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
How's your memory? Look, it's not easy to remember all the things we humans have to keep locked away these days. It's no wonder we forget the odd thing. That's where OnQ can come in handy at home or in the workplace as a productivity application for iPhone where you can create a memo, attach a reminder to it and send it to your phone (or multiple contacts if you feel like it) to trigger a response when you need it. One problem with memos is that they are easily forgotten. Not anymore! OnQ is a free iPhone application ... Read more
Some people are genuinely great ideas people - Steve Jobs is the obvious name that comes to mind. For the rest of us we might just need a bit of help. Idea Generation Assistant is a productivity application for iPhone that aids the creative process by reorganizing your ideas into visualizations to better structure the idea process. It's intuitive and workmanlike nature can leave you more time to develop and conjure up more conceptual masterpieces and desires for the future. Idea Generation Assistant is a fast and free organization tool for iPhone that helps spark new ideas by visually ... Read more
The thing that makes 100efforts different from so many other productivity and project management tools is it's ability to give you a look at the big picture. It's speciality is dealing with requirements specs, use cases and effort estimation and it's object is to make them easier to deal with and simpler to analyze and act on. This suite of collaborative tools excels in comparing your estimated work load with expert estimation and what happens in the real world. 100efforts makes working together on requirements specs, use cases and effort estimation easier. It helps you to document, discuss, prioritize ... Read more
Boy, have we reviewed a lot of time tracking applications of late. DeskTime, CaseFox and Smart Employee Scheduling come to mind as some of the best of recent times. So what does TSheets have to offer? Well, whatever it is, it boasts a 98% customer approval rating and has been rated as the number one user friendly time tracking app by it's customers. It's main claim to fame is a clean and simple-to-use, very accurate, mobile friendly as well as flexible suite of tools that takes care of all aspects of the time sheeting and billing process. It's built with ... 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
We have reviewed many expense and money tracking apps in the last few weeks - Budget With Back In Black, My Weekly Budget and In-Ex Finance to name just three - it must be a sign of the times. The fact is, with over 80% of Americans stressed about their personal finances, it's probably time that you took matters into your own hands and organized your finances a little better. Spentable is a very fast and efficient expense tracker that you will more than likely use. It's a simple and user-friendly iPhone and Android app that will help you budget ... 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
kanban2go, in initials-speak, is a task management application that organizes your TD list and helps you to GTD! Roughly translated that means that it manages your To-Do list and enables you to GetThings Done! This free productivity tool can be used on any device to effortlessly organize, prioritize and manage your work in a small team environment and just generally make your professional or personal life less complicated enabling you to achieve stuff. kanban2go is a visual online task management software. It lets you simplify managing your To Do lists effortlessly from any device using your intuitive mind instead ... Read more