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
If you are looking to put an advertising campaign together for your business or product you might just be thinking of a series of radio ads or a set of billboards. But these days your audience may be far wider than the areas those mediums may reach. You may need a much more integrated marketing approach taking into account alternate mediums like the print and tv ads, email campaigns, social media and the web. SproutBoxMedia is an advertising app with a totally integrated outlook and is a very cost effective was of solving your promotional problems. Read more
If you are looking to put an advertising campaign together for your business or product you might just be thinking of a series of radio ads or a set of billboards. But these days your audience may be far wider than the areas those mediums may reach. You may need a much more integrated marketing approach taking into account alternate mediums like the print and tv ads, email campaigns, social media and the web. SproutBoxMedia is an advertising app with a totally integrated outlook and is a very cost effective was of solving your promotional problems. 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
My word how school life has changed! At the risk of giving my age away I was at school in the days before even photocopiers were a widespread part of a teacher’s kit. I can still remember the smell of the duplicating ink on the History hand-outs. As for the excuses about why a particularly nasty piece of homework was missing well, leaving it on the bus was about as original as I got. It follows then that a site like Schoolrack would have seemed as far away as a manned expedition to Mars but educational software has now got one ... 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
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
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
If you’re looking for a cheap and cheerful way to give your marketing activity a bit of a boost then this simple little app might well be worth considering. The only issue as far as I can see is that you’ll have to know the dates of your customer’s birthdays as well as their mobile phone numbers to make use of it. Read more