With the employment situation the way it has been for the last few years it's no wonder there are more and more people out there looking for new opportunities or trying to hold onto and improve on what they have got. Importing and exporting is an option that can't be ignored. Buy from one country - sell to another that wants it or sell to stores in your own country. Sicex is an online database that lists imports and exports to and from 26 different countries allowing you to analyze your competition or find out where to get that set ... Read more
To truly compete as a small business In your local area it is a good idea to be aware of what your competitors are doing and be able to adapt to any promotions they have going. If the pizza store down the road has a two-for-one deal going on you'd better have a pretty good pizza to be able to compete with them. Perch is a local marketing business tracking tool for smartphone that monitors social media and promotional activity for businesses in your local neighborhood. It's a mobile app designed for small business owners that delivers a live, ... Read more
Without a doubt, Digital Acid is one of the weirdest apps for iPhone that I've come across so far. It's an art mashup video tool that features a bunch of supposedly hallucinagenic films accompanied by their own equally trippy soundtracks. The idea behind Digital Acid is that it's virtually a digital drugs image that works by playing the video and staring at the centre of the screen and then staring at your hand to get the desired hallucinogenic effect. I can hear you laughing now but...give it a try. Digital Acid claims to be an original hallucination inducing abstract ... Read more
I love the idea that AgoraPulse regard themselves as the Swiss Army Knife of social media monitoring applications. So what does it mean? Well, it basically means that this customer relations manager and its suite of marketing tools has a tool for everything you might need to manage your Facebook pages, gain more fans and through traffic which can lead to a better return on income. No longer can you set up a Facebook page to advertise your project or event and forget about it - AgoraPulse gives you all the armory to keep your page front and center. ... Read more
With something like 10% of your website visitors now coming from mobile devices it is beginning to become imperative to have a mobile version of your website available to them. SproutMobi is a marketing and web design application for your mobile phone that provides the tools to build your own mobile friendly website simply and easily in minutes. SproutMobi was developed by a team of digital marketing professionals who wanted to create an easy to use tool for anyone to build their own mobile friendly website. With the mobile revolution well and truly upon us it's important that every ... Read more
Pingram is a free photosharing application where you can display and share your cool Instagram photos inside a tasty looking interface that works just like the very popular Pinterest. It was developed with both Instagram and Pinterest in mind because those two apps are at the cutting edge of both photo warping and addictive photosharing techniques. What's more, Pingram also serves as a URL shortener and users can get a free URL page with your very own vanity personalized address. I guess you know a fair bit about the photosharing application Pinterest by now. Its been slated as the ... Read more
It seems the days of the humble business card are nearly numbered. The introduction of a digital identity application like cloudcard almost registers them obsolete when so much information can be kept more efficiently and attractively on your mobile phone in the guise of this marketing tool. Basically, cloudcard allows you to create your own personal app where clients can click your personal icon with all your information. This includes email, links, directions to your office and even a personal introduction video, which are displayed at the touch of your mobile phone. Cloudcard allows any business person to have ... Read more
Research, as anyone who has seriously dabbled in it will know, can be a very time-consuming occupation if you want to do it properly. Factbrowser is a social and business research and marketing application for your mobile phone that simplifies research by collating all the best and most relevant results of your search from some of the most respected publications the world over. While it's pretty easy to Google or Bing your searches, Factbrowser hunts down specifically relevant publications based on the information you are looking for. Factbrowser is the discovery engine for the most compelling facts and is ... Read more
I'm not sure who this addictive little analytical and social marketplace game is aimed at but it has sure got to me. TrendFor.me could be used to assist the betting man in working out whether to have a flutter on a certain event or it could be a great way to see what people think of a specific scenario and see if they can predict what is going to happen. Either way, I was sucked in pretty easily. CPP let's you learn the opinions of your community, ask your own questions or just seeing what people are predicting will happen ... Read more
If only every store adopted a system as forward thinking and organized as FloraMenu the world would be a better place. Here is a marketing application designed for flower shops that would be a boon to adopt for every single retail shop in town. Not only a point of sales system but a complete customer relations management system that enables you to keep track and manage the wants and needs of every single customer that comes into your store instantly. It gives you the best possible chance of growing your business by providing the best customer service that a retail ... Read more