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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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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.

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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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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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