Friday, May 25, 2007

Retailmenot

Collaborative system for finding, sharing and ranking coupon codes for online stores.

Users can get easy discounts with over 25,000 coupon codes and growing.

Also features an OSX Widget and Firefox extension.
More at:http://www.retailmenot.com/

Ideas On Business

Many of us consult mentors and business coaches and most of us keep journals. All of us bounce ideas off of friends and collegues. This is an experiment in combining all of those actions together in one place.

The purpose of this community is to bring together a group of people who want to see their business ideas turn into something real, a success. By collaborating with friends and peers and writing about our successes and failures at each step of the way, we can create a means...
More at:http://ideasonbusiness.com/default.aspx

Zipingo is the online place to find the cream of the crop in terms of local businesses.

Zipingo is the online place to find the cream of the crop in terms of local businesses. Search reviews to find the best local resturaunts, even colleges and universities. Imagine this as your online guidebook to the best places in your neighborhood, or better yet when you go outside of your comfort zone and travel. Find out what others have to say before you decide to settle at an italian resturaunt, read reviews on a cleaning service before you hire. Zipingo was created by a team of Intuit employees, yes, formerly those who worked on your Turbo Tax! May be completely unrelated, but these people know that your daily decisions affeft your finances in a big way, and thus should be fully informed before deciding to purchase or use a service.

In their own words:
“You may be wondering why Intuit, a company known for financial software since the mid 80s, would create something like Zipingo. Well, you're not alone. We’re asked the same question by our co-workers – along with “how’d you come up with that name?”

The connection is not immediately apparent, though the explanation is simple. Intuit was founded and operates on a core principle — watch what people do in their everyday lives and help them do it better. That's why we come to work everyday. It's amazing how much of what people do daily affects their finances.
The Zipingo team is an entrepreneurial bunch of Intuit employees who has come together to solve problems for both consumers and small businesses.
More at:http://www.zipingo.com/portal/home.psml

SimplifyThis.com is an intuitive, web-based application that lets you easily invoice your clients and get paid faster online.

SimplifyThis.com is an intuitive, web-based application that lets you easily invoice your clients and get paid faster online. It’s specifically designed for freelancers, small businesses, independent professionals, and service providers who want to free themselves from complex accounting software, so there will be no more forgotten invoices, no software to install and no help manuals to read. Best of all, since SimplifyThis.com is a web-based application, you can use it from home, from the library, or from any other computer on the internet.

Key Features
* Intuitive and easy to use
* Customizable to your business
* Send invoices using email * Accept payments online
* Track payments
* Record one-time and recurring charges

The application is currently FREE as a trial.
More at:http://www.simplifythis.com/

Xurrency is a new tool 2.0 that allows you to convert currency online and offers you the exchange rate information

Xurrency allows you to convert currency online with web 2.0 style. If you want to keep up to date on what the latest rates are, you can even subscribe to the various feeds. You can get the rates for a currency based on one of it, or in the inverse. You can do specific exchanges from the homepage or using the correct syntax URL. It’s all free, unless you are planning on use it for commercial purposes. Currently there are 42 different country currencies available, and that number will increase with time. So if you want to check what the latest exchange rates are before you travel or while you’re abroad, go to Xurrency and make the quick conversion.


“Xurrency is a new tool 2.0 that allows you to convert currency online and offers you the exchange rate information.”



It’s an easy and attractive way to find out currency conversions. RSS feeds of currency exchanges are a unique thing that people will find useful to keep up to date with money trends if they work internationally.
More at:http://xurrency.com/

Primofeed is a feed service that enables bloggers and content owners to monetize their web site.

People make a living from writing a blog. This service helps make that happen. Primofeed is a feed service that enables bloggers and content owners to monetize their web site. The site serves all major blog hosting companies, and all the blogger has to do is sign up as a PrimoFeed publisher, insert their ad code widget onto your blog, Primofeed runs targeted ads, and you get commissions when users buy their products. Now, what was not clear from reading the site was whether you only get a commission when an actual purchase is made from a reader of your blog (how do they track that?), or if you get a commission if someone clicks on their advertisement. They need to be more clear and upfront about that. Otherwise, if you are a regular blogger with a high traffic volume, take advantage of that and make blogging your career or at least a nice source of supplemental income.

As They say:
PrimoFeed enables you to monetize from your web site by displaying relevant products ads. It's a new advertising model approach by delivering ads in a form of a unique badge. This rich delivery system enhances click through rates and the bottom line impact of your web site's revenue earning potential.
More at:http://primofeed.com/