It is said that many businesses spend up to 80% of their time collecting and analyzing data and creating reports. While this is an admirable trait as it's essential to know what your customers want and how well your business is running, 80% is a ridiculous amount of time to spend on it when that time could be used making business decisions rather than overanalyzing them. Cyfe is a web-based business and analytical set of tools that helps you bring all your business metrics into one single location. What impact can an 80% loss in performance have on your ... Read more
LicenseQuote is the missing link in the process that means that the independent musician can actually become totally independent. It's a licensing e-commerce solution for independent musicians, music publishers, music labels, catalogs and libraries that licenses compositions and recordings straight from their own website and enabling them to keep every last cent of sales revenues. LicenseQuote is a music licensing e-commerce solution Software As A Service (SAAS) that provides a powerful array of publishing and licensing tools for music publishers to set up and manage their own branded licensing store on their own websites to facilitate licensing sales transactions ... Read more
It's got to the point now that everybody in business has a business card and they pretty well all look exactly the same. There have been attempts to radically alter the shape and design by creating 3D triangular business cards and all sorts of other shapes but they are really only gimmicks. Now that we have moved into the digital world with mobiles and apps ruling the roost it might be time to move onto a design more suited to those mediums. App2Card is a new advertising app for mobiles and tablets that creates impressive and unique business cards for ... Read more
Now here is one of those classic cases where an app delivers far more than you think it will when you first have a look at it. Static HTML + iFrame is a totally free marketing and promotions business application for Facebook that allows even the most Ludditesque of users to create content to soup up their Facebook promotions and advertising campaign. Static HTML (any chance of finding a more user- friendly name to call it, by the way?) provides the user with very useful Facebook marketing tools which allow both technical and non-technical users to create content for ... Read more
Goodbuzz is the beginning of a brand new form of advertising that's perfect for small businesses, artists and designers who don't have a big budget to advertise their product. It's a form of guerrilla marketing that allows you to create an advert with Goodbuzz and deposit a tip for those who view and spread the message with their friends. Everyone who then views your advert gets to split the tip money between them. So your customer wins by viewing the advert and gets paid purely for participating and the advertiser wins as they get to spread their message. If ... Read more
The thought of sheet music immediately makes me think about very serious musicians in an orchestra or a piano musician in a bar playing Frank Sinatra classics. I'm totally wrong, of course, but that's the image that comes into my head. In reality more and more sheet music is being accessed by musicians over the Internet. Tonara is a sheet music app for your iPad that takes sheet music well and truly into the 21st Century by turning it into a fun and very cool interactive experience. 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
PulseRadio is an immense online electronic music portal and radio channel tool that connects the artist to his audience as well as managers, labels, clubs, festivals and promoters. It can also have the ability to turn you into a megalomaniac DJ programmer overnight. Electro music people can be a weird bunch. You can often pick them by their twitchy faces and the constant tapping of their foot whenever they hear that strangely uplifting music that electronic can be. PulseRadio gives you the ability to unleash and advertise your own music out into the stratosphere by creating your own personal channel. Read more
Well here's a new one. There have been social networking sites for everything from business to craftspeople so why not a social network for musicians (Ed, nod to MySpace). BandLink is a networking app specifically geared towards bands and musicians and it's aim is to connect the humble muso with other similar types worldwide. Read more