DriverSide

DriverSide is a very nice and interesting service (it's a web 2.0 service) centered on car. The aims of DriverSide is to help people in saving money when they need to maintain, accessorize, sell or also buy a new or used car. The main characteristic of this site, despite all other similar online resources, is to have amalgamate into one place all the different cars' resource: practically, from one site, you can do everything for your car. Using the site is extremely simple, thanks to the user friendly interface: select the section you are interested on via the left menu and start your search. The first section is the car I own: once selected the right model you own, you can access lot of interesting information like technical specifications, other people reviews, a very interesting Q&A (you can practically write a question about everything concerning your car and receive answers from other people or experts from the site), cost of ownership (this is one f the section that I most admire!), quality rating (based on JDpower.com) and other interesting resources. The second section is the Service your car: Driverside permits you to find tips, another Q&A section, information related to your car (for example all the re-call lists), a pre service report (a great service, you can obtain an estimate for what you need!), a service history (where you can list all your service request) and obviously the mechanic research (you can locate a mechanic for specialization and for zip code). The third section is the What's it Worth: simply you can have an immediate valuation of your car...just fill the little form with all the requested information. Fourth: Parts & Accessories. All the parts of your car are listed here with its price. Want to buy? Click on it! Fifth: new & used cars for sale. Here you can make a search for your next car: obviously you can refine your search for zip code, mileage, models and so on. The information related to all single entry are extremely detailed and fulfilled with lot of real photos. The last section is the Sell your Car: if you want to sell your old car this is the right place. Fill the form and make your car listed in the section mentioned before for free. DriverSide is absolutely one of the best car's online resource I've found...what do you think about it?

Clicksmart

ClickSmart, if you don't know it, is one of the most famous and large directory site: in just few clicks you are able to directly connect to hundreds and hundreds of different small businesses in your area. No matter if you are searching for some chicago countertops or a massage therap istin Los Angeles, ClickSmart can always help you. You just need to select the business category and the city you are interested in. A list of professionals will be shown to you (for each entry you will find a detailed description and all the contact information, phone number included). And won't worry about their professionalism, because most part of the proposed experts are pre-screened by Clicksmart itself: near the business name you can in fact see the Clicksmart Certified Expert logo, a guarantee for you. If you want to see an example of what Clicksmart can do, just search, for example, for some countertops in Chicago and enjoy the results.

Build Excellent Employee Performance

Getting consistently excellent performance from employees is a tough task. As you probably know, when discipline or corrective action for an individual is necessary it’s an even bigger challenge. Most organizations find that traditional employee discipline methods aren’t very effective. An innovative system called Discipline without Punishment® has been developed by performance management consultant Dick Grote. Dick’s methodology replaces traditional negative tactics with a positive approach that focuses on the personal responsibility of the employee. It’s a surprisingly unique and effective way to handle employee discipline issues that really works.

Go4Funding

Go4Funding is a website born around a very interesting idea: helping entrepreneurs, business owners and investors in finding capitals. The site obviously doesn't offer directly money, but permits to find interesting ideas and investment opportunities: if you are a businessman with a great idea you can post it into this site...and looking for some business funding. In the same way, if you have some money to invest, you can looking into the site searching for the idea that most inspire you...and then close the deal. The site looks very simple to use and obviously you need to register with it before posting.

NeoBits

Telephone costs are one of the most heavy cost for a company and can seriously impact the income of a small or medium business. This because lots of companies do not have an efficient provider...or simply don't have searched for a valid alternative of the most know (and expensive) carriers. NeoBits can help these companies, tanks to its small business phone systems that permit not only to create an internal phone network (no cost when employees call other employees, also if located in other subsidiaries) but also to use the new technology like VoIP that can really knock down costs for the long distance calls. All the NeoBits products offer lot of very useful features like voicemail, phone conference, dial by name, call recording, cal forward, route selection and so on. In the NeoBits catalogue you can find solution created by the most important international brands like Panasocic, Nec, Avaya, TalkSwitch and so on...and all are available for you at a very interesting price. Just take your time to visit NeoBits website...you can find a very easy way to take down your costs!

web hosting choice

If you have tried to search for a good provider that can hosts your online application or website, you surely have tested how this search can be complicated: there are hundreds of different providers and everyone offer different features at different prices. There are providers that aim on available space, other that focus their attention on bandwidth, other on quality of services and others that offers lot of different "add on". Do you know which one you must select? Are you able to define the best provider for your need? It's like a nightmare! Tons of technical specification to read, hundreds of prices and offers to compare...and then lot of time needed. But if you want an hand, web hosting choice can help you in a very easy way: the site, that you can reach with the link provided above, offers you an intuitive and fast way to identify your perfect solution. Hundreds of different providers are available into WebHostinChoice database: you just need to specify the main characteristic that you need like maximum monthly cost or setup fee, minimum disk space or bandwidth required, email accounts needed, payment options and so on (there are more than 40 different options at your disposal). Then just a click to receive, as answer, a list with all the providers that offer what you have requested. Oh, if you know a new provider not listed on this site, you can ask to add it to the database!

Retain Your Top Performers

Most employees like to know how they are doing on the job. High-performing individuals especially want to know about their performance. In fact, a lack of meaningful feedback about job performance is one of the main reasons talented, productive employees leave organizations. Dick Grote is the industry’s “go-to-guy” when it comes to performance management consulting and creating an effective performance appraisal system that gives individuals the feedback they want and need. Putting the right system in place in your organization can do wonders for your employee retention efforts.

DesignsThatSell

Are you a real estate agent and are you searching for a new, innovative design for your marketing activity that costs you just a little? DesignThatSell is probably the solution you are searching for: with a very little expense (prices for setting up a branded template can vary between $15 an $100 depending of complexity of your request) you can obtain great and professional Real estate designs such as yard signs ( you can see, in the picture on the right, one of the ReMax yard signs created by DesignThatSell's designers), business cards, Internet banners and also newspaper advertisements. But why you should choose this service instead of a traditional printer? Because, with DesignThatSell, you own your design: you can not only change the details of the listed property (you can use the same design, for example, for more than a property for free) all the times you need but you can also change your printer in a while - without paying a penny - if it doesn't satisfy you! DesignThatSell uses a new smart service called ZetaPrints.com: each time you tweak the design, you just need to download an High definition PDF and then print it! DesignThatSell 's guys, if you need, can also connect you to a good number of high quality local printers, newspapers and magazines that can publish your advertisements. DesignThatSell can be chosen also by private sellers or franchises...you just need to ask for a full quote of what you need from designsthatsell.biz.

Neobits

Telephone costs are not so light, especially if you work with phones like happen for most part of companies. Surely, to save money (and we are speaking about thousand dollars per year), you must select the right carriers but mainly a great phone system that can permits not only to create an internal phone network, but also to use the new technology like VoIP plus a series of advanced feature like voicemail, phone conference, dial by name, call recording, cal forward, route selection (if you want to use more than just one carrier) and so on. But where to find a nice phone system? If you have a small business ( between 2 and 250 users) Neobits is your solution: it offers you from the single phone to a complete phone system solution (up to 15 different brands are available like Panasocic, Nec, Avaya and so on) like the Talkswitch, one of the most advanced telephone system available on the market (you can see the TalkSwitch 480vs PBX in the picture). This system offers all I have listed before plus lot of other features (like the possibility to use both traditional phones and IP phones). But Neobits offers also phones services, conference systems, corded, cordless, IP and WiFi phones, corded and cordless headsets, videoconferencing solution and a wide range of VoIP products. With more than 3000 customers all offer the nation, Neobits is one of the best phone system provider that you can find with extremely interesting prices, normally lower than retail price.

Forturo

Forturo is a stock control and Inventory Control Programs connection). You don't need to install software on each software for small and medium business developed by Bennett's Technologies, an UK software house established in 1995. Surely you know how is important for a company to have under total control stocks and inventories: an error or an imprecision can have bad repercussions on orders, for examples. Too much companies underestimate this importance and use old or generic software (there are solution created 15 years ago still working!!!). Forturo is totally different. First of all, it is modular: you can buy only the modules you need...and add others only if you need them. A great way to save money. The second point of strength is the availability of the tool: because it is a browser-based business management tool, you can access it practically everywhere...you just need a web browser and an internet connection. Third, Forturo has a module specifically designed for inventory and stock management (Warehouse control software - WCS): it can manage an unlimited number of warehouses in different physical locations (and for each warehouse it can also manages unlimited bins). WCS permits you to have a Real Time Material Handling,Stock Location Mapping, Automatic Replenishment / Reordering, Support for Various Picking Models, Inter Zone Routing...are you able to find a similar solution on the market at a similar price? Other Forturo modules permits you to have a Call Center and time management, contact manager, quotes and contracts, purchase and sales orders management, customer and supplier returns, warehouse and manufacturer maintenance and so on. Forturo is also fully customizable: due to the complexity of the market and the deep differences between companies, Forturo always came with a particular customization for your business (there is also a staff always available to help you in configuring each aspect of the tool). If you want to try Forturo, on its website you can find a fully functional demo.

Liebowitz & Associates

Liebowitz & Associates, PC, is a well known Executive management and Organizational development firm operating in Chicago, Boston and Hamburg. Its main scope is to help companies in restructuring themself to better delivering customer value: too often companies have lacks in the information flow process, in the interoperability between different departments and so on. And too often the solution assumed to solve a particular problem is just a workaround that obviously just a palliative. Liebowitz & Associates are specialized in Organizational design (they can help you in changing the core structure of your company), Change management (in order to change your company to best follow the volatility of the business environment) and Performance management (are you sure that all your employers are following the same direction?). The firm offers an entire program to fix the "cracks" inside your structure with not only a strategic assessment (composed by a company-wide survey, a process audits, management and employee interviews and customer interviews) and a strategic retreat (normally a scenario planning and a goal setting) but also with Team Development, Executive and Management Coaching, Leadership Training and Succession Planning. To know more about the Liebowitz & Associates offers, just follow the links reported above and read the detailed description of the offered services. You can also directly contact the firm using the online form.

Business Intelligence

Contemporary is a so called business intelligence consulting company: in few words it can help you in build your own complete business intelligence solution. You surely know how is important to choose the right partners and the right people in a new Business Intelligence project: success directly depends by this choice. Contemporary can simple gives you what you need: the best consultants with a great experience, training and deep knowledge of the main software and BI products in particular Business Objects, Crystal, Microsoft Business Intelligence (Sql, Sharepoint, Performancepoint servers), ProClarity. Contemporary can really understand your needs and your requirements in order to start a productive collaboration for the creation of a complete Business Intelligence solution (just take a look on website to better read what this company car offers you) in a very easy way. Contemporary can also help you on Business Intelligence Training: thanks to more than 10 year of experience in Business Objects training, Contemporary is simple the best available training partner on the market. The company offers public courses in London, the South, Midlands and North, but can obviously delivers training directly at your office (the offer called “Classroom in a Box”). Follow the link above to have a taste of the company's offer. Most UK companies have chosen Contemporary as partner for deliver new BI solutions, like BAA, Pinsent Masons, Wragge & Co and so on...add your name to the list!

CubeVoice

CubeVoice is a simple network for posting updates about your company.This application operates on a very simple premise. Sign up with a company name, and start micro-blogging. Other employees can join in, and everyone at the office can read the updates. You have the option of replying to any post, whether you’re from that company or not. The company description can be written and edited by anyone within the company. All company updates are public, and each comes with an RSS subscription option. There’s not many options for networking. You can view another user’s profile, which displays all of their posted updates, and there’s an RSS subscription option for individual users.

email marketing tool

Marketing is vital for the life of every kind of companies...if you are not proficient in building the right marketing strategy you will not able in attracting new customers and you cannot boost your business. Fortunately, there is a tool that can help you in achieve your result: iContact. This tool, perfectly suitable for small and medium business, is an all-in-one on-demand email marketing service that can help you in creating, organizing, tracking and sending, in a very simple way, extraordinary email newsletters, RSS feeds, auto responders and surveys. With a customer's portfolio of over 11,000 customers (with names like AT&T, Symantec, Viacom, Bank of America, Ford or Nissan and Barack Obama for his 2008 US Presidential Campaign) and more than 100,000 users, iContact is one of best marketing product at the lower price available over the net: are you able to find a so powerful tool with a price starting from less than $9/month? iContact can counts on an extremely simple and intuitive interface that permits, in just few clicks, access to a great quantity of sophisticated features (normally available on high priced solution!): just select the tab related to the function you are interested in (one tab for each function: My contacts, Create, Send, Track) and follow the simple instruction. With iContact you can create, thanks to a powerful WYSIWYG Editor, highly professional newsletters (you can select between 300+ different templates), personalized emails (thanks to the mail-merge function) and lists. You can schedule message sending, activate a message auto responder use its advanced analytics, event management, public newsletter archiving. You can track all your public activity via RSS feeds or track the opens and clickthroughs on your emails, you can add a sign-up form to your web site and manage your subscribers (with auto deletion address related to bounced mail) and so on. Obviously these are only words...that cannot give you a real overview of iContact: for these reason a free 15 days trial is available for you (all the functions are active!)...just fill the form on the website and start using it! If you are interested in see iContact in action, you can take a look at this video (http://icontact.com/www/video/introduction_video.html) where, in an easy way, all the function are deeply explained.

stock control software for the smaller business

Bennett's Technologies in an UK software company established in 1995 that recenlty has developed a great stock control software for the smaller business named Forturo. This software (you can see a screenshot on the right, click on it for a bigger version) is a browser-based business management tool: it in fact, permits an easy management of purchase and sales orders, customer and supplier returns, warehouse management, warehouse and manufacturer maintenance, Call Center and time management, contact manager, quotes and contracts. Obviously, Forturo has also an extensive and a customizable report section, an invoicing/accounts interface and an enquiries section. Practically, a company can manages every aspects of its business life. For a detailed description of every single option available in this software, please refer to the software company's website following the above link. Obviously, because the difficulty to create a unique tool that can fit the needs of a great variety of different companies, Forturo is totally customizable (for example you can create your own fields) and comes with particular customizations for your business. An experienced staff is always available (via mail or phone for UK and South Africa) to help you in configuring each aspect of the tool. Forturo is also available in a lite version for the company that only needs the inventory section. You can read the main differences between the two version directly on the site, where you will also find a Demo version of it.

Free conference Call

FreeConferenceCall.com is a new service focused, as you can understand from the name, on the conference call services. Site's aim is to help companies in save great money: despite similar services or dedicated structure, the FreeConferenceCall offers its service at an extremely low price. To sign up you just need to fill the form with your email and name. After just some second, you will receive all the codes you need to start using this service: your free conference call number, host access code, participant access code, free conference recording pin and the free conference playback number (plus all the instruction to use during the call conference). TheFree Conference Call will be available for you 24/7, can manage up to 96 participants and accommodates unlimited number of 6 hour conference calls (international call are not free)...all for FREE. Obviously, if you need some other Conference Call Service, the FreeConferenceCall.com can activates other interesting feature: tall free number, flat rate, voice box, voice center, large scale conferencing and obviously International Conferencing...all at a very little price. There is also, for free, to record the call conferences and the possibility to playback them using Podcast/RSS, real player or simply download the audio file on your computer. To know more about their plans and about their costs, follow one of the link reported below. You will find the answers to all your questions.

iContact

iContact is an on-demand email marketing service that helps you in creating, sending, organizing and tracking email newsletters, RSS feeds, auto responders and surveys. The tool is perfectly suitable for small and medium business, but consider that in the iConcact customer's portfolio (over 11,000 customers and 85,000 users!) you can find also companies like AT&T, Symantec, Viacom, Bank of America, Ford or Nissan that have chosen iContact to build a very strong customer's relationship at an extremely low cost (if compared with other methods). Thanks to an user friendly web interface, the iContact Email Marketing Software is extremely simple to use: just select the tab you are interested in and follow the simple instruction reported on the related page. The tool permits you (one tab for each function) to personalize the mail-merge, schedule message sending, open and click through Tracking, bounce-back Handling and subscription management. Obviously you will find also a powerful WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor, the SpamChek™ feature and lots (up to 300) templates to personalize your iContact. Between the advanced iContact function you will also find feature like message auto responder, surveying, RSS feeds, advanced analytics, event management, public newsletter archiving and so on. For the complete list of all function and to touch with hand the power of iContact, you can try it (15 day free of charge) just compiling the form available on the homepage. If you are interested, directly on site (http://icontact.com/www/video/introduction_video.html) there is also an interesting video that explain in an easy way all the iContact functions.

SlideRocket

SlideRocket is a new presentation tool that will be a valid alternative (for now in in private beta) not only at the next Google presentation tool, but also to stand alone software like the Microsoft Powerpoint. This service is based on Flash 9 and uses all its functionality like the possibility to run HD movies. The feature list is practically enormous: you can create professional presentation extremely well groomed in the graphic aspect. You can insert directly images or video files from Flick or, if you don't find what you need, you can also buy high quality contents from the SlideRocket Marketplace. Obviously, the tool is full of animations and transitions (also in 3D): you can create objects, animate them and create a link to something, you can create spreadsheet and graphics and you can also interact with your Google Docs account. If you want to know more about this service, you must submit your email to the site and wait for an invitation.

Epazz BoxesOS

Epazz Inc. is a new software company specialized in providing web application (totally customizable) for corporate companies, high education institutions and public sectors. The most powerful product created by Epazz Inc. is surely the BoxesOS, a powerful content management application that can simplify the day life in many sectors like decision-making process, communications, sharing and so on. I can define, practically, the BoxesOS a all-around platform with lots of useful function: from the improved intranet portal (it's possible to create an online community for online discussion inside the intranet) to the advanced document management (with a powerful sharing possibility: you can share whatever kind of document, RSS feed, web pages and so on. Plus you can host important document on dedicated server that can be accessed by everyone need them); from the Website content management that offer the possibility to create high customizable web page without touch the code to the online course functionality; from the recruiting module (to simplify the recruiting process) to the scheduler. I must admit that BoxesOS is really a huge product that can really help companies in simplify most of their communication activities and processes. I suggest, however, to take a look at the live demo or the flash demo available directly on the Epazz homepage because the enormous list of available feature at your disposal. If you want to know more and touch with hand what BoxesOS can do for your business, try it. A 30 days free trial is at your disposal directly from the Epazz homepage.

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