Case Study: Holly Hunt Mobile
Custom mobile development from the bottom up.
The Challenge
Holly Hunt, the leader in luxury home furnishings, views their online components
as tools for interior designers. The website is essentially an online catalog as
well as an inventory management system for designers. HollyHunt.com has become an
incredibly successful marketing tool for Holly Hunt over the past three years.
For mobile devices, however, this website had poor usability. Considering the rate
of increase in mobile device use for accessing the internet, Holly Hunt recognized
that they needed another tool to assist designers that wanted to access their website
via mobile. Additionally, since more people are starting to read email on their
phones, Holly Hunt estimated that their email campaigns would be more successful
with a mobile site for subscribers to click through to.
Another part of the challenge was building a mobile website from a WCMS (Web Content
Management System) running on a version that does not have a mobile component built
in. The mobile website would have to be a custom development project. Therefore,
Holly Hunt sought the creation of a new mobile website.
The Solution
Holly Hunt selected BlueBolt Solutions, located in Chicago, to build their mobile website. Holly Hunt
was looking for a local Chicago vendor that, in addition to building the mobile site, could provide
maintenance services for all of their online applications in the future. BlueBolt
most closely matched their needs for a development partner.
BlueBolt’s development team created a sleek and user-friendly mobile site for HollyHunt
at http://www.hollyhunt.com/mobile.
Curt Kendall, Director of Marketing stated, “I’m thrilled with the results of the
mobile site. It looks great and has the functionality we were looking for. It’s
a great first step.”
The Results
- Sleek-looking mobile website that provides an increased user experience for mobile
visitors.
- Mobile traffic to the hollyhunt.com domain has seen a 345% increase in traffic over
the past year.
- Both websites are now easily managed with one system.