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Lessons for Business Owners During COVID-19

By Elizabeth Hussey / March 31, 2020 / Comments Off on Lessons for Business Owners During COVID-19

As the co-owner of two small business, I understand and appreciate all of the challenges we face in normal times.  And these are far from normal times.  We worry about the health of our staffs and the health of our businesses.  The rules that have always applied are being challenged, and we are forced to…

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7 Lessons We’ve Learned From Developing 1,300 Mobile Apps

By Elizabeth Hussey / February 5, 2020 / Comments Off on 7 Lessons We’ve Learned From Developing 1,300 Mobile Apps

There was lot of anger, hand-wringing, and finger-pointing in Iowa Monday night.. The epic fail of the Iowa Democratic Party’s mobile app was the big water coolere topic. To get insights about how these debacles can happen – and to prevent them – I went to our resident app guru, jacapps CEO Bob Kernen. Take good notes.

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Ideal Features for Your Logistics App

By Elizabeth Hussey / December 2, 2019 / Comments Off on Ideal Features for Your Logistics App

Transportation and delivery companies build and maintain their reputation by delivering products on time to customers. When a company delivers a client’s products on time, they gain repeat business. Inventory management and movement of goods in a timely manner are vital to the company’s success. In this vein, a logistics company should have an app…

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Mobile Apps: 4 Simple Ways to Make Your Business App User Friendly

By Elizabeth Hussey / November 26, 2019 / Comments Off on Mobile Apps: 4 Simple Ways to Make Your Business App User Friendly

When a business goes through the time, effort, and investment of creating its own in-house app, it needs to ensure that the targeted users will actually use and enjoy it. This means it needs to be user friendly. How can you accomplish that if you’re new to the app game? Here are four easy ways.…

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Employees: 5 Tips for Creating an Effective Internal App

By Elizabeth Hussey / November 22, 2019 / Comments Off on Employees: 5 Tips for Creating an Effective Internal App

When you think about having an app made for your company, you might think about an app that your customers can download and use. This can be useful, but you may want to create an app for your employees to use as well. If you’d like to make a more effective app for your employees,…

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4 Ways a Shift-Scheduling App Helps Your Business

By Elizabeth Hussey / November 18, 2019 / Comments Off on 4 Ways a Shift-Scheduling App Helps Your Business

Any manager who oversees shift workers knows the challenges that come with scheduling. You must account for individual employees’ availability, company needs, business cycles, and the payroll budget. For many managers, this process takes up much more time than it should. Do you still attempt to do this job with a pen and paper? Then…

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4 Ways An Internal Company App Can Boost Your Growth

By Elizabeth Hussey / November 15, 2019 / Comments Off on 4 Ways An Internal Company App Can Boost Your Growth

An internal app provides a new method of communication and organization within your company. App development requires time, money, and attention, so what makes it worth the effort? Here are a few ways an app can provide tangible and intangible benefits to any growing business. 1. Communicate Easier If all your employees don’t spend the majority…

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Use an App to Engage Patients Throughout Their Care Journey

By Elizabeth Hussey / November 11, 2019 / Comments Off on Use an App to Engage Patients Throughout Their Care Journey

Today’s medical practices face competition and increased expectations from an informed and tech-savvy client pool. One of the best ways to meet those expectations as well as to drive more customer engagement is to focus on the patient journey. What is the patient journey? And how can you use a simple app to improve it…

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Happy 11 Years jacapps!

By Elizabeth Hussey / November 1, 2019 / Comments Off on Happy 11 Years jacapps!

Let me set the stage for you . . . . It was eleven years ago.  Our research showed radio had lost its portability to the iPod. The iTunes App Store opened in July. And in the fall, the economy went down the drain. In the midst of all of this, our head of digital,…

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jācapps Named a Top App Developer by Clutch

By Elizabeth Hussey / June 26, 2019 / Comments Off on jācapps Named a Top App Developer by Clutch

jācapps is excited to announce that we have been ranked by Clutch as one of the top app developers. We are also proud to say that we have been doing well in one of Clutch’s more competitive categories, their ranking of the best boutique app development companies. We have over 1200 apps and 10 years…

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