This looks like a great little marketing tool and is based on the theory that businessesprobably miss out on a lot of opportunities to get their message across on a number ofoccasions throughout a working day.Why? Because every email sent presents a platform to get a message across and withWrapMail you can now ensure that recipients see a whole lot more than just the originalmessage you sent them.It’s a simple concept. By signing up your emails will be re-routed through a WrapMail hostedserver. Enterprise customers can of course host it themselves. Staff sending emails need donothing different as the clever ... Read more
When it comes to starting a business it’s hard enough to find the time to get all the ducks in line before it launches let alone after. Throughout all of this activity the one thing you must continue to do is spread the word and market, market, market! Read more
There’s nothing wrong with introducing a bit of competition to the workplace and if it helps productivity as well as perhaps capturing some billable hours that might otherwise have slipped through the net all the better. Read more
Why is it that sometimes you are the last to know when your email account has been hacked. Your ISP knows, the people that hacked your account know and it seems some Indian guy that keeps calling me up also knows that my computer has been compromised. Lucky for me he's just in the next town as opposed to being in Hyderabad where he sounds like he's calling from. The eponymously titled MyEmailHacked is precisely that. It's a very simple service that tracks and monitors your email account for suspicious activities and let's you know via your phone immediately if ... Read more
I can't believe how many times I've read stories about bad billing by businesses. So many businesses have disappeared off the face of the earth because they don't seem to be able to deliver an itemized and correct bill for the services used. Then there are the seemingly dodgy practices that some law firms use where they estimate a price for a specific service like photocopying at the scandalous price of ten bucks a page and hope it gets lost in the overall invoice for 'services provided.' Someone should recommend cloc.kr to these companies right now. cloc.kr is a productivity ... Read more
Just think how popular you would become if you remembered all the important events coming up over the next year or so. Firstly, of course, you'd never miss a birthday again. Maybe you you need a reminder on the earliest date you could purchase those tickets for the big festival before they sell out. Or maybe you could use Remind2.me as a business tool and schedule all your customer greetings messages for the major holidays for the year to come. This email reminder tool fulfills all those services and more. Remind2.me is a free email reminder service where you ... Read more
Qidiq is a ruthlessly efficient and seriously fast way of collecting feedback and information from all the groups whose opinions you value the most. In an interesting piece of response marketing they have developed a technique that makes it as much of an effort to delete or ignore an email as it is to answer a simple question. Hence, the response rates are much much higher. Qidiq is a simple mobile and email feedback tool for Android and iPhone that asks a group of people pertinent questions in real time. Respondents answer via email, a web interface, or an ... Read more
If you run a business with multiple locations and have to organize the shifts of a considerable labor force then getting all of those ducks in a line is no easy task. NimbleSchedule has features to cover all of the headaches usually associated with making sure people are in the right location and that shifts are covered with contingencies in place. A task which when carried out manually can take hours of valuable management time. Read more
Let's face it, pretty well every one of us has an email address these days. That's not quite the fact with a fax machine though. I've lost count of the number of times someone has said to me that they'll just fax the information to me. I don't have a fax. So how can I get a fax sent via email to my computer or mobile phone? It's simple. FaxDesk is a cost effective Android and iPhone email tool that allows customers to either send or receive faxes via their email. FaxDesk provides local fax numbers in any of ... Read more
Erbix.com provides a suite of apps aimed at small businesses allowing them to organize all activities, collaborate on projects, produce web forms and keep on top of customer relationships. There are apparently a number of apps in the Erbix bag and the main ones are covered here. Read more