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Building a business and developing a customer base is a long and difficult process, and many services exist to help companies grow. While some companies depend on crowdsourcing wither for their creation or to continue to make purchases they need, others depend solely on startup funds and marketing. Qukku is a platform that combines elements of crowdsourcing and marketing to connect companies with consumers using fan-generated video content. It offers participants awards, prizes and recognition for producing interesting and engaging videos that people not only enjoy but also desire in turn to share with others. Ultimately, it offers guidance, helps you collaborate with your team and customers, and provides the feedback you require to be more successful. Read more »

It is vital that companies and brands interact with consumers as effectively as possible, but it can be difficult for several reasons.  For one thing, consumer data is “siloed;” that is, organizations do not regularly use it in their daily operations, and this data is unavailable for sharing.  Generalized data can predict trends, but companies cannot take action or use it to connect with individual consumers.  Truly useful data is deeper, real-time consumer information, and what has previously occurred may not be useful.  The Appreciation Engine exists to deal with all these concerns as, in its developers’ words, a social analytics tool for brands who want to better understand consumers and “talk” to them.  It eases the pressure to respond to customers in personalized ways and helps brands to stop giving their customer data away to social networks and one-time promotional campaigns.  The platform’s creators promise that it can help organizations stop guessing and start knowing what their customers really want. Read more »

Businesses rely heavily on a combination of promotional advertisement, personal engagement with customers, online presence, and analytics to increase sales and discover how to do so more effectively.  The goal of LeadConverter is, quite simply, to convert visitors to your website into customers.  In its developers’ words, it helps you capture more leads to increase conversions and revenue, and it does so by giving you a way to understand your viewership and gather more insights from your visitors.  By doing so, it can grow a business’ increasingly important online presence as indicated by growing website or blog traffic and typically coinciding with a similar growth in profit. Read more »

When it comes to business, making the right connections is vital to growth.  Networking has always been a key to sustaining growth in business, and in the Internet age, entrepreneurs depend on social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to make an impact.  Hachi is a networking service that lets you search across all your networks to find business connections.  You can search by name, company, title, or just about any other relevant information to see how you connect to other users to discover the path of connections between you and them across various sites.  This way, you can find every possible connection without scouring each individual site, and you can avoid oversight that can come with being interested only in business-specific ones. Read more »

For as often as businesspeople utilize conference calling, there are certainly ways that the current methods can improve.  MeetingMogul is an app from Folio3, a software development company specializing in enterprise mobile and web applications for entrepreneurs and large corporations, that eases the pressure of conference calls and attending meetings while you are out of the office.  It allows you to make conference calls without forcing you to remember or enter phone numbers and audio pins to dial into them, and eliminates the need for fumbling with your smartphone on the go.  While there are a few alternatives to MeetingMogul, most if not all of these have changed from a free service to a paid service.  Thus, it stands as one of very few remaining apps of its kind to those searching for one that offers simple one-touch connectivity without the need to pre-configure anything. Read more »

Until recently, a product’s barcode was generally only used to find the price of an item.  With the innovation of the QR code, people were able to gain more information about an item, get direction to a website on their smartphones, and a few more helpful things.  Soundpaper takes this concept to a new level, enabling you to add sound to your product barcodes utilizing patented technology developed by Labels That Talk.  The app’s developers tout it as the world’s most advanced two-dimensional barcode.  It is not limited to companies selling a product; talking labels can transform everyday objects by adding information that a mere printed label can never convey.  Possibilities include adding audio to photos, prescription bottles, books, and anything else you can imagine would benefit from sound. Read more »

Offering coupons and discounts has long been one of the most effective means of increasing a company’s business.  As we continue to advance and our technology develops, our mobile devices are often the most useful tools we have to do almost anything wherever we are.  Tatango is an app for businesses that allows them to take advantage of their customer base and improve sales by offering coupons via text message.  While there are some apps and programs that offer a similar service, there are a few additional benefits to the service that Tatango offers. Read more »

There are many websites and apps dedicated to user reviews for businesses and services, and many of them indicate to potential customers whether they offer child-friendly amenities.  Unfortunately, very few if any apps or products exist that offer rating services specifically to assess and inform users of how welcoming and accommodating an establishment is for children.  Kidscore works by providing a collaborative database with ratings that quickly let you see how a community of parents measures how friendly a place is to children.  The app’s rating system aims to help busy parents determine how kid-friendly a variety of places are using an array of criteria. Read more »

The most difficult aspects of arranging a business project can be evident right at the very beginning of the planning stages. It is important to have a strategy along with the ability to ensure the proper timing and execution in every point. The purpose behind 10,000ft is to provide a tool for managers to keep track of the many things necessary to ensure that a project remains on task. According to the app’s developers, a project manager accomplishes this through resource planning, project planning, time and expense tracking, and analytics providing detailed reports of all major elements of a venture. Read more »

While smartphones have been a major help to professionals that constantly have to multitask since their inception, they are far from perfect in their productivity functions.  Having to juggle several different apps and services to prepare for work, client meetings or other professional events can be a major hassle.  Users commonly have to switch through email, document editing, maps, contact information apps and web browsers to complete all the tasks that prepare them for a meeting.  Cool product in technology Lowdown is an app that combines many of these services in one streamlined experience for professionals.  Lowdown looks to make it easier for people to be prepared using only their mobile devices and remove the difficulties of managing so many different apps and services to complete tasks.  Read more »