How to Have Wisdom in Business

Wisdom is the ability to discern what is right from what is wrong to produce optimum judgments that can lead to effective and efficient actions.



Wisdom is vital if you want to reach your business goals and achieve its optimal success. As business owners, entrepreneurs, marketers and managers need to face day-to-day decision making responsibilities, it’s important that they attain the right

One in Eight Office Workers Checked Their Corporate Portal on Christmas Eve

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Twelve percent of Bitrix24 users accessed their corporate networks on Christmas Eve and seventeen percent did on Christmas Day, according to internal statistics.

 "With 35,000 small businesses signing up with Bitrix24 in the last six months, we have a real good feel of how new social enterprise tools are changing work patterns. Even a few years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that so many office workers would feel the urge to do some work on Christmas," said Bitrix24 CEO Dmitry Valyanov.

According to Bitrix, Inc. internal statistics, 12% of Bitrix24 users accessed their corporate networks on Christmas Eve and 17% percent did on Christmas Day.

Instant messaging (47%) was by far the most popular activity type, followed by document sharing (11%) and task tracking (9%). The owners of mobile devices were even more active – 17% of iPhone and iPad users were active on Christmas Eve and 19% on Christmas Day, while the number for active Android users were 15% and 21% respectively.

"The line between work and home is getting more and more blurry, especially as mobile devices become so ubiquitous. I use my iPhone as much for my work as I do for talking with my wife and daughters," added Mr. Valyanov.

Not all countries felt the same urge to work on the holidays. Twenty two percent of Bitrix24 users residing in US were active on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, followed by Canada (20%) and United Kingdom (17%). Germany, Poland, Brazil and Italy were among the more ‘laid back’ nations, with 11%, 11%, 9% and 6% of Bitrix24 users checking in.

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Making it to Harvard or other prestigious universities is not a privilege granted to just about anyone. Academic success is one prerequisite for acceptance. Aaron Harris, a Harvard alum who also happens to be the CEO and co-founder of Tutorspree, thinks that in making it to a high-caliber scholastic institution, high-quality tutoring plays an integral role.

Easier said than done, you might say, as finding capable tutors isn’t a walk in the park, which is why Harris and his buddies, Ryan Bednar and Josh Abrams, recognizing the need to solve substantial inefficiencies in the tutoring sector, started Tutorspree.

Tutorspree is a tutoring marketplace that aims to bridge the gap between students and parents who are unsatisfied with the methods by which they connect and work with tutors and tutors who are not happy with the manner they find new students. With Tutorspree, locating reliable and qualified tutors in the student’s locale is made easier.

The website allows a user to search through its database of carefully selected tutors by supplying location information. They are then able to view tutor profiles that list their achievements, educational background and work history. Once a tutor is selected, Tutorspree provides secure payment processing options, as well as feedback tools. Aside from location, a user can also search for a tutor by subject and hourly rate.

Tutorspree tutors are professional teachers, writers, grad students, test prep gurus, language instructors and educators with extensive tutoring experience. To be qualified, aside from the necessary credentials, each prospective tutor undergoes a background check and an internal screening process. Harris estimates that 40% to 50% of applicants are turned away.

Signing up as a tutor with Tutorspree is free, but a commission will be charged on all payments received for services via the company - 50% for the first lesson and a flat rate of approximately $5 for each follow-up lesson.

With Tutorspree, parents and students no longer need to flock to Craigslist or community message boards (both actual and virtual) to find tutors whose qualifications they won’t be able to gauge until it’s too late. On the other end of the spectrum, tutors no longer need to go through the rigors of self-promotion but are instead entered into a trustworthy database.

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How to Build Your Wealth ?

Who don’t want to be wealthy? Who don’t want abundance in valuable resources, such as financial possession, real estate, talents, skills and knowledge resources? We’ve all dreamed of wealth. We don’t want to be poor and suffer from the culprit of excessive debts. We want to buy the things we want, we want to have the ability to help other people, and we want to share as many things as we can to

Awesome Startups - PickyDomains.com

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So you came up with an idea for an online business and started thinking of a great domain name for it, only to realize that all the good domain names are already taken. Then you tried automatic domain name generation tools, but most of the name they generated didn’t make any sense. What to do now? Well, just crowdsource your domain name idea generation to PickyDomains.

PickyDomains is a cool service that offers 100% risk free domain name and business slogan or tag line generation service. It has a proven track record of generating great domain names, and business slogans such as SEOBook for Aaron Wall, eMomsAtHome Wendy Piersall, and SurefireMarketing for Yanik Silver.

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Facebook Nearby : Facebook Location Based Business Recommendations

Facebook recently launched a revamped Nearby section of its mobile apps, which includes a guide to restaurants and other local businesses that are ranked based on Likes from friends, check-ins, and similar social data.


The updates to the new iOS and Android apps include the ability to browse and search for local businesses, as well as share those businesses with Facebook friends.


When opening

Looking for And Choosing Small Business Partnerships

What is a partnership? Partners are joint owners of a business. They have the same goals and are equally responsible for the decisions made on behalf of the business.



Are all partners equal?
Not necessarily. For instance, in many law firms there are senior and junior partners. However, the partners remain equal from a legal point of view.

If there is no written agreement, all partners:

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4 Green Business Trends for 2013

It used to be enough to adopt a highway, recycle in the break room and install a few energy-efficient light bulbs. But businesses now must take ambitious steps if they want to be seen as sustainability leaders and join the big leagues. Consider that about two-thirds of all Fortune 500 companies now publish corporate sustainability reports.

The past year has been a tough one for green businesses,

How do I make customer amazed and satisfied

Your customers are the life of your business. If you get the trust and loyalty of many of them, you are assured of having your enterprise successful. On the contrary, if they dislike your business, it would only give you headaches and bankruptcy in the long run. Meaning, without customers, you have to find another source of income.



Your customers are the reason why you give much effort to come

10 Things that Make You a Real Entrepreneur

What makes someone a real entrepreneur? Is it the ability to start an enterprise and make a profit or is it the ability to create innovative products that can touch the lives of many people? We know that entrepreneurship helps people’s lives to be better – it even aids a nation in achieving its economic growth.



However, being a true entrepreneur isn’t an easy thing to do. We cannot just quit

How To Write a Business Plan

I’ve been doing a tonne of research on how to write a
business plan and I feel like everyone has different thoughts on what to
include and how to write something that actually makes an impact.
 I’m
sure you’ve seen thousands of business plans in your career – what
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Alegion.com review

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From the words “crowd” plus “outsourcing,” crowdsourcing is not new news (see PickyDomains or DoNanza). It has been around for a while, and given the many advantages (productivity, cost-effectiveness, timely results, etc.) it can bring, especially in this highly competitive technology-driven world, is here to stay.

Launched on November 20, 2012 at the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference, Alegion aims to provide large enterprises the ability to incorporate crowdsourced work into their complex business processes via its ground-breaking self-service crowdsourcing platform. According to Nathaniel Gates, Alegion’s co-founder and CEO, crowdsourcing hasn’t really taken off, no thanks to the fact that users stay away from crowdsourcing because of the perception that results are generally inaccurate and that there’s no surefire way to ensure the accuracy of such results.

Gates recognizes that the problem with crowdsourcing has nothing to do with the platform or the workers, but with the process. He also insists that when users – businesses or individuals – fail to generate the desired results from their crowdsourcing endeavors, it is because they are not asking the right questions or following proven best practices to guarantee accuracy.

Another reason enterprises aren’t taking advantage of the full gamut of benefits they can gain from crowdsourcing is the complicated nature of setting up a crowdsourcing infrastructure in-house, which normally takes up a lot of resources. With Alegion, continuous development and expensive business consultants are no longer needed as everything will now be made available. With Alegion, companies design their workflow processes to ensure work accuracy, including a scoring system that will allow them to build a workforce fit for certain tasks. Companies will also be able to see job-related data so they can perform their own analyses and find out what went well and what didn’t, and everything else they want to track.

What’s more remarkable about Alegion is job creators’ ability to interact with their workers, answer questions, provide rewards and bonuses, even categorize their workers into groups, like those who constantly provide outstanding work and those who might need some help.

Gates points out that if users treat crowdsourcing as a system – data in, data out – they are unlikely to find satisfaction with the results.

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The Trends of Financial Management And Tactics

Is it really time to turn the corner on a new year again? Things move so quickly these days, it’s easy to get overwhelmed, even if you’re sitting still.

But we know that small business owners like you don’t sit still – can’t sit still – or your business will die. The good news is there are plenty of companies, from spirited startups to established old school brands, who want to help you

'Black Friday' deals are back for last-minute shoppers

Sometimes, it pays to procrastinate. Millions of us still need to buy
holiday gifts, and retailers want that business. So they’ve lowered
prices to attract last-minute shoppers.
“We’re seeing incredible deals right now on laptops and some good pricing on tablets and TVs,” said Mike Fridgen, CEO of Decide.com, a site that tracks millions of prices.
They predict that 70 percent of the most

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Nowadays, if you run a lodging business, even an independent bread-and-breakfast, and your business can't be found online, expect to be left behind and trampled by the rest of the pack. The Internet has interconnected the world in so many ways. Travelers now book accommodations online. If your online presence is relatively nil, you're practically throwing away a big piece of the pie that is your target population.

That said, however, small lodgings and independent hotels may still experience some setbacks while managing bookings via Expedia and Booking.com. Keeping up-to-date inventories in these sites entails constantly logging to each one, updating calendars, the number of rooms you have available and such, which can be time-consuming, to say the least.

Dashbell, a startup with headquarters based in Boston, is developing a product called OpenTable for independent hotels which will allow small lodgings to synchronize their online listings with their own systems. Meaning, the moment they update their systems, their online listings are automatically updated as well.

According to Paige Brown, Dashbell's co-founder and CEO, the company plans to beta launch in January, with initial focus on Brazil. Brazil is a country with a $12 billion hotel bookings market, 75% of which are independent. Of the 75%, only 4% are currently listed online. Dashbell intends to assist as many hotels as possible make the shift to online bookings before the 2016 Rio Olympics.

In the United States, there are far fewer independent hotels. Still, Dashbell isn't closing its doors to independent hotels in the country. Brown believes that a considerable number of small bread-and-breakfasts might benefit from using Dashbell in the future. By the end of the year, Dashbell expects to secure funding in the amount of $400,000 to $500,000 from angel investors.

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You Must Ask These Questions Before Buying a Business

A Story: Andrew Cagnetta bought his first business -- a pasta shop in Wethersfield, Conn. -- at age 25 and quickly realized he hadn't done his homework thoroughly enough. Although he stuck to the shop's original recipes and products, customers began complaining that the recipes had changed. Sales declined, and in less than two years, Cagnetta and his cousin, the co-owner, ended up selling the

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Marketing Strategy for 2013

Small business owners, answer these questions as honestly as you can:


Did your company jump on the content marketing bandwagon in 2012?
Did you create and curate informative and practical content for your target audiences?
Did you find a way to disseminate your content, getting it in front of potential clients or customers?

If you answered “yes” to all of these, then it is likely to be a

11 Inspired Business-Card Designs

They may seem like relics or leftovers from past generations that didn't give two figs about the environment or modern business practices. But business cards are not only still used, they're also useful.

They can serve as a new contact or client's first look at your company, as well as a reminder that stays with them long after you’ve left the building. Yet amid the rush to brand a business in

16 Gifts for Entrepreneurs

Our drool-worthy gifts for the entrepreneurs in your life promise to make them feel appreciated and stylish--and make their hard-earned success a bit more satisfying. Whether or not you've reached the same heights, you just may want some of these cool items for yourself.

AOC 16-inch Portable USB Monitor




This sleek 1.4-inch-thick monitor ($139) connects directly to a laptop via USB cable for

Top 10 Tech Accessories of 2012

1. The Equiso is a dongle that turns your TV into an Android device




The Equiso is an Android-powered dongle that plugs into your TV's HDMI port and lets you run apps on the big screen.
It's primarily designed as a streaming device, so you can run Android versions of HBO GO, Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, etc. and stream content to your TV.
Price: $79


2. Logitech's Ultrathin iPad keyboard turns

Top small businesses Googled this year

Google success was likely due to their increased presence on social media throughout the year, plus continued growth in the business itself.

The linen business had begun to place more emphasis on Facebook, as well as encouraging its 1400 consultants to start their own Facebook pages publicising the brand, Ellett said.



"My role with that (main Facebook) page is really not getting the likes but

Is Your Side Business Legal?

From blogging to handling a one-off PR project for a former client, today’s digital economy offers new opportunities for bringing in a little extra income. But when does a casual project turn into a business, and how do you keep that business legal?

According to the IRS, an activity is considered a “business” if it has made a profit in three of the past five years. Since you’re supposed to

How to Make Money Online Using Google Adsense

Whether possible to get money just by online ? Yes, you can do it using google adsense. How to make money online with Google Adsense? Adsense program is an
ad serving application run by Google Inc. Website owners and bloggers, which are
called publishers, can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and video
advertisement on their web pages. Publishers earned revenue on either a

How to Raise Entrepreneurial Kids

As a parent, you inspire entrepreneurship by fostering the emotional
skills your child will need, such as comfort with risk, effective
problem solving, and a positive attitude toward failure.



"It’s all about shaping the child’s behavior," says Dr.
Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New
York University Langone’s Child Study Center. "Social emotional skills

Five Mistakes to Avoid With Free Shipping

More online retailers are offering free shipping as customers come to expect it. Last year, more than half of all online transactions during the holidays included shipping at no charge, a 10 percent jump from 2010, according to a survey of online shoppers by comScore.

While you may need to offer free shipping -- at least as a promotional feature during the holidays -- to retain and attract

Tips to Increase Your Business Profit

Without so much introduction, we all know that business has to make profits. Hence, if you’re a business owner, entrepreneur or a manager in charge to boost the profitability of your company or organization, the following 10 tips will guide you on how to increase your business profit.


1. Increase owner’s capital or investment.
More investments mean more ROI (Return on Investment). Don’t play

Tips to Have Perfect Timing

Timing is a very important factor in achieving success.
Without timing, any effort, talent, and anything you do might not be
enough to reach your goals. Just like dancing, you need to have timing
to be graceful. Just like singing, you need to have perfect timing to
avoid being out of tune.


In our business actions, we need timing to maximize sales and profit. And in almost anything we do in

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always going to have questions about hiring, acquiring customers,
raising money, and building viable products. When I started my first
business, it was crucial that I learn about accounting and income
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How to Stretch Your Marketing Budget ?

Most small businesses have modest marketing budgets, which means you have to make every dollar
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use your ads for more than just space advertising.Ads
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In a startup, it’s all about the team. Even if you have a
ground-breaking idea, it’s useless without the right team to develop and
execute the vision. If you’ve been in business or entrepreneurship,
these revelations shouldn’t surprise you.
Hiring the right people
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PayLab Networks Wants To Marry Vendine Machines With Smartphones

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Smartphones are on the rise, and the upward movement is yet to see a decline, which, as industry experts believe, is not going to happen anytime soon. Smartphones today had gotten smarter, are cross-generational, and voice calling is just one of their many features. If you take time to observe people at coffee shops, airports, even in planes, not a lot of them use the smartphone for voice calls. Most of them actually read, swipe and tap. With a smartphone, Internet access is right at the user's fingertips. Music, high quality cameras, downloadable entertainment apps, what else is there?

On the business side of the equation, with these mobile devices, businesses can now engage with customers, advertise their services, pay bills, accept payments, etc.

Speaking of paying bills and accepting payments, there is this new smartphone app and point-of-sale device called PayLab that allows vending machine operators to effortlessly receive payments from over 100 million North American clients. PayLab enables customers carrying smartphones to easily pay for their purchases while eliminating exuberant fees slapped by cashless systems.

According to Mike Gron, PayLab's founder, the accelerating credit card fees borne by both consumers and merchants has opened up windows of opportunities for various types of payment solutions, and he saw vending as a perfect avenue to explore what can be done with a little ingenuity and market know-how. Mike Gron adds that the hardware engineering and testing had been both challenging and interesting.

One big contributor to Mike Gron's success was his willingness to get to know his audience. He spent a great deal of time in warehouses and trucks trying to understand the ins and outs of the industry. When asked which was more difficult, raising capital or finding the right talent, he explained that getting one without the other is going to be a challenge. Staying affiliated with the local tech community and keeping people informed of developments (or the lack thereof) is important.

Just recently, PayLab was presented at the Plug and Play Launch and Startup Showdown, an event with investors from Silicon Valley and Calgary, as well as at the Start Up Calgary Launch Party that took place on November 14. Currently, PayLab is trying to raise an initial round of financing for production ramp-up.

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How to Getting Started Business Marketing in Social Media

Now, There are many social media on Internet, When it comes
to using social media marketing to build your business, the worst action
is no action, and your biggest problem is being invisible, not being
talked about negatively. As long as you're part of the conversation on
the social Web, you can hear what's being said about you and massage
negative perceptions about your business.

But if

Trend Report - Businesses Starting to Switch to Internal Crowdsourcing

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 Six years ago, Jeff Howe coined term crowdsourcing to describe the process of outsourcing tasks to a distributed group of people. However, more and more companies are now turning to internal crowdsourcing, according to Bitrix24 CEO Dmitry Valyanov.

"We are seeing a significant shift now. Whereas a few years ago companies would simply outsource their work through eLance.com or other crowdsourcing sites [see DoNanza story], now they are using more and more 'internal crowdsourcing', that relying on collaboration among their own employees to produce results. Having seen the potential of crowdsourcing through external experience, they are trying to replicate this effective method inside the company when possible."

Social enterprise networks, also known as social intranets, are the driver behind this change. With major software companies from Microsoft to SalesForce investing hundreds of millions of dollars, it's clear that this trend will continue to develop intensely.

"Virtually every major client we have uses an extranet to bring freelancers and contractors into the fold. They are now using crowdsourcing sites only to locate suitable candidates, while actual collaboration is happening on their own platform. This makes sense, because a social intranet typically has the necessary collaboration tools, while crowdsourcing sites usually solve other problems – like payments, for example, or providing feedback about freelancers or clients."

Bitrix24 has experienced rapid growth since its launch in April 2012 and was recently praised by Forbes.com,  thanks in part to its decision to target small businesses, rather than the large business segment targeted by other social intranet providers. Over 15000 companies have signed up for the service so far.

"We've made Bitrix24 absolutely free to any company with 12 employees or fewer. We really do believe that the future of social intranet is in small to midsize companies. Once the advantages and the ease of adoption are demonstrated, it's really an easy sell from that point."

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JustBecause Is One Hot App This Holiday Season

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If you’re an entrepreneur, when launching a startup, one of the early challenges involved are getting the word out about your product or service, letting your target consumer know of the benefits that come with it and getting people to try it out – all in the name of converting them into lifetime customers.

On the other hand, if you’re somebody thinking of sending a gift to someone special, one hurdle you need to clear is figuring out what this trendy friend of yours would be thrilled to receive. And this means ensuring the gift isn’t something he/she already received from someone else, which, needless to say, can sometimes be a tough one to pull off.

JustBecause, a newly launched iPhone app, bridges the gap between the two. With JustBecause, users can now offer their friends gifts from startups worth $10 to $100 for just $1. Yes, you read right – for just $1!

Why? Well, startups are more than glad to dole out freebies here and there (in the hopes of turning a first-time user into a permanent consumer, what else?), and simply charge the expense against their customer acquisition funds. And because the gifts are from startups, as a consumer, you can rest assured that these products or services are stuff most people haven’t tried yet.

According to Matt Hartman, co-founder of JustBecause, the app was spun from his first startup, ReferBoost, an apartment referral social lead generator. To encourage apartment residents to write reviews and post about the buildings they lived on, they gave out gift cards, usually from Starbucks.

Meanwhile, Uber, one of the startups currently in JustBecause’s lineup, was trying to acquire customers in Chicago. This, then, prompted Hartman to talk to Uber. Uber thought the idea was interesting and provided him with some cards. The limiting factor though was the number of buildings Hartman had on his system. This, in turn, led to the idea that is now JustBecause.

JustBecause requires a Facebook login. Gift codes provided only work for first-time users, and for the gifts to be shared, the sender posts to a friend’s wall. SMS sharing is something that might come into play in the future.

Based in Chicago, JustBecause is, at the moment, working hard to expand its current startup roster. To download the app, visit their website at www.justbecauseapp.com.

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How to Spy Your Competitors (Legally)

Ever wonder what your competitors are up to? You should. They might
be creating new products, planning to enter new markets -- or maybe
they're floundering. If you knew, it could give you an edge.
Uncovering



competitive information doesn't require donning a trench coat or hiring
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This is The Basics of Branding

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Your
brand strategy is how, what, where, when and to whom you plan on
communicating and delivering on your brand messages. Where you advertise
is part of your brand strategy. Your distribution channels are also
part of your brand strategy. And what you communicate visually and
verbally are part of your brand strategy, too.
Consistent,
strategic branding leads to

How to Increase Online Sales

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How to Be More Creative and Productive

Do you ever find yourself thinking, “Well, I could move to San Francisco, or New York, or China or Chile! And I could work in tech, or fashion, or marketing or something else!” while another voice in your head says, “This is my list of things to do today. I need to go buy groceries, book a bus ticket for tomorrow’s trip, follow up with Joe from the conference… ”

Holding these two types of

100 List of Business Ideas for 2013

There are many business opportunities that we can start in 2013.
There are business ideas that we can operate through the Internet, small businesses we can do without leaving our home, livelihood that we can start as a hobbyor full-time business, and business startups we could run for a cause.


If you are planning to start a business in 2013, here’s a list of 100 business ideas you may consider

How To Can Grab Market Share In Your Business

You can never stop trying to win new customers. After all, your competitors are probably trying to win your customers over right now.

And in this economy, let's face it -- where else are you going to get customers than by taking them away from your competitors?

This all came to mind as I perused author/speaker Ross Shafer's new book Grab More Market Share -- How to Wrangle Business Away from

How to Choose the Right Name for Your Business ?

Abstract or dead simple? Clever irony? Cute and playful? There are endless paths to take when brainstorming your new business name. But for many small business owners and entrepreneurs, the naming process is fraught with uncertainty and doubt.



Yet, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

A business begins with a name — the cornerstone of company identity that shapes branding, company tone and first

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You is a Blogger? Bloggings not just about writing or expressing your thoughts online. It’s not only about making money on the Internet.

Blogging may involve many aspects, such as marketing, professional development, building a brand, establishing your authority, promoting a cause, and even changing the world we live in. And just like a reputable business, it is not only about making profit,

6 Steps to Starting a Business From Home

There are countless garage-to-Fortune 500 success stories. Jeff Bezos first ran Amazon.com out of his garage in Bellevue, Wash. As Stanford University graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google from Susan Wojcicki’s garage. And invoicing company FreshBooks was headquartered in Mike McDerment’s parents’ basement for 3.5 years.



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How to Make a Competitive Pricing Strategy

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What's the best way to price competitively?

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In business, it's not the glint in your eye that's the tip-off to your competitive ways--it's the price you charge.
Professor Richard Gilbert, chair of the Competition Policy Center at the University of California at Berkeley, tells us that the economics of competition comes down to the gap between price and costs. "The closer

Business ideas in the year 2013

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Savings.Com Story

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When Loren Bendele started online coupon company Savings.com in 2007, he wondered why traditional paper coupon companies didn't have more of an internet presence. It was a simple idea that filled a niche in an established market.

While his marketing plan initially was designed to attract customers, it also was meant to gain the attention of prospective acquirers--and it did. In June 2012 Bendele sold Savings.com to Cox Target Media, parent company of Valpak, for a reported $100 million.

"We always thought the traditional coupon players would be looking for ways to migrate their business," Bendele explains. So he intentionally built his company to sell.

Ken Wisnefski, meanwhile, has flipped two companies and now runs Mount Laurel, N.J.-based WebiMax, which provides internet marketing services such as search engine optimization. His first tip on building a business to sell? "You should treat [each company] as though you are going to keep it for 100 years," he says.

In other words, starting a company with the intention to flip is not so different from starting any company, but it does come with its own set of guidelines.

"With very few exceptions, startups get bought, they don't go public," says Nat Burgess, president of Bothell, Wash.-based Corum Group, which provides mergers and acquisitions advice for the software industry. "The ones that go public go through so many funding rounds and recapitalizations that they are thoroughly vetted by the time they file for IPO. For the other 99 percent of startup companies, proper planning and strategy are critical to a successful sale. Without a good business, quality team and solid execution, there is no exit."

Nate Redmond, managing partner at Rustic Canyon Ventures in Santa Monica, Calif., was one of the venture funders of Savings.com. He stresses that the business itself is more important than any exit strategy. "Rarely do we make an investment with the stated intent to sell," he says. Instead, the investment decision is based on market conditions, competitive position and company execution. "The best companies are bought, not sold," he adds. "We believe it is important to keep the focus on the long-term horizon until buyers come calling."

However, nearly every entrepreneur and investor who has been through a sale says there are crucial ingredients to any exit plan. Above all, the company needs an easily adaptable product or concept, clean books, good old-fashioned buzz, delegated authority and attention to the customer mix. Finally, the details of daily management have to support a company's long-term growth. "Startups get acquired because the acquirer believes they can scale up the company," Burgess says. "If the company is held together with duct tape and baling wire, it won't scale. Even though they start small, entrepreneurs have to think big from day one."

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Freelancing can be a lucrative career, if you know what you’re getting into. Advantages to freelancing include the freedom to choose your work schedule and the projects you agree to, how much time you invest in each of the jobs you take on, the freedom to work anywhere you deem conducive – at home, at a coffee shop, even out of town. You may also start working straight out of bed, if you so please, with your pajamas on.

That said, however, don’t let the good stuff lull you into believing freelancing is all milk and honey or where the grass is always green. Freelancing comes with disadvantages, too – the most common of which is failing to land regular, if not long-term, gigs to keep your money vessel replenished.

There are sites like oDesk and Elance that connect clients and freelancers. And then, there’s DoNanza.com, a freelancing search engine that allows anybody to find available freelance jobs that match his expertise or field of interest. Being a search engine, DoNanza pores through as many cracks in the Internet to get the most comprehensive set of results. It doesn’t, in any way, compete with Elance, oDesk or other freelancing platforms. Instead, DoNanza “completes” them as it ultimately directs traffic back to these platforms.

Aside from its basic listing services, DoNanza also offers 1Click Advertising, a feature  that allows freelancers private job requests – meaning, no competition, minimal effort, more job prospects and more chances of landing a job – for a fee.

As well, DoNanza integrates several freelancing apps like Conduit Mobile, which makes your DoNanza site mobile-friendly; Fanzila, a Facebook fan page app that helps you create a powerful social media presence; KashFlow, an app that automates credit control, billing and payment reminders; Paymo, which provides project management, invoicing and time-tracking tools; Base CRM, which easily manages your contacts, sales and customers; and a whole lot more.

If you’re a publisher, DoNanza’s Publisher Program allows you to integrate either the DoNanza widget or project board into your site. Publishers are compensated when a reader posts a job via the widget or a freelancer starts a job that he/she found on the publisher site.

If properly utilized, DoNanza can be your springboard to a successful freelancing career.

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SaneBox Review

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Does e-mail overload make you want to pull your hair out? You’re not alone. According to a study that analyzed a database of over 5 million e-mails, the average e-mail user receives about 147 messages per day, including junk mail, and spends more than 2.5 hours on e-mail alone. On average, about 71 of those get deleted and about 12 require a great deal of work, which usually takes up about 90 minutes per day.

Knowing there are only 8 hours in an average work day, spending 2.5 hours on e-mail is downright unacceptable. That is, if your line of work doesn’t revolve around e-mails, i.e., you’re not an e-mail support staff for some customer service company.

Okay, so 147 may be a lot for some. But you get the picture, right? Depending on your mileage, sorting through e-mail can be a time-consuming exercise, especially nowadays when extra time is fast becoming a scarce commodity for most of us.

SaneBox is a cloud-based e-mail service that promises to save you loads of time by sorting your inbox for you. SaneBox’s algorithm decides which e-mail is important and moves the less important messages out of your sight into a separate folder, summarizing them for your quick perusal. SaneBox can work with just about any e-mail client available – Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange, Apple Mail, Outlook, AOL, iPhone, Android, etc.

SaneBox also lets you create folders for e-mails you would like to defer until you’re ready for them – SaneTomorrow for e-mails you’d like to see in your inbox the following day, SaneNextWeek for next Monday, or some other custom defer folder. If a company still sends you mails despite unsubscribing to their newsletters more than a hundred times already, simply drag the e-mail into your SaneBlackHole folder, and you’ll never hear from that sender again.

As well, SaneBox comes with an ingenious auto-nagging feature that notifies you if an e-mail you sent has not been replied to. All you need to do is send a CC or BCC to 5days@sanebox.com, for instance, and the message pops right back into your inbox if it doesn’t get a reply in 5 days.

Depending on your needs, subscription to SaneBox starts at $2.04 per month. You can also try it out for free for two weeks. If after two weeks you decide the service is not for you, SaneBox puts everything back to the way it was before you subscribed.

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Bitrix24 Makes Free Social Intranet Available to iPhone Users

Bitrix24 has announced the release of an iOS app for its fast growing social intranet.

"A lot of business owners are still unfamiliar with what social intranet is and what it can do for their businesses," – said Dmitry Valyanov, Bitrix24 CEO. – "So we have to explain that Bitrix24 is like Yammer (corporate social network) plus SalesForce (CRM) plus BaseCamp (project management) plus DropBox (file sharing) plus Google Calendars (online scheduling) plus 25 other collaboration and productivity tools. Because iPhones are ubiquitous nowadays, we hope the release of our app will make social collaboration more accessible to small business owners and that it will quickly prove its worth inside each company."

The app is free, just like Bitrix24's basic plan, and works on devices that run iOS 5.1 or above. After downloading the app from Apple App Store and logging into their Bitrix24 account, users are able to monitor tasks, view contact details of co-workers, access the Activity Stream, comment and 'like' projects or tasks, and receive push-notifications about nearly anything that takes place inside intranet network.

"We've been monitoring the activity of over 15,000 small businesses that have signed up with us so far and over 60% of accounts have some sort of activity over the weekend. This number as well as after-hours activity is much higher for accounts that have utilized the iPhone app, proving that with the right tools you can work anywhere and anytime," – noted Mr. Valyanov.

Unlike other social enterprise offerings, ranging from Microsoft's recently acquired Yammer to SaleForce's Chatter, Bitrix24 targets small and even micro businesses by making its social intranet platform absolutely free for up to 12 users. The company recently announced its $2.4 million Bitrix24 Social Intranet initiative, providing one thousand startups with $2400 in grants to adopt social collaboration inside their organization.

"If you work for a startup that hires early adopters and you want to optimize communications and the flow of information, I encourage you to claim your startup license by simply filling out this short form. The licenses are given on a first come first served basis and accommodate not only internal team communications, but also interactions with investors, clients, and other stakeholders."

Cool Inventions - Buzzy 4 Shots

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While driving one day, Amy Baxter felt her steering wheel vibrate due to mechanical difficulty, leaving her hands numb. The sensation--or lack thereof--became a classic "aha" moment.

An M.D. specializing in pediatric emergency medicine, Baxter had been dealing with her young son's traumatic experience receiving vaccination injections. That day in the car, she hit upon the idea that vibration, combined with cold, might overwhelm nerve endings and allow for pain-free injections, helping patients with fear of needles. After a few informal and pain-free tests on her own kids using a medical device for testing neurologic reflexes and a bag of frozen peas from her freezer, she knew she was onto something.

From 2004 to 2005 and through a move from Dallas to Atlanta, she quietly worked on her idea for a portable vibrating and cooling device she dubbed Buzzy. She sourced motors online, learned about selling--even smashed open old cell phones to check out their vibrating mechanisms. In Georgia, she teamed with the industrial design agency Formation Design Group. But every advance was overshadowed by fears: Was she putting her medical practice at risk by devoting funding, time and energy to a project that might go nowhere?

"The big, scary part was, what if it didn't really work and I put my academic reputation on the line? What if I put all the time away from the medical practice and my family and it failed?" she says. She considered giving up. But her husband asked her a question that changed her mind: "How will you feel every time you hear about someone fainting from needles or avoiding healthcare?"

A survey by Target found that one-quarter of people who avoid flu shots do so out of fear of needles. Baxter's own research found that 49 percent of children have a significant fear of injections.

So Baxter got serious and applied for a grant from the National Institutes of Health's Small Business Innovation Research Program. After two rejections, success came in 2009: a $180,000 grant plus $900,000 upon completion of an initial study. Still, fears about her professional reputation loomed large: The grant stipulated that she spend 51 percent of her time working on the device, so she had to cut her research hours and time at her medical practice. To Baxter's surprise, her colleagues at Atlanta's Pediatric Emergency Medicine Associates were enthusiastic and supportive.

Two years later she had bragging rights: In 2011, Buzzy won the prestigious Medical Design Excellence Award, alongside inventions from 3M, Roche and Abbott.

Today Buzzy devices are in 500 hospitals in the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; other international distribution deals are in the works. Buzzy is available to consumers via the company's site and online venues like Amazon. Revenue is projected at $800,000 for 2012 and is expected to top $5 million in 2015.

Baxter hears regularly from patients who were about to quit treatments or switch to less effective medications because the pain and fear of injections was too much to bear. "People don't get their cancer diagnosed because they are afraid of the blood tests. One family's child had a three-hour ordeal every three nights because of a shot she had to get. With Buzzy, that got reduced to five minutes," Baxter says. "Knowing we make that kind of difference feels great."

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In February of this year, Mashable reported that for the first time in history, smartphone sales overtook PC sales in terms of units, the real story being the popularity of the smartphone rising relentlessly.

The smartphone, as we know it today, means information at your fingertips, flexible working, better organization, faster communication, better sharing of information, among other things. Industry experts agree that the smartphone is yet to see a sharp decline in its upward trajectory. And the way things are going for the smartphone, that won’t be anytime soon. As a matter of fact, people are now browsing the Internet via a smartphone more than via a desktop.

With that as a backdrop, if you’re a website owner, you’ll do good to know that ensuring your website is mobile-optimized can be profitable for your business. To help you do that, here’s a brief review of DudaMobile, a do-it-yourself service that converts regular websites to mobile sites that can work with all smartphones.

Here’s your step-by-step do-it-yourself guide to get that website rocking the smartphone as well:

- On DudaMobile’s homepage, type in your website’s URL and click on Make My Site Mobile.
- Next, you’ll be given a number of templates to choose from.
- Once you’ve made up your mind on a template, within minutes, DudaMobile imports all of your site’s content – text, images, links, everything!
- You can then edit different things, including taking out text, links, images or other stuff that look out of place.
- When you’re ready to test things out, simply add a code (or install a plugin) to the main site for a mobile redirect.

What’s remarkable about DudaMobile is that you don’t have to be on the techie side to get things done. All in, average time to get setup is about 10 to 15 minutes. And what’s even more impressive is that whenever you make changes to your main site, your mobile site is automatically updated – for free!

DudaMobile’s basic package, which is free, can let you customize up to 10 pages. The premium package, which costs $9 per month, allows you to work on unlimited pages, offers unlimited bandwidth, ads-free and customizable footer, your own mobile URL (m.yourcompany.com), phone and e-mail support, mobile site analytics, maps and directions.

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For an Internet marketer or anybody who understands how building rapport on the Internet is done, landing pages - also known as landers or lead capture pages - are crucial and perhaps the most powerful online marketing tools. Landing pages, generally speaking, are single web pages appearing in response to clicking on an ad and are usually sales copies and/or extensions of the advert. Internet marketers analyze activities generated by linked URLs and through click-through and conversion rates determine whether an advertisement is a success or a failure.

LanderApp, or simply Lander, is perhaps the simplest and most user-friendly landing page creation tool available today. To create a landing page that gets the job done, all you need to follow are three easy steps: design, publish and improve.

Design. Designer or not, whatever your conversion goals are, Lander provides layouts for you to choose from and customize. If none of the layouts fits your design needs, you have the option to create your own layout from scratch. Lander's easily navigable and intuitive design tool that employs the drag-and-drop method allows you to create sign-up forms, video widgets, call-to-action buttons and a whole lot more.

Publish. Once your landing page is created, you're ready for the big preview. And once you feel it's ready to go live, all you need is go back to the control dashboard and click "Publish."

Improve. Since landing pages are all about lead conversions, if the page is not converting the way you envisioned it to, you can use this well-known ninja trick among Internet marketing experts, the A/B test tool, where you create and design up to three versions of the landing page. Make changes to text, layout, images, widget, call-to-action buttons, and make decisions based on the split-test feedback you generate real-time.

Subscription fees are based on the number of visits your w ebsite generates on a monthly basis. If your site has a maximum of 500 visitors, Lander is yours to use absolutely free. The paid subscription starts at 1,500 visitors at $25 per month. You can also try the app now for free and upgrade later, depending on your needs.

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Mobile Startups - Chaotic Moon

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Chaotic Moon is the most experienced, innovative and awesome mobile studio out there--according to Chaotic Moon, that is. Over-the-top boasts and tongue-in-cheek self-affirmations are plastered across the Austin, Texas, startup's website, proclaiming its unrivaled mastery over all phases of mobile software development, publishing and management.

"I like to say we're 'justifiably confident,'" says 30-year-old co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm with a laugh. "But really, who wants to work with No. 2? If you don't believe you're No. 1 and don't believe you can build the best products and services, why would anyone else want to work with you?"

Chaotic Moon doesn't just talk the talk. The company builds hit applications and games for high-profile clients including Microsoft, CBS Sports, Sanrio and Pizza Hut. "We ship some of the top-grossing apps in multiple categories, and we work with some of the biggest brands in the world," Lamm says. "You can't do everything we've done in such a short period of time without being the best."

Lamm teamed with William "Whurley" Hurley, now general manager of Chaotic Moon's lab division, and CFO Mike Erwin to launch Chaotic Moon in early 2010, just months after selling his previous startup, e-learning and marketing agency Simply Interactive, to private equity firm Agile Interactive for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2003 while Lamm was a junior at Baylor University, Simply Interactive built digital training programs for customers such as Dell, ExxonMobile and Whirlpool--projects that helped Lamm hone the user-interface and software-design insights that are now Chaotic Moon hallmarks.

Chaotic Moon generated mainstream attention in early 2011 when it partnered with media goliath News Corp. to develop The Daily, the first digital newspaper optimized for Apple's iPad. With dozens of subsequent projects under its belt, Chaotic Moon now charges anywhere from $200,000 to more than $5 million per app build. According to Lamm, 90 percent of new customers are referred by existing clients, and the firm generates annual revenue "in excess of eight figures," although he declines to give an exact figure. ("We're highly profitable, to the point where if we tell someone like a trusted advisor or a PE firm what we're bringing in, they freak out," he claims.)

Speaking of the private equity space, Chaotic Moon has so far resisted overtures from venture capitalists. "For us, it's all about maintaining control," Lamm says. "We knew we could build a business on our own. All we needed was laptops and hard-working people. We didn't need a partner pulling the strings from somewhere on the East Coast or the West Coast."

Looking ahead, there are plans to expand the business by licensing Chaotic Moon's proprietary Chaos Engine software framework to customers. The team is also plotting to push further into hardware design--an effort typified by the prototype Board of Awesomeness, a motorized longboard custom-rigged with a Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect device and powered by user movement. Additionally, the founders are on the hunt for new acquisitions after rolling up app-maker DollarApp and security company Symbiot Security earlier this year.

"Whurley once said, 'We're not building a company--we're building a cult,'" Lamm recalls. "It's all about execution. A lot of people aren't doing a very good job of making mobile apps that work, and that's great for us. If you can make an app with real value and a great user experience, you're a hero." 

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In July of this year, the death of a Taiwanese teen after playing Diablo 3 for 40 straight hours made headlines that shocked the world. Two weeks ago, on a more pleasant note, Business Insider reported that social game Farmville 2 by Zynga, a publicly-traded game app developer, was ready to cross 50 million users shortly after its September 5 launch – clear evidence that online games can be quite addictive, which can, when left unchecked, unfortunately prove fatal for some.

Mike Tinney, former president of CCP Games North America, an online gaming company known for the massive multiplayer game EVE Online, recently launched his new startup called Fitness Interactive Experience or FIX, which aims to make fitness accessible, fun and enjoyable – yes, just like a game. Gamification, or the use of video game procedures and mechanics to achieve goals even in non-game scenarios, is a growing trend.

Based in Atlanta, the company plans to launch its first gamification title, UtiliFit, in a closed beta test in December, and then an open beta test in January. The project’s advisers include Monte Cook, a renowned role-playing game designer who once worked on Dragons & Dungeons, Tim Church, an expert on preventative medicine and exercise and Reynir Hardarsson, CCP’s founder.

UtiliFit aims to bring more gaming into digital fitness to help its users control what they eat and increase physical activity. The app will score its users based on how well they do. It can even rank them competitively against their friends, if they want to. In essence, it’s like a massive multiplayer online game cum cross-training.

The U.S. Department of Health recommends a daily exercise of at least 30 minutes five days a week, but less than 3% of Americans actually follow the recommendation. The company is targeting gamers and non-gamers alike and has so far seen early fo othold in the corporate wellness and casual fitness space.
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Whether you believe it or not, there’s a saying that goes, “the backbone of an organization is its people.”

Finding the right talents and keeping them together to create a sturdy and cohesive backbone, as HR professionals and business owners are likely to profess, is not an easy process. From posting a job-wanted ad, screening of applicants, creating a short list of qualified candidates, all the way down to on-boarding newly hired employees, providing them with e-mail addresses, setting their performance goals, determining their skill sets, tracking their vacation and sick leaves, and whatever else is connected with regular HR functions can be very tedious.

Good thing there’s TribeHR, an intuitive web-based HR application specifically designed for small businesses to help them automate ongoing HR management tasks that include skills tracking, vacation and sick days monitoring, employee records, goal setting, drafting of job openings and a whole host of others.

TribeHR allows you to store personnel data in a location that you can access any time you need to. Depending on your preference, you may choose to share the said information with other employees, such as managers or staff from other pertinent departments. If your list of employees is saved in an Excel file, TribeHR’s Employer Builder capability allows you to import the list with ease.

Additionally, TribeHR helps with reports generation, such as your employees’ sick and vacation days, performance reports, how they fared against their goals, etc. With TribeHR, no need to worry about theft, fire or floods – natural calamities that can destroy your paper files in folders. Moreover, TribeHR ensures your data is protected with bank-quality encryption. TribeHR can also be integrated with other applications like LinkedIn and Facebook.

For a subscription that starts at $2 per user per month, with its social, open and measurable functionalities, TribeHR empowers not just yourself but your employees, too. A fully functional TribeHR application is available for free trial for 60 days and here's a coupon you can use.

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http://muzooka.com/

They say music is a universal language. Some even go as far as saying it is the language of the soul. But whatever language music speaks, the fact that it has universal appeal cannot be denied.

 If you're a music enthusiast and Twitter or Reddit are two of your online hangouts, you'll most likely love Muzooka, a music streaming application that brings together music lovers, unsigned/independent music artists and record producers in a single place to discover and share music. Aside from its online portal, http://www.muzooka.com, Muzooka also offers its services through downloadable applications for supported mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone.

According to Shawn Wilson, Muzooka's co-founder and CEO, having been in the music arena for four years, meeting and talking with top industry producers and executives, he noticed that one of the biggest issues surrounding the space was obtaining new talent, especially nowadays when so much content abounds. After months of research, and with the help of his Silicon Valley friends, Shawn discovered the short answer to the problem – the absence of a new discovery platform and lack of social engagement in the existing applications.

That was when Muzooka was born.

When asked what has been the biggest challenge encountered by his team so far, Shawn admitted it had to do with the application’s launch date. He recognized that while it was important to “ship” a product, it was far more important to penetrate the market with the best possible product. Shawn believes that his focus on creating a lean product is one contributing factor to his success so far. For him, in the feature department, less is more. As well, getting the word out about the product, especially in the early phases, is critical.

 A couple of weeks back, Muzooka was presented at the Silicon Valley Plug and Play Tech Center launch in Calgary. Out of over 80 applicants, only 13 made it to the presentation. Muzooka was one of the lucky four startups to be granted an investment of $25,000, plus mentorship and free office space in both Calgary and Silicon Valley.

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So you came up with an idea for an online business and started thinking of a great domain name for it, only to realize that all the good domain names are already taken. Then you tried automatic domain name generation tools, but most of the name they generated didn’t make any sense. What to do now? Well, just crowdsource your domain name idea generation to PickyDomains.

PickyDomains is a cool service that offers 100% risk free domain name and business slogan or tag line generation service. It has a proven track record of generating great domain names, and business slogans such as SEOBook for Aaron Wall, eMomsAtHome Wendy Piersall, and SurefireMarketing for Yanik Silver.

How Does it Work?

To get started, you have to deposit amount depending upon the service you need. For domain name suggestions, the fee is $50. For business slogan suggestions, its $75. You can use credit card, paypal or wire transfer to deposit the money. Note that this money is only a deposit, which means if you don’t like any of the domain names suggested by them, you get a full refund.
After payment, you send them more details about the site you are starting, and characteristics of the domain name you need, like preferred extensions, length, and hyphenated or not. After that just wait and watch as people start suggesting the names.
You must check the suggested names periodically and mark them Liked or Disliked to indicate your taste. Once you find the domain you like, just mark it Picked to complete your order.
There are more then 44,000 registered contributors at Pickydomains right now, which means you can get what you are looking for within a few days, or sometimes, within few hours!

Become A Contributor And Make Some Money

You can also join PickyDomain as a contributor and make some money. Just register as a contributor and log into your account. Then, check the available orders to see if you can come up with some good domain names for them. If you suggest a domain that is picked by a client, then you get 40-60% of the fee, depending on you rank, which improves with the number of suggestions you post.
To get great domain name suggestions and business name ideas, check out PickyDomains.com.
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