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
When it comes to marketing and promotion it seems that the old coupon method is still a big favourite with the public. Of course these days you don’t just see them in newspapers and magazines surrounded by dotted lines and the symbol for a pair of scissors, they come at you electronically too. Read more
The guys behind this app have put some serious thought into it and anyone with a web based business will surely find some of its features provide for eye opening analysis. Read more
If you look at the quality of many Facebook Pages you wonder why they bother sometimes. It's all very well creating your very own page but you're fooling yourself if you think thats the end of the story.not going to get a lot of people returning to see you unless you keep it interesting. Pinpoint Social is a Facebook marketing and promotion design tool for creating contests and giveaways to reward your customers and help you gain more fans. Any business, marketer or designer can now create powerful Facebook Page contests and giveaways with Pinpoint Social - the smart ... Read more
If you’re a small independent retailer you probably think the big boys have had it all their own way for long enough and you wouldn’t be alone. Not only can they often beat you on price due to their bulk buying capacity they seem to possess all the necessary tricks for analyzing their customer’s behaviour and buying habits. Read more
Do you remember your dreams? I used to have a recurring dream a few years back where there would be large jellybeans slowly flying past my head in space in a Star Wars formation when I was anxious about something. Any budding psychoanalysts out there want to have a go at that one? I wish I could remember more because I find the whole thing fascinating. DreamDoze is an advice and knowledge share tool that allows people to share and document their dreams and have them interpreted by people from different perspectives. The interpreters range from other dreamers to ... Read more
Good website owners and managers will keep a constant eye on their online performance. Great ones will find an analytical tool that will transform the confusing stuff into valuable business insights. DashThis! is a business stats management tool for your domain that will create executive dashboards from any Google Analytics account. It delivers a wealth of analytics to help even the most Luddite of business managers make sense of it. DashThis! Wants to change the way you've been dealing with web analytics. The goal is to transform confusing analytics into valuable business insights for small and medium business managers, ... Read more
For businesses and traders who haven’t got the time, or perhaps more importantly the money, to create a website capable of pulling in enough custom to pay for it then Merchant Circle is worth looking at. Read more
Writing can be a lonely occupation especially when you do it on a freelance basis and from the confines of your home office. The old ego needs massaging occasionally too but that requires seeking out like-minded people who will read your work and give appropriate feedback. Read more
It's all well and good to monitor your website performance by eye but sometimes a little deeper analysis is required if you really want to be on your game. Userlook is a web monitoring platform that enables you to see what's happening with your website right now so you can react immediately and optimize it's frontline to engage customers more readily. Userlook provides a lot of features for real-time monitoring of your website. You can see what is happening on site right now and react fast on site events and empower your frontline to engage customers. After a quick ... Read more