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Cirrus Insight combines the power of salesforce.com and Gmail

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 11, 2011
Cirrus Insight

Cirrus Insight

Cirrus Insight brings you the power of Salesforce.com to your email account. You can, through Cirrus Insight, keep track of and manage customer information, log emails from Gmail, create and view tasks and events, and manage opportunities and customer queries and feedback with ease.

It brings context into communications by presenting information from Salesforce.com in an intuitive way so that you can better grasp the information.

There’s more. Through Cirrus Insight, you can not only view lead and contact information when you open your email account, but also log emails to related contacts and leads. You can create new leads in an instant from your Gmail account.

All it takes is a single click to view Salesforce records, and there is easy access to adding new opportunities and cases through Cirrus Insight.

Installing Cirrus Insight add-on takes no more than 30 seconds. After your browser has added Cirrus Insight, you need to log onto your Cirrus Insight account with the same username and password as your Salesforce account and you will see all your data that is on Salesforce, now accessible on Cirrus Insight. There is no need to open a new account on Cirrus Insight.

As the service combines Salesforce and Gmail, you can imagine how easy it makes managing and creating contacts, events, tasks and emails. Because Gmail and Salesforce have private and highly sensitive information, Cirrus Insight makes sure it remains secure and private. The company never sees your Salesforce password, and users only see data that they have been given access to see on Salesforce.

Cirrus Insight is free till they are in their initial beta. According to the company, the pricing will be very affordable, and the prices will be on the basis of user/month or by user/year.

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Lemon, a cloud receipt organizer, raises $10M

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 2, 2011
Lemon

Lemon

Lemon, a cloud-based receipt manager and tracker, raises $10M in funding from Lightspeed and Balderton Capital. Lemon allows you to organize your receipts, paper and digital, and squeezes out only the relevant information in them.

Through Lemon, you can make sense of all the merchant communications that you receive. It includes tracking a package, managing warranties, product returns, coupons and deals.

It also shows you a graph of where you are spending your money. Think of Lemon as your personal expenditure manager. It keeps an account of everything you spend without your having to manage receipts.

Paper receipts can be uploaded by downloading a mobile app and take a picture of the receipt. Lemon will then store it and squeeze out the useful information for you.

Lemon comes with a personalized email address (@lemon.com) to which you can have the retailer send your company claims. Lemon will do the rest.

It saves a lot of time and effort because Lemon extracts for you from receipts product details, expenditures along with dates to create insightful graphs and reports, which makes it easy for you to work out taxes and submit expenditure reports.

Lemon is co-founded by co-CEO Wenceslao Casares, serial entrepreneurs namely Bling Nation, MECK, Wananko Games, and angel investor namely Qik, IndexTank and MyGengo.

In the near future, Lemon will also start offering targeted discounts and promotion from brands and retailers based on the spending habits of people. They plan to give out exclusive discounts to loyal customers of a particular brand and put up personalized offers to fans of a brand.

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Find the best, cheapest deal on AtRightPrice

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 23, 2011
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.

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Blueprint Mint: An amazing Internet marketer for shoppers and sellers

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 21, 2011
Blueprint Mint

Blueprint Mint

Blueprint Mint is an online marketplace for Internet marketing related products. It simplifies your search for the product you are looking to buy, makes sure you buy just what you need, and provides you an opportunity to sell your products on Blueprint Mint.

You can sell anything on Blueprint Mint like e-books , PLR material or resources such as graphics or WordPress themes. For new products to get authentic reviews and feedback, Blueprint Mint helps you get reviews by allowing users to request a free copy of your product in return for a review. This is a wonderful tool for sellers on Blueprint Mint.

Most of the content on Blueprint Mint is in the WSO forums, but it categorizes the products to make searching easy, allows reviews/star ratings for products and provides a powerful search feature. The user-friendliness of its design makes browsing easy.

Services to sellers are for free on Blueprint Mint. You will need to provide an affiliate link (preferably from WarriorPlus.com and with at least a 40% commission). Matthew Platts, the man behind Blueprint Mint is developing an in-house payment system whereby you will not need to provide an affiliate link.

A product can be measured on the basis of the stars it gets (from one to five). After a product has received three reviews, an average of all the ratings is displayed beside the product.

Customers can filter the search by product rating too, so the products that get the maximum number of good ratings will be on the top for that particular search. And because customer feedback is so important, most people are likely to use search a product by product rating along with/apart from general search.

Products when submitted land in the admin queue and are tested on creditability and usability after which they are approved to appear on Blueprint Mint.

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Manage receipts, expenses through Lemon

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 21, 2011
Lemon

Lemon

Lemon is a cloud-based organizer and manager of receipts. The difference between other such services and Lemon is that Lemon not only organizer, but also squeezes out relevant information from receipts.

It has been called ‘personal shopping secretary’ because it keeps an account of all your expenditures, and even facilitates graphs and statistics so that you can, anytime, keep a track of your expenditures.

With Lemon, it is easy to transfer paper receipts. You just need to take a snap of the receipt with your phone camera to create a digitized likeness, and Lemon will do the rest.

Moreover, you get alerts for discounts, freebies, deals and alerts from your favorite brands. Because Lemon keeps a store and intelligently analyses which brands you mostly shop for, it lets you have the added advantage of getting through to you information from these selective brands. Brands, in turn, through Lemon, reach their targeted customers who often buy their product.

Lemon is particularly useful for businesses who receive a large number of receipts. Lemon comes with their unique email address (@Lemon.com), which you can share with your merchant communications who send you digitalized receipts. Any receipt received on this email address will be taken care of by Lemon.

It also saves you a lot of time managing taxes. Lemon makes sure you get all the relevant information from receipts like the name of the product, name of the company and the amount of expenditure. It also creates charts and graphs based on all the receipts it receives. That makes your job very easy because you no longer need to collect receipts of expenditure and calculate the expenditure and taxes. Lemon does all that for you.

Lemon also blocks all the spam you get from merchants who use e-receipts. The best thing is that Lemon is absolutely free. You can start using Lemon by creating a free account on their company website.

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Zoomingo: Get best shopping deals in malls without browsing them

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 20, 2011
Zoomingo

Zoomingo

Zoomingo is a shopping discovery app that helps you find the best sales in your neighbourhood stores. Zoomingo stands for ‘Zoom-in and go’.

Through this website, you get alerts for the best discounts, coupons and deals on stores that you frequently visit, or those that are close to your house. Zoomingo has a catalogue of items on sale at stores of top retailers namely Target, JC Penney, Macys, Nordstrom and others.

You not longer have to waste your time browsing through the mall for good deals. Even if you do that, there is no guarantee that you will get the best deal. With Zoomingo, you can easily browse through hundreds of deals in your town so that you know you are going for the best deal and the best product.

Zoomingo displays items on sale in clothing, handbags, jewellery, accessories, beauty products, home décor, shoes and furnishings. You can easily use ‘search’ to get to the selective items you are interested in.

If you like a product on sale on Zoomingo and thinks the price too high, you can set up a sale alert and Zoomingo alerts you when the price of that item drops.

You can share items with your friends and family, and create your own Zoomingo community of shoppers. If you interested in selling a product with Zoomingo, you just need to take a picture of the product, give a few product details, and Zoomingo will put it up for millions to see.

Zoomingo is co-founded by Krishnan Seshadrinathan and Shirish Nadkarni, who also co-founded Livemocha, a widely popular language learning website having more than 10 million users.

The idea for Zoomingo came to Nadkarni when he accompanied his wife on shopping. The sheer waste of time and energy in going from one shop to another to find the perfect deal frustrated him.

Well, then Zoomingo will be the website men will find themselves promoting.

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Backup website and undo changes with a click on SnatchCode

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 13, 2011
SnatchCode

SnatchCode

Every website owner worries about getting his site hacked. In spite of that, we forget to take regular backups. SnatchCode solves this problem. In exchange of this service, you get peace of mind that your valuable data on the Internet is safe.

First of all, setting up SnatchCode does not take you more than five minutes. No technical skills are required. You simply follow a few simple steps that guarantee timely automated backups of your entire data.

SnatchCode makes a backup of your website once in an hour or daily depending on your need and updates. It keeps older backups of your data too. You can, anytime, remove the earlier backups with a click of a button. This is the real value of SnatchCode, especially for webmasters.

Web designers and programmers can try out new designs and features on a website while SnatchCode saves every change. You can anytime recover the changes with the click of a button or undo the changes whenever you feel the need to.

Even if you have a static website with not many changes, getting a backup daily is a must. Instead of trying to save your website through difficult passwords or protective software, keeping a backup is a simple and effective way still preferred by millions.

SnatchCode is available in two paid plans: Plus and Pro. The pricing starts from as little as $7 per month for the Plus version where you get premium undo features. The site size for Plus can be more than 7GB.

Pro is a custom price plan where the website can be of unlimited size. You can get premium undo features and custom features according to your own needs.

The free version of SnatchCode, with limited features, is also available. The free version does not come with the undo features, but it offers its users to create back ups with just a click. The site size can be more than 1GB.

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Invoicing made easy with BillGrid

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 12, 2011
BillGrid

BillGrid

BillGrid is a resource through which you can easily track your monetary transactions, send billing invoices, and manage clients effectively. BillGrid can create professional invoices in seconds with your company logo and information along with several instant payment methods to make it easy for your clients to pay you quickly.

The resource’s easy to use expense manager makes sure that you manage your expenses easily by facilitating the assignment of expenses to clients, converting expenses into invoices and run expense reports.

Managing clients is one difficult and time-consuming task. BillGrid makes sure that all your clients and their details are at one place so that you do not have to waste your time searching for a particular client and his/her transaction details.

To make sure your clients remember to pay you on time, automatic reminders are sent to your clients about the payments so that your invoices are paid on time, and without your having to send a manual reminder to different clients.

BillGrid works with all types of browser. You do not need to download a software or install an app to run BillGrid on your PC. Apart for that, BillGrid is totally secure with Verisign SSL. Daily backups of your entire data means there can be absolutely no loss of data at any point of time.

With the help of BillGrid, you can receive instant payments from clients because the tool supports PayPal and other safe and widely used money transfer resources. It makes the transfer of money smooth, instant and without hassles.

Customization is one of the great strengths of BillGrid. You do not need to settle for less, or defaults, in this case. You can easily customize BillGrid features according to your needs and requirements anytime you want.

For the basic features of BillGrid, you need not pay a dollar.

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Podio’s New iPhone App Makes You Productive While On The Go

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 28, 2011
Podio

Podio

Last March, we wrote an in-depth review on Podio, the true social work platform. Now, it has launched an exciting new app for iPhones that helps you manage your daily work-related activities while on the go. Any existing Podio app you have will now work right on your iPhone. You can be walking on the street and adding to your work even from there.

Podio’s new iPhone app makes work easy for you. It provides you the technology to create your own portfolio, add pictures and videos to it, and share them with the world through the Internet. You can easily customize your Podio mobile home screen with your favourite apps and make work more interesting.

With Podio’s new app, you can create and edit application items from your iPhone and invite colleagues, employers and employees to work on a project you created anytime. This app has filters so that you only see projects that are overdue.

Creating an app was never easier. Now, you can create your own customized app to report expenses, manage sales, adding field notes, tracking bugs and to click photographs and create videos, all through Podio’s newly launched app.

The best thing is that Podio’s iPhone app is free of cost. You can also create a new app on Podio according to your specific needs. It is helpful for all and every professional need, be it a product release, development work, photographers, authors, businesses, entrepreneurs or students. Customize it to suit your needs.

The app gives you more control over your time, helps you use the time on travel and makes work better, faster and interactive. Podio is currently being used by a wide variety of professionals and organizations to get the work done from anywhere, anytime.

You can give your suggestions on improving the app on the company website.

Podio is based in Denmark and has more than 15 of talented developers, designers and user advocates. The company is backed by venture capitalist Sunstone Capital.

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Reel – Get your ideas online and start reeling in the feedback

1 Comment Posted by on September 27, 2011
Reel

Reel

Reel is an online presentation tool that takes you above use of any software and makes your presentation accessible to all. Other online presentation tools require use of special software which makes their package bulky and dependent. With Reel, getting your ideas to the public is very easy. It is just paper tossing on your iPhone!

The tool helps you to create and share presentations as quickly as possible. Each presentation is back by a unique website address, making it easy for sharing and marketing purposes. With Reel, your ideas and opinions are accessible to everyone, whether he is using a PC or smartphone or tablet and they don’t need any software to view it.

Reel is very user friendly. Just upload PowerPoint slides or a pdf file, add some labels and description to your file and share the unique link created by the tool for you, with your friends. You can also monitor the views and rating of you presentation. This would better suit you needs for better work management and make room for improvements.

The tool also comes in different pricing and packages to fulfill the needs of a business. One can choose the best options available to cater for his needs and business requirements and subscribe to the relevant package.

Reel also offers support for its users, at all times. So whether you are issues with the tool or you don’t know how to utilize the tool to fulfill your business requirements in the best manner possible, just email the tech staff and you will provided with relief, instantly.

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Visible Measures – Online Video Marketing Platform for Advertisers and Publishers

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2011
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.

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MeetingKing Makes Meetings Simple And Adds Productivity

1 Comment Posted by on September 22, 2011
Meetingking

Meetingking

MeetingKing is exactly what its name suggests, the king of managing meetings. It makes the organization, participation and execution of meetings easy and efficient. Instead of using multiple tools for managing meetings, MeetingKing makes all tools available at one place.

You do not need to add information multiple times at different locations. Previous notes and conversations are easily accessible to ease decision-making. This collaboration tool integrates all the processes and documentation of all and every meeting. MeetingKing account is free for participants.

Maximization of human resources is something that every organization needs to do in order to survive and grow. Meetings, of course, are an integral part of that. This is where MeetingKing comes in handy. You and your team hold conversations on MeetingKing and you no longer need to look for old mails, suffer misunderstandings among/with the staff because of ineffective ways of communication or lose important information due to scattered tools.

What’s more? MeetingKing will make a list of things that needs to get done and send you reminders. You will also see updates of what others need to work on for you. Even if you are not part of the team, you can always check in and see what others discussed and finalized in a meeting.

There are provisions to include tasks that you reserve for the next meeting so that you stay focused on what you need to do.

MeetingKing is useful for company CEOs, managers, school administrators, venture capitalists, universities, corporates, lawyers, businessmen, entrepreneurs and anybody who regularly hold meetings. It cuts down the time of management and helps to increase productivity through better communication. Moreover, the participants of the meeting will, with frequent meeting, feel themselves part of the team that will help in better working environment, morale booster and increased productivity.

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Project management is fun when you have tools like PlayNice.ly

1 Comment Posted by on September 21, 2011
Playnice.ly

Playnice.ly

PlayNice.ly is a project management system specially designed to keep track of projects and the time spent on them. Now you can keep track of projects that are under supervision, whether they are individually maintained or group run.

The tool allows perfect document management and collaboration between every type of business. It does not depend where it is software development, freelancing, writing or banking.

The tool is completely web based and brings in additional advantage: it is extremely cost effective compared to the management and collaboration solutions provided by the competitors.

PlayNice.ly serves for every type of document management whether it is photos, coding scripts, or documents. Just share your documents among your peers for effective use of time and work. One can always divide project among sub-projects and allocate an area for effective use by all the team members of the project.

The tool comes in with an added advantage for people who work hour based, like freelancer, because PlayNice.ly keeps track of the time spent on each project, so that it is easy for distribute time among various projects that are under consideration at that interval of time.

PlayNice.ly takes the idea of art seriously so that one can manage their activities and the allotted time to them with fun. The tool comes in several pricing and hosting size offers. There is also a free trial for getting used to the environment and it extends to a paid plan so that one can choose according to the individual or team needs.

The tool is useful for clients in terms of security because one can get a personalized environment where all things are kept in order. Also, it is a generic tool, that provides can cater for the needs of any industry and managers and team members alike can a lot time to their work according to their liking and requirement.

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Moredays – Save Your Memories, Live With Fun and Style

1 Comment Posted by on September 20, 2011
Moredays

Moredays

Moredays, is an unique tool in the personal go management category, that allows one to create personalized calendars, to-do lists and reminders. It keeps you on the right direction by taking your lists, reminders, and managers to the web!

The tool is not the only competitor that offers these facilities, but the bringing in arts, crafting and photos gives it an upper hand in the market. It lets you add personalized photos, drawings and emotions to the calendar and lets you personalize every day of your life.

The tool takes on the idea that life is full of pictures. It lets you visualize life by adding memories to your past, present, and future. It lets you plan in terms of pictures and drawings and makes planning as it was never before. Throw the ’boredom’ part out of the window!

Whether one is creating an event, task, contact, or a note, just record the thoughts freely and you can get back to it, anytime. Just add a photo to your record instead of words and make life easier.

Electronic paper is taken up by Moredays to provide as easy to use interface and lets you think naturally. So where it is meetings, parties or enjoying with your friends and family, Moredays is the place.

Moreover, the tool has more fun to offer. Come anytime to your calendar and see what you did on your birthday last year. This would give you the feel when you take a step forward until today!

The data stored is online and it lets you share your precious moments on facebook and twitter. Also, whether you are on the iphone, iPad, PC, or the Android, it lets you view your calendar anytime to keep you updated and on schedule.

The tool brings up a very unique idea by incorporating planning with personalization, keeping the data online.

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