maine alone, and e-commerce totaling over $100 billion annually in the United States, the two applications could provide a boost to store owners at all levels. The subscription-based applications will be particularly useful for “mom-and-pop” businesses, such as artists and craftsmen, farmers, musicians, and others who travel to sell their wares.

“Businesses will be able to literally carry their store in their pocket and make a sale anywhere there’s a buyer,” Bill Broadbent, App Publishing’s co-founder, said of the apps.

Mobile Store Maker allows people – whether they’re selling items at a garage sale or expanding the reach of a brick-and-mortar operation – to load product images and information onto a smart phone. Buyers can then purchase the items using a credit/debit card, PayPal, or Google Checkout. Mobile Invoicer allows the owner to create an invoice right on their smart phone, and then hand the device to a customer for immediate payment or send the invoice to their customer by email or text.

“Millions of customers access the Internet from their smart phone,” said fellow co-founder Link Stevens.  “Our Mobile Store Maker will help these companies quickly and easily adapt to this shift in online customer shopping patterns.”

For more information:
http://www.apppublishing.com
http://www.mobilestoremaker.com
http://www.mobileinvoicer.com

Download Media Kit – http://www.apppublishing.com/apppub-mediakit.zip

To schedule a product demonstration or interview, please contact:

Bill Broadbent
Local: (207) 841.5174
bill@apppublishing.com