Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Ron Jones. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Ron, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s start with what makes profitability in your industry a challenge – what would you say is the biggest challenge?
For us engagement is key so the biggest challenge is getting a large number of engaged users. Getting downloads is only half the battle, those users need to like the app enough to keep using it then love it enough to use it often
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
Ron Jones is Chairman and CEO of Collective Minds Inc. He is also the owner and developer of the app “Are They Hooping” as well as several others.
Ron is a highly skilled mobile iOS developer with expertise in Swift and strong knowledge in Java and Kotlin with regards to Android development. Strengths include excellent verbal communication in English and Spanish as well as strong knowledge about computers and programming. Experienced with development, production and management with corporate and entrepreneurial development experience.
Collective Minds Inc is a company that’s dedicated to promoting artists and giving them the exposure they deserve as well as a technology company. CMI promote artists and business through their site, social media, blog and magazine. And also develop mobile apps and provide other technical solutions. Their biggest app is Are They Hooping which allows users to see whose playing basketball near them as well as open gyms near them and other social features such as friends, a timeline, messaging, and even ranking.
Finally, as a spoken word poet he published his first book “The Ill Lines of an Ill Mind” in 2017.
How’d you meet your business partner?
My business partner Kenny was a high school basketball teammate and friend of mine. We both went our separate ways to play college basketball. He went up north and I stayed home in GA. Our late years before graduation we got reconnected and Kenny loved what I was starting and helped me build it to what it is today
We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?
We started our social media page as free promotion. We would ask people if we could promote their art or business and then shout them out. Eventually we amassed a following of over 10k just doing that. Which opened the door to more creative strategies like commercials and promo videos
Contact Info:
- Website: Http://www.collectivemindsincorporated.com
- Instagram: @ronjones32
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/18jXn9BgXe/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Linkedin: Https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronjones32
- Twitter: @ronjones32
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@aretheyhooping?si=-ElQS-6scyucHC1w
- Other: Https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ath-pickup-basketball-app/id1308216985
