Thursday, 6 September 2012

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  • SMB Startup Watch: Rawstream Helps Monitor and Manage Internet Usage

    SMB Startup Watch: Rawstream Helps Monitor and Manage Internet Usage

    Firmology?s SMB Startup Watch?profiles newly launched or emerging startups in the SMB (small and medium-sized business) technology space. Your business is plugging through the height of the business day and your computer network has slowed down to an obscene crawl with several of your employees spending...

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  • SMB Startup Watch: Lettuce is a Simple & Visually Stunning Order Management System for Small Businesses

    SMB Startup Watch: Lettuce is a Simple & Visually Stunning Order Management System for Small Businesses

    Firmology?s SMB Startup Watch?profiles newly launched or emerging startups in the SMB (small and medium-sized business) technology space. The best business ideas stem from solving a problem that persistently proves to be a pain point in day-to-day business operations. That?s exactly what happened...

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  • SMB Startup Watch: Glyder Helps Small Businesses Create Beautiful Online Marketing Campaigns

    SMB Startup Watch: Glyder Helps Small Businesses Create Beautiful Online Marketing Campaigns

    Firmology?s SMB Startup Watch profiles newly launched or emerging startups in the SMB (small and medium-sized business) technology space. Unlike large companies that have an entire marketing department, creative design resources and a large budget, most small businesses lack all three. Small business...

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  • Microsoft Outlook.com Has Reached 10 Million Users

    Microsoft Outlook.com Has Reached 10 Million Users

    It?s been 2 weeks since Microsoft declared war on Google?s Gmail and launched Outlook.com. How are they doing? Outlook.com has reached 10 million users. Since we launched the?Outlook.com preview?two weeks ago, we have been truly humbled by the reception. We?ve received hundreds of great...

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  • Qualaroo (Formerly KISSinsights) Changes Pricing Plan and Releases Enhancements for Free Users

    Qualaroo (Formerly KISSinsights) Changes Pricing Plan and Releases Enhancements for Free Users

    Qualaroo, the online survey and customer feedback tool for businesses, has rolled out some changes to their pricing plan. The tech company was formerly known as KISSinsights, but had to change its name as part of the acquisition deal between CatchFree and KISSmetrics. The main changes Qualaroo announced...

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  • Hireology?s Integration With Indeed Gives Businesses Huge Exposure to Their Job Postings

    Hireology?s Integration With Indeed Gives Businesses Huge Exposure to Their Job Postings

    Not sure how we missed this announcement in late May, but apparently Hireology announced an integration with Indeed. That?s HUGE. We originally mentioned their integration with CareerBuilder, which is great, but who knows how effective job boards like that and Monster are now-a-days for sourcing...

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  • inDinero Ends Free Pricing and Will Delete All Transactional Data for Non-Paying Users

    inDinero Ends Free Pricing and Will Delete All Transactional Data for Non-Paying Users

    InDinero, the financial dashboard for small businesses, will end free pricing and delete all transactional data for non-paying users. The Silicon Valley-based tech startup, founded by Jessica Mah and Andy Su, gives small business?owners insight into their day-to-day cash flow, transaction history,...

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  • Hiring Platform Hireology Announces Integration With Job Site CareerBuilder

    Hiring Platform Hireology Announces Integration With Job Site CareerBuilder

    It was just last week that we wrote about Hireology?s new feature where small businesses can?order job candidate background checks on Hireology. Looks like they?re pumping out product updates fast ahead of Chicago?s TechWeek conference! (I?ll be there writing about small business...

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  • Businesses Can Now Order Job Candidate Background Checks on Hireology

    Businesses Can Now Order Job Candidate Background Checks on Hireology

    Small businesses can now order job candidate background checks on Hireology. Hireology helps small businesses ?make better hiring decisions? with an all-in-one hiring platform to?list jobs, accept resumes, create customized interview guides and rank potential job candidates. The?Chicago-based?web-based...

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  • You Can Now Attach Expense Receipts as PDFs to Your FreshBooks Invoices

    You Can Now Attach Expense Receipts as PDFs to Your FreshBooks Invoices

    FreshBooks, the online invoicing software for small businesses, has introduced a new feature that will make many frustrated business professionals jump for joy. You can now attach expense receipts as PDFs to your FreshBooks invoices. ?This might not seem like that big of a deal, until you realize...

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  • Social CRM App Nimble Now Available as a Google Chrome Extension

    Social CRM App Nimble Now Available as a Google Chrome Extension

    Nimble, the Santa Monica, California-based Social CRM app, is now available as a Google Chrome Extension in the?Google Chrome Web Store. Nimble is a web-based social CRM (customer relationship management) app that lets small businesses manage their contacts, calendars, communications and social conversations...

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  • The Most Ridiculously Easy-to-Use Billing and Invoicing App on the Web

    The Most Ridiculously Easy-to-Use Billing and Invoicing App on the Web

    I was browsing?Sarah?s FAVES?and stumbled upon?Billable, quite simply the?most ridiculously easy-to-use small business billing and invoicing app on the web. Created by South Africa?s?Peter Pistorius and Barbara Cilliers of Appfactory, Billable?s motto is?Billing Made Simple. Period....

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  • HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Releases Several New Features Including Candidate Assessments

    HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Releases Several New Features Including Candidate Assessments

    Hireology, the Chicago-based?high-powered HR/recruiting platform, released several new features recently including candidate assessments, customized email templates, non-numeric input for job compensation and an overhauled reference check guide. Whether a sales test, administrative skills test, legal...

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  • LinkedIn Relaunches CardMunch, the iPhone App That Will End the Use of Business Cards

    LinkedIn Relaunches CardMunch, the iPhone App That Will End the Use of Business Cards

    Although I was excited to get my first batch of Firmology business cards (free from Moo!), I dislike carrying them around and dislike collecting business cards from people I meet. ?The cards just end up as wasted paper in scattered piles at the office, at home, in my laptop bag or straight in the trash. As...

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  • How Your Small Business Can Mail and Ship Like a Heavyweight

    How Your Small Business Can Mail and Ship Like a Heavyweight

    Editor?s Note: This guest post is by Shayna Burns and the team at?Pitneyworks.com, the official site for Pitney Bowes small business?postage machines, mailing systems, PC postage and other postal equipment. You may be running your business like a champ, but are you missing out on small wins,...

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  • 37signals Launches LinkedIn Profiles in Highrise

    37signals Launches LinkedIn Profiles in Highrise

    37signals, the Chicago-based small business web application company, has launched LinkedIn profiles in Highrise, its web-based contact manager or customer relationship management (CRM) software. The new feature let?s users see the LinkedIn profile of a contact by adding their LinkedIn profile URL...

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  • Hireology Releases Two New Features: Interview Editing & Hospitality Job Industry Options

    Hireology Releases Two New Features: Interview Editing & Hospitality Job Industry Options

    Hireology, the Chicago-based?high-powered HR/recruiting platform, released two new features yesterday: interview editing and hospitality job industry options. Hospitality job family, as they officially call it, is a preloaded database of information for the hospitality industry. ?If your small...

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  • inDinero Users Can Now Track Their Receipts [BONUS: Win a $300 AmEx Gift Card]

    inDinero Users Can Now Track Their Receipts [BONUS: Win a $300 AmEx Gift Card]

    InDinero, the easy-to-use financial dashboard for small businesses, has announced that users can now upload and track their receipts on inDinero. The Silicon Valley-based tech startup is essentially the Mint.com for small business. ?Small business owners can gain an understanding of the vital signs...

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  • FeeFighters Launches Samurai, Online Payment Gateway for Credit Card Processing

    FeeFighters Launches Samurai, Online Payment Gateway for Credit Card Processing

    FeeFighters, the Chicago-based comparison shopping site for credit card processing, recently launched a new payment gateway option for online merchants called Samurai,?joining other tech companies like Braintree in cleaning up the notoriously unscrupulous payments industry. FeeFighters has been...

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  • Hireology Officially Launches New Pricing Plans

    Hireology Officially Launches New Pricing Plans

    Hireology, the?high-powered HR/recruiting platform based in Chicago, officially released their new pricing plans on their product blog on Tuesday. ?We reported last week that Hireology sent a head?s up email to its free beta customer program users that the program was ending on September...

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  • HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Ends Beta Customer Program and Unveils Pricing Model

    HR/Recruiting Platform Hireology Ends Beta Customer Program and Unveils Pricing Model

    Hireology, the high-powered HR/recruiting platform based in Chicago, announced that it is ending its free beta customer program on September 21st and unveiled its pricing model going forward. ?In an email today, the service thanked its users for making the beta program a huge success, and after...

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  • LawPivot is the Q&A Site for Your Small Business Legal Questions

    LawPivot is the Q&A Site for Your Small Business Legal Questions

    I attended Chicago?s TechWeek conference recently and met the team behind LawPivot, a Silicon Valley based startup founded by Jay Mandal, the former lead mergers and acquisitions lawyer for Apple. ?LawPivot is essentially the Quora of legal advice or for those not as familiar with the tech scene,...

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  • Hireology Makes Small Business Hiring Easy with High-Powered HR/Recruiting Platform

    Hireology Makes Small Business Hiring Easy with High-Powered HR/Recruiting Platform

    Some business owners think they are a good judge of a job candidate?s skill set, work ethic and culture fit. Unfortunately, most of us are horrible at it. While big corporations spend millions of dollars on building out their HR department, recruiting commissions, standardized hiring templates...

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  • Braintree Simplifies Credit Card Payment Processing for Small Business

    Braintree Simplifies Credit Card Payment Processing for Small Business

    One of the most frustrating and confusing steps of launching a business is navigating the treacherous waters of the online payments industry. ?The industry is notorious for high pressure sales tactics, sky-high merchant fees, confusing terms and ironclad contracts. ?I experienced this firsthand when...

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  • inDinero Provides a Simple Way For Small Businesses to Track Their Finances

    inDinero Provides a Simple Way For Small Businesses to Track Their Finances

    Ever since Mint.com launched a simple and intuitive site for individuals to track their personal finances, many small business owners have been looking for a similar service or tool to track their finances. ?While there are plenty of finance tools available on the market, most mom and pop businesses...

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