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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 analyzed, and coupled with structured data that is readily available via sites like Wikipedia, app developers should be able to come up with more intuitive applications that can better predict users’ needs.

Despite the fact that companies providing consumer sentiment analytics have sprung up from here, there and everywhere, a lot of social data is unstructured, which means that making comparisons – let alone, drawing conclusions – from such data is easier said than done. Swipp’s answer is to recreate the way things are shared via social media to generate more consistent and functional data.

Technically speaking, you, the social media user, are still allowed to post random thoughts about random things – unstructured data, essentially. Swipp, then, would have you tag your post to signify that it’s under a subject that exists in its humungous library of structured web data. After which, to explicitly address the sentiment analysis side of things, it also would make you rate how you feel about your post using a scale of 1 to 10. And once the data is entered, Swipp lets you know how other people from different parts of the world feel about the same subject.

While Swipp may be able to give its users extra and relevant data, it doesn’t have the follower base Facebook has for Graph Search nor the user data Google has for every meaningful thing it has in store for Google+. Swipp is coming from nowhere and may need to beat insurmountable odds to become a major player in the social space.

Then again, as per Swipp co-founder and CEO, Don Thorson: Every big idea looks impossible up until the exact moment it looks inevitable. Whether he’s right or wrong is left to be seen.

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Ray Hudson And His Honey

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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 taken off like his latest venture – Honey.
 
Honey is a Google Chrome extension that scours the web for discounts and promo codes at the same time you’re checking out of an online store. Aside from the code-hunting, Honey also tries multiple codes, if available, in the first few seconds. If none works, you know there isn’t anything you’re missing out on. If something works, well and good, right?

Shortly before Thanksgiving, just after Honey was launched, a bug tester at Mechanical Turk got so excited about the product that he leaked it via Reddit in advance. That took things off, and Hudson and his team had to watch at the escalating numbers with bated breath, hoping Honey wouldn’t crash.

At present, Honey already has 125,000 installs, of which 97,000 are being actively used weekly. Aside from more than 400 websites the extension works on, it also has hundreds of websites in backlog, and that is due to the fact that aside from Hudson himself, there’s only one other full-time employee comprising the Honey team. To date, Honey has already helped users save over $108,000.

Honey may be in the business of saving people money, but currently, it still isn’t sure how it will generate a profit. Hudson isn’t taking a cut from the money users are saving. Someday, it probably will. Right now though, all Hudson knows is to make the most of the unprecedented user interest and add fuel to the fire.

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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 review of DudaMobile, a do-it-yourself service that converts regular websites to mobile sites that can work with all smartphones.

Here’s your step-by-step do-it-yourself guide to get that website rocking the smartphone as well:

- On DudaMobile’s homepage, type in your website’s URL and click on Make My Site Mobile.
- Next, you’ll be given a number of templates to choose from.
- Once you’ve made up your mind on a template, within minutes, DudaMobile imports all of your site’s content – text, images, links, everything!
- You can then edit different things, including taking out text, links, images or other stuff that look out of place.
- When you’re ready to test things out, simply add a code (or install a plugin) to the main site for a mobile redirect.

What’s remarkable about DudaMobile is that you don’t have to be on the techie side to get things done. All in, average time to get setup is about 10 to 15 minutes. And what’s even more impressive is that whenever you make changes to your main site, your mobile site is automatically updated – for free!

DudaMobile’s basic package, which is free, can let you customize up to 10 pages. The premium package, which costs $9 per month, allows you to work on unlimited pages, offers unlimited bandwidth, ads-free and customizable footer, your own mobile URL (m.yourcompany.com), phone and e-mail support, mobile site analytics, maps and directions.

Weird Startups - Tailwaiters

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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 one memorable event where the Tailwaiters took care of 300 rabid "away" fans at a Chargers-Giants game.

Customers order their packages of food and equipment (tents, grills, chairs, coolers) online or via phone. The three founders and five on-call employees set up the party in the parking lot for the partiers. They clean up at game time, and even offer a chef for a fee. The company doesn't provide alcohol, but Wotman says people seem to manage that part of the tailgate just fine.

"We get to serve a lot of fun people, and that really makes the job a lot more entertaining for us," says Wotman. "Especially when we have first-time customers, like people, let's say, who get off the train, walk over to the spot we coordinate with them and see a whole tailgate set up for them with a tent and a lit grill-they're beside themselves. They're completely ecstatic, because this has never really been done before."

Started for just $15,000 out of the partners' pockets, Tailwaters made it through its first season last year with just word-of-mouth advertising and flyers placed on cars. As they've made more money, they've invested it into radio ads, public relations and branding efforts. They've also thrown tailgate parties for some Jets and Giants bloggers to spread the word on the internet. "Anyone who's a big fan of the teams and goes to a lot of the games probably has heard something about us at this point," says Wotman.

Now in their second season, the company averages 10 tailgates each game. And they haven't just stuck to football. During Bruce Springsteen's recent five-night stint at Giants Stadium, the Tailgaters averaged 12 tailgates per show. They also struck a deal with the Red Bulls soccer team, offering tailgates as an incentive for group ticket sales.

As of now, the partners don't have specific deals in place with the Jets, Giants or stadiums, but they are working on it. "The stadiums and teams definitely know about us now," says Wotman. "I can't divulge the exact secrets yet, but there are potential plans to be in at least one other stadium by next football season. We definitely want to expand our operation in the New York area and become more of a powerhouse here."

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Doba Does Dropshipping Right

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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 find the products you want to sell, list products for sale across the web and fulfill orders without having to store, pack or ship anything. They guarantee the lowest drop-ship price. And they also provide a Money Back Guarantee in case you’re unable to recoup on your initial purchase in product sales by the end of your membership.

At the moment, you can choose three different subscriptions depending on various options like supplier access (core or pro), size of your inventory (between 1K and 25K), Pre-Pay possibility (on or off) and Elite Seller Report feature (on or off). There is Doba ($59.95 per month or $599.50 per year), Doba Advanced ($69.95 per month or $699.50 per year) and Doba Pro ($89.95 per month or $899.50 per year.

Once signed in, you’re going to have access to more than one and a half million products consolidated into one catalogue which you can search through by category, brand, price etc. You’re going to create your own Inventory List which you can customize and edit according to your needs. You’re going to be able to Push to Facebook and eBay. You’re going to have access to training materials, special deals and many other available features. It’s too good not to try it.

And you can try it any time and for free! The company is now offering a 7-day trial (here is a coupon for 14-day free trial). You provide your email address (future username) and create a password, fill in your contact and credit card details in case any sales are billed during this period. You can sign in from any country all over the world; however, Doba only operates within the United States. This means that all your activity, i.e. sales, marketing and client service is going to be focused and operating in the U.S. Taking under consideration that the U.S Retail Industry operates in trillions of Dollars, there’s plenty of market share for everybody.

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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 available freelance jobs that match his expertise or field of interest. Being a search engine, DoNanza pores through as many cracks in the Internet to get the most comprehensive set of results. It doesn’t, in any way, compete with Elance, oDesk or other freelancing platforms. Instead, DoNanza “completes” them as it ultimately directs traffic back to these platforms.

Aside from its basic listing services, DoNanza also offers 1Click Advertising, a feature  that allows freelancers private job requests – meaning, no competition, minimal effort, more job prospects and more chances of landing a job – for a fee.

As well, DoNanza integrates several freelancing apps like Conduit Mobile, which makes your DoNanza site mobile-friendly; Fanzila, a Facebook fan page app that helps you create a powerful social media presence; KashFlow, an app that automates credit control, billing and payment reminders; Paymo, which provides project management, invoicing and time-tracking tools; Base CRM, which easily manages your contacts, sales and customers; and a whole lot more.

If you’re a publisher, DoNanza’s Publisher Program allows you to integrate either the DoNanza widget or project board into your site. Publishers are compensated when a reader posts a job via the widget or a freelancer starts a job that he/she found on the publisher site.

If properly utilized, DoNanza can be your springboard to a successful freelancing career.

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How BigCommerce Got Big

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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 the list of features is countless which targets all potential kinds of client s.

There are e-commerce newbie’s looking for tools to start with: web-based control panel, automated email marketing and almost one hundred store designs. There are e-commerce owners hoping to update and refresh their software with push to Facebook and eBay, SEO and Google Website Optimizer. And there are website designers looking for a ready platform to work with; they’ll look into painless software updates, unlimited design flexibility and premium hosting. To cut the long story short, BigCommerce has got everything for everybody.

The company overview does sound like a cliché online success story. Two IT geeks, a brilliant idea, a lot of hard work, right place, right time, huge demand and a spot on investor. (General Catalyst have also believed in BigFish, airbnb, iWalk and many others). This is how Eddie Machaalani speaks of the beginnings of their cooperation. “When we made the decision to raise capital and did our U.S tour to pitc h different VC firms, General Catalyst had already done a ton of due diligence on the market opportunity, our company and our competitors. They were very eager to invest in the company.”

BigCommerce have recently announced $2M integration fund to follow the market developments and create new better features. The software has now got built-in Pinterest and Quickbooks integration, referral system, a live chat, abandoned cart plugin and many other improvements. They tent to release new features every two weeks.

The software seems to be ahead of its competition (Shopify, Zencart, Magento) according to various online discussions, blogs and comparisons and is only getting better and smarter. E-shopping cart is gaining the whole new meaning. And what does it mean to you? Only one way to find out. (Here is a link for $100 coupon or 30 day free trial provided by BigCommerce for our readers).

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If, by some stroke of luck, you're given the chance to play tennis with superstars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, hang out backstage with Lady Gaga, or perhaps discuss Latin American future with Mexico's former President Vicente Fox over a cup of coffee, or, say, spend some time with a Nobel Prize winner at MIT's Robotics Lab, will you grab the opportunity? Most folks would, given these are once-in-a-lifetime experiences that can change their lives forever.

And if you're like most folks, you probably would be elated to know that with Omaze, an L.A. startup founded by two college friends, for as little as $5, you get the chance to live out dream experiences while making donations to charitable causes.

After college, co-founders Matt Pohlson and Ryan Cummins moved to L.A. to get into film. Soon, they discovered they both had a passion for “cause content,” which essentially are stories that both entertain and impart social messages. As was pretty much inherent in the cause content space as a whole, while they were creating a lot of awareness for the causes that have chosen to partner with them, they weren't necessarily creating a lot of impact. Hence, their decision to go to business school to hopefully be exposed to innovative ways of thinking.

While in business school, they went to a benefit for the Boys & Girls Club of America hosted by Magic Johnson, where Magic auctioned off the opportunity to sit alongside him at a Lakers game and have dinner with him after. Being die-hard Lakers fans, with Magic their childhood hero, hanging out with him for a night would be a one-of-a-kind experience, a dream come true. Literally. Being broke grad students, however, they could do nothing but watch. The bids escalated until the winning bid finally clinched the deal at $15,000. Two questions consumed them on the way home: (1) Why were life's most awesome experiences accessible to but a select few? (2) How could such a priceless experience raise a mere $15,000 for the Boys & Girls Club?

And then it hit them. They could make the same opportunities available online. For a donation of $5, everybody gets the chance to make their dream experiences happen. As well, they help to generate substantially more money and awareness for worthy causes.

From every experience, Omaze earns 20% of the net proceeds, which is industry standard for professional fundraisers, while the remaining 80% goes to the charity.

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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 monitoring, employee records, goal setting, drafting of job openings and a whole host of others.
TribeHR allows you to store personnel data in a location that you can access any time you need to. Depending on your preference, you may choose to share the said information with other employees, such as managers or staff from other pertinent departments. If your list of employees is saved in an Excel file, TribeHR’s Employer Builder capability allows you to import the list with ease.

Additionally, TribeHR helps with reports generation, such as your employees’ sick and vacation days, performance reports, how they fared against their goals, etc. With TribeHR, no need to worry about theft, fire or floods – natural calamities that can destroy your paper files in folders. Moreover, TribeHR ensures your data is protected with bank-quality encryption. TribeHR can also be integrated with other applications like LinkedIn and Facebook.

For a subscription that starts at $2 per user per month, with its social, open and measurable functionalities, TribeHR empowers not just yourself but your employees, too. A fully functional TribeHR application is available for free trial for 60 days and here's a coupon you can use.

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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 and includes a simple do-it-yourself content management system. You get to upload images, text an d links to create promotional campaigns and brand messages without having to worry about writing codes.

Eighteen in all, apps in North Social's "app buffet" range from apps that pimp up your Welcome page, launch a sweepstakes within minutes, the Deal Share app to unlock group discounts, Fan Offer for Timeline that converts visitors to fans through coupon rewards or invitation to events, and a whole lot more. And then there's North Contact, a CRM extension for North Social's apps that can be embedded for capturing users' names, e-mails and other information. This is especially useful for creating lists, auto-responders and outbound e-mails.

North Social's pricing depends on the number of fans you have. One account unlocks all apps, and the starter package, with a fan limit of 1,000, is at $19.99 per month. If you just want to try it out and see for yourself if there's any truth to everything you've read and heard, North Social offers a 14-day free trial. If you think it isn't for you, you can cancel anytime - no long-term contract to worry about.

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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, writing services, sales and marketing and miscellaneous services like voice recording, video editing, naming or branding, et cetera. Depending on the type of work you want done, whether you need an immediate deliverable or not, Witmart offers two job types to choose from: contest or contract.

Much like PickyDomains and 99designs, with a contest, you specify the job requirements and reward amount, choose the best entry and pay the winner. If none of the entries matches your needs, you get a full refund. With a contract, on the other hand, just like oDesk and Elance, you choose a service provider based on his/her qualifications, negotiate contract price, discuss details, deadlines and everything else pertinent to the job. Payment may be released in stages, depending on the job’s progress.

Aside from its 100% money-back guarantee, Witmart’s Provider Profiling and Identity Verification procedures ensure you only make reliable choices when selecting a provider. With Provider Profiling, you get to check a provider’s level, recent transactions and feedback from previous employers. With Identity Verification, Witmart conducts e-mail and phone verification on all its providers. Topnotch providers, or coined in-house as “elite providers,” are invited for provider certification.

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