Most people today understand how frustrating it is when your phone hits 20%.

You’re immediately scurrying around for a phone charger and if you don’t have one then you’re spending the rest of the day nursing your phone’s battery. It’s an issue because it’s our main form of communication and phones are increasingly playing a greater role in our everyday lives.

How Can Businesses Solve This Need For Their Customers?

The solution that businesses can use is providing customers with a phone charging kiosk or phone charging station. Veloxity phone charging kiosks offer many benefits that are simply not offered by other companies, such as remote access, usage analytics, and a secure place to charge a phone.

For people attending a conference, guests can plug their phone into a secure locker and don’t have to worry about making sure no one steals their phone.

Reasons to Get a Charging Station:

What Businesses are Using Phone Charging Kiosks?

1) Events – Concerts, Conferences, Trade Shows, Conventions

Businesses have used phone charging kiosks at events as a way to increase brand awareness by sponsoring an event with a custom branded phone charging kiosk.

In terms of planning an event, you want your guests to be attentive and enjoying the event that you spent so much time organizing. Having to worry about charging your phone is a potential distraction that your guests don’t want to worry about. So make their life a little bit easier.

2) Universities and Colleges

Having cell phone charging kiosks throughout college campuses saves students from having to sprint back to their dorm room for a charger before class. Two universities that have worked with Veloxity, Boston University and Bentley University, have seen the advantages of these stations. It’s particularly beneficial for larger campuses where the commute to the library or athletic facility is much longer.

3) Restaurants and Bars

Phone charging kiosks can even be an attraction for a business like a local restaurant. If you need to go charge your phone on your lunch break, where are you more likely to go? A restaurant where you can charge your phone or a place where you can’t? Because people want to have their phone charged, it really isn’t a hard decision.

For bars and night clubs, Veloxity phone charging stations can be used to prevent intoxicated people from driving home. The secure lockers can be used to store someone’s keys and phone if you think they would be a risk on the road.

Our phone charging kiosk at @NAGA_Restaurant in #Cambridge. Naga is a hip spot for food, drinks, and music! pic.twitter.com/dTib1EzuZT

— Veloxity Charging (@VeloxityOne) October 17, 20154) Hotels, Resorts & Casinos

4.) Veloxity has worked with The Ritz-Carlton and Foxwoods Resort & Casino, to offer guests a free place to charge their phones. They both expressed how they wanted guests to easily be able to charge their phones, so that front desk employees weren’t always being asked to. In the hospitality industry, it’s much more convenient if guests can handle it on their own, and it makes the jobs of employees much easier.

Don’t be impacted by a dead battery. Charge your phone with @VeloxityOne at the Ritz Carlton. #IMPACTvcpic.twitter.com/tlT4FW4hZ4

— Veloxity Charging (@VeloxityOne) October 29, 2014

5) Airports

If you have some time before your flight takes off or if you have a layover, you’re probably looking to do one of two things. Either you’re heading straight to the closest bar or you’re looking for a place to charge your phone.

We’ve noticed that a lot of travelers get frustrated really quickly when there’s no place to charge their phone. It’s almost expected today, so airports that don’t provide charging capabilities are hurting future business. Having a secure place to charge your phone at an airport is really important. Airports have outlets but you have to stay with your phone unless you want to risk it getting it stolen. Using a velocity chagring station your phone will be secure and charged.

Airport bars need the ability to charge your phone ? — Rebecca (@XOSweetAdeline) November 15, 2015

How do I pass an hour and 20 minutes in an airport by myself, without somewhere to charge my phone??? — Megan Cassidy (@narwhalsayswhat) November 6, 2015

6) Malls, Retailers & Grocery Stores

Plug your phone in, go shopping, and grab your phone on the way out. It doesn’t get much easier.

Whether you’re at Home Depot, looking for clothes at Macy’s, or you’re getting food at WalMart, it’d be a lot more convenient if you were able to drop off your phone and come back to a fully charged phone. Better yet, if you’re a parent bringing your kids along, it’s a good way to keep them sidetracked for a little bit.

Check us out at the @ShoppingTownNY in Syracuse for a quick battery recharge! #StayConnected #ChargingSolution pic.twitter.com/Wa2VOqAJr0 — Veloxity Charging (@VeloxityOne) May 2, 2014

7) Sports Arenas

If you’re attending a game, at some point you’ll want to take a picture. But you can’t take a picture if your phone is already dead. Since no one is going to bring a phone charger into a game, the only solution for sports franchises and stadiums is to offer phone charging kiosks throughout their stadiums so that fans can charge their phones.

This summer, Veloxity worked with Verizon and the Georgia Dome to provide fans with a place where they can charge their phones.

Charging kiosks are ready to go at @GeorgiaDome! @AtlantaFalcons fans can enjoy free charging sponsored by @verizon pic.twitter.com/zrcT8FZDCB — Veloxity Charging (@VeloxityOne) September 3, 2015


Find Out More

If you’re looking at purchasing or renting our phone charging kiosks, contact us at inquiry@veloxity.us or call us at (855) 844-5060. We’d be more than happy to explain the benefits of our products and go into detail about any questions you may have.

Also, Veloxity will be launching a new charging kiosk and portable chargers starting early next year. To stay up to date with these updates, make sure you’re following us on Facebook and Twitter.

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Since mobile phones have become a staple of our everyday lives, the importance of phone charging has grown. As we use apps more and more our batteries continue to take the hit.

Think about the amount of times that you charge your phone every day. It’s usually at least twice and if you’re going out somewhere you become that weary person looking around for an outlet or in search of a phone charging kiosk.

Founded by Krassi & Lucky Popov, Veloxity has aimed to tackle this problem by providing phone charging stations and kiosks to businesses and events.

Here is some insight on the two founders, what challenges they’ve faced, and the new product they’re getting ready to launch in early 2016.

How did you come up with the idea to start a company that supplies phone charging kiosks?

krassi popov veloxityLow or dead battery anxiety was a personal problem and we needed a solution not only for ourselves but for everyone. After conducting months of primary market research, the answer that we came up with was phone charging kiosks with lockers, and that’s how we got our start. –Krassi Popov

What has been your favorite part about starting this company?

The best part about starting Veloxity is being able to delight clients on a daily basis. The clients that we have worked with have been amazed with our phone charging kiosks and it’s reassuring to us that we’re able to provide a product that people enjoy having. For us, there’s nothing more rewarding than pleasing a client who in turn becomes a lifelong stakeholder for our company. –Krassi Popov

What challenges have you faced running a company while still attending college?

Juggling schoolwork and Veloxity has been very tough, especially senior year when we were starting to see extraordinary growth – As I mentioned in a recent interview with Bloomberg Radio, there were many days I’d have to excuse myself from class to negotiate a big deal or national partnership. These challenges were overcome with a lot of focus and motivation. –Krassi Popov

What would you attribute Veloxity’s success to?

lucky popov veloxityOur management team is comprised primarily of millennials who are all very nimble, energetic, and open-minded. This has allowed us to quickly adapt to changing trends and needs in the marketspace while our competitors are left behind. –Lucky Popov

What’s been going on with Veloxity the last few months?

The past few months we have focused on increasing our brand awareness by attending industry trade shows such as BizBash, Droidcon NYC, Event Planner Expo, and New York Media Festival. As a result, we have seen exponential growth in parts of our business, such as event rentals. –Lucky Popov

Going forward, what would you like to see Veloxity accomplish?

Every day, we are working hard to offer our clients the best products and value – with that said, Veloxity will be launching a new phone charging kiosk in early 2016, something that we are all very excited about! –Krassi Popov

If you’re looking to see how the Veloxity Cell Phone Charging Kiosk works, check out our YouTube video below.

Have a business in mind that you think could benefit from our product? Leave us a comment below and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Through our previous blogs, we’ve established that staying connected in today’s world is of utmost importance. This is especially true for undergrads and young adults. Each generation of students is more tech-savvy than the last, and as such there is a growing need for fully charged and operational mobile devices on college campuses and academic institutions. The need for technology on college campuses is ever growing as many textbooks are now offered as online books. Along with classes that require internet access, you never want to show up with a device that is low on battery.

Of course, the best solution to staying connected in college would be for students to carry a handy mobile charger in their school bag at all times. But this is not a realistic expectation; inevitably, there will be those who will forget their chargers at home or in their dorms and those who will not even think about a charger until they need it. As an academic institution who takes interest in making it as easy as possible for its students to excel, investing in a charging station may not be a bad idea.

A universal phone charging station for Universities, colleges or schools:

  1. Free your students from the limitations of the current state of technology. This is especially applicable to schools with a commuter base.

  2. Provide a secure and safe charging experience. Students can use a credit card, school ID, or a four-digit passcode for locker access.

  3. Add new technology for a modern touch! It is also a great addition to show off prospective students at school tours.

 

Some ideal locations for charging stations on campus are cafeterias, libraries, gymnasiums, laboratories, outside classrooms and any other such activity centers where students remain for long periods of time or are too preoccupied in their activity to use their mobile devices. What’s more, these activities can be done more efficiently and effectively if students were as detached as possible from their mobiles.

The charging station is also very compelling to students who live off campus. Commuters usually spend their whole day in the library, the cafeteria or other activity centers when not in class. It would be a great inconvenience for them to have to choose between prematurely going home to charge their phones and spending the rest of the day without battery.

Moreover, the charging station would also serve as a peripheral attraction for parents and potential students on tours or visits, enhancing the technological impression of your campus.

So far this article has mostly been hypothetical. You might be wondering, wouldn’t the student have to stand and watch over his phone? I mean, some universities have theft issues within the student community and constantly having to check if your phone is still there is impractical and defeats the purpose altogether. Let me take this opportunity to highlight one of the distinguishing factors of Veloxity’s Charging Station – it’s security integrated! Each locker charges one cellphone at a time and can only be reopened by a credit card or the student ID that was used at the beginning of the transaction. An alternative option is the use of a keypad that employs four-digit passcodes to access the lockers.

You may also be asking yourself, what about pricing? It’s true, most college students live on small budgets that require them to save and control discretionary spending to pay off their student loans as soon as possible. . For this reason, we recommend free charging for colleges and universities. However, the university can ‘pass the cost on to the student’ and charge users however much it wants for the service per unit of time – for example: $1 for 30 mins, $2 for one hour, and $3 for two hours. We leave this completely up to you. By purchasing or leasing our charging station, the client has full discretion to set-up any combination of pricing options to its users.

Stay Connected. The Veloxity Team.

What brings you here is why https://veloxity.us started this business – there is an emerging market for secure charging solutions in the hospitality and entertainment industry. With that said, by leveraging your existing network in these industries both parties can mutually benefit from this new market with a distribution relationship.

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