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Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency http://swipp.com You probably remember how free social intranet provider Bitrix24.com has become the fastest growing social enterprise tool in 2012. But it's 2013 now. Aside from being “social,” Facebook, Google+ and just about every company in the social arena have something in common – to become the social layer beneath every service on the Internet and provide real-time social data that’s measurable, can be referenced and helpful to marketers and data analysts spanning a broad range of industries. Facebook’s recent release of Graph Search and everything else Google has been doing since Google+ was released in 2011 are adding up to this mounting evidence. Launched on January 23, 2013 in 45 countries and 5 languages, Swipp is a brand-new social media analytics and sharing platform whose main objective is to find out how the general population feels about a given topic real-time. User sentiment is analy...

Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency http://joinhoney.com/ There’s something about check-out counters that gets a customer feeling ripped-off: the hard-to-miss check-out question “Do you have a promo code?” If the customer doesn’t, the frantic search for a coupon code begins – usually through RetailMeNot and similar other sites, where, at times, the coupon codes suggested no longer work. After a while, the exasperated customer gets discouraged and opts to simply forget about the purchase – a loss, first and foremost, for the store, and for the customer second, especially if the purchase is something that can profoundly change his/her life. In 2005, a tech entrepreneur named Ryan Hudson was featured in Businessweek’s “Top Young Entrepreneurs of Tech” alongside none other than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Hudson had been creating companies for almost a decade, four in the last year or two. Despite that, Hudson claims no company of his has ever tak...

Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency http://dudamobile.com In February of this year, Mashable reported that for the first time in history, smartphone sales overtook PC sales in terms of units, the real story being the popularity of the smartphone rising relentlessly. The smartphone, as we know it today, means information at your fingertips, flexible working, better organization, faster communication, better sharing of information, among other things. Industry experts agree that the smartphone is yet to see a sharp decline in its upward trajectory. And the way things are going for the smartphone, that won’t be anytime soon. As a matter of fact, people are now browsing the Internet via a smartphone more than via a desktop. With that as a backdrop, if you’re a website owner, you’ll do good to know that ensuring your website is mobile-optimized can be profitable for your business. To help you do that, here’s a brief re...

Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases http://www.tailwaiters.com/ Jason Wotman admits the whole idea was born out of laziness. Tailgate parties are fun, but the transportation, set-up and clean-up are certainly no picnic. After one particular New York Jets game when Wotman and his friends' grill was stolen and they were tired of bringing "back all this gross stuff covered in burger juice," they developed the idea for Tailwaiters, a service that brings all the food and necessary equipment to tailgaters in the New York area. "Now, ironically, we're dealing with it for everyone else," jokes Wotman, 24. But he and his partners (and childhood friends) Josh Winston, 24, and Zach Henick, 24, don't regret their decision a whit. "While it is work, we get to tailgate at every game," says Wotman. Clients range from a handful of friends taking the train to a game to businesses treating a few dozen guests to a pre-game meal to o...

Daily advice link - Freelancer? We are hiring! Have you ever thought about setting up your own online store but got put off by the necessary paperwork, a need of big financial investment and too much potential risk? Well, have you ever heard of drop-shipping? Exactly. It’s a way of moving goods from the manufacturer directly to the retailer without going through the usual distribution channels. There are many companies on the market offering drop-shipping softwares and solutions; one of them is Doba from the United States, the industry leader. Jeremy Hanks, the Co-Founder and Chairman of Doba , explains how it works. “We’ve provided a web platform so that small-business retailers that are selling predominantly through e-commerce can come online and access an inventory and fulfillment system. We help retailers find products to sell and help wholesale providers find retailers to distribute their products.” According to Doba, all you need to do is...

Daily Advice Link - How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases http://donanza.com Freelancing can be a lucrative career, if you know what you’re getting into. Advantages to freelancing include the freedom to choose your work schedule and the projects you agree to, how much time you invest in each of the jobs you take on, the freedom to work anywhere you deem conducive – at home, at a coffee shop, even out of town. You may also start working straight out of bed, if you so please, with your pajamas on. That said, however, don’t let the good stuff lull you into believing freelancing is all milk and honey or where the grass is always green. Freelancing comes with disadvantages, too – the most common of which is failing to land regular, if not long-term, gigs to keep your money vessel replenished. There are sites like oDesk and Elance that connect clients and freelancers. And then, there’s DoNanza.com, a freelancing search engine that allows anybody to find...

Site of the day - PickyDomains.com, world's first risk free naming agency http://www.bigcommerce.com/ All venture capitalists have got startup business plans piling on their desks every single day. But how many of them are the breakthrough ideas worth investing in? Australian BigCommerce has proven right to the Massachusetts based venture capital firm General Catalyst. “We quickly signed up our first 1000 customers within three months,” says Eddie Machaalani, the co-funder and co-CEO of BigCommerce, “and now we’re about to hit 20,000 customers after just 17 months. Mitchell Harper, the other co-founder and co-CEO, explains “you can set up your own online store in a few clicks. We’re growing so quickly because we’ve made it really easy to sell online.” If you’ve got a product and you need an easy way to sell it and advertise it, BigCommerce might be exactly what you’re looking for. All the marketing tools have been built in and t...

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Hot Tips - The Best Free Business Tool You (Probably) Don't Know About. http://tribehr.com Whether you believe it or not, there’s a saying that goes, “the backbone of an organization is its people.” Finding the right talents and keeping them together to create a sturdy and cohesive backbone, as HR professionals and business owners are likely to profess, is not an easy process. From posting a job-wanted ad, screening of applicants, creating a short list of qualified candidates, all the way down to on-boarding newly hired employees, providing them with e-mail addresses, setting their performance goals, determining their skill sets, tracking their vacation and sick leaves, and whatever else is connected with regular HR functions can be very tedious. Good thing there’s TribeHR, an intuitive web-based HR application specifically designed for small businesses to help them automate ongoing HR management tasks that include skills tracking, vacation and sick days mon...

Link of the day - If You Sell Links On Your Site, I Will Buy Them Off You http://northsocial.com/ Okay, so you're into social media, Facebook specifically. You've got a brand to promote, a small business to tend to. Since we all know that social media is one way to go to build a brand, obtain more followers, promote e-commerce, distribute content, the whole nine yards, how about dressing up your Facebook page to engage your fans and make your marketing campaigns more impactful? Of course, you relent without even batting an eyelash. That's got to be the most brilliant idea you've heard all day. And then you remember, you don't know a thing about codes, let alone a line of codes. North Social just might be the very thing you need. A company that provides a platform of applications to make your Facebook page sizzle and dazzle, North Social's coolest feature is the fact that every app in its "application buffet" is template-driven...

BizHacks - How To Use Bitrix24.Com As A Free CRM, Intranet And Task Manager . http://witmart.com Autonomy, flexibility, workload control, zero office politics, zero commute, full credit – these constitute some of the many advantages of freelancing. That said, it’s no surprise a lot of folks are taking the freelancing route these days. If you’re one of them, neophyte or seasoned pro, I’m sure you are aware of freelancing platforms like oDesk, Elance or Guru. And if you haven’t already heard, there’s another crowdsourcing website called Witmart.com that, along with its more established and widely known peers, is working high and low to deliver the best possible experience to both clients and service providers. Together with its China-based sister website, zbj.com, Witmart boasts of a registered user base of over 7 million. For clients, Witmart provides a full suite of services that include graphic and logo design, ready-made logo store, translation services, web design and development, ...