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Civic Digital

Real Time Mobile App Content Management System

Designed for destinations, visitor and convention bureaus, neighborhoods, schools, resorts, events and festivals.

Overview

Civic provides real time content management tuned for travel and tourist destination markets, visitor and convention bureaus, neighborhoods, events and festivals.

Problem

Mobile content is on lockdown. Many organizations sought native or hybrid mobile apps because it was the new thing to do. However, soon updates became not only costly, but also time consuming in AppStore and GooglePlay approval procedures.

Solution

Leveraging the latest tools in web and mobile development, I’ve spun up Civic with an inaugural client, Virginia City. It appears ‘Ye Ole Virginia City App’ is actually on the cutting edge of technology. Special features include real time mobile CMS, push notifications, geolocation and geofenced tours, visitor guide, and in-app ads.

Benefits

By focusing on delivering a tuned CMS for a market, we can tailor solutions to a B2B2C relationship for agencies, marketers and clients. Organizations can manage their mobile apps in real time, providing push content and instant updates to connected devices. This works for anything from simple posts to real time sports scores to raffles. This approach significantly reduces mobile app development costs, and allows owners to manage their content independent of publish updates to the AppStore and GooglePlay. And do it instantly.

Responsibilities

• Product Innovation and Leadership
• Remote Employee Management
• Branding / Corporate Identity
• Web App Design / Development
• Mobile App Design / Development
• Graphic Design, Print and Web Advertising
• Accounting / Budgeting
• Sales / Marketing / SEO / Analytics

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QuickBooks Time and Expense Tracking in the Cloud

Minute7 is a cloud based QuickBooks Time Tracker replacement enabling employees or vendors to enter time and expenses from their desktops and mobile devices.

Problem

No one likes to do timesheets, particularly the bookkeeper when they come logged in Excel. Being a stickler for my client’s budgets, I was that bookkeeper for ZLC, and suddenly found myself copying/pasting hundreds of entries into QuickBooks every month for invoicing. I needed a more efficient way for my contractors and employees to enter time and expenses. I needed a web-based time entry app that could sync with a desktop version of QuickBooks. So we built it.

Solution

Digging through Intuit’s documentation for QuickBooks, I found that it was possible to sync via an XML Gateway API. I directed my developers to build a solution. Requirements: It had to be user friendly, reliable and secure. I demonstrated the app to a colleague and we were convinced there was room for us in the industry. We started selling Minute7: QuickBooks Time and Expense Tracking. We made it simple. Just $4 per user, per month. There are no signup, setup, software, hardware, download or update costs. One can sign up for a free trial and cancel at any time with no obligations. There is no impact on QuickBooks data if one cancels.

Results

Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine’s December 2010 issue, just three years after development started, we experienced a surge in growth due to Intuit’s decision to discontinue their Time and Billing Manager app. Thousands of customers were evicted and sought third party providers, Minute7 was ready and earned over a 1000 new customers in one quarter alone. We continued onboarding an average of 100 new customers every month.

Responsibilities

• Company Leadership
• Product Ownership
• Remote Employee Management
• Accounting, Budgeting
• Sales / Marketing
• Branding / Corporate Identity
• Graphic Design / Advertising
• Web Design / Development
• Mobile App Design / Development
• Tradeshows / Conferences
• PCI Compliance / Data Encryption
• Business Valuation and Sale
• Training Videos / Video Production
• Service Support / Management
• Search Engine Optimization / Conversion Analytics
• Email Marketing / AB Testing / Conversion Tracking