Know Customers with the Appreciation Engine
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 »
Making the most of the time we have is one of the most difficult things to do. Many people are easily distracted or forgetful, and many find that there simply is not enough time to do everything they hope to accomplish. For this reason, people have always sought to apply the latest technology to help us keep track of time more effectively, and methods such as timing individual tasks or counting down to a particular point are very useful techniques. OK Timer from the GO development team, which focuses on making practical apps for smartphones that are simple, user-friendly and attractive, is a timer app specifically designed for smartphones. It works in the same way as a stopwatch, though there is a bit more to it than that. It may seem simplistic, but it offers some key features that make it useful. The app marketplace may be flooded with timer apps, and almost every phone has one as one of its basic functions, but a few things set it apart to make it worthwhile. 
While the number of Americans affected by Celiac Disease is not particularly high, studies show that number is rising. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye that people with celiac disease must avoid. Unfortunately, there is a certain stigma to the popularity of gluten-free diets, and many believe that it is just a fad. There are, however, people who genuinely suffer from a gluten intolerance and even more who have a sensitivity. Fortunately, it is becoming easier to transition to a gluten-free diet due to greater access to information online, more recognition in the medical community, and improved gluten-free options at grocery stores. Stuffed Pepper is a startup offering a community for people on a gluten-free diet with recipes, restaurant reviews, health articles from experts, a forum, and more. Whether a user is just beginning the diet or a veteran, there is something of interest for everyone. 
Millions of Americans rely on prescriptions to help them live better lives, some even to survive. Unfortunately, prescriptions can be expensive, particularly since patients are required to purchase them on a regular basis. With the current state of the insurance system in the U.S., many patients cannot afford the co-pays required for their medications. Medmonk’s creators designed it as a tool to help pharmacists find funding for patients who can no longer afford their medications. It assists patients in getting the drugs they need, enables pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies to reach more patients, and protects insurers against bigger claims. Because there is no profit in it, very few pharmacies can afford to help patients who have trouble making payments for their prescriptions. Medmonk exists because independent pharmacies can use a great deal of help in that regard. 
There are many art dealers online and plenty of art to find in any number of online marketplaces. Digital art is a form quickly gaining in popularity, and there are now online marketplaces dedicated strictly to this newer form. NeonMob sets itself apart by being more than merely Internet sales for digital art, as a way for artists to create and sell their art with an unusual emphasis on trading, collecting and exchanging among buyers. There is a community among its user base, acting as a social network of sorts for the collection and trading of limited-edition prints of a digital artist’s works. 
Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases of our time, and it often leads to additional health problems. It can damage blood vessels and cause shortening and stiffening of tendons in the foot and elsewhere in the body. Thus, a diabetic’s feet are particular affected by the disease, and even standing still for a period can cause pressure sores. Podimetrics’ creators designed it as a means of keeping diabetic feet healthy. Diabetic neuropathy is one of the most common conditions people suffer, with nerve damage occurring particularly in the legs and feet as the result of high blood sugar. It leads first to foot ulcers and, all too often, to eventual amputation of the feet, but it is also highly preventable. The key to Podimetrics is in its ability to stop foot ulcers before they begin. 
Technological advances aid us in making just about anything faster and easier to accomplish. Whether for buying or selling, performing daily tasks, or performing a job, it has helped us to achieve important tasks more efficiently. Home improvement is one sector that has seen benefits from the use of mobile devices and smart technology. Snugg is an app from Snugg Home Colorado, a company that serves as part of an energy efficiency coalition formed by other like-minded groups to aid in home improvements and energy efficiency upgrades. It enables home improvement contractors to simply and effectively offer these energy efficiency and solar upgrades to the work they are currently doing or even work that was previously completed. It acts as a streamlined platform that can simplify and shorten the energy upgrade process for everyone involved: homeowners, contractors, lenders, and project managers. 
As boring as it seems, analytics form the backbone of an intelligently operated business. Understanding what your customers want and how to give it to them most effectively is arguably the best way to grow and maintain your consumer base. Venga is a product whose creators understand this concept and have applied it specifically to the restaurant industry. It offers an extremely useful and highly informative online platform for restaurants to analyze their customers’ purchases, habits and preferences. This information is often the most powerful resource one can have in ensuring maximum profit in any business. Venga utilizes its own unique software to help you identify the key points in giving patrons what they want so they return on a regular basis and to create new customers. 
There are many online review sites, many heavily reliant on consumer contributions, but there is little more than unfounded information to them. Toutpost is a community for experts and enthusiasts to discuss and compare the best products and brands, the purpose of which is not only to engage healthy debate about popular products among consumers but also to enable people to make a decision they need some help to make. This begs the question of what makes it unique among the huge range of review sites on the Internet, and the best answer to this question is in the community itself as well as the process used. Toutpost takes a more social and even fun approach with a voting system and a means of making comparisons between products more competitive. 
Cangrade helps companies make better employment decisions using prediction and data analysis to better ensure more successful and productive hires. Employers have many different tools available to test personality, competence, job-related skills, and much more. Conversely, Cangrade utilizes its own powerful and unique screening software to measure how successful a potential hire would be. It is more than the typical standardized aptitude test. Its developers spent years studying hundreds of thousands of employees at hundreds of companies, exploring deeper and more complex questions to form its algorithms. It addresses a deeper combination of ethics, personality, motivation, and fitness for particular positions while completely avoiding any bias on the part of an employer. By doing do, hiring managers have a better evaluation tool to measure a job candidate’s qualifications using a more complete look at every important facet of his or her overall fitness.