If you were waiting for the next 'great leap forward' in online sales for the small business or online shop then you need to look no further than this innovative free Facebook ecommerce application. Given the potential audience that is available through Facebook, Ravox gives you the opportunity to capitalize on its pulling power by letting you create a completely personalizable online shop and sell your goods to your friends and followers. But that's not all. If you don't have anything to sell, you can also earn money by promoting and sharing other people's products and claim a portion of ... Read more
If your business wants to stay one step ahead of the pack it's not just a question of advertising your business online and hoping for the best. The huge advertising and marketing potential of Facebook provides one way of promotion that can't be ignored. And, with millions of potential customers just sitting at their computer or on their mobiles and tablets every day, it might be the time to do as the big boys do and start a custom made app. ShortStack is a great set of business tools that lets you further your online presence with contests, sweepstakes and ... Read more
A few years ago I tailored my skills as a writer by writing a blog for a video and DVD organization but I would spend half my time researching interesting information on what I thought my reading audience wanted to hear. These days, those same research skills are still used by writers and businesses worldwide though things are a wee bit better organized and analyzed in the techno savvy 21st Century. Inbound writer is an Internet marketing app for writers to optimize their online content and gives them a much clearer vision of what their viewing audience is talking about ... Read more
There has been a stumbling block that has prevented many talented individuals and small (and not so small) businesses from opening their own website and the reason is the price that it costs to put it together, not to mention hosting it. The nearest you could get to a free website was a Cool Mojito Facebook page but now there's a new sherif in town - and it's name is Aircus. This excellent free web design and web hosting application walks you through a simple but effective website builder in minutes with heaps of features to advertise yourself, your brand, ... Read more
Staff appraisals have become a bit of a regular thing over the last ten years or so, especially in larger companies. But, while it is a very useful tool to find out where your staff is going right (or wrong,) it can become a time consuming job to oversee, conduct and analyze. Appraisd is a new business management application that offers easy to use, online staff appraisal templates and performance and feedback reports to monitor your team's progress. This staff appraisal app is built to serve both large and small businesses and even offers the chance to import your own ... Read more
RefreshMe is one of those Android apps that makes you wonder why they didn't include it with the cell phone as standard issue in the first place. Very simply, the app gives you a rundown of previous discussions with your incoming contact so that you don't act like a blithering fool or have to hunt around for your notes from the last time you spoke or exchanged texts. Not only will it show you the last time you connected with your caller but it will also remind you of the items you discussed. And, as a very useful final bonus, ... Read more
It's a bit sad really. The fact is, the days of the spreadsheet as we know it, are pretty numbered. While they have served us well, they can be a little cumbersome and better results and analysis can be achieved using other methods. Whether we are using them as an inventory at home for books and cd's or in a business sense to log personnel details or research documents it makes more search now to use a data management application instead. Flextory is an easy to use Software as a Service management system where you can create a spreadsheet for ... Read more
Everybody hates filing stuff away, don't they. It's the most boring job in the office and nobody likes to be the one to do it. So, despite our best intentions, there always seems to be a bunch of stuff to file away at the end of every day. Eventually, that pile gets so big that it's unmanageable. Personally though, it's not so much the filing that gets to me as trying to find what I'm looking for afterwards and working out what I filed it under. Well, Openera just came into your life to solve both those problems at the ... Read more
Things have changed dramatically over the years for professional drivers. No more is it possible to just jump in the cab and transport your goods across the country. These days drivers are often required to fill in logbooks detailing length of trips and rest periods taken etc. With many businesses you won't get paid unless you fill in details of your trip in a log. DriverMatePro is a set of time tracking Tools for Android and iOS that gives you everything you need to keep logs on multiple journeys. Work schedules, live job offers, trip logs are all featured in ... Read more
Convertable is a quite wonderful set of analytic business tools aimed at online marketers that takes Google Analytics to another level. While Google provides aggregated stats on the analytics data of submitted forms, Convertable takes it one step further by analyzing each form individually and then let's you track them through the whole sales and purchase process. As usual with most of these enterprising business apps, this one was born out of the frustration of a marketing team to be able to isolate where every one of their leads were really coming from and the individual ROI on each. ... Read more