ViaTalk Free is a way to call people at no charge. ViaTalk will connect you for free and you’ll get up to 10 minutes to chat away. Simply enter in your phone number and then enter the phone number of the person you’re trying to reach, and ViaTalk will connect you. This obviously works best if you’re using a land line and calling someone long distance, if you don’t already have a long distance phone plan. You could also use it with your cell phone, but then it wouldn’t be entirely free.
This service also doesn’t seem to work with International phone numbers. The primary goal of ViaTalk Free, however, is to help bring VoIP more into the mainstream, introducing broadband phone options to users that may not have considered VoIP as a personal option. Unfortunately there isn’t much information on the ViaTalk site regarding the free service option, but who doesn’t like free?
More at:http://www.viatalkfree.com/
Monday, July 16, 2007
Make Millions With A Microsite
Gerald Prolman launched OrganicBouquet.com in 2003 to sell sustainably grown flowers that are freshly picked and then gift-wrapped. But as the company grew, he needed a better way to meet the increasing demand from florists, event planners and other whole-salers. So in June, Prolman launched a microsite to make it easier for these customers to place orders.
A microsite lets you focus on a specific purpose, such as selling clearance or discounted items, selling products to businesses vs. consumers, promoting new merchandise, or trying out a new product line. Sometimes the design and navigation of a microsite differs from its parent site. “Unlike consumers, florists shop by variety and color, so the site is set up to help florists find what they need quickly,” says Prolman, 46, who projects 2006 sales of up to $5 million for his San Rafael, California, company.
So why didn’t Prolman just launch a separate section on his existing website to focus on wholesalers? Simple: to prevent consumers or future competitors from having easy access to the customized pricing available to wholesale customers. “The pricing is tailor-made for each customer based on volume,” says Prolman. “Once approved as a wholesale account, they will be given access to the site.”
More at:http://www.organicbouquetwholesale.com/
A microsite lets you focus on a specific purpose, such as selling clearance or discounted items, selling products to businesses vs. consumers, promoting new merchandise, or trying out a new product line. Sometimes the design and navigation of a microsite differs from its parent site. “Unlike consumers, florists shop by variety and color, so the site is set up to help florists find what they need quickly,” says Prolman, 46, who projects 2006 sales of up to $5 million for his San Rafael, California, company.
So why didn’t Prolman just launch a separate section on his existing website to focus on wholesalers? Simple: to prevent consumers or future competitors from having easy access to the customized pricing available to wholesale customers. “The pricing is tailor-made for each customer based on volume,” says Prolman. “Once approved as a wholesale account, they will be given access to the site.”
More at:http://www.organicbouquetwholesale.com/
Find And Test Your Million Dollor Idea
This group will help you create and prove a business idea that leads to your life vision, won’t break the bank, and is based on your values, strengths, and passions!
“Once I get my million dollar idea, THEN I’ll start my business.”
We’ve all heard this excuse! It may be the most common one in the book and is based on the false premise that great business ideas just hit us on the head while we’re doing something else. The reality of most successful business ideas arise as a result of continued brainstorming and testing! This group will help you do just that.
Group Features
Unlimited support with 24-hr response from group leader
Daily step-by-step instructions that walk you through specific actions you need to take in order to come up with a viable business idea
Four one-hour conference calls to hold you accountable to completing the actions and to receive multiple perspectives on the challenges you're facing from other members
Help finding a like-minded, daily accountability partner
Topics Covered
Creating, testing, researching, prototyping, pitching, protecting, and planning a profitable business idea that helps you achieve your life vision and is based around your passions, values, and strengths.
This Group Is For You If…
You have a million ideas and don’t know which to choose!
You have no idea what business you want to start, but you know you want to start one.
You have one idea that you’d like to test the feasibility of once and for all!
Expectations
Attend all of the conference calls
Post on the discussion board when asked to by the group moderator
Spend at least 15 minutes every weekday taking action steps toward coming up with and proving your business idea
Find an accountability partner (we can help)
Honor the privacy of other members
Conference Call Dates
Join us on August 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2007 at 8:00-9:00pm EST!
More at:http://www.journeypage.com/groups/entrepreneurship_0707/
“Once I get my million dollar idea, THEN I’ll start my business.”
We’ve all heard this excuse! It may be the most common one in the book and is based on the false premise that great business ideas just hit us on the head while we’re doing something else. The reality of most successful business ideas arise as a result of continued brainstorming and testing! This group will help you do just that.
Group Features
Unlimited support with 24-hr response from group leader
Daily step-by-step instructions that walk you through specific actions you need to take in order to come up with a viable business idea
Four one-hour conference calls to hold you accountable to completing the actions and to receive multiple perspectives on the challenges you're facing from other members
Help finding a like-minded, daily accountability partner
Topics Covered
Creating, testing, researching, prototyping, pitching, protecting, and planning a profitable business idea that helps you achieve your life vision and is based around your passions, values, and strengths.
This Group Is For You If…
You have a million ideas and don’t know which to choose!
You have no idea what business you want to start, but you know you want to start one.
You have one idea that you’d like to test the feasibility of once and for all!
Expectations
Attend all of the conference calls
Post on the discussion board when asked to by the group moderator
Spend at least 15 minutes every weekday taking action steps toward coming up with and proving your business idea
Find an accountability partner (we can help)
Honor the privacy of other members
Conference Call Dates
Join us on August 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2007 at 8:00-9:00pm EST!
More at:http://www.journeypage.com/groups/entrepreneurship_0707/
Brightkite
Brightkite is a new notification service for the purpose of providing options to users as to what kind of notifications they’d like to receive. The service is currently under pretty tight wraps, and the public beta is set to launch soon.
With the options of receiving updates via email, instant messenger or SMS text messages, Brightkite will give website publishers the ability to extend these options to the end user. Instead of having to constantly check our email inbox, people will be able to choose which type of notification they’d like. This could be for signing up for the alert to check out the public beta (as brightkite has done) or finding out when your friends have uploaded new images to their blog.
Brightkite’s future plan is to enable users to send notifications to their community from a mobile device, sort of a reverse option for its initial service offering. This future plan is probably a more important development for the company, as it empowers the end user directly, instead of as a result of another client utilizing Brightkite’s service. That way, users choose where the messages are sent, and who sees these notifications, building on Brightkite’s own platform and creating smaller communities in the process. Otherwise, much of what Brightkite offers is already built in to many of the applications we already use: access to email and instant messengers on your cell phone, SMS notifications for your Facebook newsfeeds, and so on.
more at:http://brightkite.com/
With the options of receiving updates via email, instant messenger or SMS text messages, Brightkite will give website publishers the ability to extend these options to the end user. Instead of having to constantly check our email inbox, people will be able to choose which type of notification they’d like. This could be for signing up for the alert to check out the public beta (as brightkite has done) or finding out when your friends have uploaded new images to their blog.
Brightkite’s future plan is to enable users to send notifications to their community from a mobile device, sort of a reverse option for its initial service offering. This future plan is probably a more important development for the company, as it empowers the end user directly, instead of as a result of another client utilizing Brightkite’s service. That way, users choose where the messages are sent, and who sees these notifications, building on Brightkite’s own platform and creating smaller communities in the process. Otherwise, much of what Brightkite offers is already built in to many of the applications we already use: access to email and instant messengers on your cell phone, SMS notifications for your Facebook newsfeeds, and so on.
more at:http://brightkite.com/
Foodio54 is a new restaurant review site
Foodio54 is a new restaurant review site that has recently launched.
The main purpose of Foodio54 is to find new restaurants on a local level, and review the ones you’ve already been to. Foodio54 has already included a large directory of restaurants nationwide, so you’re likely to find what you’re looking for. If you come across a restaurant you’ve already been to, you can leave a review and a rating. For restaurants you may be interested in, you can set a reminder for Foodio54 to get back to you about it later. This directory can also be edited by the community, so if you find a restaurant that should be deleted because it went out of business, you can submit a deletion request. If a restaurant is not included in Foodio54’s directory, you can be the first to add it.
While you can befriend other users, you cannot subscribe to their reviews. One of Foodio54’s features is the tracking of all the places you’ve reviewed first, which allows users to build some authority and credibility within the site, making it more important to be able to bookmark or subscribe to other users. I’d also like to see the ability to include photos with a review, as well as create a permanent list of places I’d like to check out, such as Menuism has done. Relying less on friends’ reviews and incorporating a personal recommendation system, as Group Recipes has done, would be great as well.
More at:http://foodio54.com/
Via-Mas
The main purpose of Foodio54 is to find new restaurants on a local level, and review the ones you’ve already been to. Foodio54 has already included a large directory of restaurants nationwide, so you’re likely to find what you’re looking for. If you come across a restaurant you’ve already been to, you can leave a review and a rating. For restaurants you may be interested in, you can set a reminder for Foodio54 to get back to you about it later. This directory can also be edited by the community, so if you find a restaurant that should be deleted because it went out of business, you can submit a deletion request. If a restaurant is not included in Foodio54’s directory, you can be the first to add it.
While you can befriend other users, you cannot subscribe to their reviews. One of Foodio54’s features is the tracking of all the places you’ve reviewed first, which allows users to build some authority and credibility within the site, making it more important to be able to bookmark or subscribe to other users. I’d also like to see the ability to include photos with a review, as well as create a permanent list of places I’d like to check out, such as Menuism has done. Relying less on friends’ reviews and incorporating a personal recommendation system, as Group Recipes has done, would be great as well.
More at:http://foodio54.com/
Via-Mas
Semapedia
Tagging in the real, meatspace world is an urban, semi-artistic endeavor which entails scrawling your handle all over public surfaces. Tagging in the wired universe is, of course, a folksonomy, a means of categorizing and organizing ideas, terms, things and themes. Semapedia brings the two together again, so to speak. Here’s how it works: you choose a wiki article with a real world connection. Copy the article’s URL and paste it into the Semapedia form (on the site’s homepage). Semapedia will churn out custom made tags available as a printable PDF. Print out the tags and attach them according to the content they link to (in some cases, it’d be wise to ask for permission, or simply do your deed at under the cover of nightfall). Cell phone users will be able access the wiki info by simply pointing their screens at the tag (provided they first download a 2D Barcode Reader for their phone). It’s tagging 2.0 style.
More at:http://www.semapedia.org/
More at:http://www.semapedia.org/
Fundable.com lets groups of people pool funds to make purchases or raise money
Fundable.com lets groups of people pool funds to make purchases or raise money. Similar to online auctions, Fundable's pages are created by people who use this site. Each project has a description of how much money needs to be collected and what it will do. Once enough pledges (not payments) have been collected, Fundable turns them into real payments and sends the total to the project's organizer. No one takes a risk when making a pledge: if a collection expires before reaching its total in pledges, Fundable deletes all pledges and never charges money. This lets you participate in a group purchase or fundraiser without worrying about what other people will do. No one pays until and unless everyone else makes a pledge.”
Fundable.org is a great idea, and your imagination is the limit of what you might raise money for. It is a fast and secure way to raise money or even make group purchases in a very simple way. Also, you have the security that your credit card or paypal account will not be charged unless the goal is met, so you know you are not throwing the money away here: either you are sure that the money goes to the group leader when you pledge for a fund raise (a good cause, most probably); or you are being charged when you are sure the group purchase is going on.
More at:http://fundable.org/
Fundable.org is a great idea, and your imagination is the limit of what you might raise money for. It is a fast and secure way to raise money or even make group purchases in a very simple way. Also, you have the security that your credit card or paypal account will not be charged unless the goal is met, so you know you are not throwing the money away here: either you are sure that the money goes to the group leader when you pledge for a fund raise (a good cause, most probably); or you are being charged when you are sure the group purchase is going on.
More at:http://fundable.org/
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