One thing that's proven tricky in the past when advertising or promoting your event or product (or yourself, if it comes to that) on Facebook has been the virtual seminar. Evinar may well sound like a Arthurian adventure but in this case it's a rather wonderful event promotion application for Facebook to host any number of live events for your business (ad)venture. Here you can arrange casual hook ups, host group chat sessions and watch promotional videos with your fans and, if you are just running the one Facebook page, it's totally free. Evinar is a safe and secure ... Read more
Assuming you have a job posting to offer it makes sense to get the position out to as many of the right people that you possibly can. Zip Recruiter is a business tool to ensure that the job you have to offer reaches out to those people via twenty five of the top job boards and social networks. What's more, it does it faster, easier and cheaper than ever before and does it all from one single submission. ZipRecruiter is an innovative web-based platform that makes job posting faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before. ZipRecruiter distributes your job ... 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
Some think the 140 character limit to your Twitter tweets is too many characters while there are others who want to pontificate until the cows come home. You can't please all the people all the time. Given some of the inane ramblings of some tweeters it is probably a blessing in disguise that there is a limit but sometimes you just can't get your story across in that small amount of words and that's where Twishort comes in handy. This Twitter and blog tool let's you get your message up with a link for your avid readers to follow to ... Read more
Webfluenz is an onomatopoeically named social media monitoring application that works in similar areas to recently reviewed apps Campalyst and Sprout Social. Why on earth would you want to monitor your social media, you may ask, when it unfolds right in front of your eyes. Well, Webfluenz uses all it's tools to track your product exposure on the likes of Facebook and Twitter as well as providing numerous analytical tools to discover the influence of your social media advertising. Webfluenz is a sophisticated and intelligent social media monitoring and measurement tool which provides users with a system to listen, ... Read more
WebToTheRescue is a free set of online business solution tools that encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in users of all ages. It was developed in response to the financial crash of 2008 and provides many valuable resources for the budding entrepreneur who is looking to start up a new business. The developers realized that, after the economic downturn, there were an awful lot of talented but disenfranchised people out there that didn't have a job anymore. WebToTheRescue has developed from those simple beginnings into a major source of entrepreneurial information on the Internet. WebToTheRescue is a free, comprehensive and easy ... Read more
Over the last few years, social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook have revolutionized the way we interact and share information with our friends. Yodiz is a project management tool that does similar things but in a business oriented format. Whether you are looking for a set of personal management tools or something with a bit more oomph for your business, big or small, Yodiz is an all-encompassing development program that gives you the power to organize your life and collaborate with your co conspirators. Yodiz is a disruptive, cloud based service that claims to have made a project ... Read more
Campalyst is a very clever social media monitoring application that analyzes trends and conversations from your Facebook and Twitter accounts. It's clever because it's monitoring analytics allow you to measure and increase your ROI in real terms rather than just counting the number of 'likes' you might get. Your 'likes' might well bolster your ego but, unless they result an increase in business or a better awareness of your product or event, they aren't going to do a lot for your bank balance. Campalyst is a social media management suite of tools that help you turn interest into sales. ... Read more
It makes total sense to utilize the outstanding coverage that Facebook delivers when advertising jobs. Let's face it, with the economic climate the way its, half of your potential job candidates are probably sitting on their butts at home using social networking sites whilst job searching. Jobcast is a social media monitoring application for jobs and employment that broadcasts jobs to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other job boards to find the top talent that's out there looking for work. Read more