You hear it said all the time! The hardest part of the creative process lies in that spark of an idea that spurs you on in the first place and sets the juices flowing. And who better could there be to come up with those ideas than the people that will benefit the most - the general public and your customers. Buzzsourcing is a new business monitoring and marketing application that uses crowd sourcing to get the answers to your marketing questions. This easy to use app is perfect for businesses that deal with the public and who want to ... Read more
Data monitoring seems to have come of age over recent years, especially since the app revolution really took off. Up until recent years, the fine art of analytics and monitoring was a rather turgid and time consuming experience that nobody really wanted to take on. But with analytical tools like Google Analytics, Convertable and now Librato to help you out, data monitoring and understanding the metrics that impact your business have become so much easier. Librato let's you measure everything you need in one place and keep all your applications running smoothly. Librato provides a complete cloud-based solution for ... Read more
The whole purpose of an analytics application like Positionly is to improve the outcome of your search engine optimization. The end result being a possible improvement in a website's SEO ranking. This iOS app provides a whole set of powerful tracking and flexible tools to analyze daily changes, measure keyword performance and generally improve rankings. It is a cost effective and simple to use answer to SEO analytics that works in real-time. Positionly is a user-friendly and easy to use SEO monitoring solution, making what could be a complex process, into a much more efficient and enjoyable experience. It ... Read more
Social media monitoring is the big thing at the moment. And rightly so! It's all very well to set up your marketing and promotional activities with the plethora of social networks that are available, but it's another to analyze the results and see which ones work and which ones could do with some fine tuning. MarketingStick is a cost effective way of gathering all the stats and data from all your social networks so that you can view and analyze the results in one neat package. This simple set of tools not only tells you how many Tweets were read ... Read more
After the last US election, Barack Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod's skoffed when it was suggested that his boss had made a gaffe when talking about a particular sensitive subject in an off the cuff interview. At this level of Government, Axelrod stated, nothing is done by accident and every word and nuance is planned to the nth degree. You can also use this logic to produce a perfect marketing and advertising campaign. Businesses that use Instagram as an advertising medium now have a new set of analytical and marketing tools to boost their coffers. Given that Instagram now ... Read more
I'm not so sure that the individual Twitter user will find Tweet Category particularly useful unless they are feeling a little nerdish but for business analysis it's one of those apps that's going to save you a lot of time. This social media monitoring and analysis application for iPad was designed with love and care to try and make some order out of the copious amount of tweets coming your way everyday to enhance theTwitter experience. Tweet Category sorts your tweets into preselected categories so you don't have to even think about the ones that don't interest you ... leaving ... Read more
FeedMyApp has reviewed some brilliant business apps over the years but very few offer everything that Gazelle Point-of-Sale does for the small to medium-sized online shop. It offers everything from a complete inventory, customer and staff management systems all the way through to an e-commerce capability to take the retail world easily into the realm of online shopping - so essential in these changing times. Gazelle can be used simply with a Software-as-a-Service option or it can be installed directly. This cost effective set of business tools works on all browsers including iPad and could well be the e-commerce option ... Read more
Convertable is a quite wonderful set of analytic business tools aimed at online marketers that takes Google Analytics to another level. While Google provides aggregated stats on the analytics data of submitted forms, Convertable takes it one step further by analyzing each form individually and then let's you track them through the whole sales and purchase process. As usual with most of these enterprising business apps, this one was born out of the frustration of a marketing team to be able to isolate where every one of their leads were really coming from and the individual ROI on each. ... Read more
I have this one area of my kitchen at home that is impossible to get any WiFi reception in. It's almost like there is a lead curtain around it because there is no logical reason why it should be the case. Now, I'm not sure I would rush out and grab an analytics application like this one for my apartment but, if we were talking about a business or hotel that relies on WiFi, there are certainly good reasons for using it. NetSpot is a WiFi analyzing app for Mac that allows you to draw a detailed map of your ... Read more
So, how are things going with your business? Times are a little bit tough, aren't they. You probably think that your team is pretty well organized and on the ball but there is always room for improvement and maybe now is the time to do it. If you think your business could do with a bit of fine tuning and a sales boost then SalesBoost is a 'software-as-a-service' application for mobile that aligns your sales force and arms them with the right information to increase sales and close deals faster. Yapmo SalesBoost is a great application that synchronizes your ... Read more