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HD Radio At 15: What Happened?

July 22, 2021

Earlier in the week, HD Radio celebrated its 15th anniversary, a period loaded with both promise and disappointment. Today’s blog post looks at the glass half empty / glass half full history on the technology, exploring what worked and what might’ve been. Where do YOU weigh in? Something tells me you have an opinion.

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Effective Push Notifications: Top 4 Reasons Why You Need Them

July 20, 2021

Push notifications can make a huge impact on your company’s success. But first, before we get into why you need them, you may ask, what exactly is a push notification? Push notifications, also know as push messages, are a brief message or alert that is sent to a user’s notification panel through a mobile app…

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Construction Workforce: 5 Proven Ways to Engage and Connect Your Employees

May 19, 2021

Employee engagement is key to a successful business. Engaged employees drive their company to greater productivity and profitability. How can construction companies develop this level of enthusiasm among their employees? Research shows that in the construction industry, momentum in employee engagement can be built through mobile! Sampson Construction launched SampsonHub in 2017, which is an employee app…

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Do What You Love and You Will Never Work a Day in Your Life

February 22, 2021

I have now worked for jācapps for 10 years! This company is a part of who I am and the people here are my family. Most of our clients have probably heard my name (especially for those Apple Developer accounts!) even though I don’t interact with them directly that much now. I help keep all…

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Holiday 2020: Bringing the Stores to You

October 14, 2020

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has touched every aspect of our lives.  Businesses have shut down, families hunkered down, and the economy slowed down.  Concurrently, the way we shop has also changed.  If eCommerce was a slow-moving, if inevitable, train before the pandemic, today it’s a runaway freight train.  The result has been retail…

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Browsing In The Aisles Has Been Replaced By Browsing Mobile Apps

July 21, 2020

For retailers, Covid-19 has accelerated the changes in shopping habits they were already experiencing. The benefits of the shopping experience – browsing the aisles, checking the inventory, engaging salespeople, and in-store events – no longer apply.  The trend in the past decade or two has been toward shopping while customers are at home – or…

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Lessons for Business Owners During COVID-19

March 31, 2020

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

February 5, 2020

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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Employees: 5 Tips for Creating an Effective Internal App

November 22, 2019

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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Happy 11 Years jacapps!

November 1, 2019

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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