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One in Eight Office Workers Checked Their Corporate Portal on Christmas Eve

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Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Release Twelve percent of Bitrix24 users accessed their corporate networks on Christmas Eve and seventeen percent did on Christmas Day, according to internal statistics.  "With 35,000 small businesses signing up with Bitrix24 in the last six months, we have a real good feel of how new social enterprise tools are changing work patterns. Even a few years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that so many office workers would feel the urge to do some work on Christmas," said Bitrix24 CEO Dmitry Valyanov. According to Bitrix, Inc. internal statistics, 12% of Bitrix24 users accessed their corporate networks on Christmas Eve and 17% percent did on Christmas Day. Instant messaging (47%) was by far the most popular activity type, followed by document sharing (11%) and task tracking (9%). The owners of mobile devices were even more active – 17% of iPhone and iPad users were active on Christmas Eve and 19% on Christmas Day, wh...
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Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases http://www.tutorspree.com/ Making it to Harvard or other prestigious universities is not a privilege granted to just about anyone. Academic success is one prerequisite for acceptance. Aaron Harris, a Harvard alum who also happens to be the CEO and co-founder of Tutorspree, thinks that in making it to a high-caliber scholastic institution, high-quality tutoring plays an integral role. Easier said than done, you might say, as finding capable tutors isn’t a walk in the park, which is why Harris and his buddies, Ryan Bednar and Josh Abrams, recognizing the need to solve substantial inefficiencies in the tutoring sector, started Tutorspree. Tutorspree is a tutoring marketplace that aims to bridge the gap between students and parents who are unsatisfied with the methods by which they connect and work with tutors and tutors who are not happy with the manner they find new students. With Tutorspree, locating reliable and qualifi...

Awesome Startups - PickyDomains.com

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Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releas So you came up with an idea for an online business and started thinking of a great domain name for it, only to realize that all the good domain names are already taken. Then you tried automatic domain name generation tools, but most of the name they generated didn’t make any sense. What to do now? Well, just crowdsource your domain name idea generation to PickyDomains . PickyDomains is a cool service that offers 100% risk free domain name and business slogan or tag line generation service. It has a proven track record of generating great domain names, and business slogans such as SEOBook for Aaron Wall, eMomsAtHome Wendy Piersall, and SurefireMarketing for Yanik Silver. How Does it Work? To get started, you have to deposit amount depending upon the service you need. For domain name suggestions, the fee is $50. For business slogan suggestions,...

Alegion.com review

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Does your site need hits ? We've got them!   http://www.alegion.com/ From the words “crowd” plus “outsourcing,” crowdsourcing is not new news (see PickyDomains or DoNanza ). It has been around for a while, and given the many advantages (productivity, cost-effectiveness, timely results, etc.) it can bring, especially in this highly competitive technology-driven world, is here to stay. Launched on November 20, 2012 at the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference, Alegion aims to provide large enterprises the ability to incorporate crowdsourced work into their complex business processes via its ground-breaking self-service crowdsourcing platform. According to Nathaniel Gates, Alegion’s co-founder and CEO, crowdsourcing hasn’t really taken off, no thanks to the fact that users stay away from crowdsourcing because of the perception that results are generally inaccurate and that there’s no surefire way to ensure the accuracy of such results. Gates recognizes that the problem with crowdsourcing ...

Hot Startups - DashBell

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Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases http://dashbell.com/ Nowadays, if you run a lodging business, even an independent bread-and-breakfast, and your business can't be found online, expect to be left behind and trampled by the rest of the pack. The Internet has interconnected the world in so many ways. Travelers now book accommodations online. If your online presence is relatively nil, you're practically throwing away a big piece of the pie that is your target population. That said, however, small lodgings and independent hotels may still experience some setbacks while managing bookings via Expedia and Booking.com. Keeping up-to-date inventories in these sites entails constantly logging to each one, updating calendars, the number of rooms you have available and such, which can be time-consuming, to say the least. Dashbell, a startup with headquarters based in Boston, is developing a product called OpenTable for independent hotels which will allow sm...

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PayLab Networks Wants To Marry Vendine Machines With Smartphones

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Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases http://www.paylabnetworks.com/ Smartphones are on the rise, and the upward movement is yet to see a decline, which, as industry experts believe, is not going to happen anytime soon. Smartphones today had gotten smarter, are cross-generational, and voice calling is just one of their many features. If you take time to observe people at coffee shops, airports, even in planes, not a lot of them use the smartphone for voice calls. Most of them actually read, swipe and tap. With a smartphone, Internet access is right at the user's fingertips. Music, high quality cameras, downloadable entertainment apps, what else is there? On the business side of the equation, with these mobile devices, businesses can now engage with customers, advertise their services, pay bills, accept payments, etc. Speaking of paying bills and accepting payments, there is this new smartphone app and point-of-sale device called PayLab that allows vend...

Trend Report - Businesses Starting to Switch to Internal Crowdsourcing

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Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases  Six years ago, Jeff Howe coined term crowdsourcing to describe the process of outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. However, more and more companies are now turning to internal crowdsourcing, according to Bitrix24 CEO Dmitry Valyanov. "We are seeing a significant shift now. Whereas a few years ago companies would simply outsource their work through eLance.com or other crowdsourcing sites [see DoNanza story ], now they are using more and more 'internal crowdsourcing', that relying on collaboration among their own employees to produce results. Having seen the potential of crowdsourcing through external experience, they are trying to replicate this effective method inside the company when possible." Social enterprise networks , also known as social intranets, are the driver behind this change. With major software companies from Microsoft to SalesForce investing hundreds of millions of dol...

JustBecause Is One Hot App This Holiday Season

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  BizHacks - How To Use Bitrix24.Com As A Free CRM, Intranet And Task Manager . http://www.justbecauseapp.com/ If you’re an entrepreneur, when launching a startup, one of the early challenges involved are getting the word out about your product or service, letting your target consumer know of the benefits that come with it and getting people to try it out – all in the name of converting them into lifetime customers. On the other hand, if you’re somebody thinking of sending a gift to someone special, one hurdle you need to clear is figuring out what this trendy friend of yours would be thrilled to receive. And this means ensuring the gift isn’t something he/she already received from someone else, which, needless to say, can sometimes be a tough one to pull off. JustBecause, a newly launched iPhone app, bridges the gap between the two. With JustBecause, users can now offer their friends gifts from startups worth $10 to $100 for just $1. Yes, you read right – for just $1! Why? Well, s...