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Obsessing over organization? De-cluttering your physical and computer desktop is the natural first step. It’s easier than ever to adopt a paperless lifestyle by moving your business and personal stuff to the cloud, thanks to Evernote tools that are as useful as its company’s backstory is compelling. Here’s how you can finally capture and store files, notes, photos, ideas and more in one central location across all your devices—from your cell phone to your desktop to your iPad.
Can These 5 Social Apps Boost Employee Health and Wellness?
Whether you’re for or against the Affordable Care Act, health care is a huge subject right now, and for good reason. According to the Kaiser Foundation, employer-sponsored health coverage for family premiums has increased nearly 100 percent during the past decade. In addition, total health spending accounted for approximately 18 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) back in 2010.
Bottom line, staying healthy not only costs money but requires an investment of our time. The investment pays off in terms of employee productivity, morale and high performance. Smart companies are starting to direct energy to educating employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It’s good for employees and it’s good for business.
What better way to encourage employees to take care of themselves than by using social tools? After all, we have our phones and tablets with us all the time these days.
Read here for some ways you can take full advantage of the connectivity.
7 Cool Customer Service Apps for Small Business
Here are seven of the coolest tablet apps we found that help you provide better customer service and engage with your customers.
1. ZenDesk
2. Parature for Facebook
3. Desk.com
4. BlazeLoop
5. SmarterTrack
6. Get Satisfaction
7. Blue Label
Read more on these apps
(via 7 Cool Customer Service Apps for Small Business - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
Apple names top free and paid apps of 2012
Some may (or may not) surprise you.
(via Apple names top free and paid apps of 2012 | VentureBeat - Image source)
Promote Your Small Business Saturday Sale With Glyder
Glyder includes the free Shop Small e-mail and social media templates that any business can use to spread the word about Small Business Saturday via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, e-mail, text message, MailChimp e-mail lists, and Apple’s new Passbook app. This will make getting these messages, that are prewritten and predesigned, delivered to small business customers in literally just a minute or two. Read More
(via Promote Your Small Business Saturday Sale With This App - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
Top Social Tools to Attract Local Shoppers
Getting customers in the door and buying your products is an ongoing quest for small-business owners. In the era of online stores and big box giants, the task seems onerous, but take heart, consumers want to purchase from local business owners. Click here for a list of tools to help you get customers through the door and shopping at your store for Small Business Saturday and beyond.
(via Top Social Tools to Attract Local Shoppers - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
There are many kinds of businesses out there, and despite the glamour of some industries, none guarantee success. Take the multi-million dollar app industry, attracting so many entrepreneurs. While there are big success stories in a business that can literally be run from a spare guest room or kitchen table, many of these entrepreneurs are also struggling to make a living. No matter what your business model, some basic principles apply when successfully marketing a product or service. Check out the entrepreneurs creating apps for iPads and iPhones, then move on for some tips on how to make your business successful, no matter what the budget. Read More
(via Booming App Industry Lures Entrepreneurs: Not All Are Successful | Small Business Trends - Image source)
Actually, The iPad Mini Might Not Change Anything For Developers
“Practically, our job stays the same. The iPad Mini is close enough in size to the iPad that we don’t believe it will actually change the way we design our games,” says Greg Harper of Supercell. ”What will change is that people will want to start taking their tablets with them more often if they fit in a purse or jacket pocket.” Read More
Image source: Nickolay Lamm/InventHelp.
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