Looking for another Android and/or iOS Developer (or two!)

Are you an iOS or Android developer (or both)? We are looking to bring on another subcontractor to help us with our mobile apps. We have projects you can start on immediately.

You need to be a great person who meets deadlines, is easy to get along with and writes superb code. We are designers and developers at heart that have the business side covered—we are ethical, pay on time, are efficient and passionate.

You can learn more about us at www.sawayaconsulting.com. If you like what you see shoot an email intro  and include links to any apps you’ve worked on. Bonus points if you do this full time so we can meet during business hours. Extra bonus points if you are in Utah.

Check out some of what we’ve done here › 

Boart Longyear Mobile App Announcement

We are thrilled to announce the release of the Boart Longyear Mobile App. This app is available for iPad and iPhone (you can get it here).

We helped Boart Longyear’s marketing department put together an app aimed at their sales people as well as current and potential customers. The app allows the sales force to have all of the most current brochures with them at all times to view or send to clients.

The app also features a QR Reader that works with Boart Longyear codes to display brochures and related website landing pages. This is a great feature to quickly connect information sent out or viewed at a tradeshow.

To keep everything working smoothly we created a backend management system so they could update, add and delete brochures from the app without needing to push out an update each time. This means that when the company changes something they can be assured that only the most recent and correct information goes out to potential clients.

We want to thank our awesome client for working with us on this project. It’s always a pleasure to work with super fun clients on projects that really hit on the goals for the business.

Get the app in iTunes ›

Scan QR code with your iPhone or Pad.

Android Icon Fail

It’s no secret that I love my Apple products—hey, we are a mac-based shop. We also do Android work though, so we are working to become more acquainted with the devices and OSs.

However, this was a setback. 

WHY WHY WHY are there 30 icon on this screen? And yes, I count the ‘web’ and the number 4/47 as icons as they are representative of an idea.

I realize this is not the fault of just the device (which accounts for 12 of the icons on the bottom).

However gReader did come installed on it and that accounts for the rest of them.

And here is the same feed on my iPad using Reeder:

Not to worry though, Apple is more than capable of an Icon Fail as well.

Keeping Button Down Shirts from Gapping

I know this post is pretty far off base from our company’s focus, but this is the only blog I have, so I’m putting it up here

This post is for girls that want to wear button down shirts and not have them gap over their bust. I love a good button down, but I was granted a generous bosom. This is how I solve the issue.

Please excuse the weird color shifts, I just knew that shirt color was going to give me fits if I used it in the tutorial, but you could see the steps better than on the black shirts.

First of all – let’s look at what we are trying to avoid:

Gross. No one wants to see that in a business meeting.

1. Put a pin in to mark the top and the bottom of the gaps.

2. Button the shirt all the way up and pin the placard down.

Make sure you get this straight and tight.

I put a plastic ruler inside the shirt so I can pin it while it is flat on the table.

3. Cut off the buttons in the sew line.

Don’t try to skip this step, oh you will want to. You will think you can use a zipper foot or something.  It won’t work. You will ruin the look and have to unpick it. Trust me on this.

4. Sew the shirt shut by sewing right on top of an existing thread line.

Back tack at the top and bottom. Be super careful to not sew the front to the back.

You can’t even really see the new line, here is a close up.

5. Glue the buttons back on!

I’m sure someone with more patience could skip this step, but this delights me.

6. Let the glue dry.

It takes approximately one bathroom break, one glass of water and one cup of coffee for this stage.

7. Sew the buttons back on.

I have a machine that sews on buttons. I double tack them all. Again, be super careful to not sew the front of the shirt to the back of the shirt.

8. Wear with pride!

This will make ironing the shirt more difficult. And (of course) you will need to pull it over your head, but if you undo the top two buttons and the bottom two it’s no more difficult than pulling on a t-shirt. I think the extra ironing/dressing effort is well worth knowing I don’t look like a floozy.

Cleaning Up and Managing Twitter Lists in 5 Steps

This is a follow up post to our Revising a Small Business Social Media Strategy post. Here we’ll focus on Twitter Lists.

1. Clean up your followers - 

1. Remove anyone you don’t want to follow anymore.
2. Review who is following you that you aren’t following, decide who to add. Don’t add people that aren’t interesting to you or haven’t tweeted in a while.
3. Be sure to block all the spammy accounts.

2. Propose some Twitter Lists

Start by thinking of what lists you know you want, for me these were:

• Friends in RL (private) – People I know outside of Twitter.
• Potentials (private)- Potential clients we are trying to land or are in negotiations with.
• Competitors (private) – Similar agencies to Sawaya Consulting.
• SAWAYA clients- Accounts run by our clients.
• SAWAYA services – Vendors and services we use.
• SLC UT Peeps – People in Salt Lake City specifically and Utah in general.
• Design/Dev/Business – Interesting tweets for our industry and about business in general.
• Food & Fun – Places we eat or go.

Expect some crossover — lots of my friends are also clients, but you want to duplicate so you don’t miss something if you only have time to read through one list in a day.

3. Add more lists and update the ones you started with.

I added another list for things I think are funny and tweaked the lists above.

4. Watch your new lists, Manage new followers

Use either Hootsuite or use the Twitter built in Lists function to read through your lists, making adjustments as necessary. Manage new followers on a case-by-case basis (so you don’t have to spend hours cleaning up again).

5. Interact!

With your new lists you have more ability to interact and read through tweets. Even if you only stay current on a few lists you can start to retweet and interact with people that interest you.

Are you someone I should be following? Let me know @sawayaconsult.