By: Co-Editor, RB:
Here is a cool new site that is banking on the death of business cards. Given current technology an argument can be made that the exchange of business cards is anachronistic.
Qubrit.com, new launched out of London, is a fast growing social network which allows you to create your virtual business card and exchange it with friends, colleagues and others. The most important feature of Qubrit, is that you will always keep the contact details of others updated. People tend to change their phones, emails, addresses, and even close down their social network profiles (like recent examples of Facebook accounts closures).
Qubrit’s main feature is that you have business cards of others, which will always be up to date, with the most current contact information, such as mobile, phone, email, address, skype, facebook, and twitter profile links. Once a person amends his business card information, everyone who has his virtual business card will see his most up-to-date info.
When you exchange contacts, the info will automatically be saved in your contact list online as soon as you go home and write that “Nice meeting you” follow-up email. So why does contact info even need to cross the digital threshold if it’s only going back to cyberspace?
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
There dozens of websites that offer free online classified ads. For example, SalesSpider.com is a large social network for Small and Mediums Sized Businesses (SMBs). In additional to the online social network aspects of the site they offer free classified ads.
Now comes a new site called ListHere.com. Launched in June out of Utah, the site purports to be a free online classified service overlaid with business offerings for SMBs.
The team at ListHere.com acknowledges that there are a ton of free online classified sites, but they feel most of them are lacking. The problem with those sites according to ListHere.com is their inability to handle online postings, and the limited ability to search within different cities, states, or even nationwide.
ListHere.com offerings paid business listings for local businesses, so there is no more re-posting and cluttering everything up. It also offers segregated online postings – if you can’t find it locally.
The site recently had a facelift. Unlike other free online classifieds, ListHere.com grants users you the capability to search multiple cities, states, and any combination thereof. This means that if you’re looking for a new job but are open to possibilities that you can search for “Network Operations” in Los Angeles, Florida, and Ohio all from one search.
On top of this functionality, they have also introduced what they call “online ads”. This is a paid only type of listing that will only show if you want it. On the left-hand side of your navigation you will see an indicator showing “All”, “Offline”, and “Online”. The online ads are paid at $0.10 a click to an advertiser’s site, and only show up if you want them to.
So if you have fund other classified sales sites wanting, check out ListHere.com.
By: Co-Editor, RB:
I do not think anybody would be surprised to learn that a recent study found that users of Facebook and Twitter spend more time and money online than average persons using the Internet by quite a large margin.
Small businesses that seek to remain on the cutting edge of these demographic shifts often have trouble optimizing the myriad information provided by these social applications. But at the same time they cannot afford to miss out on the opportunities that are presented by these applications.
3DCart.com, based in Tamarac, Florida, help small businesses and entrepreneurs start their websites, design sites, and make sure these businesses reach social media customers wherever they are be it laptops, PC’s, or smartphones.
Today 3DCart is used by thousands of businesses online, including businesses in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, Italy, France, and Spain.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
NetworkMediaHoldings.com, the parent company of GreatStartups.com, also owns a RaiseCapital.com. RaiseCapital.com is an online community, where entrepreneurs can display their business ideas and capital needs to investors. In displaying those ideas, I am often surprised by the number of entrepreneurs who have typos or in their presentations. It obviously behooves someone looking for an investor to put their best foot forward and avoid typos, poor grammar and misspellings. The same is true for those looking for a job or making a presentation.
EditZen.com, based in San Francisco, aims to address these issues.
EditZen is the next evolution in editing services. The company uses the Internet to tap into vast pools of qualified editors to revise your important business, academic and even personal documents or correspondences. EditZen helps companies and individuals increase efficiency at lower costs without compromise to quality.
You simply go to the site and upload your MS Word document. They calculate the number of billable pages based on one page equaling 300 words. You can pay with a major credit card or Paypal account.
EditZen.com edits your entire document and then completes a full quality review. Within 24 hours of receiving payment, EditZen delivers a final, edited version of your document and notifies you via email. The site uses MS Word’s Track Changes features so you can easily see where each edit was made.
EditZen.com can catch errors your computer spell-check does not. It makes your document safe from the dangers of dozen of grammar traps such as split infinitives, misplaced modifiers, and dangling participles. They will find tiny punctuation errors that can make a bad impression. Plus, they are well versed in English syntax that is difficult to master even for the well-read.
EditZen.com charges $3.95 per page and offers 24 hour return time and a 100% money back guarantee. Other sites either do not offer the quick return time or a guarantee. Sites that do such as Proof-reading.com charge $8.65 a page for similar services.
By: Co-Editor, RB:
Classified ads in newspapers have kind of gone the way of the dinosaurs. Most things that you would fine in a newspaper classified now appear online in one form or another.
Sellers today are faced with the problem of having to post to multiple marketplaces in order to sell their products and services. This process is tedious and time consuming.
A new site, launched out of Columbus, Ohio, enables people to create one classified ad and then have it posted on leading online marketplaces.
GlasyAds provides a complete solution that allows online sellers to create, promote and distribute classified ad listings. The service provides sellers with an easy-to-use user interface that allows them to quickly enter information specific to the product or service they are trying to sell using simple templates.
GlasyAds supports multiple product categories including homes and apartments, cars, boats, general merchandise, services, and events. Users can upload high resolution photographs, include maps, and select or create professional themes to publish their “glasy Impressions”.
By: Co-Editor, RB:
The first cash register was invented by James Ritty following the American Civil War. He was the owner of a saloon in Dayton, Ohio and wanted to stop employees from pilfering his profits. He invented the cash register in 1879 after seeing a tool that counted the revolutions of the propeller on a steamship. It was patented in 1883.
The first registers were entirely mechanical, without receipts. The employee was required to ring up every transaction on the register, and when the total key was pushed, the drawer opened and a bell would ring, alerting the manager to a sale taking place. Those original machines were nothing but simple adding machines.
Today cash registers are basically PCs with software designed to do myriad tasks. A new website is looking to compete with the big boys in offering affordable software to lower point of sale costs.
Chicago based CashierLive.com offers easy to use web-based point of sale software. Cashier Live has positioned himself as a disruptive competitor to Microsoft’s and Intuit’s point of sale offerings. Cashier Live utilizes web-based software to lower the costs of point of sale software. Others in the traditional point of sale business charge $1,000 plus in upfront costs, while Cashier Live has no upfront costs at all. They have signed up over 650 stores since launching in early February, 2010.
In addition to software, CashierLive sells point of sale hardware or a complete point of sale package.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
According to the brand new website WorldofMagicians.com, the term “magic” is etymologically derived from the Latin word magi, a term that was used to refer to Zoroastrians.
Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the prophet Zoroaster (aka Zarathustra, in Avestan) founded in the early part of the 6th century BC. In some form, it served as the national or state religion of a significant portion of the Iranian people for many centuries before it was gradually marginalized by Islam from the 7th century onwards.
Performances we would now recognize as magic or conjuring have probably been practiced throughout history. The same level of ingenuity that was used to produce famous ancient deceptions such as the Trojan Horse would also have been used for entertainment, or at least for cheating in money games, since time immemorial. They were also used by various religions from times ancient, and were even known as far back as the early 17th century to be used to frighten uneducated population. However, the profession of the illusionist gained strength only in the eighteenth century, and has enjoyed several popular ebbs and tides.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
If you have own a web-based business, or have business with any online presence or you are a Webmaster, knowing as much as you can about how your site is used is paramount.
A newly launched sit out of Denmark can help you in that regard.
Mouseflow.com is a hosted online tool for performing advanced web analytics and real-time user studies on websites. It is a hosted service that can be used on any publicly facing website.
Mouseflow.com records whole visitor sessions including mouse movements, clicks, scroll events and key strokes. Website administrators can play back the visitor sessions directly in the browser, just as if they were looking the user over the shoulder.
By summarizing large amounts of data from the recorded visits Mouseflow.com also gives web administrators access to advanced page analysis including Heatmaps, Viewport Maps (displaying scroll behavior) as well as stats and graphs of many different parameters.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
There are a lot of helpful applications on the web that companies are currently offering for free. This especially true of small business and office related applications. We have covered some of these companies such as Sayabit.com, WSBOnline.com, and Outright.com.
Now comes a company that has a really cool application and service. It is called Pligus.com (pronounced PLEE-gus).
Pligus.com is a real time communication and collaboration service, which runs in the browser and is free. Everyone can easily edit together images, drawings, texts and maps – and even share their screens. This all occurs while you are communicating via webcams, microphones and instant messages. There is no installation needed, and it’s free.
With pligus, people around the world can communicate and collaborate as if they were in the same room.
Founded in 2007 and available to the public since November 2009, pligus.com was developed by its founder, Gustavo Scanferla – who was 17 years old at the time.
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By: Co-Editor, RB:
“I’ve never let my school interfere with my education.” Was once very rightly said by Mr. Mark Twain. There is a huge difference between education and quality education. Schools educate you, but experience polishes it with quality.
We have previously covered another education website out of India called NalandaU.com.
Now comes another called iWillStudy.com. Launched on February 5, 2010 out of Mumbai, iWillStudy.com promotes “Quality Education” in various engineering colleges in India. IWillStudy.com conducts seminars and workshops in various colleges, and thereby connects students with corporate veterans who share their experiences and knowledge-base.
Their business orientation is towards bridging the gap between the ‘engineers’ and the ’smart engineers’. And for this particular task, they believe, they have an authentic speakers composition that includes- three IIT alumni and industry people, and some other master engineers of their respective fields, some having worked with Google and Yahoo.
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