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Womply personalizes shopping for customers, helps merchants with targeted marketing

Womply

Womply

Womply is a platform that connects the right customers to the right merchants. It lets customers know about great offers that are suited to their spending habits and tastes.

Through Womply, you get amazing offers from local merchants that matches your spending. You can easily redeem the offers using just your credit card or debit card and Womply will rebate you automatically. Read more of this post

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GroSocial: Your social media marketing manager

GroSocial

GroSocial

GroSocial is a social media marketing tool that helps you promote your business on social networking sites without any hassles.

Effective social media marketing involves branding, community creation, PR, and customer relationship management on a daily basis. The major reason for doing all this and more is revenue creation. If any of the above mentioned activities do not bring revenue, then it is considered to be a waste of the company’s time and resources. GroSocial helps you in increasing your revenue, more than anything else.

GroSocial’s social media marketing software helps businesses and professional find new customers through popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The products built by GroSocial are being used by businesses in seventeen countries.

The specialty of the company’s software is that it is incredibly simple to use. The software is also affordably priced so that it can be used even by the smallest of businesses.

Through GroSocial, you can customize and promote your Facebook page in minutes. It also helps you in acquiring new, valuable Twitter followers every day. Moreover, you can get an entry-level social media marketing training so that you know exactly what to do, how to do it and what results it will achieve. With GroSocial, you can easily swap updates with other social networkers.

GroSocial’s Customizer lets you add dynamic forms to Facebook page. You can easily customize your form by choosing from basic form fields, check-boxes, radio buttons or drop-down lists that can be helpful in collecting names, phone numbers, email addresses of users.

Managing you Twitter account is a tough job, as it requires much time and effort to attract followers and churn out interesting stuff. GroSocial even manages your Twitter account (it selects target audience, cuts out those ‘follows’ who are not interested in following you back, and target those who would be interested in following you) in a spectacular way.

GroSocial is a privately-help company. It is headquartered in Utah.

HiGear: A Luxurious Car- Sharing Service

HiGear

HiGear

At some point of our life, we all dream of having a luxurious item that we cannot afford. Some of us may dream of having it, or some give it a shot in getting close to it. If your dream item is about a car then HIGEAR is the place you want to be. You can now try your dream car since some people are emulating the inimitable hot service of renting so that you can fulfill your dream. For whatever reason that we have, whether to test the grandest model or just to impress the girl you are dating with, HiGear could help you attain that dream.

HiGear is a peer-to-peer service for car sharing. Its focus is mainly on the luxury vehicles which will expand to L.A. starting from this November 1, 2011. This shift is a part of the company’s constant development programs that will have 5 added markets which also includes that of San Diego and Portland by the end of the year. At any rate, HiGear concentrated with the “high-end” auto makes only unlike any other car-sharing services. Some of the brands include Tesla, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes.

So how exactly does HiGear work? Basically, the high-end car owners will enable to rent their own vehicles to other drivers for 50% less off the commercial rates on average. For the time being, other drivers could finally have the chance to drive the cars that they have been dreaming for, without having to worry about ownership.

The process is safe and secured since HiGear gives collision insurance and all- inclusive liability to owners. It also provides a process of screening the members which understandably includes tracks of driving records and even credit checks sometimes. HiGear also gathers a deposit for security reasons so as to “encourage safe and fair use of members’ cars.” Moreover, renters clearly must pay for the rental fee which ranges from $125 to $600 conditional on the car rented. Aside from the rental fee, drivers must also pay for the rental insurance around $20 to $40. In the average period of 3 days, renters may pay $410.

Recently, HiGear has raised a fund amounting to $1.3 million from their investors which clearly shows sign of a successful business startup.

Find the best, cheapest deal on AtRightPrice

AtRightPrice

AtRightPrice

AtRightPrice is a shopping website where products are, as the name of the website suggests, at the right price.

Every shopper knows how tedious it is to browse through various stores looking for a good deal. And even more frustrating is to look up for a product at multiple websites across the Internet to decide on buying the best product available for a particular price. AtRightPrice has dealt with precisely this.

They have an amazing variety of mobile phones and cameras, with some amazing price tags. You click on the image of the product and you get to see all the prices the product is available in at different retail stores on the Internet!

For example, if you want to buy BlackBerry Curve 8520. On AtRightPrice, you get to see its price at Letsbuy, saholic, infibeam, homeshop, flipkart, ezone and others. This makes you make up your mind easily, and without having to visit multiple websites and look for the product specifically on each of them.

AtRightPrice makes browsing for products easier. Below the details of a product, you also get to see related products with their price tags beneath them. Shopping for products was never this easier.

The cheapest price for the same product is shown at the top of the page for that product.

The interface of AtRightPrice is user-friendly. We just hope they get more products on their website.

AtRightPrice is created by a team of people with background in IT and retail marketing. The only goal they had in mind was to create a website that would be the right place to find the right price of any product. The team is working with local stores in some of the major cities in India.

The company is located at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Apprupt: Monetizing Mobile Advertising

Apprupt

Apprupt

Internationally embodied with its offices in London and Hamburg, Germany, apprupt chiefly aimed the iPhone app providers though android is also a forthcoming event. Recently, the company, apprupt, scored an anonymous round of subsidy from its current investor, Neuhaus Partners, Deutsche Telekom’s T-Venture arm, and KfW.

In a nutshell, apprupt is a network for mobile apps. It monetizes the traffic in mobiles by pulling together the apps and users. This is done by means of its extensive publisher network. Through the apprupt partner network, developers are allowed to promote their applications to their aimed group via pay-per-download foundation. In this regard, apprupt enables developers like Men’s Health, CIO, TecChannel, WEB. DE, or CFOworld to deal with their users topical and significant applications and product AMD in doing so, it monetizes mobile traffic.

Apprupt as it was self- defined is a performance marketing network for mobile apps. It offers advertising companies with particularly focused solutions for framework- guided advertising, to be precise, the endorsement of mobile sites, app marketing, and premium lead generation by way of collaborative mobile advertisements. All of these are done through a wide- ranging network of premium publishers. Not only that, apprupt allows app providers to reboot their app users as it has a technology called mobile retargeting.

For the downloads that are impending by means of the performance of the network itself, the developers, at this very moment, have to pay a percentage that stands at 0,35€. They can otherwise apportion 30 percent of their revenues less than the Apple share which is 30 %. At any rate, it is usable for free which is made possible by the various set of tools. It is termed as the “Performance Marketing Suite,” and can relatively acquire through the site free of charge either. In basic terms, you just have to incorporate the made- available download tracking library into your application, once you have downloaded it. Then, you will be able to scrutinize its operation with the public in general.

Clickable raises $12 million from American Express in series C

Clickable

Clickable

Clickable, an online advertising service provider, got a big boost of confidence from its biggest partner, American Express, which is leading a $12 million series C. Clickable has successfully cemented its position as a reliable and useful among small and middle-sized businesses.

The new funds will be used to expand Clickable’s marketing and sales, and the company will move aggressively towards social advertising market.

American Express is a major distribution partner for Clickable. It resells its ad management platform to small business customers.  Previous investors namely Union Square, Founders Fund and FirstMark are also participating in the funding event.

Before this funding, Clickable raised money three years back. Then, it closed at $14.5 million in series B funding.

Already, Clickable has a staff of about one hundred and sixty employees.

Clickable was founded in 2006 and is based in New York City. Its founders David S. Kidder and Munish Gandhi had founded SmartRay Network before creating Clickable. The company’s management team comes with a rich experience in world’s leading technology and media companies like Google, Microsoft, AOL, Netsuite etc.

Clickable’s novel and innovative advertising solution for small and mid-sized businesses have helped many business find success. It has been acknowledged for its outstanding performance by many institutions.

The company is all set to launch Clickable 3 early next year that will make search and will bring closer social marketing campaigns. This is in tune with the company’s focus on bridging in the gap between social and search.

Find inexpensive vintage clothing and accessories at Vinchi

Vinchi

Vinchi

Vinchi is a web resource that sells vintage clothes and accessories, just for women. On this site, you will find vintage clothes from 1940s to 1980s. Buys can also be searched by size.

Vinchi is devoted to lovers of vintage clothes. They sell one-of-a-kind vintage items, and every one of their items has an appeal of their own. The aim of the website is to sell fashion at a reasonable price. Therefore, you will not find items displaying an exaggerated price tag on Vinchi.

You enter the site and you will find photographs of vintage clothes and accessories, some displayed by a model. A photograph of the product along with a short description and price makes it easy for the buyer to get the information quickly. You can click on the link to see a larger picture, its availability in different sizes and the quantity in which the product is available. Related products are also showcased beneath it judging from your taste.

Vinchi is divided into various categories such as Deal of the Day, New In, Vintage Dresses, Accessories, Jumpers/Jackets, Skirts, Trousers/Shorts and Vintage Tops.

Vinchi is a great place to find a gift too. The item is delivered at your doorstep so that you do not even have to step out of the door to get a gift. You can simply buy it from Vinchi. This mix of authentic and eclectic makes Vinchi a unique garments store on the Internet.

The target market of Vinchi is sixteen to thirty-four year olds who love to indulge in fashion, but do not want to buy anything exuberantly expensive. For budding fashionistas, Vinchi is a site made specifically for them. According to the Vinchi team, their customer service is amazing. They just do not want to sell; they want to create a relationship with their customers.

Promoboxx: First-rate Retail Promotion Platform

Promoboxx

Promoboxx

It is a fact commonly acknowledged by many that retailers and brands need each other. Retailers and brands are essential to each other so as to mutually benefit and prosper together. However, the present set up is unfortunately the other way around. They separately try to make progress but more often than not, it is not perfectly achieved. This is because brands have the capacity of creative online promotion without the ability to market them in the local setting. Also, retailers have access to real- time local marketing channels but critically need promotions. It is a never- ending problem that needs to be addressed appropriately in order to maximize time, profit, and the opportunity to raise product sales.

Promoboxx is here to deal with the problem. It seeks to create quality promotions by allowing brands to promote, launch and trace real- time marketing movements together with their retailers, including sweepstakes and coupons that greatly encourage them to increase sales and build leads. In a nutshell, Promoboxx helps you to win over customers byentertaining and interactive promotions. It basically grows by email contacts, twitter followers, and facebook fans. Moreover, Promoboxx understands your audience with vigorous reporting and storage. It is indeed ideal for small business industry and self starters!

Initiated by people with deep-rooted and excellent marketing background namely, Ben Carcio, Dan Koziak, and Sonciary Honnoll, Promoboxx spontaneously should be a startup to keep an eye on! According to the studies conducted by the three founders, when brands include the retailers, the resulting effect is advantageous to both sides since it makes them more successful and their marketing power is raised exponentially. Along with these lines, Promoboxx has been called “the next generation marketing platform.”

Although there are a few competitors, by the name of Wildfire and buddy Media, that would like to challenge the efficacy of Promoboxx, there are by far, unsuccessful. This is due to the fact that Promoboxx’s vital element is to strengthen the partnerships between retailer and brand and make both parties attract a massive shoppers. Principally, it allows them to work directly with each other.

Promoboxx is easy to use. Promotions take no time to organize! It is really perfect for entrepreneurs who want to entice customers from their existing traffic. If you have the traffic, Promoboxx will automatically drive the leads lest you add Promoboxx to your twitter, facebook, Linkdln pages, and even to your existing website! With Promoboxx, you’ll create first- rate social promotions that drive leads.

Indulge in targeted shopping with Get.com

Get.com

Get.com

Get.com is an amazing product search tool through which you can find a product you are looking for. This service lets you see the votes that a product receives along with reviews by users. On a single page, you can see multiple products of the same utility with votes and reviews so that you can make a decision to buy or not to buy within seconds.

This website works as a community where anybody and everybody can review and rate product/s. Every product comes with product description so you instantly know the details of the item along with its photograph. Get.com serves in the same way that Yelp and TripAdvisor serves for their niche market namely local services and travel respectively.

The categories on the website are electronics, automotive, photography, make-up and beauty, parenting and all. There are related questions on the right hand side of the website which guides a user to similar products that s/he might be interested in. Moreover, you can, with a click, share your Get.com activity with friends on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Its user-friendly interface also allows you to converse with others who are looking and rating the same product. Through interaction, you can easily get genuine reviews about a product, which is essential for a good buy. Get.com makes product discovery easy and fast.

With Get.com, you do not need to search through long listings of products, which take a lot of time and effort. This website puts similar products on the same page which gives the buyer various options to choose from.

To minimize fake votes, Get.com gives the link and the photograph of the person/s who have voted for a product. This ensures genuineness and increases the credibility of the website. The site has launched a Q&A platform to help users get crowd-sourced recommendations for products quickly. Get.com is all set to be a top web resource for buyers from across the world with their outstanding services.

Visible Measures – Online Video Marketing Platform for Advertisers and Publishers

Visible Measures

Visible Measures

Visible Measures is an online video ad platform that offers many services to advertisers and video creators and publishers. It offers measurement solutions for both the publishers of the video content and the advertisers. The publishers are the creators and hosts of the video while the advertisers are the media companies and advertising agencies.

The tool offers users, which are the publishers and advertisers to measure the video content consumptions and the viral distributions for effective management of the published and advertised video content. The users provided with the online video measurement solutions of the Visible Measures are powered by two mainstream technologies: Viral Reach Database and Video Metrics Engine.

The solutions provided by the tool assist the users in understanding the needs and requirements and habits of their audiences so that users can able to predict the market of their content and also become more inclined to the needs of their important audiences. This would in turn affect their businesses and therefore increase their market share.

There are numerous services provided by Visible Measures. It provides a showcase of important and resourceful tools that include monitor campaign performance, competitive benchmarks, performance measurement, distributions and research. VM also produces easy to use insightful reports to keep track of the market and businesses of the users.

Visible Measures uploads videos of the publishers and the advertisers onto more than 40 different video sharing destinations in matters of a single click. In turn, it provides you with control over your brand placement. Also, it gives you clear and complete visibility into your viral video placements and measures audience growth by tracking across hundreds of video sharing destinations. It keeps the data of your videos, including every stream, every day and preserves the interaction of the every audience with every video that you have placed.

Quote Roller – Create and Manage Interactive Business Proposals Online

 

Quoteroller

Quoteroller

Quote Roller is a software as a service application that helps to create interactive, beautiful sales proposals, NDA’s, contracts and other documents of this nature. You get a branded account where you can store your templates, list of products, services and clients; so you might think of the Quote Roller as about the branded quoting system. Docs sent with the Quote Roller could be signed online so it is a great tool to close the deals faster.

The objective of this tool is to optimize the documents exchange in agencies and freelance businesses as well as to reduce the consumption of paper at least few percents from its current usage.

The first beta version of Quote Roller has been launched in late March. Since then it was able to get over 4000 companies signed up. Since then, it’s customers, actually, helped the team to shape the product a lot. The official launch date of the Quote Roller is due on October 3rd at the Startup Week 11 in Vienna. Since the team is from Belarus, which doesn’t have a big tech ecosystem, it was quite a bit of a challenge to spread a word about the startup. For that reason, some of Quote Roller’s founders (Serge Barysiuk and Mikita Mikado) decided to move to silicon valley in Aug 2011.

This far Quote Roller won in the Minsk Startup Weekend, participated at Pitch in San Francisco’s AT&T Park and going to take a part of the Startup Week in Vienna, Austria.

They are bootstrapping the product so their marketing and PR budgets were if not 0 then very close to the 0. Regardless of that, they were able to get some interest from a few of world’s leading technology resources and companies including Smashing Magazine, 37 Signals, Envato’s Web.AppStorm etc.

They’ve also got a great PR help from the Rackspace, whose hosting infrastructure they use to run the Quote Roller. Please have a look at this great tool and let us know your feedback.

View information about Quote Roller at StartupTunes Directory.

Advert.ly – Self Promotional Platform For Blogs, Websites And Brands

Advert.ly LogoAdvert.ly is an awesome concept that can be used as a great internet marketing platform for your business, brand, product, websites, applications or anything on the web. Although there are many internet marking platform but Advert.ly is distinguishable for its simple campaigning system.

The notion of Advert.ly is very straightforward, suppose that you sell exercise machine and you are a member of health and beautify forum. In forum, most of the people are concerned about health and beauty and they always to try grasp the best and the brightest product to keep them healthy and beautiful. So that forum is a great place to display or campaign of your product to users. Now how is it possible? Advert.ly allows you to embed your marketing campaign on every link you share online.

The process is very simple after completion of registration process at Advert.ly go to My Campaign in left side of the page. Then add some information related to your campaign, such as name of your campaign, upload the banner and finally set the banner URL. Now go to Run Campaign, click Add New Content. A new pop up will appears choose to share a link or picture or embedded video. After that add the title of your campaign and finally add what link you want to share. At last Advert.ly provides you a link and share this link with other on the forum or your status on Facebook or email it to friends to show your banner on the top that page. It is amusing that you can add your ads on any web page with Advert.ly provided link.

Another most interesting feature is that monetizing is also possible by starting promoting Affiliate product or CPA using Advert.ly banner campaign on twitter, Facebook or your personal blogs or any social networking platform.

Advert.ly’s nice method helps to get more visitors on personal blog or promote product as well as increase sells. Advert.ly is completely free and anyone can join it very easily. Just go there to unlock a new advertising wave of web.

AdGrok – An Incredible Online Advertising Platform To Simplify Google AdWords

adgrok-logoAdGrok is an incredible online advertising platform which can be more specifically called as a simplified front-end to Goolge’s popular AdWords program. AdWords is still the most powerful online advertisement platform and one of they key source of Google’s revenue. For businesses, AdWords is very effective and can generate huge traffic to their offering. But not all businesses can use AdWords effectively because of its complexity and overwhelming process. Businesses with clear goal often lost their advertising strategy seeing so many options and information in Google AdWords. This is really frustrating for small businesses specially those having little or no experience in SEO.

AdGrok is going to make this entire process very simple and fun. Within a minutes you can get up and running on Google AdWords with AdGrok. This Y Combinator backed project is a Google AdWords certified Partner, verified by Google and granted preferred API access.

It’s unique GrokBar allows you to visualize your data side by side right on your website, in context, so no more switching between your website and Google AdWords tabs. You can see exactly how much you are paying for each campaign, compare campaign’s performance and if it does not provide expected result, you can kill the campaign. You can perform almost everything you can do in Google AdWords, so you don’t have to log into Google AdWords again.

Another important feature of AdGrok is Grok-O-Matic which allows you to set up AdWords campaigns on your entire website uploading a text file with your URLs and defining some page attributes. You will have your entire product catalog on AdWords with one click through Grok-O-Matic saving you endless clicking inside AdWords.

For Shopify powered shops, AdGrok provides a nice integration with your products catalog in the shop. You can upload your entire inventory in AdGrok and create campaign around each product specifying when to end the campaign based on product’s inventory count.

AdGrok also provides professional service rendered by Google Certified Professional to do all the set-up and maintenance of your account.

Finally, AdGrok is a wonderful platform to create, manage and monetize your Google AdWords campaign. Please try it yourself and let us know your valuable feedback about this platform.

Mobeezo – Create Your Own Free Mobile Website

Mobeezo LogoMobeezo is an incredible platform to create, systematize and manage mobile site similar to ma.rs. Mobile site is getting popularity day by day because of high availability, experts think that mobile phone will be the first computer for many people and by the 2013 there will be 5.8 billion mobile subscribers worldwide. So it is one of the large media to emphasize your business or professional brand.

Mobeezo allow you to create mobile websites very simply. It is very fast and provides affordable way to create mobile website in Mobeezo. When creating a website in Mobeezo, it allows you to choose from various themes and templates which gives you the opportunity to setup your mobile site nicely and colorfully. Mobeezo has both free and paid account. Using a free account you can create three pages with keyword and description.  Mobeezo’s mobile site is fully customizable. You can customize the graphical design of your web page such as can add logo, pictures, suitable icons, insert lines and change the background color to match your taste, in addition you can also add background images to create attractive mobile site. Moreover you will have the opportunity to add various widgets including map. To add content you can use a variety of fonts, font’s color as well as font’s size and add hyperlink on your text.

While ma.rs provides more options, Mobeezo offers free account for all. Mobeezo’s free account has almost all types of facility but paid account provides more benefits such as add free site, custom domain name, import content as well as device detection. Mobeezo’s premium pricing are categorized as Standard, Professional and Ultimate.

If you are thinking of creating your own mobile website, you should try this wonderful platform by yourself.

ma.rs – Easily Create Mobile Websites Without Any Programing Skills

mars-logoma.rs is a fantastic platform for creating mobile websites and landing pages very easily. Using ma.rs you will be able to create small, targeted, one-product website that will enhance your marketing campaign. To build a mobile website for your new product or service is a matter of minutes.

The idea behind ma.rs is simple, because they believe that mobile device is going to be the first computing device for many people across the world. There will be 5.8 billion mobile subscribers worldwide by 2013 according to research. So it is a great media to boost up your campaign using mobile websites. Developing and maintaining a mobile website for a company is sometimes a cumbersome but using ma.rs they can easily build a website and update themselves and be connected with their consumers.

You don’t need to know any programming skills, drag and drop knowledge is just enough to build a campaigning website for your business. ma.rs app gives you ability to choose various themes, color,  various static and dynamic modules for your websites. Website made by ma.rs is accessible from almost all mobile devices and there is no boundary for accessing your content. Another interesting feature is that ma.rs app allows you to publish mobile content using QR codes and SMS with just a few clicks with customization in physical appearance and attach geographic location so you can track locations of your customers. Finally ma.rs provide advance statistic, from that you can easily analyze data and mobile content, detailed information about your customers, their locations as well as device used by the customers.

Some awesome features of ma.rs at a glance:

  • Easily build mobile websites with awesome design
  • Manage communication with your customers
  • Publish using SMS and QR codes
  • Advanced statistics to analyze data

Last but not least ma.rs is a awesome platform not only to build a mobile websites but also simple to manage and handle. Live help is great helpful for the new people and price is also reasonable that will fulfill your needs. Good news is that ma.rs is giving 30-days Free Trial on all accounts, so try this attractive service and don’t forget to leave us your valuable feedback.

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