It's daunting enough opening your own restaurant without all the other things that go along with it. The location...the staff...the food...what else is there? Ah yes.. advertising. Without doubt one of the most important decisions you are going to make is about your website. Do you go out and commission a company to handle your website design of do you take up your own valuable time doing the whole thing yourself. There is a brilliant and cost effective solution. Theme Force is a design tool that provides you with all the ammunition you need to easily put together an affordable, ... Read more
We've all seen plenty of great looking Facebook pages for businesses or organizations. They all look pretty good but they do tend to look a fair bit like a regular Facebook page with a few additions. Now, if you want a Facebook page that looks amazing and ultra professional and you want it fast and you want it to cost as little as possible you are going to be pushing your luck, right? Wrong! Cool Mojito is a brilliant business and advertising tool that creates beautiful Facebook pages in less time than it takes to boil an egg. Oh and ... Read more
It’s all very good having a bulging appointments diary sitting on your desk but imagine how much wasted time has been spent by actually writing the details down and entering them from a telephone call. On top of that unless you sit down and manually examine the historic information in it you’ll never know the finer points of things such as customer trends, peak hours and downtime. Read more
There are a number of sites around giving budding writers the opportunity to get published on the web and earn a few royalties in return. This one invites photographers as well and the window to the world for accepted work of either category is via AOL’s 80 or so websites covering topics such as music, TV, tech, finance and many more. Read more
If there was ever an industry crying out for a system capable of reducing paper it surely has to be temporary recruitment? Endless timesheets getting lost or received late followed by the tedious task of matching worked hours with candidate’s rates and the inevitable errors that such a manual process can generate. Read more
Sfax are at the very pinnacle of secure electronic fax services with digital signature. And let's face it..when you have to fax an important document there are only a few criteria to follow. It has to get there fast, it has to be legible and, in this money-conscious world of ours, it has to be well priced. Sfax ticks all those boxes. It is a secure 10 year business, cloud based fax service run by Securecare Technologies, Inc. Read more
Web conferencing. It can be a minefield. In an ideal world it would be simple. All you really want to do is to get your information across with the minimum of fuss and bother and then get a report back detailing the events and people involved. What you generally get is a pricey service that requires you to hand over your credit card details and they probably want to sign you up to a long term contract too. LiveMinutes is a free webconferencing business management tool that's geared towards the user and let's you share and annotate documents with your ... Read more
FollowUp.cc is a really good concept for what is essentially a straightforward reminder service. The beauty of this app is that it effortlessly blends into existing technology that we all know and use day in and day out - the humble email. Therefore it is wonderfully simple to use, even for non-techno minded folk. Basically you copy the FollowUp people into any emails by using their email address and designating a time you want to be reminded about that email - for example 5hrs@followup.cc. Once you've familiarized yourself with the basic concept it's really easy to adopt their system into ... Read more
Wow! When someone said "get a room" I didn't know this is what they meant. IMeet Video Conferencing isn't a dingy room in a backstreet hotel though. It's a penthouse apartment at The Ritz. iMeet is a low bandwidth video conferencing for business which isn't free but is so far ahead of the opposition it's well worth the US$39 for what it serves up. Basically, you get your own meeting room online. Just talk through your computer from anywhere in the world or connect to any phone or mobile device at no extra charge. Invite guests – up to ... Read more
This is an expenses app that already has some very heavyweight users and so must be doing something right. Read more