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Smartphone Credit Cards?

Jason — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:14:52 +0000

We’ve talked about Apps and the importance of smart phones in today’s world and this will just solidify the smart phone as a consumer necessity. Bloomberg has reported that all major credit card companies are working on a way for consumers to authorize a payment at checkout via their smart phone. No more cards to carry around, no need for cash, just send a signal to the payment device and you are on your way. I’m all about having less things in my pockets and I know you ladies could stand a little more room in those Coach bags. We’ll see what comes of it in the future, there are still plenty of issues to work out with privacy, credit, and federal regulations but it’s definitely a step in a brand new direction.

Source: Bloomberg

Hardynet.net Takes First Place

Jason — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:29:48 +0000

We’re so proud to say that Hardy Telecommunications took first place at the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association conference this year for their recently launched hardynet.com website. The whole company really came together to contribute to the new design and it obviously paid off. See the full article

Mobile Apps: Who cares?

Jason — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:12:10 +0000

So what’s the big deal? Yeah, I got this cool new “device” (not even called a phone anymore) that can friend, tweet, digg, tube, show me the closest hot dog stand, buy me movie tickets…you get the point. These things can do anything under the sun. So the question is…what can they do for your business?

Mobile Apps have started an entirely new industry. The mobile app market will grow from $1.94 billion in late 2009 to a massive $15.65 BILLION by 2013. That’s more than a 700% increase! Mobile internet usage is up 18% from last year to 38%. So as the mobile app market explodes…how does that involve your business?

Mobile apps may not be for every company, but in many cases your company can provide a better customer experience with a custom mobile app. Scheduling appointments and finding contact information quickly could be some of the basics. As a marketing company, JCI is always focused on “getting eyes on” our clients and then helping them capitalize on it. A custom mobile app that your customers voluntarily download gives you their full attention so you can promote current products, new services, and more. Sure, they may be following you on Facebook or Twitter but your post is one in thousands. When customers open your custom mobile app, you’ve got eyes dedicated to you. Get creative, give your customers some extra value and get your feet wet with mobile apps, they’re here to stay and provide a great new avenue to reach your customers.

Site Launch: AikensGroup.com

Jason — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:07:56 +0000

Aikens Group is a family-owned investment company with an expansive portfolio in both commercial and residential real estate, hotels, construction, and cranes based in Winchester, Virginia. They came to JCI and were curious to see if we could address a few issues they had with their current site. The overall website design did not portray the level of company the Aikens Group is, their was little to no SEO, maintenance had to be done by a trained staff member or 3rd party, and there was no way to capture leads.

JCI Media stepped right up to the plate and created this ultra-sleek website design based on their corporate branding and portraying the level of professionalism they desired. Then we wrapped that design around a WordPress install that we custom engineered into a content management system. After we finished that, we topped it off with a custom listings management system, active Google Maps based search, lead capturing system, staff directory, and crushed the SEO.

We had a great build and will continue our relationship as we help them with pay-per-click management, site optimization, and SEO.

Site URL: www.aikensgroup.com

Site Launch: BelieversVictoryCenter.com

Jason — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:23:47 +0000

What a fantastic build! Chris Whetzel, Senior Pastor of Believers Victory Center was looking for a brand new cutting-edge website design that was easy to maintain, integrated their social medias, and included their own protected social site. We wrapped a custom-designed WordPress theme around a custom developed WordPress install and then added all of the bells and whistles; we integrated Facebook and Twitter, Disqus for commenting and sharing, their very own social network for their members, Flickr for photo albums, YouTube for video, and then topped it off with SEO and Google Analytics.

Site URL: www.believersvictorycenter.com

Site Launch: Hardynet.com

Jason — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:03:33 +0000

Our friends over at Hardy Telecommunications decided it was time to get a new look for their website. Their CMS was out of date and wasn’t user-friendly. Their goals were to create a clean, corporate design that was bright and energetic and wrap that around a new user-friendly CMS. We did exactly what we were told and wrapped a slick new vivid corporate design around a flexible Joomla CMS base. This new site not only looks great but it functions even better and we were happy to build this custom website.

Site URL: www.hardynet.net