With the employment situation the way it has been for the last few years it's no wonder there are more and more people out there looking for new opportunities or trying to hold onto and improve on what they have got. Importing and exporting is an option that can't be ignored. Buy from one country - sell to another that wants it or sell to stores in your own country. Sicex is an online database that lists imports and exports to and from 26 different countries allowing you to analyze your competition or find out where to get that set ... 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
I can only see a couple of slight issues with this one, ingenious though it is and we’ll come to them a little later. Getting out of bed can be a tough call for a lot of people and it doesn’t matter what method you use, alarm clocks of all shapes and sizes can just be switched straight off when the annoying noise gets too much. This one takes the method of getting a reliable friend to pop round and throw a brick through your bedroom window to new heights. It’s nothing as destructive of course but it does bring me to ... Read more
Here is a security app that acts is if it's a security guard on site overseeing and protecting all the comings and goings on your website and reporting to you any anomalies. It will notify you of any major issues that might crop up including malware and spam, outdated or expiring programs and certificates, downtime and defacements plus a whole lot more. WebSecurityMonitor will help you get to sleep at night while it patrols your site. Read more
How influential do you really think you are? You know what they say...sometimes it's not so much what you know as who you know. Klout works along those lines. It is a social analytical business tool that tracks the impact that your messages make and also analyzes your friendships and professional connections and your influence on them. Klout is an app that's all about personal publishing analytics and understanding the impact of your messages. Read more
I’m not sure about some of the functions on this one. Whilst I can see the merits of a few I can see the at least one of them causing some confusion amongst restaurant staff as well as diners. As a reservation management system and customer reporting tool it looks to have all of the bases covered to enable business owners to monitor diner volumes and cancellations. It could also be a useful marketing tool. Read more
This is a simple little app that could help businesses of all shapes stay firmly in the minds of valuable customers. The alerts generated by the system don’t even have to carry a selling message as they can simply be important reminders from say an accountancy firm that needs to alert clients about tax or company return deadlines. Alerts can be sent via email or SMS and they can all be customized to carry your businesses logo, other images and text content. From the forms page you can create your required alert for a particular customer and then schedule when ... Read more
If you run a news or blog site, or indeed if you run several of them, NewsCurve is likely to be something of real interest to you. Some of the guys contributing to your site might not think so but hey that’s their problem. Read more
Leftronic creates beautiful and powerful dashboards for your company's most important data. No matter whether you are tracking web engagement, user activity, server stats or, most importantly, sales you will be kept totally up-to-date. Leftronic is a very cool looking domain stats tool for Real-Time Metrics that gathers together allm Leftronic's software makes it incredibly easy to deploy powerful dashboards to track the data that matters most and enables companies to monitor their key metrics in real-time! The user can aggregate a company’s metrics from numerous services like Google Analytics, Twitter and Zendesk and present them in a visually ... Read more
Are you a bit snowed under with overview data from your websites? It can be hard to get an overall view of the real picture when it's spread across so many pages. You are doing the right thing in analyzing your sites but it would be nice if all that relevant information could be collated onto a single page for simplicity, wouldn't it? Gauges is a domain stats tool that will change the way you think about analytics by collecting and analyzing the web traffic data for all your sites and presenting them to you on one single page making ... Read more