If you can’t afford that PA to pop your day’s agenda on your desk every morning then this could be a cheaper option. You won’t have to buy birthday and Christmas presents for it either! ContactMe looks simple enough but it will do a thorough job in getting your busy schedule organized. Once that’s sorted it can then move on and make you so much more contactable by people who just might want to spend money. Read more
Poor employees, gone are the days when you could finish a shift and forget about the boss until the next one. Once upon a time you could even ignore the ringing of the telephone just in case it was him with a desperate invitation to do some more hours. I’m being a little unfair perhaps. Although Enigmai does give business owners a greater chance of success at contacting employees out of hours that’s not all it can do. As a scheduler it not only manages shifts but can monitor attendance as well as acting as a useful employee management system. Read more
I remember a time when Human Resources went under the name of the Personnel Department and still wonder why it was felt necessary to change it. After all personnel sounds a bit like personal and has a touchy feely aspect to it. Resources on the other hand just sounds like another commodity to be chucked onto the mincing machine but I digress! 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
It’s all well and good knowing who’s visited your website but unless you react and do something about it you stand less chance of making a sale. And let’s face it in this day and age every opportunity should be grabbed with both hands. Tringify is a simple solution to help make sure you don’t miss a trick and the particular trick in question here is missing a vital follow up call. Read more
As the name suggests this one is specifically for the hair salon business and having been designed by some of those in the trade it should tint all the grey bits. As an appointment app it will certainly help get that aspect of the working week sorted out but it can do more than that. You’re never going to get the whole world to stop telephoning to book but giving customers the option to do it via your website 24/7 should cut down on a great number of them doing so. You don’t even have to have an existing website to get ... Read more
There a few apps around that enable the electronic signing of documents, which is of course a legally recognized way of sealing a deal in many countries of the world these days. Most of the ones I’ve looked at though are geared to the business community which is fairly understandable given its regular and on-going requirement in this area. Signnow, whilst it is shortly to launch a ˈProˈ version, is very much an electronic signing tool for the one-off needs of personal users. With that in mind it follows that there are no registration procedures to go through and it’s all ... Read more
Getting together with a bunch of chums to buy a gift for one of the crowd is always a good idea. That is until it comes to crunch time and money has to change hands. People forget or suddenly don’t have the cash and you’re left holding the baby. If this scenario sounds familiar then you could make your life a whole lot easier by setting up a gift account with Let’s Gift It. This great looking app will take away the strain of getting everyone who committed to the cause to pay up. What’s more even if some of your ... Read more
Of the many weekly shift scheduling apps out there this one certainly looks to be up there with them as far as functionality goes with drag and drop features making the operation stress free and fast. If you’re still plotting your staff’s workload on a spreadsheet and then pinning it to the noticeboard you really should take a look at rotaville. You can still print out a copy of the weekly schedule if you like but with a good level of collaboration available on this system there are better ways to notify staff. Read more
If you’re looking for a free way to annoy people with one of those pre-recorded telephone calls then this is the place for you. Unfortunately you’ll only get the pleasure of annoying 25 people a week with the free version so if you’re bent on disturbing greater numbers of the public you’ll have to open your wallet. Automatedcalls.com does exactly what it says on the tin and has been doing so for a few years now. In its defense it does state in the FAQ section that it does not allow unsolicited sales or marketing calls or texts but it’s difficult ... Read more