We're pleased to announce that we now have portable wifi routers available for rental.
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Crocs @ Parkway Parade
Crocs @ Tampines Mall
Tosh @ Crocs
Run sailor run was a 2 weeks long promotional event by Crocs with special support from Fly Entertainment artiste Tosh Zhang which ended recently on 3 May. To reward loyal customers of Crocs, all they needed to do was to play a simple game and get 20% off their purchase. TouristPads came to the management’s mind immediately because of our vast experience in supporting events with our iPad rental and we are using the stylish Maclocks casings to secure the iPads at the six Crocs branches at Tampines Mall, Parkway Parade, Marina Bay Sands, Marina Square, Plaza Singapura and Junction 8. We are really pleased to have members of the public asking about the casings as we are doing the setup at some places!
After the event, we spoke to some of the staff at Crocs to talk about the impact on sales using our iPads for this particular event. Many of them believed that having a shiny iPad with Retina display with a beautiful casing right in front of the cashier helped attracted customers and in the process, allowed them to know about the promotion and helped achieve more sales!
Curious how our iPads looked like on display? We have attached 3 pictures for your reference and we would like to thank Maclocks for providing a great product! For more information on our iPad and/or accessories rental, please visit us at TouristPads or drop us an email at info@touristpads.com.
Right Infront of the cashier
iPad in Maclocks (Landscape)
iPad in Maclocks (Portrait)
Premium Griffin Kiosk
Events are a great way of promoting your products and services and for those in the engineering industry, the MTA 2013 held at Singapore Expo needs no introduction. The precision engineering industry event, held on 9 - 12 April was a time for Makino to showcase all their latest precision machines to potential clients. As they predicted that the event will be a busy one and they might not have sufficient manpower to attend to all visitors at the booth, they decided to deploy TouristPads' premium Griffin iPad stands as an information counter for anyone visiting the booth. Our client mentioned that the Griffin kiosks looked really wonderful with their sleek and white colour design, which was a joy to see them accompanying every single machine at the booth. Of course, the iPads housed within the kiosks had interactive information, making the booth a hot favourite during the event.
We are really glad that we helped Makino reached 1000 and more. We believe in providing the best value to our clients and we use only up to date devices and premium accessories for our rental. We provide iPad 3/4 for rent, as they are in Retina display to ensure the best user experience. Our premium kiosks are from Griffin and all our stylish looking security cases come from Maclocks. Both established brands with great products.
We are also providing our iPad rental service for 2 major events in the next few weeks, so watch out for more great news from us!
TouristPads was involved in the recent Earth Hour 2013 Transport Survey which was a part of the Earth Hour 2013 held on 23 March 2013. Our client took up our iPad rental service because they wanted to save the trees by going paperless. This was certainly a good move because they need not go through the hassle of printing and distributing survey sheets and all data collection can be done via a simple google form created by them. This also made it easier for people to complete the survey with a few simple touches on the iPads.
All our iPad rental comes with 3G, ensuring connectivity and capturing all required data to an online form. Thinking of conducting hassle free survey? Just give us a call or email and we will get back in touch within 24 hours to discuss about our iPad rental product and services.
Many useful apps for events can also be found free on the Apple App Store, and we can recommend a couple of good ones as used by all our extremely satisfied customers!
TouristPads was called into action once again after supporting the Youthhawkerprise with our iPad rental and kiosks. This time round, another of our premium product, the New iPad Lock Security Cover with Rotating Stands coupled with our iPad rental service were utilized to display information to VIP guests visiting the booth.
According to Mr John who took up our service, renting iPads is so much easier to manage and at a cheaper rate compared to renting a TV set. He went on to mention that the retina display of our iPads ensured that the quality of display to the guests was not compromised.
Here are some snapshots of the event and a big thank you to Abbott Vascular for taking up our iPad rental service!
AsiaPCR 2013
Abbott Vascular
Close up shot
TouristPads was called into action on a Saturday afternoon to help support an interesting event. Four students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University held an exhibition at Tiong Bahru Market as part of their final year project. The purpose of the exhibition was to showcase eight outstanding young hawker heroes from diverse backgrounds and to create some publicity for an upcoming workshop in a week's time.
A short background of these students as stated on their website: "We are united in our passion for hawker fare and ultimately want to preserve the unique experience of eating at hawker centres for generations of Singaporeans to come. Through Youth Hawkerprise, we aim to empower budding talents from Singapore’s leading culinary institutes, inspire them with success stories from their peers, and also educate them with practical insights about how hawking can be a viable business opportunity."
Here are some photos taken at the event with our iPad kiosks in action right in front of the stage. They also managed to invite Mr Baey Yam Keng, MP of Tampines GRC to be the guest of honour.
The event went really well and TouristPads is proud to be part of it!
Good job students! May you get an A+ for your FYP! You fully deserve it!
For more information, click here.
Talking...
Giving opening speech
The Heroes!
Hawker Heroes!
Event a success!
Students having fun!
We recently talked to the people at Burpple about their app, and Dixon, co-founder at Burpple, shared with us Burpple's new feature: Burpple Explore. I've personally used Burpple on my own iPhone before, but didn't use it much as I preferred Instagram. However, with the launch of Burpple Explore and their Instagram integration, I just might start taking more food photos with Burpple!
For our iPad rental customers to Singapore, we believe that this app will be a great way for them to find out more about dining locations nearby. As our iPads all come with 3G internet, our rental customers will be able to access Burpple's top picks nearby (pictured below).
Burpple Explore
Burpple is a great app, with lots of international users, and an especially strong Singaporean user base. We believe that the addition of this app to our iPads will benefit Singapore tourists immensely. To rent an iPad, simply make your reservation online.
To find out more about Burpple, visit their website.
Singapore Sparks
The TouristPads Team was recently featured on IS Magazine Singapore for their November issue, and we'd like to tell you more about this great magazine. For one, it's free, and is distributed widely at many great places. I was dining at an Italian restaurant recently when I was pleasantly surprised to find the magazine available. The magazine has seriously great coverage of local restaurants, events, fashion, and attractions, and always a pleasure to read. Their interview with us can be found at http://is.asia-city.com/tech/article/interview-touristpads-singapore.
As we blogged about earlier, tourists who rent our iPad when they visit Singapore will get to read I-S Magazine on all their rentals!
TouristPads also rents iPads for businesses and events, contact us at info@touristpads.com to find out how our full suite of products and services can serve you today!
Nat out and about with the TouristPad.
A couple, Giulio and Nat, recently visited Singapore and took advantage of our iPad rental product. They blogged about their trip to Singapore about a week ago (with some really great photography), and they just posted another post on their experience renting our iPad yesterday. Thanks Giulio and Nat!
They liked the ability to access the internet islandwide:
The other thing we liked about the TouristPad is the internet access. Many international visitors to Singapore travel with their own iPad but internet costs are very high if you are on an international roaming plan. The $24/day - dropping to $16/day from the third day onward - is a good price to pay for internet access 24/7 (negating having to pay for hotel internet). It helped that the internet connection was smooth and fast no matter where we ventured in the city.
They also appreciated having loads of local and travel apps (such as gothere.sg, pictured, photo used with permission) at their fingertips:
Using the TouristPad as a travel guide was far more interesting, reliable and better than any guide book that eventually becomes outdated (sorry Lonely Planet!). The convenience of having everything at our fingertips (pun intended) was highlighted best when we came across a landmark, or local area, and we were able to instantly Google it to gather more information.
gothere.sg
We take feedback from our clients seriously, and we agree with Giulio and Nat's feedback about having a weather app. From now on, all customers will find a new weather app pre-loaded on their iPads. When you rent from us, feel free to indicate if you wish to have any other apps preloaded and we'll be pleased to help! :)
TickTok, available on our iPad rentals for Singapore tourists
We recently met with the people behind Ticktok, and after hearing about their app, we are excited to feature the TickTok app on all our iPad rentals for Singapore tourists!
Ticktok is a great app which allows you to find out about queue times for food establishments in Singapore, and has this special function where they tell you if a restaurant or hawker stall is "Worth the Wait". Junguang from Ticktok explained to me that queue times are an objective measure of a restaurant's popularity and can be a good indicator of which are the restaurants worth going to. As more and more people share queue times with the app, the information will become more and more useful to everyone!
What we found very useful, and that we believe our tourist customers will appreciate, is their aggregation of food blog recommendations. Unlike print guidebooks, food blogs offer the latest updated content and reviews of restaurants, and that is why we link to several great food blogs on our TouristPads currently. With the addition of this app, we hope to provide a richer set of useful information to our iPad rental products.
Another of our customers recently wrote a review of our service and product. Interested to know what CheapTickets thought? Here’s their review: (taken from their comment on Facebook)
"A huge thanks to TouristPads for helping to make our event at the Great Eastern Women's Run a success. Our team used the iPads to enable us to help the runners sign up online for their discount from CheapTickets.sg. We blasted through our target sign ups thanks to the support and quick thinking of Caleb's trouble shooting skills. It was invaluable to have the roaming iPads to be able to demonstrate our website to customers and help them do a flight search there and then. We will definitely be recommending TouristPads to our visiting friends and colleagues in the future- it's so hard to go without the internet these days and this service means you don't have to! Below is a picture of our team with the TouristPads. We look forward to using the service again in the near future!"
Pilots and flight attendants from CheapTickets!
We exist to delight our customers, and we’re glad to be of service!
CheapTickets Main Booth
Lucky Draw
TouristPads is proud to support CheapTickets with their recent event from the 2-4 Nov held at the Suntec Tropics Atrium. They are a cool bunch of people, donning uniforms of pilots and flight attendants for the event!
The event attracted thousands of people, as it was part of the Great Eastern Women's run and CheapTickets is a proud partner of this event. CheapTickets organized a lucky draw and will give away free tickets to the few lucky ones who joined their mailing list!
CheapTickets Poster
Flight Stewardesses
We heard that the 8 iPads deployed over 3 days managed to get entries of over a thousand! We are really happy for them that renting our iPads gave them a good return on investment (ROI). Many people commented that our iPads looked beautiful and attractive, which is no surprise given its bright distinct red colour.
On top of this event, we are also supporting CheapTickets for another upcoming event that is going to be held at theTheFloat@MarinaBay this coming Sunday. Watch out for our red lovely iPads in action once again!
Viator winner, Monica Gray
Monica Gray was the lucky Viator winner visiting Singapore. She participated and won the online lucky draw for a free ticket to the Night Safari as well as our iPad rental product.
Well, perhaps she is going to win even more – having her husband and herself featured on The Straits Times! We felt very grateful to them for willing to pose for pictures, and answering some simple interview questions. They visited Singapore some 14 years back and were saying how much Singapore has progressed!
Warren and Monica, have a great vacation in Singapore with our “Tour Guide”!
The National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 2012 was held on 27 Oct 2012 at the Gardens by the Bay. It was organized by the Health Promotion Board and was a huge success judging by the turnout - goodie bags were all snapped up 1.5 hours after distribution started! This year, the Guest of Honour was the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Hsien Loong. It was pretty interesting to see him join in the Great Singapore Workout with the masses! To keep up with the increasing influence of social media and the use of apps, the Health Promotion Board decided to come up with a app - HealthyMeTv Singapore. This app is a video collection of exercise and health tips to educate users how to stay fit and healthy through their diet and exercise regimes. The National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 2012 was the perfect date and avenue to launch the awareness of this wonderful app.
Of course, with such an important event on hand, our TouristPads were once again activated and they were lovely assistants to gorgeous looking ladies to help promote this app.
Lovely ladies with our Red iPads!
Posing with our iPads!
TouristPads is the only company in Singapore offering the new iPad with free 3G provided with all our rentals, and we do not just cater to the tourist iPad rental market in Singapore: we also provide full service support to companies who require iPads for their business events, seminars, conferences and meetings. As a full service events support company, we offer a full range of products and expertise to protect, enhance, and add value to the businesses who rent from us. For example, we recently supported the F1 Singapore event by providing iPad Stands/Kiosks at the Padang, as well as security cases and adapters to promote Singtel's (F1 Singapore's title sponsor) apps, reaching over 85,000 people over the F1 weekend.
Download: Case Study - Use of TouristPads’ iPad Kiosk Product for Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix
We believe in providing the best service, execution, and follow up to all our customers, and have received great reviews from our customers and the press and media. Our business customers come from many different industries, which testifies to our ability to customize a special solution just for your particular needs.
To find out more about how we can serve you on all aspects of implementation (iOS, software, hardware, support) of an iPad solution for your event in Singapore, contact us at info@touristpads.com, or call us at 9274 1349.
Split-It! is one of the potentially most useful mobile apps that we've seen launching in Singapore these few months. Billed as a "location-based app that provides a safe and fuss-free way for users who are travelling to and from the same destinations to share taxis and split the fare", it promises to solve the problems of long taxi queues and redundancy over similar taxi trips taken by different people. Given that Singapore face traffic congestions issues everyday, we can see the value in getting people who are travelling to and fro the same places share their cab rides.
One of the challenges for the company is for them to rapidly get user awareness and usage before network effects kick in to solidify the app's value proposition. Although it is free to use, not many people know about the existence of such taxi apps, and it may be difficult or even impossible for any single firm to drive the diffusion of awareness and acceptance of such a service. It might however be possible to grow awareness of the app amongst a niche group of people who face long taxi rides everyday (those working in the city).
After talking to the founders, we believe that Split-It's team has the experience and resources to develop this new market for taxi sharing, and we wish them all the best of luck in getting their critical mass of users.
Since the app is currently free to use, we're putting it on our TouristPads for a limited time to gather some feedback from our customers.
Our company uses the reliable Maclocks to secure our new iPads. We would like to recommend users to get the iPad2 / iPad3 Locking Security Cover and Security Rotating Stand.This product comes with a casing to house the iPad, and the casing can be attached onto a solid, stable rotating stand. After attachment, the casing can be easily rotated to portrait or landscape mode without moving the base stand. The whole product can be secured with a security cable lock to any stationary object. This particular stand was successfully deployed at the recent F1 event. There were no worries on our side as it was secured despite the heavy traffic. We feel that this stand is perfect for all kinds of events and any given human traffic. It has an elegant look and the rotating feature makes changing the orientation a breeze.
In short, 2 thumbs up and we encourage users to pay a little more money to get this set, instead of the one without the rotating stand.
*Disclaimer: We are not paid to write this article, but writing a review based on our experience of using the iPad2 / iPad3 Locking Security Cover and Security Rotating Stand.
Maclocks security casing with rotating stand
Kannan Mahalingam
Another of our customers recently wrote a review of our service and product. Interested to know what he thought? Here’s his review!
Kannan Mahalingam is the co-founder/CEO of myZantium Inc. The company is the creators of Wonga Bazaar: A Fantasy Financial Lab. We are very happy to have another high profile person thinking so highly of us! All credit goes to the TouristPads team including Joshua and Abigail!
For the non-finance savvy, Wonga Bazaar is a great beginner game for you. As described on their website, "Wonga Bazaar is an authentic, interactive and entertaining market ecosystem, just like the real world. It is for anyone who wants to explore and discover their financial identity and temperament. It is a fantasy marketplace where one can trade without boundaries and fear.
Wonga Bazaar was premised on the fact that there are no existing fantasy market simulators where one can fail and learn about one’s own financial temperament. "
Download the app and try it today!
Businesses are now aware of the benefits of using iPads. Businesses spend lots of money renting boothspaces at events. Your main objectives are to capture attention for your products and services, and to generate leads. Setting up an iPad kiosk would be the perfect way to achieve these objectives.
- Increased traffic and interest at the booth. People love Apple products. The iPad is the best selling tablet in the world. Seeing an iPad will bring the curiosity out of people and they will take that extra minute to visit the booth.
- Increased time at the booth. Once attracted to the booth, visitors will stay around longer than those without an iPad. It will be a great opportunity for your representatives to share information about the services and products of your company.
- Increased engagement. With an iPad keeping visitors entertained, representatives will have more time to interact with your visitors. This beats just handing them some flyers, which we all know around 80% or more end up straight in the rubbish bin.
- Opportunities to showcase services, products and websites. You can promote new apps, services, videos or music and most importantly, your website.
- Conversion of booth traffic into online connections. Gather likes for your Facebook page and generate leads such as emails.
- Creation of memories. Allow visitors to take pictures of themselves. It is a good form of interaction and it will leave wonderful memories of the event.
- Security in heavy traffic. The iPad Kiosks can be mounted securely onto the floor. They are able to handle heavy traffic without fear of them toppling over or of damage to the iPads.
- Outreach. Setting up an attractive booth is essential, and when complemented with a couple of elegant and beautiful kiosks, your booth is sure to steal the limelight.
- Return on investment. Deploying iPad Kiosks could possibly give you an excellent ROI. Depending on the number of visitors, the cost of acquiring one visitor to the booth could be as low as a few cents. No additional manpower is required once the Kiosks are set up.
- Environment. Say goodbye to flyers. Using iPad Kiosks ensure that there will be no paper waste generated.
iPad Kiosks at work
The beautiful new iPad
Visitors love the Kiosks
Here's what one customer had to say about our service: (taken from her comment on Facebook)
"Thank you TouristPads! The rented iPad was a great help to get around Singapore, even though I had already been to the city twice before! Excellent service, very happy with it and if I haven't bought an ipad for myself next time, I'm definitely coming back to rent one out.
Highly recommended!"
We exist to delight our customers, and we're glad to be of service!