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Technology to
Your Business
Challenges
jācapps develops custom software applications including mobile apps, web applications, and other digital technologies
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Discover
and Define
We work with you to discover your business needs and define the project scope
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Design
and Plan
We combine skill and strategy to make sure your apps look great and are easy to use
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and Build
Our development teams bring your application to life
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moody
Applying Technology to Your Business Challenges

jācapps develops custom software applications including mobile apps, web applications, and other digital technologies

big fm
Discover and Define

We work with you to discover your business needs and define the project scope

town crier wire
Design and Plan

We combine skill and strategy to make sure your apps look great and are easy to use

michigan public
Develop and Build

Our development teams bring your application to life

podmn
Deploy and Support

Once deployed, we continue to provide support for anything regarding your app

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Our highly collaborative, four-step process results in outstanding custom apps. We discover, design, develop and deploy. We work with you to find the inspiration to move forward and to determine what your needs are. Because we are dedicated to your success, we keep a close eye on the apps once they’ve been launched for any potential problems and to help you navigate the inevitable new devices and software updates.

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What To Do If Your Radio Station Goes Through A Midlife Crisis

By Fred Jacobs | April 25, 2025

For a heritage radio station, there’s nothing more exhilarating AND daunting as planning for a big station birthday—the ones that end with a zero. The upside is the opportunity to remind the audience and advertisers you’ve been around a long time, but the downside is reinforcing you’re long in the tooth, doing the same things in the same way you have for decades. Fortunately, there’s a national brand now celebrating its 40th year in business. Rather than going down the tried and true path, they’re burning the playbook. Let’s look into how it’s going.

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A 2020 Lesson? It Could All Be Gone In A Flash

By Fred Jacobs | April 24, 2025

Life is transitory – for radio and for all of us. Maybe it took a year like 2020 to remind us that it can come and it can go – just like that. Now here we are in another “moment” – a very unsettled 2025. What can we learn from those prreviously tumultuous times?

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How AI Can Give Radio Personalities More…PERSONALITY

By Fred Jacobs | April 23, 2025

Internet memes come and go, usually at a rapid pace. So, in today’s JacoBLOG, you might want to pay attention today because next week, it will be something else. AI Action Figures may be just the thing for radio personalities looking to warm things up and bring a sense of fun and whimsy to their shows and the stations they work for. Inspired by a story Chris Brunt dug up, today’s blog post takes a break from our “radio drama.” Hope you enjoy.

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Can Radio Afford To Miss The Short Videos Boat?

By Fred Jacobs | April 22, 2025

Everywhere you look these days, short-form videos are dominating media trends. In today’s blog, I have eye-opening new data from Techsurvey 2025 and a compelling rationale suggesting an investment in video—by radio. Seriously, here’s why.

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For Radio, Will It Be Christmas In April (And Hopefully, May)?

By Fred Jacobs | April 21, 2025

For many radio broadcasters, the first quarter was a struggle, and Q2 is challenging. News out of D.C. on the economy has been turbulent and ever-changing. And those anticipated tariffs haven’t stabilized the way business is being transacted on Wall Street or Main Street. But for sharp radio sales teams, the chaos could translate to results, assuming they make a series of smart, opportunistic moves. For today’s post, our sales expert, Paul Jacobs, grabs the JacoBLOG keyboard to put together a strategic sales plan we hope you’ll give a good look—and a good think.

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What To Do If Your Radio Station Goes Through A Midlife Crisis

By Fred Jacobs | April 25, 2025

For a heritage radio station, there’s nothing more exhilarating AND daunting as planning for a big station birthday—the ones that end with a zero. The upside is the opportunity to remind the audience and advertisers you’ve been around a long time, but the downside is reinforcing you’re long in the tooth, doing the same things in the same way you have for decades. Fortunately, there’s a national brand now celebrating its 40th year in business. Rather than going down the tried and true path, they’re burning the playbook. Let’s look into how it’s going.

Read More

A 2020 Lesson? It Could All Be Gone In A Flash

By Fred Jacobs | April 24, 2025

Life is transitory – for radio and for all of us. Maybe it took a year like 2020 to remind us that it can come and it can go – just like that. Now here we are in another “moment” – a very unsettled 2025. What can we learn from those prreviously tumultuous times?

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How Will Radio Fare In The Battle For The Fourth Screen?

April 3, 2025

You know the phrase, “the more things change, the more they stay the same?” When you read today’s #TBT post from 2019, you may get that feeling. In reality, a lot has changed in the dashboard of cars as radio scrambles to remain relevant—and visible—in the next generation of cars and trucks.

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Like A Pair Of Old Jeans

April 2, 2025

What can radio broadcasters learn about strategic marketing from companies that make blue jeans and sell shoes? You might be surprised about the through-line connecting some of the best examples of serving audiences and growing brands.

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What’s Fair Is Fair

April 1, 2025

The world is a competitive place, whether you’re one of the four still standing in March Madness, trying to get your hands on one of those New York Yankee “torpedo bats,” or you’re trying to navigate your station or your company through these “tariff terrors.” Sometimes, life is just unfair. But here are some ideas about how to put it in perspective.

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