Friday, March 14, 2008

Hot Help Desk software is a free online helpdesk for customer support service, trouble ticket management and email management

What Company Is Offering:
Hot Help Desk software is a free online helpdesk for customer support service, trouble ticket management and email management. It's a 100% web-based help desk system which can be accessed from any browser, with no plug-ins, no client maintenance and no client updates. Your customers can create and update tickets via online web based form or through email easily, so technicians are able to track the history of support requests from inception to resolution, including routing, ownership and transfers. The free Help Desk solution also provide powerful service modules like automatic email notification, searchable knowledge base, administrable download and reports analyzer. The customers could be offered with different options to get their issues resolved instantly. With a complete feature set and an affordable price tag, the help desk support will improve the efficiency of your business. You can transform your cost center to a revenue center.

How It Works:

Create an unlimited amount of departments. Your customers can then log help desk requests to specific departments, it allows administrator to create technician accounts with limited acces to specific departments or provide them with default department wide access.
Hot Help Deskt offers a fully features support portal for your customers, allowing them to submit support requests through web form, Your customers can also submit file attachments with tickets.
A customer can submit ticket by sending a email. Incoming emails can be turned into support tickets automatically. As soon as the message is received on your pop3 server it will appear in the technician's ticket queue. Responses to email notifications are appended to the history of the corresponding existing tickets.

Customers can open, view and modify tickets through web site, eliminating the need for them to sit on the phone on hold waiting for a technician to take their information. Automated e-mail alerts will keep them up to date on ticket progress, greatly shortening response time when action is required on their part. If customer is not satisfied with technician service, he can submit complaint to administrator.

More at: http://www.hothelpdesk.com/

5th Bar----that collects information about mobile phones, cell phone companies, and accessories from members and sources all over the world

What Company Is Offering:
5th Bar is an advertisement free, member supported community that collects information about mobile phones, cell phone companies, and accessories from members and sources all over the world. The goal of this site is to organize and collect in one place for you all this diverse information, presenting it in a new easy to digest way, so you can get to the bottom line quickly.

How It Works:

If you add a new phone or accessory to the system, something that is not possible on traditional cell phone websites, the 5th bar will immediately go out and start tracking and collecting information on that new device.5th bar is not a carrier, manufacturer, or retailer and so they don't have a conflict of interest in trying to sell you any particular device or one that might exceed your needs or budget.

More at:http://www.5thbar.com/

Gajeebo is a huge collection of website information

What Company Is Offering:
Gajeebo is a huge collection of website information. It is an effort towards assisting internet surfing. It provides information of websites such as its content, current ratings and review.

Unique Features:

The Top 5 Websites are selected based on ratings by their members and displayed under respective categories on the home page.
Search Websites - You have the option to search a website and find its in depth information as user reviews, ratings and content. Make Gajeebo your Homepage.
Add New Website Links.
Members can rate and express their opinions about a website.
Members can choose the way they wish to display categories on different pages.
Members can choose to display their favorite 5 websites under each category.

More at:http://www.gajeebo.com/

USAspending.gov---allows visitors to search for information about federal assistance, including grants, loans, insurance, etc

What Company Is Offering:
USAspending.gov, a re-launch of www.federalspending.gov, provides this information to the public, as collected from federal agencies, in an easy to use website. The data is largely from sources: the Federal Procurement Data System, which contains information about federal contracts; and the Federal Assistance Award Data System, which contains information about federal financial assistance such as grants, loans, insurance, and direct subsidies like Social Security.

How It Works:
The Assistance tab of USAspending.gov allows visitors to search for information about federal assistance, including grants, loans, insurance, etc. Navigation links on the left side of this page function as the main navigation interface for users. Currently, visitors can search three main categories: by grant recipient, by place of performance, and by granting agency.

Recipient searches can be performed by simply entering a search term in the cell and clicking go. Search for all recipients that include a search term by simply entering an asterisk before the term. The sidebar also provides quick tables for Top 100 Recipients per year, as well as award totals based on the state or congressional district location of the recipients (which is not necessarily where the money is actually spent). The advanced search allows users to modify a simple name search with other factors such as amount of total award amount, type of recipient, etc.

Location searches allow users to find out how much money is being spent in a location. The sidebar permits quick searches by states. The advanced search uses counties, cities as well as other search modifiers.

Agency searches can be done by either selecting a major agency from the sidebar menu or by selecting a year total for an agency from the "Overview by Major Agency" table. Advanced search allows you to modify you search by changing factors such as the year, type of award granted, type of recipient, etc. The advanced search also allows you to search for sub-offices within major agencies and departments as well as minor agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission or the National Endowment for the Arts.
More at:http://www.usaspending.gov/

vzaar provides a simple and fast way for eBay sellers to upload videos of their products and services to enhance their listings

What Company Is Offering:
vzaar provides a simple and fast way for eBay sellers to upload videos of their products and services to enhance their listings. Unlike other services, vzaar is designed for video ecommerce.

How It Works:
vzaar enables buyers to get a clear look at what they are purchasing and watch it in action. vzaar makes it easy for sellers to add video into their listings, drive bids and move more inventory. And unlike still images or slideshows, videos have audio, enabling sellers to communicate more effectively, describe their services and inspire trust.

vzaar has helped sellers in the beta program sell items ranging from a backhoe to jet skis, diamonds to art, and guitars to comics. vzaar was the first company to enable video listings on eBay UK.

"Videos provide sellers with a distinct advantage in the competitive eBay market, but it has always been a challenge trying to add videos to listings," said Ken Moss, CEO of vzaar. "Unlike other video solutions designed for entertainment, we built vzaar specifically for video commerce. Once buyers and sellers first see a video-enabled eBay listing, they want them for all listings."

How Is It Different:
vzaar is designed for video commerce. When a YouTube video ends, it drives viewers to watch another user’s video. When a vzaar video ends, it prompts viewers to bid on the item. Also, the vzaar player contains vital information that YouTube does not: seller feedback and bidding time left on the auction.
vzaar’s technology can be integrated and used to deliver video to other online businesses, big or small.

More at:http://vzaar.com/

CONTEMPOZINE - the definitive guide to style for the modern man

What Company Is Offering:
CONTEMPOZINE - the definitive guide to style for the modern man, is an online style magazine and shopping guide for the style aware contemporary man. CONTEMPOZINE features the hottest trends and the coolest products in men's fashion, home furnishings and lifestyle products. No product appears here unless it meets our high standard of design, style and utility excellence.

How It Works:

Contempozine provides a centralized staff of style pickers that do the job for you. Searching across the Internet finding the most fashion forward
product and delivering them directly to you.


They features cool watches, stylish shoes, fashionable jeans, t-shirts and just about anything else to accent your life with flair and an unique style. Women also find value in the site as a tool to find great gifts for their significant other or men in their life.

They scours the net each day to find the most fashionable and stylish products for the contemporary man. If you are not great at fashion or simply don’t have the time, then this is the place to go. www.contempozine.com has a cutting edge, irreverent voice and is all about self expression for the modern man. They employ a rigorous process on finding products that are up to our high standard.

More at:http://www.contempozine.com/

Content providers are overlooking the needs of many ....

Content providers are overlooking the needs of many of today's Internet users, according to a new Burst Media study. The online survey, conducted in February 2008 of more than 13,000 web users 18 years or older, found a majority of Internet users 45 years
and older believe that online content, as well as website design and online advertising is skewed toward younger web users.

The Burst survey found that young web users between the ages of 18-24 years and 25-34 years are most likely to say online content is focused on people their age (76.0% and 73.9%). Additionally, more than one-half (55.7%) of respondents 35-44 years perceive online content to be focused toward their age segment.

Starting with the "Young Boomer" segment (45-54 years) there is a precipitous decline in the number of respondents who say Internet content is focused toward people their age. In fact, within this age segment only one in three (35.4%) believe online content is focused on people their own age. Only one in five (18.9%) respondents 55 years and older say Internet content is primarily focused on people their age. Additionally, three-quarters (77.7%) of respondents 45 years and older believe online advertising is not targeted towards them, and focuses on younger audiences.

The Burst survey also revealed several interesting findings about different demographic segments' perceptions of the online marketplace. These include:

-- Disparity in Usability: The Burst survey revealed that website usability is an issue for older web users. For sites drawing an audience 45 and older, simple navigation and design is critical for retaining those consumers.

-- Loss of Connectivity Devastating at any Age: The one truth across all ages is that the Internet has become an integral part of their everyday life. Two-thirds (67.7%) of respondents said that their daily routine would be disrupted if they could not access the Internet for a week, with 42.9% saying that they would be significantly impacted.

-- Expanded Universe of Sites: Overall, three out of five (59.6%) of respondents are visiting more web sites in a typical week than they were one year ago. An expanded catalog of sites visited is not only a phenomenon of the young; in fact, 62.8% of respondents 55 years and older say they are visiting more sites today in a typical week of web surfing than they were one year ago.

"The Internet is the proverbial big tent - made up of lots of audience segments with differing content interests," said Jarvis Coffin, CEO of Burst Media. "A major audience segment, such as adults over 45, should not be crying out for content. Clearly there is an opportunity for talented web publishers to develop engaging content that resonates with older web audiences. Likewise, there is also an opportunity for advertisers - older audiences are using the Internet and it makes senses for marketers keen on reaching them to seriously consider the web to deliver their advertising message."

More at:http://www.burstmedia.com/

Birdiegolfpga.com offers everything that the serious golfer needs at discounts

What Company Is Offering:

Birdiegolfpga.com offers everything that the serious golfer needs. Discounts vary but include equipment, Golf lessons, as well as travel to exotic golf courses. This golfer friendly website also offers free Golf videos for those who want that little extra help without paying for lessons with a pro.

BirdieGolfpga.com website . They have developed this website to allow you to get to know their products and services a bit better , as well as make all of their information available to you 24 hours a day .

They will continue to add product and company information to this site on a weekly basis so if you don't find what you're looking for please check back often .

The website was launched in early March by President of JLB Global Marketing & Sales. James Bate of White Lake, MI; states that, “We have assembled the best products and Largest Discount Suppliers for you, all on one web site for your convenience. Feel free to check all our suppliers for the very best prices and hottest deals anywhere.”


More at:http://www.birdiegolfpga.com/

NYRentClub.com is an online community of New Yorkers where members rate and review NYC rental brokers and receive personal matches

What Company Is Offering:

NYRentClub.com is an online community of New Yorkers where members rate and review NYC rental brokers and receive personal matches to quality brokers who meet their specific criteria. There is no cost to the renters -- in fact they can get a $50 bonus check when they sign a qualifying lease. Additionally, renters receive a minimum 20% discount off their traditional broker fee.

How It Works:

NYRentClub provides agents with filtered referrals. You can choose to help prospective renters based on their move date, property type, region, credit, and rent range. Update your preferences any time.


Membership as an agent offers you a steady stream of quality referrals. In exchange for this referral source, agents provide members a discount broker fee. Think about it. 5 filtered referrals at 12% are better than 5 walk-ins at 15%. Our users want to use an agent, and they don’t waste agents’ time.



You must provide them with at least 3 tenant references. Your referees will rate your service out of 5 stars and provide a comment. Members of NYRentClub will rate and review agents' service from that point on. The better your service, the higher you’ll rank on system, and the more referrals you will receive. Additional agents are only added to our system as demand to service the prospective tenants increases.

More at: http://www.nyrentclub.com/

Thinking Mode is a company built on the idea of turning great business ideas into viable projects or start-up companies

What Company Is Offering:
Thinking Mode is a company built on the idea of turning great business ideas into viable projects or start-up companies. They bring smart people and companies together to make things happen.

They are excited about innovative thinking and work to transform them into solutions that benefit individuals, companies and governments.

How It Works:

At Thinking Mode, they work only with the ideas that they generate in-house. They do not invite the submission of business ideas, plans, materials, inventions or any other concepts that you consider confidential or proprietary, so please do not submit such to Thinking Mode, its employees or representatives.

Should you choose to submit any plan, idea, concept, invention or material to them, you agree that they are not confidential or proprietary and waive the right to receive any type of compensation for them.

More at:http://www.thinkingmode.com/

myclicks.us offers expert SEO and e-marketing solutions to ensure excellent online performance for your web-based business

What Company Is Offering:
myclicks.us offers expert SEO and e-marketing solutions to ensure excellent online performance for your web-based business. They offer specialized solutions individually developed for each website depending on the customer's needs and requirements. Their experienced team of SEO experts will make sure you get the best e-marketing campaign, effectively tied together with methods such as SEO, content writing, email marketing, paid inclusions, press release submissions, RSS distribution, blogging.

Recent Updates:

The e-marketing service provider My Clicks LLC has launched a unique new Optimized Web Design service that pays special attention to site usability.

The new optimized web design is a special SEO-friendly web design that has the option for quick search engine indexation and that is combined with a free hosting service. "No matter how brilliant a business concept may be, this does not automatically guarantee its presence on the search engine results page," My Clicks experts explain. That is why the company offers a web design which can help customers tackle internet-related issues to make the business concept online-friendly as well.

The service is very quick and easy to implement. Customers have to pick a template from My Click’s template gallery, and the firm’s experts customize it from the perspective of SEO. A keyword analysis is conducted, and the client is given advice about what needs to be changed in the website content or how it has to be written. Thus, the service combines traditional web design and SEO features in a single easy solution. In addition to this, My Clicks offers free hosting.

More at:http://myclicks.us/

MeasuredUp.com --where consumers share outrageous, funny or complimentary reviews about customer service and brand experiences

What Company Is Offering:
MeasuredUp.com is the leading consumer feedback and review website where consumers share outrageous, funny or complimentary reviews about customer service and brand experiences. Consumers just like you rate and review the customer service they experience from any business, large or small, anywhere, at anytime. The site is fun, free and easy to use and is visited by thousands of consumers and business owners every day. You can post a positive, negative, or neutral review. Positive reviews are just as much fun to post and read as negative reviews and are a great way to reward excellent customer service.

How It Works:
You can read reviews on MeasuredUp.com by browsing the Categories, or by clicking the ‘New Reviews’ link. You can also use the Search Box to search for a specific company or business by name or keyword.

To write your own review click ‘Write a Review’ and follow the instructions. Writing a review is quick and easy; it takes about two minutes to submit a new review. You can be anonymous and post a picture. All reviews are anonymous. We use the information you provide to categorize and index your review on the site so that other people can find it more easily. Reviews are visible on the site once approved by the MeasuredUp.com staff and may be indexed by the search engines. We will email you when your review has been approved.

Why Companies Should Use It:

Companies and businesses that care about and value Customer Service actually love MeasuredUp.com because it helps them stay connected to their customers as well as better understand the needs of consumers. Companies that place little or no value on customer service probably hate us. MeasuredUp.com is a resource for consumers; providing a platform for delivering complaints or praise to the companies and businesses they interact with every day. Companies that advertise or sponsor categories on MeasuredUp.com show how much they care about Customer Service. A company may not always be perfect but by advertising on MeasuredUp.com they show that they are actively listening to you, their customers. Occasionally a negative consumer review might be written about a company that is actually pretty great. We encourage people to be fair when writing a review and remember that anyone can have a bad day or experience a misunderstanding.


More at:http://www.measuredup.com/

ShareThis is the easiest way to share things online raised $15 million in Series B funding

What Company Is Offering:
ShareThis is the easiest way to share things online. ShareThis imports address books so that anything can be shared immediately, without even leaving a webpage. It is the most comprehensive way to easily and spontaneously send, post, bookmark, rate, recommend and tag online content. ShareThis is also the preferred sharing option across leading blogging platforms including Blogger, WordPress, and TypePad.

ShareThis has already demonstrated impressive usage with adoption of the ShareThis button growing at over 50% each month. While ShareThis already offers unparalleled integration with the leading social networks, email, IM, and mobile, the new investment will now allow ShareThis to accelerate the roll-out of new services to the thousands of publishers who deploy the ShareThis button on their sites. The company will also increase the number of social media services across which it allows consumers to share content and will extend the media platforms across which content can be distributed across.

How Much They Got From VCs:

ShareThis, a San Francisco-based provider of online content sharing solutions, has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The company had raised a $6 million Series A round last year from firms like Blue Chip Venture Co., Illinois Ventures, DFJ Mercury, Queen City Angels and RPM Ventures. ShareThis CEO Tim Schigel previously was a venture capitalist with Blue Chip.

More at:http://sharethis.com/getbutton

Zuora, Inc., a new company that simplifies online subscription services received a $6.5 million Series A round

What Company Is Offering:
Zuora has created an on demand platform designed to simplify the way online subscription services are purchased, billed, and provisioned.It replaces the cumbersome manual processes or expensive billing systems employed today with a hosted solution that delivers the flexibility and simplicity needed to conduct seamless, ongoing customer transactions. Using Zuora, online service providers can now easily offer tailored subscription services that adapt to changing customer needs.

How Much They Got From VCs:
Zuora, Inc., a new company that simplifies online subscription services, announced that it received a $6.5 million Series A round of funding led by Benchmark Capital. Additional investors include founders from Salesforce.com and WebEx. Zuora plans to use the funds to successfully deploy its next-generation platform, to further drive product development, and to expand sales and marketing programs. Benchmark Capital general partner Peter Fenton will join the company's board of directors.


About VCs:
Benchmark Capital, a leading international venture capital firm, was founded in 1995 to help talented entrepreneurs with original ideas build successful technology companies. Benchmark's general partners take a team-oriented, labor-intensive approach to venture investing to deliver a superior level of service to the firm's portfolio companies. Benchmark's portfolio includes high-profile start-ups like Infinera, MySQL, OpenTable, Second Life, Tellme, Yelp, and Zillow, and franchise companies such as eBay, Juniper Networks and Red Hat. The firm manages nearly $2.8 billion in committed venture capital. For more information on Benchmark Capital, visit its website at http://www.benchmark.com/

More at:http://www.zuora.com/

ClientSpot is a Web-based service designed specifically for virtual assistants to collaborate with clients and subcontractors on projects

What Company Is Offering:
ClientSpot is the simplest way for virtual assistants and freelancers who work with remote clients and subcontractors to track projects, files, deadlines and time.ClientSpot is a Web-based service designed specifically for virtual assistants to collaborate with clients and subcontractors on projects. When email just isn’t enough, ClientSpot brings together all the pieces of your client and team interactions, from project and task management to file sharing, time tracking, and calendaring.


How It Works:

ClientSpot is a simpler, more effective way to collaborate on projects with remote clients or team members.

Designed for virtual assistants, freelancers, and other businesses that serve remote clients, ClientSpot is your simple, stress-free way to keep things from falling through the cracks.

Manage tasks, assignments, calendar events, and deadlines. Share project files. Log and report on time. ClientSpot worries about tracking all the details so that you don't have to.

More at:http://www.myclientspot.com/

Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories

What Company Is Offering:
Vigster is a community and social network for video games fans of all categories. Whether you are a die-hard video games fan or lover of PC based video games, web/mobile video games or a fan of other gaming platforms, Vigster is the right place to be.

How It Works:
At Vigster they introduce gamers to their global community of video game lovers and provide them with the functionality to share their gaming passions and experiences by providing the functionality for them to access their massive collections of video games and other games related information, connect with peers, friends and meet new users that share the same gaming passion as themselves.

Anyone can join Vigster its free and easy to start with. Once registered, users can then begin to enjoy the Vigster Experience.

Unique Features:
Access a massive gaming related database with up to date information on video games.
Build virtual game shelves to express themselves and show their game collections.
Discover new video games and new gaming related information about games that they love.
Share their hands on experiences about games they have played with other members.
Rate, review, discuss and voice out their opinions on video games.
Play quizzes, submit quizzes on video games that they have played.
Learn from other users about their gaming tastes and preferences .
Connect with friends and other users who share the same gaming passion as themselves .
Join online gaming groups and discover more about their favorite games.

More at: http://www.vigster.com/

Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure

What Company Is Offering:

Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.

How It Works:

Simple, intuitive user interface: Decrease training time and trafficking steps with simplified tagging and inventory management.
Google serving speed and reliability
Ensure quicker ad delivery and fewer reporting discrepancies.
Significant cost savings - it's free!
Pay nothing for ad serving, feature upgrades, or system maintenance.

More at:https://www.google.com/