If you are a business that deals in direct-sales then you are going to need a full set of business tools to ensure your enterprise has the best chance of success. You could write everything up in a ledger like in days of old or use a combination of accounting and business tools to keep you on top of everything. Flourish is a very clean and professional set of business tools that provides you with all the ammunition to deal with everything from inventory, invoice creation, customer relations and reporting. It's a very user friendly way of managing your direct ... Read more
You can moan and groan about Facebook's supposed invasions of privacy and constant changing format but it really is the most astonishing of social networks. One of the more interesting ways it is developing is in it's ability to advertise your products for you without complicated codes and downloads and do it damned fast. StoreYa takes that one step further by providing the tools to import your web store into Facebook and provide another shopfront to advertise and sell your merchandise in from of a potential audience of millions of people. It turns your e-commerce into an F-commerce platform in ... Read more
With money a little tight these days it's probably time that some businesses started to think outside the box to encourage new customers or to energize the one's you have already. Seconds is an ecommerce app for your mobile that is based in the cloud and makes life easier for your customers by providing another way of placing orders and keeping in touch with you apart from the normal face-to-face encounters. Seconds is ideal for food orders enabling customers to give you their lunch order without having to call you direct. Seconds gives customers a better way to talk ... Read more
BeamSnap is a revolutionary free online marketplace that utilizes the strengths and advantages of selling sites like eBay and the social interaction of the social networking experience. Here is a marketplace app that provides a platform for it's members to share, buy and sell specific products. One of the best things about BeamSnap is that every product has an equal chance of getting promoted to fellow members and followers no matter whether they are cheap or expensive. BeamSnap is unlike any other social networking site. What makes it different from sites like eBay and iOffer is that it is ... Read more
If you are planning on continuing your education next year then you are going to have to think about books. Text books. They can be pretty expensive, can't they? So a bit of pre-planning is required to get the books you need and still have enough to eat and pay the rent. SlugBooks could well be the answer to your problems. Find your textbooks now! This rather useful and intelligent education app offers you the chance to tell them which school and classes you are taking so they can not only tell you which books you are going to need ... Read more
Without doubt the most tiresome thing about joining up to sites on the Internet is the form filling. Filling in pretty well the same information each time you go to a site isn't necessary now, though. Dashlane works as your personal net assistant and offers a number of security tools to make your Internet experience a productive and safe one. No longer will you have to log in to individual websites or even remember passwords. Dashlane fasttracks you inside via a trusted and secure express log in that will give you immediate access to all of them. Read more
If your email inbox is anything like mine is it will be half organized. I mean to have everything compartmentalized and neat and prioritized but, unfortunately, I often run out of time and it never gets finished. What I really need is a personal assistant to sort everything out. And that is where Contactually comes in very handy. This customer relations management (crm) tool for your email increases your productivity by prioritizing your contacts and prompting you to automatically reconnect with your most important contacts at the right time Contactually is about bringing business efficiency tools to where they ... Read more
I’ve seen a few good booking apps around and this one is certainly up there in terms of look and ease of use. If you run a service business such as a hair salon, photographic studio or equipment rental shop then Book’d will enable you to create a website styled to your choice and start taking online bookings, and better still online payments, in minutes. As you would expect with a system like this it not only makes it easy for your customers to book, and with that a reduction in the time you spend on the telephone, it also brings a ... Read more
When most businesses start out no doubt they can handle customer enquiries in the old fashioned way. With a small customer base and a small team to go with it the old ˈsticky note pressed on to a screenˈ ploy usually does the trick. The other choice of course is to forward an email, hope for the best and then try and remember which member of the team you forwarded it to so you can follow it up. The problem with both of these methods is that they leave themselves open to human error and a poorly addressed customer enquiry simply ... Read more
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