To truly compete as a small business In your local area it is a good idea to be aware of what your competitors are doing and be able to adapt to any promotions they have going. If the pizza store down the road has a two-for-one deal going on you'd better have a pretty good pizza to be able to compete with them. Perch is a local marketing business tracking tool for smartphone that monitors social media and promotional activity for businesses in your local neighborhood. It's a mobile app designed for small business owners that delivers a live, ... Read more
Streamd.in is a localized geolocation app for Android, iPad and iPhone that attempts to take your Twitter account to a different level. It focuses tweets emanating from specific places the world over and delivers them complete with location map and, as an added bonus, you can even chat and video chat with your fellow tweeters. You can browse tweets from your local neighborhood or concentrate on a specific city or any countries around the world. Streamd.in for IOS and Android is a free and easy to use browser-based and geolocation based Twitter client. The primary focus of the app ... Read more
We are all reasonably well acquainted with Facebook's Timeline by now and have come to accept it as the new way of viewing Mark Zuckerberg's social empire. Businesses are starting to get serious about using Facebook as an advertising tool and TimelineTab follows on from apps like Facebook Timeline Cover Maker, Cover Photo Maker and Picscatter in providing a new look for the new look Timeline. However, the big difference here is that Timeline Tab is geared as an advertising tool for medium to small businesses and provides a while heap of extras to create your Tabs as well as ... Read more
Roamz was featured as one of the Australian Business Review Weekly's top 10 start ups to watch recently. It's a clever little real time application for your mobile that shows the user completely up-to-date information of what's going on in your local area. It does this by gathering, collating and curating information from the social side of the Internet and delivering it to you based on your particular interests and preferences. Roamz is a free iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app that makes sense of social media noise in real time to show users up-to-date information about what is ... Read more
There are endless ways of advertising your product on Facebook. There seems to be another innovation every couple of months and BrandMask certainly throws it's keys onto the table with this social Facebook advertising application. Brandmask is a free application where you can mark the brands you like in various fields then the social side kicks in and you can find people who think similarly and receive special offers from the relevant brands. BrandMask is a fascinating new kind of social advertising application for Facebook. The general idea is to go there create your own "Brand-Profile" and mark a ... Read more
LocAlerts is a damned good geolocation based reminder board that would be absolutely brilliant for a road trip or a holiday away. Keep this search and reminder tool on your iPad or your iPhone and it will give you the perfect way to research your trip as well as giving you the ability to add stuff as you go. So its easy to note down a virtual to-do list before you go and add details like addresses and phone numbers of friends and sights and any other stuff that you need to make a note of along the way. And ... Read more
Dear oh dear, whatever next? I guess I’m getting a bit too old for new crazes in the pubs and bars of the world but just reading the developers blurb for this one gives a strong enough hint that the art of conversation and personal interaction is sadly on the way out. There is obviously a market for something like this as the site points out what we all know already. That is on that many a night out with a group of friends at least half of them will spend more time tapping away at their cell phones than taking part ... Read more
CarOcean is a new car advertising app from the United Kingdom that collects moto ads concerning used cars, motorbikes and car parts. It also delivers a very detailed, speedy and advanced search engine that let's you get to the heart of your moto desires by giving you the option to search for your dream car. That means, if you are desperate to buy a cerise colored car, then that's exactly what you can search for. It's a very user friendly and free app that really does make it easy for you to find the perfect motor vehicle for you. CarOcean ... Read more
It's got to the point now that everybody in business has a business card and they pretty well all look exactly the same. There have been attempts to radically alter the shape and design by creating 3D triangular business cards and all sorts of other shapes but they are really only gimmicks. Now that we have moved into the digital world with mobiles and apps ruling the roost it might be time to move onto a design more suited to those mediums. App2Card is a new advertising app for mobiles and tablets that creates impressive and unique business cards for ... Read more
If you are serious about your online business you will no doubt adopt several different tools to analyze how your website is performing. The are so many different kinds of analytical tools available out there right now. Tools where you can check your traffic and even tools to work out which parts of your site are working better than others. But two areas that arent often analyzed are how others see you from different countries around the world and how your competitors sites look compared to your own. Proxypic is an analytical tool that gives you a great overview of ... Read more