If somebody had asked you to get involved with an online social network called Facebook all those years ago do you think you would have taken it any further? If you did, of course, you would probably be sitting pretty right now. So if a new social network was about to start up that has something new to offer and offered you the chance to get involved during the pre-organizational stage, would you be interested? You'd be crazy not to look at it. GlobAllShare claims to be the future of social networking. It also offers the chance for early subscribers ... Read more
I have to tell you that I hate those warped numbers and letters that websites often put on their page to verify that you are a human and not a robot. Those jumbled characters are known as CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) and you have to admire them in one way because they are a good security device. However, the amount of time I read them wrongly makes it a problem. Minteye is an app for marketers and advertisers that has come up with what appears to be a more sensible approach by ... Read more
Now that we have made it past the debacle of the Mayan Calendar and Christmas is literally just around the corner it could be the right time to add a little charity to our lives. Treestmas is an ongoing benevolent project for marketers as well as wish givers that aims to encourage businesses to donate money to their favorite charities while gaining valuable advertising. Nothing unusual there you might say. However, visitors to Treestmas can add their own totally free wishes to the site and go in the draw for a bigger prize. So it might be time for all ... Read more
I guess you'd have to say that digital signage is pretty much the equivalent of the old school billboard. When you get it right, signage can be a fabulous marketing tool that is easy to use and gets your message across to your customers in a clean, concise way. Get it wrong, however, and you have an IT nightmare and your customers will be wanting to 'change channel' and find something else to keep them occupied. Novisign is an SaaS, cloud-based advertising and promotion application that manages and simplifies the whole digital signage experience. NoviSign provides a modern Software ... Read more
So have you ever built your own website or even thought about putting one together? Website builders often offer huge, complicated behemoths of design that are not only hard to create but also cost a fair amount of money. Quite often they are so complicated that you end up hiring a professional design team to do it for you. This is fine for big business but, if you are a small business or a creative professional, that's often not an option. Plebu is a 'software as a service' web design and website creator that makes it easy and cheap to ... Read more
If I had to nail down PersonSpot to a specific style I would probably have to say that it's a bit like a Flipboard that you can totally personalize to your own specifications. That puts this social publishing application into an interesting place in the marketplace because, where Flipboard tends to be a purely personal magazine, PersonSpot opens up the opportunity for personal brand promotion and advertising. Here you can create and publish online social magazines with content aggregated from your social feeds, from content found anywhere on the net or stuff you create yourself. PersonSpot is a social ... Read more
Easy WebContent Presenter was developed by the web building app Easy WebContent and it was designed as a cloud-based HTML5 animation tool that puts the user in complete control of creating web and mobile friendly interactive content for your website. The Presenter makes it easy to create animations, interactive presentations and resumes, infographics and banners and can be integrated through all your favorite social networks, digital documents, websites and blogs. The aim is to simplify and have complete control over the way we communicate with an audience by creating animations and presentations to create more engaging content for viewers. ... Read more
Email advertising has lived for the last few years, rather unfairly i believe, with the word spam stamped firmly across its forehead. But it seems a little pedantic to single out this excellent advertising service when we are bombarded with ads right, left and centre everywhere we look. Especially when it has proven to be so successful. EmailIt is an easy to use and highly professional email marketing application that let's you create, send, track and analyze sophisticated email campaigns. With so many new online (as well as land based) competitors trying to capture your customers attention it is beginning ... Read more
We are all reasonably well acquainted with Facebook's Timeline by now and have come to accept it as the new way of viewing Mark Zuckerberg's social empire. Businesses are starting to get serious about using Facebook as an advertising tool and TimelineTab follows on from apps like Facebook Timeline Cover Maker, Cover Photo Maker and Picscatter in providing a new look for the new look Timeline. However, the big difference here is that Timeline Tab is geared as an advertising tool for medium to small businesses and provides a while heap of extras to create your Tabs as well as ... Read more
There are endless ways of advertising your product on Facebook. There seems to be another innovation every couple of months and BrandMask certainly throws it's keys onto the table with this social Facebook advertising application. Brandmask is a free application where you can mark the brands you like in various fields then the social side kicks in and you can find people who think similarly and receive special offers from the relevant brands. BrandMask is a fascinating new kind of social advertising application for Facebook. The general idea is to go there create your own "Brand-Profile" and mark a ... Read more