Category: Product Reviews (Page 3 of 7)

On The Job by Stunt Software is an excellent way to track your time and expenses, as well as bill your clients by quickly creating professional invoices.

The interface is straightforward and easy to learn. There’s no need for help files. The dialogues and buttons are all clearly labelled. Even though the interface isn’t customizable, you can change things like date formats, deletion confirmation and timer animation.

Invoicing is simple, and you can restrict it to a single job, client and date range. The built-in templates are well crafted, and the editor enables you to create your own. Outstanding invoices are trackable via the sidebar and overdue ones are flagged. Read More...

Social Strategi is a Visual Content Agency known for its signature Infographics. Their Mantra is ‘Social Nirvana’ through Visual Content.

They help Startups tackle Marketing challenges of Growth Hacking, Demand Generation and Customer acquisition through Visual Content like Visual Pitch Decks, Infographic Pitch Decks, Infographics, Explainer Videos, Demand Generation eBooks and Guides, Presentations, etc. Read More...

Every so often, we like to review new software and services that are particularly useful.  One that we discovered recently is SensorTower, a keyword based app ranking tracker.

As you may know, we have a number of apps in the App Store and on Google Play, and we were manually checking each app’s rankings. This is a real pain. Also, it’s difficult to find good keywords that perform well. That’s why when we discovered SensorTower, we were thrilled. It has saved us a ton of time.

First off, SensorTower offers an efficient keyword research tool, which gives you all the information in a single window. After you collect a bunch of keywords, you can easily plug them into the search box and see how they perform. Some keywords are extremely competitive, with thousands of apps trying get ranked under them. Others have far fewer apps but much less traffic. The trick is finding a keyword that has a reasonable amount of traffic but isn’t overly competitive. Read More...

It’s been a year to the day since we reivewed TwistedWave, and I’m happy to say that they just came out with a brand new version of their audio editor that is better than ever.

New Features include…

• The sample rate conversions are done with SoX one of the best available implementations available.
• Normalizing to a target RMS, LUFS or true peak value, in addition to the peak value.
• Support for the retina display.
• Support for the 32-bit floating point codec in the WAV and AIFC files.
• Support for the “AAC High Efficiency” compression

As you know, we’re always looking for new tools that make a founder’s life easier. Well, TwistedWave is a gem.  It’s an easy-to-use and powerful audio editor. The interface is simple enough for any non-techie to understand but powerful enough for professional sound editors.   Whether you’re tweaking sounds for your new marketing video or preparing a demo for a trade show, TwistedWave makes it easy to manipulate and edit sounds. Read More...

Lyne Noella

by Lyne Noella, Director of Sales and Marketing at Speechpad

If your business — or job — depends on lead generation, you know that quality content is crucial for getting the attention of prospects, the media, partners, talent, and even existing customers via search engine optimization. The challenge is to shed an avalanche of discoverable content over the Internet to get the attention of Google, Yahoo and other search engines. What you may not realize is that you could be sitting on a goldmine. If you are creating videos, webinars, podcasts or recorded communications of any kind, you can create discoverable, organic content with the help of a transcription service for posting and discovery on your Internet sites. Read More...

Almost every startup needs a great video, but creating a sexy video can get expensive. That’s why I was so excited when I found out about Sparkol.

Sparkol VideoScribe is pretty amazing. It’s so brain-dead simple to use that I could figure it out on the fly. I didn’t have to study a manual or struggle with complex menus.

VideoScribe adopts the whiteboard-style animation that’s so popular these days, allowing users (like me) to create slick looking business videos in minutes, not hours or days. Look at what I created in just 30 minutes… Read More...

This month, as part of our Startup Tools series, we’re covering Visual Website Optimizer.

Visual Website Optimizer makes it easy to A/B test your site. Why should you care about A/B testing? A/B testing (sometimes called split testing) is comparing two versions of a web page to see which one performs best. You can compare two web pages by showing the two variants (let’s call them A and B) to visitors at the same time. Then you can measure what the visitors do on the site with heat maps and conversion goals.

All websites have goals. News sites need users to click on their ads, ecommerce sites need users to buy products, blogs want users to read more, etc. Every website wants visitors converting from just visitors to something else. The rate at which a website is able to do this is the “conversion rate”. Measuring the performance of a variation (A or B) means measuring the rate at which it converts visitors to goal achievers. Read More...

Steve Hoffman

by Steve Hoffman, Cofounder of Founders Space

This week’s Startup Spotlight is shining on GoAnimate. Read More...

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