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  31. <title>Referral Monitor &#8211; Referral Marketing For Small Businesses</title>
  32. <link>https://small-business-services.org/pr-affiliate-marketing/referral-monitor/</link>
  33. <comments>https://small-business-services.org/pr-affiliate-marketing/referral-monitor/#respond</comments>
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  36. <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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  42. <description><![CDATA[What is Referral Monitor? Referral Monitor is a web based application which allows you to manage a referral marketing campaign with minimum hassle. Pricing Like most of the other web based applications/services Referral Monitor offers 4 separate packages based on the features. Pricing starts from $5.99/month and goes up to $19.99/month mainly depending on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
  43. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>What is Referral Monitor?</h3>
  44. <p>Referral Monitor is a web based application which allows you to manage a referral marketing campaign with minimum hassle.</p>
  45. <h3>Pricing</h3>
  46. <p>Like most of the other web based applications/services Referral Monitor offers 4 separate packages based on the features. Pricing starts from $5.99/month and goes up to $19.99/month mainly depending on the number of referrals you can add for a given month.</p>
  47. <p>You also could sign up for their FREE account (with limited functionality) to familiarize with the application before subscribing for a paid account.</p>
  48. <h3>Why Use Referral Marketing?</h3>
  49. <blockquote><p>The world is overwhelmed with marketing and advertising; with so many, often conflicting, messages it is no wonder today’s consumer discounts what they see on a billboard, hear on the radio or see on their screen- TV, computer and mobile phone alike! Consumers are increasingly turning to one channel they can trust: friends and colleagues that have personal experience with the product or service under consideration.</p>
  50. <p>Effective referral marketing does not have to include ad campaigns, discounts, coupons or fancy gifts. Many businesses that don’t use rewards, or are prevented by regulation from doing so, mistakenly operate under the assumption they can’t do referral marketing. Nothing is further from the truth. The most important referral marketing campaign isn’t a campaign at all; it is a way of doing business.</p>
  51. <p>Referral marketing leverages another sales force to grow business. This channel, also known as the existing customer base, is low cost and highly effective. Like any channel, however, it does take some management to flourish.</p></blockquote>
  52. <p><em>Source: ReferralMonitor.com</em></p>
  53. <h3>Bret’s Note</h3>
  54. <p>As mentioned in the above section referral marketing campaigns are one of the most effective ways to promote your small business products and services. But managing a good campaign is a daunting task due to the complexities such as monitoring the referrals, rewarding them, etc. This is getting more complicated if you expect to have several levels of the campaign. Referral Monitor seems a good attempt to simplify the process and help you with your small business referral marketing campaigns with the minimum cost.</p>
  55. <p>However I’d like to see them (Referral Monitor team) improving this application to make it a real success.</p>
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  64. <title>Pingdom &#8211; Web site monitoring for 100% uptime</title>
  65. <link>https://small-business-services.org/miscellaneous/pingdom-web-site-monitoring-for-100-uptime/</link>
  66. <comments>https://small-business-services.org/miscellaneous/pingdom-web-site-monitoring-for-100-uptime/#respond</comments>
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  69. <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
  70. <category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
  71. <category><![CDATA[Small business PR service]]></category>
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  74. <description><![CDATA[What is Pingdom? Pingdom is a powerful online tool which helps you to monitor your website uptime. Servers could fail randomly for couple of seconds, minutes, hours. Whether you are at work or even while you sleep Pingdom will keep you up to date on such failures. How it works? Any business acting online has [&#8230;]]]></description>
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  76. <h3>What is Pingdom?</h3>
  77. <p>Pingdom is a powerful online tool which helps you to monitor your website uptime. Servers could fail randomly for couple of seconds, minutes, hours. Whether you are at work or even while you sleep Pingdom will keep you up to date on such failures.</p>
  78. <h3>How it works?</h3>
  79. <p>Any business acting online has at one time or another run into problems with network outages, a website that either responds slowly or not at all, undelivered emails, or other problems that have degraded the service they want to offer their customers and end-users online.</p>
  80. <p>The problem is, how do you as a business really know where the problem lies, or if there even is a problem? You do not visit your own site and use your own services every minute of the day, every day of the year. This is where Pingdom comes in.</p>
  81. <p>Pingdom gives you the tools you need to monitor the quality of your presence on the Internet, around the clock all year long.</p>
  82. <p><em>Source: Pingdom.com</em></p>
  83. <h3>Pricing</h3>
  84. <p>Pingdom offers all this for a flat monthly subscription which is only $9.95/month.</p>
  85. <h3>Bret’s Note</h3>
  86. <p>If you are a small business which relies heavily on your website for your day to day businesses, then you’ve got to minimize the downtimes and failures. Your host may tell that they have a guaranteed uptime of 99% but sometimes this may not be the truth. Yet keeping an eye on the website downtimes may not be practical while managing your small business and its many activities. So Pingdom could be an ideal solution.</p>
  87. <p>Like to read more on Pingdom? They too have a blog.</p>
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  96. <title>Small Business Directory &#8211; Add yours for FREE</title>
  97. <link>https://small-business-services.org/messages/small-business-directory/</link>
  98. <comments>https://small-business-services.org/messages/small-business-directory/#respond</comments>
  100. <dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
  101. <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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  103. <category><![CDATA[small business directory]]></category>
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  107. <description><![CDATA[Its almost 40 days since I started this blog with the intention of making this a useful resource for small businesses to find quality services, products, offers and news that affect their business. I am glad, plans are working better than I expected. Visitors are gradually increasing in numbers and I am receiving dozens of [&#8230;]]]></description>
  108. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its almost 40 days since I started this blog with the intention of making this a useful resource for small businesses to find quality services, products, offers and news that affect their business. I am glad, plans are working better than I expected.</p>
  109. <p>Visitors are gradually increasing in numbers and I am receiving dozens of emails requesting to feature various small business products and services here. I have my own limitations (less time for blogging, etc.) and as a result not in a position to feature all that. Bad news yeah? Don’t worry. Here is an alternative.</p>
  110. <p>I thought of setting up a <a href="https://small-business-services.org/directory/">Small Business directory</a> dedicated to small businesses. Its FREE, simply pick the most relevant category and add yours. I’ll give priority to ones listed (and approved) in the directory when featuring services/products in small-business-services blog.</p>
  111. <p>To preserve the quality of the directory, only 100 listings will be allowed per category. This should give better weight/value for your back link with better search engine optimization.</p>
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  120. <title>BudgetPulse &#8211; Personal Financial Management</title>
  121. <link>https://small-business-services.org/accounting/budgetpulse/</link>
  122. <comments>https://small-business-services.org/accounting/budgetpulse/#respond</comments>
  124. <dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
  125. <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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  128. <category><![CDATA[small business services]]></category>
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  131. <description><![CDATA[What is BudgetPulse? BudgetPulse is a web based money management application which helps you to manage your personal finances. The application is built on principles of simplicity, user friendliness and comprehensiveness. Pricing BudgetPulse is still in it public beta and offered free. But with more features coming up, they might go for a subscription model [&#8230;]]]></description>
  132. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-23" src="https://small-business-services.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BudgetPulse.png" alt="" width="521" height="97" srcset="https://small-business-services.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BudgetPulse.png 521w, https://small-business-services.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BudgetPulse-300x56.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px" /></h3>
  133. <h3>What is BudgetPulse?</h3>
  134. <p>BudgetPulse is a web based money management application which helps you to manage your personal finances. The application is built on principles of simplicity, user friendliness and comprehensiveness.</p>
  135. <h3>Pricing</h3>
  136. <p>BudgetPulse is still in it public beta and offered free. But with more features coming up, they might go for a subscription model as most of the other web based services.</p>
  137. <h3>Why BudgetPulse?</h3>
  138. <blockquote><p>Money management software is usually complicated while online ones are too simple and featureless. BudgetPulse is built on principles of simplicity, user friendliness and comprehensiveness. As the application is easy to use, it is especially useful for people to manage and monitor their financial condition. For security reasons, we do not and have no intention to link direct to users’ account data.</p></blockquote>
  139. <p><em>Source: BudgetPluse.com</em></p>
  140. <h3>Bret’s Note</h3>
  141. <p>This would be an ideal solution for solo entrepreneurs and anyone who’d like to track finances. I can simply agree with the developers of this application on achieving their three main objectives; simplicity, user friendliness and comprehensiveness.</p>
  142. <p>If you have been using a spread sheet or some other way to keep a track of your finances, I am inviting you to try BudgetPulse. You’ll enjoy that for sure.</p>
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  151. <title>ChatStat &#8211; Live Chat and Statistics</title>
  152. <link>https://small-business-services.org/customer-support/chatstat/</link>
  153. <comments>https://small-business-services.org/customer-support/chatstat/#respond</comments>
  155. <dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
  156. <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
  157. <category><![CDATA[Customer Support]]></category>
  158. <category><![CDATA[ChatStat]]></category>
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  160.  
  161. <description><![CDATA[What is ChatStat? ChatStat is a service for web site owners to add live chat and statistical tracking services to their web site(s) for the purpose of performing sales and support chats and monitoring traffic trends over time. Pricing You can sign up for FREE. The free account comes with powerful features though it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
  162. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>What is ChatStat?</h3>
  163. <p>ChatStat is a service for web site owners to add live chat and statistical tracking services to their web site(s) for the purpose of performing sales and support chats and monitoring traffic trends over time.</p>
  164. <h3>Pricing</h3>
  165. <p>You can sign up for FREE. The free account comes with powerful features though it is limited to maximum of 2 chat operators.</p>
  166. <p>However ChatStat also offers unique set of features on demand. You can upgrade your account any time with more powerful features as well as with more chat operators. Each Feature on Demand is subscribed on a Monthly subscription fee that is usually $5 or $10 per month.</p>
  167. <h3>Bret’s Note</h3>
  168. <p>Are you a small business owner trying to market your product or the service? Do you use internet for the above (example: through a website, online marketing campaigns, etc.)? What’s your success rate?</p>
  169. <p>You could be having a superb product or a very attractive service. But if your potential customer doesn’t get it right she will click on the next Google result. But with tools like ChatStat you always stand a chance to convince her before anyone else.</p>
  170. <p>ChatStat is a quality solution packed with features, and I really like the way they have priced their service allowing all essentials FREE for small businesses including two chat operators. Simply download the software, sign up for a ChatStat account and get busy with more clients real time.</p>
  171. <p>If you need any assistance try ChatStat forum.</p>
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  180. <title>Less Accounting</title>
  181. <link>https://small-business-services.org/accounting/less-accounting/</link>
  182. <comments>https://small-business-services.org/accounting/less-accounting/#respond</comments>
  184. <dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
  185. <pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
  186. <category><![CDATA[Accounting]]></category>
  187. <category><![CDATA[Less Accounting]]></category>
  188. <category><![CDATA[small business services]]></category>
  189. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://small-business-services.org/?p=25</guid>
  190.  
  191. <description><![CDATA[What is Less Accounting? Name says it all. Less Accounting is a web based solution to manage your day to day small business accounts with the minimum (or no) knowladge on accounting. Its quite simple (easy to learn and use) yet powerful. Features The key features include, Income and expense tracking Send proposals to clients [&#8230;]]]></description>
  192. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>What is Less Accounting?</h3>
  193. <p>Name says it all. Less Accounting is a web based solution to manage your day to day small business accounts with the minimum (or no) knowladge on accounting. Its quite simple (easy to learn and use) yet powerful.</p>
  194. <h3>Features</h3>
  195. <p>The key features include,</p>
  196. <ul>
  197. <li>Income and expense tracking</li>
  198. <li>Send proposals to clients</li>
  199. <li>Track mileage</li>
  200. <li>Manage your business contacts (employees, clients, etc.)</li>
  201. <li>Sales leads and projects</li>
  202. <li>Invoices and billing, etc.</li>
  203. </ul>
  204. <h3>Pricing</h3>
  205. <p>For now it’s free. Less Accounting is still in it’s beta and they MIGHT go for a subscription based fee structure similar to other hosted (on-demand) applications.</p>
  206. <h3>Bret’s Note</h3>
  207. <p>I created an account for myself and used it for awhile. As in their tag line <em><strong>(Because your job title isn’t Accountant)</strong></em> the Less Accounting team has done a great job to make life easier for small business owners. Just pay a visit and create your account and start experiencing it. You’ll love it!</p>
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