Archive for the 'Tools' Tag
amoCRM Revolutionizes Deal Management
Customer relations management systems (CRM) are used by businesses to manage their deals, contacts, and negotiations with clients. CRM solutions also include ways to help companies analyze their business model, such as by building sales funnels which help businesses figure out where they are (or are not) doing well in the sales process. amoCRM offers [...]
The Startup Check List To Receiving Government Contracts
Want to go after government contracts? Entrepreneur Outfitters has create a new iPhone app that will allow you to check off each startup business step. Their checklist, which was previously only available in paper format for $150, has been fitted into an $8 app that will guide you through the preparation process. Once it’s complete, [...]
Tools For The Entrepreneurs Virtual Toolbox
When it comes to running a business, we don’t always have time to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes we need great apps to help us make the best of the time we do have. Forbes recently shared a list of tools that they found to be helpful. Do you have your own short list? Bill.com – [...]
Checking trademark availability is an essential when creating a company. If you mistakenly choose a company name that a 3rd party has already trademarked, you might later be forced to change your company’s name and pay damages. Until now, checking for taken trademarks was a lengthy process that usually required you to spend money. But [...]
It’s often said that you should measure twice, and cut once. By double checking yourself, you’re preventing mistakes that will need fixed later. One inventor has decided that takes too long and created a measuring tape that allows people to literally measure and cut only once, reports The Republican. Three years ago, [Oded Peri] got [...]
If you’re a `To-Do List’ kind of person, Forbes magazine suggests you should definitely check out TeuxDeux.com. It’s a cute play on French words which when pronounced properly sound like To-Do. It’s amazingly uncomplicated so you don’t need spend your time figuring out how to use the features. You just get stuff done instead. TeuxDeux [...]
YourAM: Free Biz Appointment Manager
If you are a self-employed person with not so many resources, scheduling and managing appointments can be tough. MakeUseOf.com takes a look at YourAM, an online business appointment manager that aims to help you by letting you organize your appointments. When you are adding a new appointment, YourAM will automatically resolve time slots for availability. [...]
Petrol Pal: Gas and Oil Mixing Made Easy
In my garage, I have at least five different one-gallon gas cans with different ratios of motor oil and gas for all of the different power tools I own. A new product from Petrol Pal will eliminate this clutter and is just what I need. Petrol Pal is a pitcher designed with an adjustable divider [...]
photo credit: pfala With the new year comes new technology, marketing, advertising and yes…social media techniques. Look below for some great keys to this new years social media success. Start observing and researching more this new year. Start paying attention to what your customers are saying to your prospect customers, this information comes in handy [...]
Construction Worker Wins Tool Invention Contest
Jeff Burns knows the little problems construction workers encounter on the job site. That’s the only business in which he’s worked, reports TheTownTalk.com. He does, however, have a hobby that has now earned him $10,000 in a national television contest. This part-time inventor won top honors on DIY Network’s first-ever “Cool Tools: Inventor Challenge” with [...]
Biz App: FreeConferenceCall.com
For many consultants, real-time collaboration with clients is extremely important. Setting up one-on-one phone calls is easy, but if you need to have three or more parties on the line, things get tricky — and expensive, says Small Business Computing. FreeConferenceCall.com offers free private conference lines. Just enter your name and an e-mail address on [...]
Small Business Computing has a great review of a free biz tool. If you currently use Google alerts as a research tool or to be notified whenever your business is mentioned online, then you’ll love FiltrBox.com. It’s kind of like Google Alerts on steroids. Now the downside to Google Alerts is that it only gives [...]
If you run a small business and cannot afford CRM tools like Salesforce , MakeUseOf.com has a review of Timetonote. While it doesn’t boast of the advanced tools which paid solutions like Salesforce and Zoho offer, for a 100% free service it isn’t bad at all. You can track leads, communication and conversations with customers [...]
10 Tools Small Business Marketers Should Have
photo credit: Nikolay Bachiyski If you are like most of the business people out there, you are someone who works constantly, you try to squeeze 35 hours worth of work into a single 24 hour day, you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and always behind on your work. You know that efficiency is one of the [...]
Great Online Tools For Your Small Business
photo credit: Stabilo Boss With online businesses growing before our eyes, I feel it is important to provide these online business owners with as many tools to help them in their venture as possible. We all know that you can never have too many resources and helpful suggestions to fall back on. Below are [...]
Great Entrepreneur Tools For Internet Businesses
photo credit: geishaboy500 Anyone who owns their own business on the Internet knows what a hectic challenge it can be at times. We all know that the more help and tools we have to keep our business running smoothly the better. So I have put together a little list below containing some great tools for [...]
Useful Presentation Tools For Marketing
photo credit: MGShelton When putting together a presentation it can be agitating trying to figure out the best tools to use and the best way to put it all together so it will not only keep everyones attention but will also look professional and run smoothly. Below are some extremely useful tools that are [...]
Google Tools For Your Business
photo credit: massless When starting a web business it is important to have all the resources you can get, it is important that you use these resources to their fullest, it will make your job a lot easier. Even if you already have an existing web business you should take a look at this list [...]
Tracking Social Media Activity
photo credit: jurvetson With all of the information that people post to the Internet very publicly these days, you can paint almost a perfect picture of their lifestyle, their world, likes and dislikes as long as you track their activity and actually put the information into your database. No matter what approach you employ for [...]
Helpful Tools For Working Offline
photo credit: trekkyandy Consulting Pulse posted an article that I felt brought up a very good point. While today we can stay connected to more people in more ways and places than our parents ever could have, we still shouldn’t rely just on online tools to do business. You never know when your computer will [...]
photo credit: geishaboy500 While today yes there are so many different web tools to choose from and you don’t need every single one, there are also many that a business definitely can benefit from and should have for their business. Below are a select few of the web tools for social media that I [...]
I’ve been using this for a long time, but if you’re still calling 411 you should try Google’s 411 service, Goog-411. It’s free and better in one important way than your phone company’s information service: Have ever had your car battery die in the middle of the night, in a scary part of a strange [...]
photo credit: David Sifry You’ve made the decision to start your own business, you have your great idea, your awesome business plan and now your sitting there waiting for the investors to agree, waiting to be able to put all of your hard worked plans into motion. Starting a business can be tough especially in [...]
photo credit: allie pasquier It is no surprise that with every new month comes new websites, new tools, new businesses, and so on. But one must also ask how many different web tools that do pretty much the same thing do we need in business. Yes it is good to have variety, but it is [...]
Accurate Leads For Your Company
photo credit: doug88888 I am not one who believes in buying peoples information in order to sell them on a service, I have always thought of that as an invasion of one’s privacy. However, I do realize that many businesses use this approach in order to up their sales. The only problem is that how [...]
Twitter Tips For Your Business
photo credit: respres Today so many business owners are realizing the usefullness of twitter, however, many of them may not quite be up to par on their computer skills or even internet skills in order to take full advantage of the twitter applications. Below are a few tips found on IndieBusinessBlogs to help out small business [...]
photo credit: MK Media Productions Today there are many different options that can boost your companies image, which is ultimately what all business owners are striving for today…a stronger image that will last. So why not try adding a video in order to boost your image? Entrepreneur.com suggests that it is not only a great [...]
Best Management Tools For Your Small Business
photo credit: juanpol If your managing your own small business, then you already know that you hold more titles than you technically have time for during your day. This can become very overwhelming quickly if you do not utilize the right tools to help you. SmallbizTrends has come up with some management tools for your small [...]
photo credit: alanwoo If you are in business for yourself and if it’s a some what small operation, chances are you have all of your credit card statements and receipts for the year stuffed away in some droor somewhere or in a shoe box in the closet. Then when it comes time to do your [...]
Tools For The Start-Up Of Your Web Business
photo credit: woodleywonderworks When starting up any business, especially an internet business it is important that you have the proper tools for maintenance, programming, ongoing support and more. Below is a list of tools that are sure to come in handy for those of you trying to start-up your own web based business. ●Wordpress. This [...]
photo credit: whiteafrican Business owners know that there are many different important aspects of the entire business, without one of them, your business is not at it’s very best. One important factor of your business is your website, this adds to the list of how your customers will be able to locate you, so it’s [...]
Nurturing Tools For Your Leads
photo credit: CREEPETZ In business today everyone wants state of the art tools and ways to generate more leads to their business as well as ways to manage all the information retained on those leads for future easy access. Duct Tape Marketing posted an article on a few tools that are sure to help almost [...]
photo credit: miss_rogue Twitter not only helps you connect with millions of people it is a phenomenal research tool. Businesses and organizations collectively pay millions of dollars for case studies, reports, white papers, think tanks, and focus groups in the hopes of obtain business building information on their industry and target market. One of the [...]
photo credit: myuibe Many small business owners ask themselves either “what is a blog”, or “do I need to blog about my business”. A blog is just writing updates about your business on an online site. To determine if you should start a blog about your business is pretty simple. Make a list of questions [...]
photo credit: guspim When opening a new business or even in an existing business, it is very important to survey your customers. There is so much information that a business owner can obtain from these surveys. Below are a few good reasons that you should survey your customers. Gaining feedback. Ask them what they truly [...]
photo credit: Mat Honan Would you like a way to get instant access to what’s being said, this minute, about your organization, people, products, competitors or brand? It’s a good tool for that. More and more businesses are beginning to jump on the bandwagon of twitter for their business. While other companies feel it is [...]
A Different Kind of Family Owned Business
Brett Holm started his working life as a machinist in a shop where the tools he bought were the ones he would eventually sell. Now, as a Snap-on franchisee, he says these are the tools that were “a lot better” than all the others. “I originally found out about Snap-on as a franchise business from [...]
Whipping Your Website Into Shape
download squad: No more excuses: let’s get your small business Website whipped into shape. People who are moderately online use the Web as their first search source. Phone books are dead trees; if your business is not online with an easy-to-find phone number, I’m clicking elsewhere. What do your site visitors want most of all [...]
Google To Offer Tool To Measure Web Hits
The Wall Street Journal: Google plans to unveil a new service that measures Internet use, according to advertising executives who have been briefed on it. The tool is intended to help advertisers identify the best places to buy online ads by telling them which Web sites their target audiences visit. Google’s approach, aimed at bolstering [...]
Lifehacker: Find the cheapest way to send a package with web application Shiptool. After providing the site with your shipping and destination addresses and package type, Shiptool scours UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL, and returns all of your shipping options sorted by price to help you find the cheapest solution to fit your needs. The [...]
Mine Your Own Business Blog: Every so often we find something really useful to pass along to you and today’s one of those days. The site is called “Biz Tool Kit“, a service of the James J. Hill Reference Library. According to their web site, “BizToolkit puts the best online information resources at your fingertips [...]
DownloadSquad: GreenPrint software launched a new free edition to help home users and non-profits reduce home and office printing waste. Known as GreenPrint World edition, this edition has fewer features than other versions and includes advertising. The software works by analyzing every page of a document sent to the printer, and looks for banner ads, [...]
9 Great Tools For Achieving Your Goals
Mashable.com: Sometimes we just need that extra kick in the rear to get our act together and achieve our goals. The nine tools profiled here are some of the best online goal trackers out there. All of them are free, and they all include motivational tools to keep you going. * LifeTango – what really [...]
Startup Claims To Read People’s Minds While They View Ads
ABC News: Market researchers have long sought people’s assessments of not-yet-released advertisements and products. But when people recall how they felt during a commercial, for instance, they often can’t accurately describe what their reactions were at each moment in the 30-second spot. Now a San Francisco startup called Emsense claims that it has the tools [...]
technabob: I’m absolutely in love with these cool metal robot watches. Not only can you wear them on your wrist, they pop out of the band to become mini-clocks you can put on your desk. Each of the little guys has flexible metal arms, and a little pair of “headphones�? on top of his head [...]
technabob: If you’re looking for a timepiece for your desktop, look no further than this hip modern clock from CB2. I really like the see-through LCD display and brushed metal frame which let it seamlessly blend into pretty much any environment. The display features a simulated analog clock face along with a digital readout for [...]
CNN Money: Nutrition experts say you should drink at least eight glasses of water a day. The corporate IT department, on the other hand, doesn’t want liquids anywhere near your computer. In an effort to protect the health of my body and my hardware, I’ve tried several different kinds of water bottles, but they all [...]
CNN Money: It’s hard to demo your technology to people crowded around a tiny laptop. But there’s no room in my startup’s budget for a top-of-the-line projector, which can cost several thousand dollars and burn through short-lived bulbs that go for $350 a pop. The Lumenlab, by contrast, is reasonably priced and takes $30 bulbs [...]
BBP Hybrid Messenger/Backpack Laptop Bag
CNN Money: For years I’ve been looking for a bag with compartments for all my gadgets that I could take on a plane or into a boardroom. With the BBP hybrid, I’ve finally found it – a bag that can be a backpack, messenger bag, or briefcase and looks professional enough to go anywhere. It [...]
Popgadget: If you don’t like carrying a USB on your key-chain or clipped to jeans or to the inside of your purse, the IOGEAR Wallet Drive might suit your data transfer needs and organization style. The Wallet Drive is touted as “cutting-edge portable storage on a diet.” We agree! Brilliant metallic blue, barely 3mm thick, [...]
