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TaDaah!
The First and Only Provider of Smart Apps for Local Businesses
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We LOVE Local Businesses
Local Businesses Come In All Sizes
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SMB
Less than 500 Employees
Small Enterprises
500 to 5,000 Employees
Large Enterprises
More than 5,000 Employees
Our
Mission
To provide local businesses with an unfair advantage in attracting, engaging and delighting their customers.
Our business model
Our business model allows local businesses to use our patent-pending Applet technology on a free or subscription basis.
Our industry
We are a US-based developer of software products for marketing, sales, and customer service focused exclusively on local businesses.
Our customer
We are a SaaS platform aimed directly at local businesses, not consumers.
OUR STORY
The Story Behind Applets: A New Mobile Application Built for Local Businesses
2016
Applets
The story behind the Applet started in the summer of 2016 with a simple search query on our favorite search engine with the keywords “Northern Virginia entrepreneur programs for teens.”
Outdated Search Results
To our surprise, the results were either outdated or irrelevant. We changed a few keywords, searched a few more times, but got the same or similar results. After a few more unsuccessful queries, we figured there were simply no relevant local entrepreneur programs for our then 13-year old daughter.
Local, Social Discovery
Around the same time, my wife coincidentally discovered via a friend’s post on social media that Junior Achievement of Greater Washington (a global, non-profit youth organization with multiple offices in the Northern Virginia area) was having a one-week entrepreneurship summit for teens the following week in Fairfax, VA.
The Wrong Keywords
As it turns out, since we didn’t use the right keywords (e.g., Greater Washington, Junior Achievement, summit), our search results did not contain the local opportunity with JA that transformed our daughter’s life.
The Question That Started It All
This prompted us to ask one question, "What else is happening nearby that's not appearing in our search results?"
The Birth of the Applet
It was at this point that the concept of a mobile app specific to a physical location (an "Applet") was born. Our goal was simple . . . make it simpler, faster and cheaper for local organizations like JA of Greater Washington to connect and communicate with customers nearby.