Tools for the Trade

  • Tools for the Trade: Mingly makes it easy to stay connected with contacts

    We’re likely all familiar with the adage that business is all about relationships. As our world becomes flat and more connected, I think this adage rings true more than ever. But managing and organizing these relationships can be the most difficult task in business. How do we stay in touch with everyone? How do we…

  • Tools for the Trade: Postagram provides personalized postcards

    In an era owned by smartphones, tablets and free Wi-Fi, the days of snail mail are becoming a distant memory. But since everyone loves a bit of nostalgia, Sincerely, a company dedicated to merging the old sentimentality of mail with new, ever-changing technology, created Postagram. Postagram is an app available for iPhone and Android devices…

  • Tools of the Trade: Viddy provides simple tool to share mobile video

    With the proliferation of smart phones in people’s hands today, mobile applications have brought new ways to share our everyday lives. Whether through picture or video, a couple swipes of the finger can publish high-quality content to our social networks and online connections. Instagram, a photo-sharing app on the iOS platform, just passed 10 million…

  • Tools for the Trade: Win the day with The Email Game

    Feeling buried by email? Scared to wake up in the morning and see how much that unread email number has grown? Dreaming of the day you can reach INBOX ZERO? …

  • Tools for the Trade: Share a slice of your life with Bre.ad

    If you’ve ever tried to share a message or get the word out online, you know this isn’t an easy task. Today,the internet is littered with noise, clutter and links that aren’t relevant to us. Enter Bre.ad, a new kind of promotional URL shortener that is turning our links into “personalized billboards” and allowing us…

  • Tools for the Trade: The Hello Bar goes ‘Pro’ with upgrade

    A few weeks ago, I wrote about the simple yet effective tool called The Hello Bar. Deemed the “fun, unobtrusive yet …

  • Tools for the Trade: Wildfire gives platform for Facebook promotions

    Tickets to the Victoria Secret fashion show. Backstage tour passes with Kelly Clarkson. A free trip to Napa Valley. All of these things and more are possible with Facebook promotions and sweepstakes through Wildfire. The Wildfire app allows you to easily conduct fun, interactive promotions for brand marketing on the Facebook platform. Wildfire is based…

  • Tools for the Trade: LaunchRock lets startups do launch day their own way

    Launch day — the moment your startup, blog, business, or new idea had circled on its calendar. The process of getting to that day can be arduous, and perhaps what you launch isn’t really the finished product or service you want to display. There has to be an easier way, right? Say hello to LaunchRock.…

  • Tools for the Trade: Domainr is the simple search for domain names

    Often the tools that are simple and easy are the ones that make my life better. I’m not always concerned with the amount of features or the stellar design, but instead a clean, easy-to-use application that does the job. Domainr fits that bill. Domainr is a fast search tool that, as they put it, “helps…

  • Tools for the Trade: Flowtown finds online presence of contacts

    Whoever told you that email is dead is wrong. Email addresses are still where the gold (or money, unless you’re Scrooge McDuck) lies. Thanks to tools like Flowtown, you can now use all those emails you’ve been collecting and turn them into real marketing power. Flowtown is a social media marketing tool that takes your…