Word of mouth advertising has always been powerful and effective since time immemorial, and today word of mouth publicity is done even through social media platforms. Indeed, when you see people putting Facebook status updates every hour and Tweeting every minute, then why shouldn’t you worry about your social recommendations? After all, if a person has great reach on social media, he has certainly got the potential to do wonders to your business. And, if such a person is unhappy with your services, it can also turn out to be disastrous for you!

Referral from Just One Customer Can Make a Big Difference!

Imagine a person walking into the premises of your business and walking off fully satisfied and happy with your services and products. There are very good chances that he/she would mention good about business on one or more of the social media platforms that the customer is registered with. Now, if he/she has over 1,000 followers in Twitter and more than 1,000 friends on Facebook you can only imagine the kind of impact one Tweet or one status update by the person about your company would create. And, if that person is little known to people; for instance, if he is an editor of a leading magazine or a local newspaper, then it can give tremendous exposure to your business.

Converse with Potential Customers and Build Connections

And, we’re talking about referrals from just one customer; now, can you imagine the impact of several such individuals. So, here’s the deal – you need to get yourself involved in casual conversations, and after becoming part of the conversation don’t make the mistake of cutting off yourself. The people who are discussing your services and products would want you to stick around, and listen to what they’ve got to say. Above all, be completely transparent and open. Never delete any negative comments, and always take them as your opportunity to educate your potential customers about your support, and commitment to ensure customer satisfaction. This always appeals to people from all walks of life and it is one of the best things you can do for the good of your small business. Always state the facts and stick to them.

Be Vigilant and Keep Your Eyes and Ears Open!

People may not directly contact you, but they may post negative feedback about your business, and it may terribly harm your online reputation. So, it’s important that you keep looking for negative feedback, and not wait for the customers to send your email grievances and report the matters when they slip out of control.

After all, putting your foot in your mouth is something you can’t afford being a new business owner and with so many competitors around. Apart from listening closely you should also monitor the conversations. This is the best place for getting unbiased feedback and the potential issues in your services or products. You may be surprised to some of the revelations about your services that you otherwise didn’t know about.

Make Use of Smart Tools

It’s not about hard work anymore, and rather about smart work; so, make sure that you make use of the latest tools to manage your social media activities, and stay on top of the game.

If you want to ensure that your tweets or posts are seen on Google plus, Facebook, and Twitter, then you must make use of handy tools like Just Retweet. If you have a WordPress-based like, you can again install Twitter plugin to display live Twitter feed on the site, and Tweet all the latest posts automatically.

Such tools can greatly help you in not only growing your social media reach, but also monitoring the social activities, without really logging in to your social media accounts every single time.

So, go ahead and leverage the power of social media to make a difference to your business in this digital era.

Author bio:

Anthony is a veteran social media marketing strategist. He assists big companies in campaign ideation, formulating SEO strategies and social media promotions across the various social media platforms.

Micromax one of the leading domestic mobile manufacturer of India is out with yet another android smartphone- Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle. Looking at Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle specifications one can surely say that this is one more power packed smartphone by Micromax with amazing features and pocket friendly budget. Micromax has recently shown huge success in domestic and few Asian country market with launches of Canvas series smartphones, the most successful model being Canvas 2 and Canvas HD. Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle Specifications includes a big 5.3 inch full touch capacitive display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor and an 8 Mega-pixel front camera with auto focus.

One note worthy feature of this budget friendly phone would be stylus. Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle comes with an external stylus to enjoy a big 5.3 inches display screen. This is the first time Micromax or any other manufacturer has released a phone which is very pocket friendly and comes with a stylus. It will be interesting to watch if Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle can effect Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2 market. Galaxy Note 2 comes with the similar features and stylus but at price three twice higher to Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle.

Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle Specifications:

• 5.3-inch capacitive touch screen display
• Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean)
• 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8225Q processor
• Dual SIM (GSM + GSM) with dual standby
• 8MP Auto Focus Camera with dual LED Flash
• 0.3 MP front-facing camera
• 9.9 mm thick
• 3.5 mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 512MB RAM, 4 GB internal memory (1.22GB user available memory)
• expandable memory up to 32GB with microSD
• 3G , Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS
• 2100 mAh battery

Micromax A111 Canvas Doodle is available for 12,999 INR at: Snapdeal

Newsreader search experience just got a whole lot more bite-sized, flexible and friendly for beta users of a platform called ‘Unbiasly’, possibly the next big software story in news delivery and consumption since LinkedIn’s acquisition of the Pulse application and Yahoo’s purchase of Summly for an undisclosed amount. For publishers it could be the answer to dwindling advertising revenues and help to bridge the gap between the content they create and readership.

Social media communications platforms are cornering the market on users being able to control how they seek out the issues they are interested in online and offering the opportunity to interact with those delivering the ‘news’ to them. Whereas traditionally publishing houses publish content according to previous accrued data of previous sales, focus group discussions and life-style survey research or topics selling copy for their competitors, then crunched through all the disparate information via strategic reviews, which left gaps in knowledge and risked time lag, with this innovative platform, they have ways of gaining more immediate insights into what their audience is reading NOW and can deliver content where those readers are now spending their time – on social media.

The creators of this site, see this as beneficial to readers too, giving them a new way of consuming what they traditionally bought off the newsagent shelf, or more recently in pre-filtered content via a particular publisher. A publishing house’s content is displayed on Unbiasly.com in ways that give their readers greater control over what they read, when and how, without prior filtering of priorities by a magazine or journal’s editor; the reader is at once consumer and producer, by interacting with the content they are interested in in their favored format. What is interesting here, is that, they may choose to move between content produced by different publishers. This removal of the role editorial control by publishers explains the name of this user friendly platform: unbiasly.com

So for instance, readers getting their news on the go, via their smartphone, checking out their preferred ‘trending topic’ via a hashtag search on Twitter, for instance, now they can search a key word on what they want to find out about either via this mini-blogging site, via Facebook, Instagram or articles. What they will not be aware of is where those articles are published from originally. Thus they are not biased towards e.g. ‘Cosmopolitan’ over ‘Forbes Woman’, for instance.

This symbiosis between reader and publisher is echoed by another unique feature of this new platform. Unbiasly.com is designed to benefit both the end-users and the producers of news.

In this ‘neutral space’ that publishers pay to occupy, they can also benefit from immediate analytics on how their material is consumed; what is responded to and in what way. This will give more immediate, qualitative and quantitative insight relevant to their advertisers too, thus, eradicating the unknowable variables of effectiveness of such advertising campaigns – a selling point to their advertisers.

Dwindling advertisement revenues are the single greatest threat facing many electronic media outlets currently, but unbiasly.com offers a solution. Unbiasly is still in beta, so the platform is still designing the extension of the advertising platforms currently used by publishers, so respective media outlets can advertise the stories that come from their sites.

The content provider ‘s ‘space’is where they can advertise the stories that come from their sites in a way that does not compromise the user’s experience and offers bite-sized, social media ‘tasters’ to draw in readership. Their material can be displayed in three different routes to news, depending upon the amount of content produced.

Unbiasly’s analytic resources benefits both media sites and readers. So immediate intelligence gained about users can be fed into the production process faster: what they prefer to read, reactions, comments and ratings and more. Readership gains by publishers having to up their game, by offering quality content in the way that their readers are demonstrating how they prefer to consume and share such digitally published information.

This new platform could lead the way in offering better quality digital publishing and in turn more readership and thus an “enduring and profitable virtuous circle”.

Prior to starting any business, you need to arm yourself with the detailed planning in order to ease yourself later on. On the same lines, if you are looking to incorporate a business in Canada, you need to know the reason for preferring Canada over others:-

The reason for choosing Canada

Canada has the credit of possessing a stable economy with equally promising political future. Hence, increasing numbers of companies prefer it over U.S owing to its stable banking options along with lower costs.

Have a detailed and thorough understanding

Although, you are not legally bound to incorporate a business in Canada, yet it facilitates the business owners with its own benefits. Since, it work wonders towards giving you a legal protection degree apart from reducing your liability for tax as well. Great, isn’t it?

You are equally required to have a greater introspection towards learning the advantages as well as disadvantages since it is imperative to reach the zenith.

Advantages/Disadvantages

Advantages

You do not have to worry even an inch as you incorporate your business in Canada. After all, you are not personally held liable for your business. For example, in the event when your company has to give out the compensation pay-out, you can heave a sigh of relief since all your personal finances will be free to the core. Hence, you stand out to be the happiest person in the world. Isn’t it?

Tax benefits

The business has a specific life time where the passing of ownership is inevitable. It can be done by selling the shares in the event of the sudden demise of the current owner or due to sudden need. Therefore, you are eligible to get tax benefits. Thanks to the law of the country, you get tax deduction as mostly, you are facilitated with getting 16% of the first $200,000 taxable income.

Ensure never ending boost to your business

Your business is going to step further ladders of success within a short span of time as it is incorporated thanks to the exemplary and dedicated facilities which you are going to be gifted with.

Disadvantage

you are wary of doing paper work, you might experience it be to be a herculean task as it eventually turns out to be a nightmare for you to set and incorporate your business. You equally need to maintain the records as well. Being a sole proprietor or a self employed person, if you thought, you will be able to claim personal tax rebates, think again since it curtails your right too.

Final thoughts

As you are knowledgeable about the complete advantages as well as disadvantages, you are in a better position to incorporate your business. It is important for you to come up with the business name of your choice, subsequently get a business number. Hence, you can make decision towards incorporating your business federally or provincially in the event when your business is making over 30,000 annually. On the other hand, if in case you register prior to your business earning this staggering figure, then you can emphatically claim the taxes which you have paid. In this way, by your smart decisions, you can give a boost to your dull and sagging business as well. Isn’t it?

This may be off topic but it’s worth sharing and something which we all need to care being a human. Humanity is one great thing left in this world. Did you know that every year 2 million children under the age of 5, die of infections like Diarrhea and Pneumonia? That’s the huge number to leave this world at the age of innocence, at the age they barely know anything and at the preliminary age of learning about life. There are many companies/communities working to reduce this numbers by spreading the awareness. But we need a large organization for such a huge number to take care of.

Taking a step forward, Lifebuoy has started a campaign to spread the awareness for stop dangerous diseases like Diarrhea and Pneumonia from its roots. According to Lifebuoy a simple act of washing hands with a soap can reduce the cause such killing diseases considerably by 42-47%. In a campaign video (given below this article) Lifebuoy shows Gondappa, a resident of Thesgora, an Indian village with one of the highest rates of diarrhea in the country, doing a hand-walk on the occasion of his son’s 5th birthday. Gondappa does a hand-walk all the way from his house to a temple along with other villagers joining his celebration. Gondappa is thankful to god because his boy is the first one to survive till the age of 5. This act of Gondappa surprises a city girl going passing through the village. She finds it strange to see a man walking to temple until she gets to know that it’s the only child of Gondappa to live till the age of 5.

Lifebuoy started back in 1895 by Lever brothers in England, is working hard to spread the awareness to Thesgora and to other villages through a series of campaigns and on-the-ground charity work. Their main aim is to help more children reach their fifth birthday.

We wish you all the best Lifebuoy!

Disclaimer: This post has been sponsored by Lifebuoy, but all thoughts are our own.

For more information visit: Official site.

Web designing requires an innovative mind, lots of innovative ideas and the most important aspect is to keep yourself updated with new designs, coding experiments, PSD designs and much more which is required for being a good website designer. I personally believe one idea is a derivation of another with better features or perhaps more add-on. So if you are a web designer, you should surely keep yourself updated with new designs. Here we are listing some of best resources for web designers.

BEST RESOURCES FOR WEB DESIGNERS:

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is a familiar name in web designing and development industry. It’s a great resource for learning to code on CSS, JavaScript and HTML. Apart from that they write about plenty of new techniques almost everyday. One of the key feature of smashing magazine is “Job board”. So if you are a web designer and looking for a job, I suggest you to check out their job board section. Additionally they offer plenty of resources for graphics, user interface design and much more.

Webdesigndev

Webdesigndev.com is another online journal for web designers. Webdesigndev frequently update plenty of information. The best part is their “10″ awesome and great resources they write as a blog post on various topics related to web design and development.

Smashing Hub

When speaking about web designing resources, this is the name I would never forget to mention. Maintained by Ali Qayyum and his team, Smashing Hub has always been busy updating their website with resources you would love. It has great resources for web designer and developers, graphic designers and photographers.

Webdesignerdepot

Another biggie in the list of biggies. If you are a web designer, you might fall in love with Web designer depot’s awesome design. They say “we live, breathe, and eat design”, and that’s pretty much true with the quality of content they offer. Did I forget to mention, they have a awesome design!

NetTuts

Last but not the least. Net Tuts is an advance and one of best resources for web designers and developers. They offer best in industry tutorials in form of articles and videos. They offer tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CMS’s, PHP, Ruby on Rails and much more. So if you are a hardcore designer and developer, do not miss NetTuts!!

There are plenty of other resources for web designers and developers. If you think we have missed resources for web designers that was worth mentioning, please do comment with the link and we will be happy to include them in our list.

Are you a PHP developer or you have just learned PHP and want to get your hand on PHP codes? Well as we say online world is big enough to solve your any type of problem. You want it, you get it! There are plenty of online code snippets running websites available on the web to give you flexibility to type and test PHP codes online. Here are few online websites that allows you to create your own PHP codes and run them online to get how they will work.

Resources to Type and Test PHP Codes Online

Ideone.com

Ideone.com is a platform that allows you to type in your PHP codes and run them. This platform also gives you access to other 40 programming languages. So if you want to get your hands into other programming languages as well, you can hit this website. You can make your codes private so that they don’t appear on Ideone’s recent code page.

WriteCodeOnline.com

WriteCodeOnline is another platform to type and test PHP codes online. A simple editor online has clean interface with no complications.

CodePad Viber 7

CodePad too comes with clean and attractive editor. The website allows you to create an account so that your account can be used as author who will be writing online php code snippets. The other features CodePad provides is naming your script, size information, number of hits to compile codes and selection of PHP version.

PHPFiddle

PHPFiddle.org gets you the same option of running php codes online additional it gives you an option type in a URL and fetch its all PHP codes.

Codepad.org

Codepad.org is an online compiler and interpreter to run code snippets online. Apart from PHP, codepad also has compiling options for few more programming language. Codepad will you a short url after compilation of codes which can be shared with friends.

kodingen.com

Kodingen.com comes with advances features like online free hosting to host your codes, ftp servers and much more. So if you are looking for advance options, you can opt for kodingen.com

compileonline.com

Compileonline.com has nothing much to offer different from above mentioned platforms. Though editor might give you feel of real type compiler, that’s the pleasure of typing codes for a developer.

Cloud9ide

You can even connect to your FTP servers and use Cloud9 to see your file tree, drag-n-drop files and edit your code. It has an awesome editor and much more to offer to a developer. If you want too much from coding platform, I recommend you cloud9ide.

Compilr.com

Compilr has a huge community of developers. Create your projects and share them with your friends. Also compilr is fully responsive. So you can use it on any tablet, smartphone or other devices.

OnlinePHPfunctions

If you are looking for a complete PHP guide and tutorials as well as a place to type and test PHP codes online than onlinePHPfunctions can be a great help. You can test your PHP code here on many php versions.

Ever thought of changing our world, our earth with your unique ideas? Did you ever had a plan which can challenge the system and make good moves towards the living and our society? If yes, than you can challenge to change the world. Dassault systèmes presents IF WE Challenge. This challenges are not to participate in any game or contest. It is a challenge to change, it is a challenge for better living, and it is a challenge for us and our planet!

Dassault systèmes has come up with a challenge which can bring changes for good and happiness. If you have a challenging dream and you want that to come true and to come to effect, than you should surely participate in this campaign- “IF WE” challenge. Dassault systèmes in earlier campaign had collect around 550 contributors from around the globe. From the list of around 550 contributors, the campaign committee had cut down about 85 of participant depending of the criteria of feasibility, interest and sustainability. Than the campaign members contacted them to know more about their ideas and reduced the number to 20. Finally the Jury panel selected 3 finalist winners.

Want to know what kind of ideas were proposed in 2012 campaign? Here are the few ideas proposed by the participants of 2012 campaign, this will certainly help you to build your own!

• Geoffrey Cooper from Canada proposed “IF WE designed a rolling tree planting robot, we could send them out to replant forests and restore deserted lands. Let’s make it happen!”
• Ismael Moreno Cendejas from Mexico gave an idea: “IF WE design more exoskeletons we can help more people with different capacity”

And plenty of others which you can see in the campaign video below. This is your opportunity for IF WE challenge. I personally believe such campaign bring evolutions and execution of new ideas are always problem solving. Not only they help individuals, they can be implemented globally. How can you participate in this campaign? You can share your own world-changing dream with in 140 words and share in to their blog, Facebook page or tweet about it using a hash tag #IFWE. Dassault systèmes will reward participant with price value of up to $15,000 for bringing up the best and innovative IF WE dreams.

For more information about the campaign visit: Dassault systèmes

On complete guidance on joining IF WE challenge visit: How to participate page

Disclaimer: Post sponsored by Dassault systèmes

Recently I came across an app for Facebook which helped me to find past Facebook updates I did. Wouldn’t it be great if you want to check what was your update in December 2011 or any other month? To do this you definitely have to scroll down a lot in your timeline to locate out all the updates in that very month. This app will categories all your updates year wise and sub categories month wise. Isn’t it cool? In this way you can rewind your memories of the past. Using this app you can also check past status updates of your friends too.

Let’s check out how can you use this app.

• Open fbcalendar.in your browsers.
• Click on “Login with Facebook” button to use your Facebook account to connect with this app.
• The app will now prompt you to allow permission to this app to use your Facebook account to find out all the status updates. Click on Allow to grant permission.

That is all you have to do. You are just done in few steps. The app will now take you to the page with a simple and easy to navigate user interface where it will show you the years along with the number of updates you made during that year. If you have to find past facebook updates of any particular month of a year, just click on a year of your choice, the drop down menu will show you all the months along with number of updates made in that month. Now all the updates of that month will be listed along with date, day and time a update was post at. Isn’t recalling memories have been made easy with this app?

We would love to know your opinion and suggestion about this article. If you have any, please do comment using the comment box below.

Couple of days ago, the Samsung has brought a good news to its Galaxy mobile enthusiasts. The South Korean mobile maker has yet revealed its much anticipated tablet device Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 in WiFi version only. Samsung Galaxy series of smartphones are creating hype in the mobile market with its advanced technology and new features. Currently most of the tech enthusiasts are keeping their fingers crossed in hope that the mobile giant will bring innovative creations for the MWC 2013. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 price in India has been confirmed and it is to be Rs. 13,900.

Most of the leading tablet manufacturers are looking forward to compete with the smart device ASUS made Google Nexus 7. Now, with the launch of this affordable price tablet the Samsung will sure make a strong fight with this tablet from ASUS. Well, the device is enabled with Wi-Fi connectivity with no SIM card slot. The device is packed with a USB supportable external slot where the user can purchase external USB dongles for data network connectivity apart from using Wi-Fi terminal. For more details about the looks and features, click on latest Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 pictures which are available on various online sites.

For better viewing experience the device will sports 7 inch PLS LCD Capacitive touch screen supporting wit a screen resolution of 600×1024 pixels. The display is packed with a pixel density of 170 ppi and 16 M color support and provide a vivid display clarity and great gaming experience. This time the user can enjoy lot of applications in this bigger screen device as the device runs on an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean mobile operating system supporting with Samsung TouchWiZ UX UI. User will have a great viewing experience while switching between the applications since the smart device comes with Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, and compass sensor applications. To provide high performance, the device runs on a powerful dual core processor with a speed of 1 GHz. the device is handled by PowerVR SGX540 which enables user a great gaming experience with the high quality visuals.

To store all their users favorite stuff, the tablet phone is packed with a user internal memory of 16 GB. In order to expand their memory for additional use, the tablet supports an external microSD memory slot which supports up to 32GB. The device is integrated with a primary camera of 3 megapixels lens which capture high clarity images. The camera supporting with Geo-tagging and Smile Detection features is also capable to shoot HD videos with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels at 30 fps. To make video chatting and calling to friends, the tablet is loaded with front facing secondary camera of 0.3 mega pixels.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 is powered with a 4000 mAh capacity lithium ion battery which is capable to deliver a play time up to 93 hours and a standby time up to 1070 hours in fully charged condition. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 311 features with a mini HDMI port and several pre-loaded applications that will make user experience better. For great entertainment, the device is packed with additional features like Predictive Text Input, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa, Gmail, SNS Integration, Java Support, IM, RSS, Adobe Flash, Google Search, Image and Video Editor, Organizer and TV Out.

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