• 4
    Oct

LinkedIn Rereleases Mobile Apps with Dramatic Changes

New applications for LinkedIn for the iPhone and Android have been released, and they have been completely overhauled as part of the effort to create a richer, more personalized experience. LinkedIn apps are now more than just basic profiles, containing more content, prettier and cleaner profiles, and easily consumable features such as alerts, updates, and profile views. In...

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  • 4
    Oct

New Android Feature: Free Facebook Calls from Facebook Messenger

Facebook has been expanding upon their voice-over-IP services for several months now, ever since they began to allow Facebook Messenger users to call outside iPhone lines. Today, the company has started to allow US Facebook users that have an Android phone and have installed Facebook Messenger separately from Facebook to call cell phone and even home phone numbers....

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  • 4
    Oct

Maintaining Happiness in the Workplace

You might be busy with five jobs and a dozen children, and it might seem like you should put happiness on the back burner. However, if you don’t make your own happiness a priority, you’ll lose your energy and fall behind on all the things that need to be done. This won’t help your business or your family,...

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  • 4
    Oct

How Customer Surveys Can Save You Money

Did you know that finding a new customer can cost you almost seven times more than just keeping your old ones? While it’s good to go out and seek new customers, it’s an even better idea to focus on those you already have. But if you have a large customer base, it’s beneficial to find a way to...

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  • 4
    Oct

Salesforce.com Launches Social.com, a Branding App for Business

Salesforce.com is best known for their Marketing Cloud platform, and in the past few days they’ve introduced a completely new product that’s meant to supplement and support their main service: Social.com. Social.com is part of an acquisition the company recently made of Buddy Media, a company that publishes content. Now, there are three services that describe the Salesforce...

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  • 4
    Oct

Browser Choice Obsolete because of the Mobile Shift

On a personal computer, not only can you choose from a variety of operating systems – e.g. Linux, Windows, or Mac – you can choose from a variety of browsers. From IE to Chrome, a user has a wide variety of options to fit their needs. However, with a new mob of devices coming onto the market, the...

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  • 3
    Oct

Creative Suite No Longer Downloadable, Subscription Only Says Adobe

Though Adobe isn’t the first company to offer subscription-only services, this choice does come as a bit of a surprise to other companies and users of the newest Creative Suite. “We have no current plans to release another perpetual release of the CS tools and suites. Creative Cloud is going to be our sole focus moving forward,” Scott...

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  • 3
    Oct

Why You Should Have a Business Plan

Even if you aren’t starting out with a brand new venture, it’s still important that you create a business plan – even if you didn’t do so when you started your business. A business plan doesn’t have any specific rules, and it doesn’t even have to be written down. However, it does need to be “constructed,” mentally or...

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  • 3
    Oct

Should Your Business Care about Instagram?

With so many social media websites making their mark on the world, you’d think that one more just wouldn’t make a big enough difference in the reputation of your business. Instagram is primarily a photo-sharing platform, and there are many of those that you could be on instead, especially since Instagram is generally viewed as a personal website....

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  • 3
    Oct

Learning to Use Your Time Wisely

Time is the one thing in business that isn’t infinite. Other things you can borrow, find, or make yourself, but time is the most important thing for you to manage well. You can ask employees to work overtime, but you pay for it in the end – especially if your employees become burned out. To help you solve...

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