We've spoken here plenty of times before and written many a positive review of apps that allow you to better control various aspects of your business website. There are apps to help the web designer put together a great website, ones to market your business online and others to help you analyze your business and optimize its growth potential. There are very few, however, that provide absolutely everything that a business needs to build and grow to fulfill that potential. But here is a new business app that has got the lot. The Marketecture Total Online Business System is the ... Read more
Web designers may know what looks good visually on your site but sometimes the aesthetics can get ahead of the things that really appeal to your visitors. So these days it is interesting to add a different element into the proceedings. In this case by adding a page optimizer to automatically put the stuff on the screen - and in front of your visitors eyes - that they want to see. It is a great way to please your visitors as well as converting more of them into paying customers. And it's all done automatically. Spending more time trying ... 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
The creation of a website for your business, product or event has almost become essential in the age of technology that we live in. However, many smaller businesses have tended to favor things like the Facebook Business page to promote themselves or the things they are selling because of convenience and cost. But if you feel it's time to make the great leap forward into a website there a number of cheap and very worthy contenders that FeedMyApp have reviewed recently that will go some way to convince you. Aircus, Plebu and Hiccup all feature great web creation tools and ... Read more
Staff training and evaluation used to be a quite labor-intensive and time consuming activity and generally used to involve bringing in people from outside the business who were trained in the process. This is disruptive for your staff as well as being somewhat costly. While this may be fine for multinationals it doesn't necessarily suit the budget of the smaller organization. SkyPrep is a new cloud-based, online LMS (Learning Management System) application that is designed to train and test your employees simply and easily. Upload all your source material, create tests and discover how your employees understand your business or ... Read more
Often, the most contentious thing about business is their billing and time arrangements. There is little worse for a consumer than to receive an incorrect bill and little worse for a business than to fail to charge a customer for the time spent on a project. Both can be a recipe for a business disaster. It's not so bad for the larger business because they can afford lavish billing and time tracking software but for the smaller business it still tends to be paper based. actiTIME is a new time tracking, management and billing app that is free for teams ... Read more
It's often the simple things that get overlooked when creating a website. You have put your heart and soul into designing your site and have made sure that it is interesting enough to entertain and inform your viewers. But, none of that is going to be worth much if your site has downtime. With many sites now being completely monetized it is an unfortunate fact that if you aren't online, for one reason or another, you are actually losing money. So it's essential that the final piece of your website creation puzzle is to use a monitor that tells you ... Read more
It's a bit sad really. The fact is, the days of the spreadsheet as we know it, are pretty numbered. While they have served us well, they can be a little cumbersome and better results and analysis can be achieved using other methods. Whether we are using them as an inventory at home for books and cd's or in a business sense to log personnel details or research documents it makes more search now to use a data management application instead. Flextory is an easy to use Software as a Service management system where you can create a spreadsheet for ... Read more
Things are changing for the better for small business. In the past there has been a bit of a defeatist attitude from them when comparing their opportunities of bettering themselves and their workers against a larger organization. When it came to training staff, the argument has always been that it was too expensive and took up too much time so a more ad hoc approach was taken up. But if the small business person is canny, they can find everything they want as apps and quite often for little on no cost. TalentLMS is one such app that will be ... Read more
I am convinced that most people are basically pretty honest. If you give them a good, legal and easy way of downloading digital material they will go for it even if they have to pay for it. Take the whole music downloading situation. When it was difficult to find the music that people wanted they would risk bugs and prosecution and go to sites like Napster and Limewire to find the music they wanted. But as soon as a site like iTunes came along that was simple to use, customers were more than happy to use its services. Sellwire is ... Read more