The worst problem with keeping a note taking application on your iDevice is that they never really get used. I'm still constantly astounded by friends who, despite having perfectly fine note-taking apps on their iPhone, still pull out a pen and paper when they need to take notes, phone numbers or important details down. One can only assume that the apps they have are not user-friendly enough. So when an app like NotesBox comes along it is easy to see how it could well gazump all the others and become the industry standard. NotesBox looks like a million dollars and ... Read more
Data monitoring seems to have come of age over recent years, especially since the app revolution really took off. Up until recent years, the fine art of analytics and monitoring was a rather turgid and time consuming experience that nobody really wanted to take on. But with analytical tools like Google Analytics, Convertable and now Librato to help you out, data monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business have become so much easier. Librato let's you measure everything you need in one place and keep all your applications running smoothly. Librato provides a complete cloud-based solution for ... Read more
There are plenty of businesses where customers virtually demand to have an ongoing relationship. By that I mean occupations like real estate agents, networkers and financial advisers. It's almost as if your client is sitting on the phone waiting for your call and, if they don't get it, they are either going to be mighty peeved at you for not keeping in touch with them or they will take their business elsewhere. Either way you can lose a good client for life or, at the very least, a sale. Musubi takes the difficulty out of relationship building and gives you ... Read more
First up, let's just say that this social media based application just looks...cool! But what does it do? Well, the name is a good indication. Blurtopia that is designed to give you possible answers to the questions you want to ask via your social friends. They are the sort of questions you 'blurt' out to your friends when you are out socializing or maybe you just want someone's opinion of a situation you've been mulling over. You could be trying to find the answer to world peace or whether your local team will win today. It really doesn't matter if ... Read more
I still find it quite amazing that so many businesses still use a pen and paper when booking appointments for customers - especially when there are online appointment schedule applications like BookerLooker available. Many will say its a costing problem and they can't afford it while others will say that they are too complicated to set up and maintain. So, how about if I said to you that I could find one that not only lets your customers book their appointments whenever they wanted and pick a time that suited both parties. And then how about if I told you ... Read more
***A Very Special Offer for Small Business from FeedMyApp and Bitrix24*** We would like to offer ten of our readers the chance to win a very special startup license from Bitrix24. A startup license is pretty much the equivalent of Bitrix' Professional Plan and worth up to US$2400. It includes everything from Social Communications, Tasks & Projects, Calendars, Files & Documents, CRM, Bitrix24Drive, Extranet, Time Management, Meetings, Reports and your Own Domain Name. The only criteria is that the startup license has a limit of up to 12 users so this offer is perfect for a small business. ... Read more
When we reviewed the first release of this excellent business intranet application last year you might remember us singing it's praises from many rooftops. Essentially, it's a social network just like the Facebook that we all know, love(?) and are familiar with - but the difference here is that Bitrix24 is built for a work environment. Now the developers have upgraded the app specifically for iOS. Now you can easily log in to your totally safe and secure business social intranetwork whenever you want and from wherever you can get an Internet connection. Bitrix24 creates a unified work space for ... Read more
The whole purpose of an analytics application like Positionly is to improve the outcome of your search engine optimization. The end result being a possible improvement in a website's SEO ranking. This iOS app provides a whole set of powerful tracking and flexible tools to analyze daily changes, measure keyword performance and generally improve rankings. It is a cost effective and simple to use answer to SEO analytics that works in real-time. Positionly is a user-friendly and easy to use SEO monitoring solution, making what could be a complex process, into a much more efficient and enjoyable experience. It ... Read more
Staff training and evaluation used to be a quite labor-intensive and time consuming activity and generally used to involve bringing in people from outside the business who were trained in the process. This is disruptive for your staff as well as being somewhat costly. While this may be fine for multinationals it doesn't necessarily suit the budget of the smaller organization. SkyPrep is a new cloud-based, online LMS (Learning Management System) application that is designed to train and test your employees simply and easily. Upload all your source material, create tests and discover how your employees understand your business or ... Read more
More and more businesses these days are adopting the idea of an internal business social collaboration network to aide communication in the workplace. For a start, most people are pretty familiar with the social network concept and use it on a regular basis so the learning factor is minimal. But secondly, it allows your workers to communicate in individual teams as well as across the whole business and negates the need for endless emails and time spent in meetings. Communifire is a new enterprise social collaboration application that makes for superb real-time communication between your staff while still retaining control ... Read more