Top 7 Business apps for Professionals

Top 7 Business apps for Professionals

Want to manage your business properly?

Today, you manage many things at a time with a good smartphone or IPhone in your hand, then why not business management? Yes, you can better manage your small business with these smart revolutionary apps in your pocket.

Business apps for Professionals

Business apps for Professionals

These cool business apps assist you in your business.

Zendesk

It is a cloud-based customer service solution app. It helps its users to improve customer satisfaction and lowering the costs at the same time. It has got great self-service tools which are quite easy to use. Also, it offers one on one customer support in it. You can get a trail of the app for free and then get it if you like.

ConcurMobile

This free app allows its users to create detailed expenses report easily. This app is specifically designed for small businesses whose employees travel quite frequently. With this app, you can track travel expenses of your employees and also can book hotels and flights for them. You can link your credit card with this app for automatic transactions once you approve the travel expenses.

Parature for Facebook

Parature allows you to link a dedicated 24*7 customer service center along with your business page on Facebook. This app is cloud-based software which offers you with Parature’s self-service knowledge base to the Ticket support system and chat. Its cost varies with the number of clients attached with your business.

QuickOffice

If you want to quickly view your business documents, then this is the best app for you. With QuickOffice in your mobile phone or tablet, you can open, edit and save your office documents very easily.

Shoeboxed

Shoeboxed is a free expense tracking app which allows its users to capture receipts and then file them for reimbursement. If you are falling short of time, then you can mail all the receipts to the company and they will input the receipts for you. And, at the same time you will get detail of your expenses in the form of a digital file.

Agenda

As soon as you get up in the morning, you can view the agenda of the day with this Agenda app in your phone. This is a smart app which will make its own guesses for the things that you wish to do or that you add into your agenda. Thus, this app will assist you to plan your day in an organized manner.

Pocket

Pocket is a great app for collecting the things of your taste or related to your business. Whether it is a blog post, an article, images or anything related to your work, it will be saved in this app so that you can read them whenever you find time.

Digital India – A Blessing

Digital India – A Blessing

A plan to make INDIA a Digital Nation by The Narendra Modi – Prime Minister of India by the end of year 2019.

Aim: This campaign aims to create a digitally empowered nation and knowledge economy.

Vision: The Digital India campaign is centered on 3 key areas rendering the Department of Information Technology and Electronics. These are:

  • Providing digital infrastructure as utility to common man
  • Providing governance and services as per demand
  • Empowering the Indian citizens digitally

This includes internet as a care utility, mobile phones and bank accounts for all the citizens so that they can make transactions electronically, enabling cashless services in real time. Also this includes universally accessible credentials of every citizen of India through digital lockers.

Listed below are the nine pillars of Digital India:

  1. Public internet access
  2. Broadband highways
  3. E-governance
  4. eKranti
  5. Jobs in IT
  6. Early harvest
  7. Electronics manufacturing
  8. Knowledge and information for every citizen
  9. Universally accessible phones

To make this campaign a reality, The Government has started working on it. Just take a look what has been done till date to make India a Digital Nation:

  1. in: According to the PM, e-governance is the need of the hour. For this, mygov.in named website has been launched on 26/07/2014 so that each and every citizen of India may participate in its governance.
  2. gov.in: The government employees of India are known for their lazy work style. With this website, one can track the government employee attendance online with the help of newly installed Biometric Attendance System.
  3. New e-ticketing platform: The newly launched IRCTC website is fully loaded with enhanced features for booking capacity of 7,200 tickets/ minute. This will help to book tickets easily in no time.

Few applications have also n=been launched to make Digital India program a reality. Few are listed below:

  • IRCTC connect: This app allows its user to book tickets, check the reservations, train routes and many more.
  • Karnataka Mobile governance: The users of this app can pay bills, property tax, apply for driving licenses and fill IT returns etc.
  • Incredible India: This app focusses on tourism of India and one can easily access the information on Ministry of Tourism.

Apart from these apps the government is has started .bharat as a domain to enhance the reach of internet to every nook and corner of the country.

 

However, the Indian Government has started many new projects to empower the Nation digitally but still this is a very long way and there are many challenges in the road of success of this ‘Digital India Program’.

5 – Best WordPress plugins for Membership sites

5 – Best WordPress plugins for Membership sites

Flourish your online community with these WordPress plugins!

Across the Internet, there are many membership websites that are a good source of recurring income for their owners. WordPress, no doubt has made this possible with its different and powerful plugins. Without hiring a professional, you can use them with an ease and earn money.

In this post, I will introduce you with some best free and paid powerful WordPress plugins:

  1. S2 Member:

If you are looking to turn your WordPress site into a membership website then S2 Member plugin is the best option for you. This plugin will do the same within an hour. As soon as you install this plugin, you get a ‘quick start’ guide to learn the basics for setting up the membership option. You can easily set your membership levels for your website which will allow you to designate the parts of your website to different member levels.

Main features of S2 Member

  1. PayPal support
  2. Manual account creation support
  3. Content restriction support
  4. Membership levels and capabilities customization
  5. Multisite support
  6. Buddypress and bbpress compatibility

 

  1. DAP (Digital Access Pad):

If you are looking for a complete solution to create membership websites with WordPress and it was in the market from 2008. Dap has been updating its plugins and that’s why it is still hot potato. With DAP, you can create a secure as well as functional membership site and that too very easily.

Main features of DAP

  1. Content protection
  2. 2-tier affiliate system
  3. Built in auto responder
  4. Allows emailing and job queuing
  5. Free installation
  6. RSS feeds security

 

  1. Optimizer Member:

Optimizer plugin is the best one to create high converting sales pages, webinar pages, landing pages and membership sites etc. Though this plugin does not offer you many features but it has got some most interesting and important functionality.

Main features of Optimizer Member

  1. Download restrictions
  2. Own coupon codes
  3. Customization of membership levels
  4. ShareASale and other tracking solution integrationpayment gateways
  5. Supports PayPal, Clickbank and other payment gateways

 

  1. Member Mouse:

This plugin offers you with some default pages like home page, account page, checkout page etc. that you may need to use the membership. This plugin is loaded with features. Your customers can manage their accounts by their own and thus saving your time.

Main features of Member Mouse

  1. Content protection
  2. Trial offers and coupons of discount
  3. Lock out members for shared logins
  4. Payment handling
  5. Supports many
  6. Supports API
  7. iDevAffiliate integration

 

  1. Magic members:

Magic Members is the most popular plugin with loads of features. This plugin offers 3 bonuses, social icons. It has got an amazing security feature which stops multiple people from logging into a single account.

Main features of Magic members

  1. Membership levels
  2. Supports Amazon S3
  3. Payment gateways support
  4. Pay per post access
  5. Import and export options
Net Neutrality- Internet Freedom in India

Net Neutrality- Internet Freedom in India

Why to defend internet freedom in India?

What is this term “Net neutrality?

In simple words, it is a principle according to which the internet service providers should enable the access to all the applications and content regardless of the source. And also they should not block or favor particular websites or products.

Due to this principle, in India, people can have access to internet and gain knowledge freely. They have the freedom of speech and freedom to use internet. As every internet customer has equal right to access the lawful websites and services without any discrimination.

How can Net Neutrality be violated?

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is planning to allow the telecom companies like Airtel, Vodafone etc. to block websites and some other services or applications for extorting more and more money from customers. And if this happens, this would be an extreme violation of this principle, Net Neutrality.

Why Net Neutrality should not be violated?

Now when you know what the term Net Neutrality means and how TRAI is planning to violate this. Also, Airtel has come up with Zero Marketing Platform. According to this, the Airtel users can use and access those websites or applications (tied -up with Airtel) at zero data charges.

The debate on Net Neutrality has turned out to be a fight against common Indian citizen and big telecom companies. In a democratic country like India it is quite unfair to be a bit ambitious for these big telecom companies. As they only want to make money at any cost and this is not only unfair but also not-ethical for the betterment of the country.

If Net Neutrality is being violated, there will be Internet Discrimination in India. According to Airtel’s Zero marketing platform, one cannot access the websites or applications which will not be allowed by the company.

At the same time, this may have negative impact on startups. Since the country like India, many of the startup businesses may depend on internet only for their sales. And if this freedom of internet gets violated, these starters may get discouraged.

So, in a democratic and developing country like India, Internet access should not be under these private companies so that each and every citizen can enjoy the freedom of speech and freedom of using internet.

7-Free and responsive WordPress Themes!

7-Free and responsive WordPress Themes!

Build a dazzling website using these WordPress themes!

wordpress themes

The most responsive and preferred platform for website development these days is no doubt….WordPress! It has got some amazing features, plugins and themes which help you to design a spectacular website for you. WordPress offers exceptionally responsive and easy to use themes. These themes help you to create your website whether it is for blog, personal, professional or portfolio.

Listed below are some finest free of cost WordPress themes:

  1. Sparkling: The design of this theme is based on latest bootstrap technology. It provides your website with an eye catchy and modern look. It has got very sharp design on mobile devices. It offers you with a slider, with which you can highlight your photos or some other creative content in your website. Also it has gosome powerful plugins like Gravity forms, Contact Form 7 etc.

Sparkling-WordPress-Theme

  1. Optimizer: With this theme, you can customize your website with optimum satisfaction. This theme lets you to customize every single element of your website and that too very easily. It is also compatible with your mobile phones. This theme is quite responsive and is retina ready by default. Optimizer theme offers you many features for website development, be it blogging, portfolio or services website.

optimizer-theme

  1. Future-Lite: A multipurpose theme, full of features is a perfect one for creative websites like portfolios or businesses. It has got very responsive layout and offers you great visibility in any of the device you use. This theme looks sharp on devices with high resolution and is also retina ready. It offers you with custom menu, Sidebar widget, theme options, featured image and pagination etc.

future lite

  1. Dazzling: A responsive and mobile friendly theme, based on Bootstrap 3 technology. It offers you a full screen slider which is optional and is useful to design creative websites. With its mint green accent colors, it gives a soothing and refreshing touch to your eyes. It has gort some popular plugins like Jetpack, WordPress SEO etc. to enhance its utility.

Dazzling theme

  1. Travelify: This theme offers a sleek and trendy look to your website. This theme is quite competent with some first grade premium WordPress themes. Travelify is fully loaded with pixel-perfect design, slider, custom page and many more features. You can alter your website using this theme with different theme aspects. The theme is best suited for a person who loves to travel and writes blogs on it.

travelify theme

  1. Longform: This theme is a blessing for those who love to tell stories. It is quite compatible with powerful plugin named Aesop Story Engine. It offers you with beautiful styles with no extra configuration or code snippets. This theme is quite easy and powerful to use.

Longform theme

  1. Moesia: If you are looking forward to build a website for your business purpose, this theme offers you with heaps of inbuilt features. In this theme, you can choose from 11 built in blocks and design your home page as you want. Also it offers you with a feature to add a background image for your homepage block. This theme is fully loaded with font styles, animation effects, layouts for your blog page etc.

moesia theme