Google's Mobile Milestone

Business Insider had a very interesting article today about Google's mobile milestone.

This is important to all businesses in America today.

Here is the killer quote...

"Mobile devices will account for more than 50% of all paid ad clicks on Google in the U.S. by December 2015, according to a search marketing company that handles $6 billion in online spending.

What this means is that in 2015, for the first time mobile — not desktop — will be the de facto main screen of online life."

If you are like me, you  have been seeing your number of clicks through Adwords and organic search decline steadily over the past several years. If you want to know where they are going, this article is very good proof where they are going.

Your Web Site Will be Less Important than Your App

This is not what many of you want to hear, but that does not make it true. Most businesses just finished fully committing to the web and now the world is changing again.

My suggestion, do not procrastinate.

Your Employees Work Flow Will Change

Your employees need to be able to work on the devices they have with them.

That is why we have been so aggressive for the past three years in putting mobile development of our ACORD forms services in front of all other development.

Here is a short - 59 second - video highlighting the service that will make you feel more professional than ever.





Change is happening faster than ever. At Cap Dat ACORD we a determined to stay ahead of it for you.

I'm Back - and Happy to be back

I have been away far too long, but I am thrilled to be back to regular posting.

We have made so many changes to our Cap Dat ACORD service in two years it is hard to decide where to start.

The biggest thing has been our complete re-write to build a tablet based tool.

Now you can use our ACORD forms service with exactly the same user experience - screens, commands, etc. from your desktop browser or your iPad or Android or Microsoft tablet.

Now you can truly do your work anywhere you need to be.

Here is a link to a few videos that show our new Cap Dat ACORD user interface...

http://www.simply-easier-acord-forms.com/cap_dat_acord_videos.html

We built it to be the most intuitive ACORD forms service in the world. I think we succeeded.

We are also giving you free access to try us out.

Sign up here to take her for a spin.

Again, glad to be back. And it will be more about the details of ACORD forms than ever before.

Yours,

Duke

Electronic Proof of Insurance

Electronic Proof of Insurance

Allows you customer to take a picture of their Proof of Insurance Card while in your phone app, save the picture onto their phone and display the picture to any police officer asking for proof of insurance.

New Laws This Year

As of this writing these state will accept electronic proof of insurance.

1. Alabama
2. Arizona
3. California
4. Colorado
5. Idaho
6. Louisiana
7. Minnesota

What Exactly is Acceptable as Electronic Proof of Insurance

The Colorado law uses this wording…

“This may be, but is not limited to, insurer provided electronic image/proof on applicant’s cellular phone, lap top, or other portable type of electronic device.”

Idaho uses this wording…

“This may be, but is not limited to, insurer provided electronic image/proof on applicant’s cellular phone, lap top, or other portable type of electronic device.”

Louisiana’s wording is…

“an image of the card or similar documents

26 capable of being displayed on a mobile electronic device,”

Arizona wording

“The card meets the requirement or an image of the card that is displayed on a wireless communication device meets the requirement”

Minnesota does not define the format, only that “The insurance identification card may be provided
2.3 in an electronic format if the insured agrees.” 

California also does not define the file format.

No Right to View Other Content

If only a picture is needed, then the insured can always just take their phone and take a picture of their Proof of Insurance Card setting on their desk. But do they really what to let the police officer look at all the other pictures in their Gallery while they try and find the one they took of their Proof of Insurance?

All of the laws include language making it clear that the police officer has no right to view any other material on the mobile device or that the action of showing your Proof of Insurance on your mobile device is not permission to provide any other access to your mobile device.

Here is the California wording:

“(g) For the purposes of this section, when a person provides evidence of financial responsibility using a mobile electronic device to a peace officer, the peace officer shall only view the evidence of financial responsibility and is prohibited from viewing any other content on the mobile electronic device.”

Give Your Insureds a Helpful Tool

Adding this form to your agency’s phone app is another way to provide better customer service.

Let us know if you want this added to your app.

Issue Receipts from your Mobile Device

ACORD ONE now lets you issues receipts or invoices from your tablet or smart phone.

Watch this 2 minute and 48 second video,

ACORD ONE is the first provider of Mobile ACORD Forms.

ACORD ONE is a service of Simply Easier ACORD Forms.

Tablets are Becoming the New Paper

We have been developing new products for the iPad and Android tablets lately.

One of the things that is becoming really clear to me is that tablets are becoming the new paper.

Just like a piece of paper, the tablet is a flat rectangular surface. You can write and draw on it with a stylus just like you use a pencil or pen to write on a piece of paper.

So you can use it exactly like a piece of paper, but then it gets better. You can save what you do to an electronic document, email it, save the data to a database. To do all these things if you had written on a piece of paper would require scanning and re-keying.

As compared to a laptop or desktop computer, the tablet starts instantly and gives you a touch screen. Big deals when you need a signature.

Here is a short - 2 minute and 34 second - video of our small contribution to the re-imagining paper as a tablet.

This is our ACORD One and Field Agent service. It includes mobile ACORD forms, best practices forms, and field survey and diagram forms.

Enjoy.

Android Mobile ACORD Forms App Development

Just got back from the Verizon store. What a thrill - not.

But here is what is thrilling. We bought a Droid 2 for our newly formed mobile app team.

I hope we will be the first mobile app for ACORD forms.

The clock has started ticking.

Publish ACORD Forms

We have just added a feature that allows you to publish any blank form in Cap Dat ACORD to your website.

Your Benefits

Let your visitors sent you completed forms
Completed form is automatically added to your Cap Dat ACORD system
The data in the completed form can be used in other forms or other programs

Here is a 3 minute and 2 second video of how this works







Or learn more at Simply Easier ACORD Forms Publish Forms