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There are more than 50,000 Android Apps are available. So, how do you find out which ones you need? Don’t worry, we have found them out for you.

These five business apps for Android phones are very useful for your business. They provide unique and very useful features for businesses. These apps can help you to do more with your mobile phone running on Android. You can get adequate functionality in situations like when you are waiting for your car, train or flight etc.

1. DataViz Documents to Go: Free Reader, $14.99 full version

This is a mobile office suite. This can be a handy addition to your Smartphone. Documents to Go allows you to view Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF files on your Android device with the free version. With the paid version, you can view, edit, and create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files and view Adobe PDF files.

So, you can make changes to your documents and proposals, slideshow, spreadsheet on the go. It’s possible to access your files and modify them even when you are in the elevator or taking the escalators or grabbing a coffee at Starbucks.

Before a big meeting with your client or even with your boss, you can change the contents within seconds. You can also send them as attachments in a mail.

2. PWN Document Scanner: Free trial, $3.98 full version

Suppose you are in a meeting and you need a few copies of the documents or you needed to have the soft copy of something on the whiteboard. Your laptop cannot scan documents. What do you do|? DO you run to the photocopier downstairs for getting the pages photocopied? No.

There is an Android app that can help you. Document Scanner can scan any document or photo with your phone’s camera. It will allow you to save it, convert it to a PDF, then e-mail it or upload it to Google Docs for sharing and storage.

You can scan as many numbers of documents you want. And, if you’re at a conference or seminar where all the notes are posted on a whiteboard, you can also scan the board and save the notes on your phone.

3. Big in Japan ShopSavvy 3.5.5: Free

If you are looking for the best deals on computer equipment, communications products, office supplies, office furniture, and even paper consumables, then this app can save you lots of time.

You just need to use the phone’s camera to scan the barcode (or manually enter the barcode numbers on your keypad) of the products you need. ShopSavvy will take those barcodes and will search local and online vendors for the best prices. You can view the reviews of the products ShopSavvy recommends. You can order directly from your Smartphone. You can even create price alerts that ping you when the products go on sale.

4. Flaviu Negrean Talk to Me: Free

If your business deals with people of different countries (employees, clients, consultants) and you need to use different languages with them and you do not know these languages, then it may create a problem for you. It’s not possible to deal with clients without knowing the language they understand.

One Android app can help you here. Try a translator application such as Talk To Me. This app uses Google Voice Recognition, Translate, and Text-to-Speech to translate among English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, and Japanese.

You can simply speak into the phone and the phone talks back in the selected language. If you have this app, you do not need to attend any language class, buy Rosetta Stone languages teaching applications; do not have to take a dictionary with you all the time.

5. Google Voice: Free, except for international calls

You can get a single phone number and forward all your phones–home, work, cell, and others–to the single Google phone number.  You can manage the single phone number through a web-based application similar to Gmail.

Google Voice could save companies and their customers’ time and effort, and it’s free for all domestic calls. It can save lots of money. International calls are charged according to a fee structure on the Google Voice website.

How to use it?

You can get a single Google phone number. Give your phone numbers to your clients, associates, and employee and forward them all to your Google phone number. When someone calls you, you can pick the call from the Google phone number.

Any voicemails that you get are transcribed to text and sent to your e-mail address. You can also listen to voicemail before answering the phone, host conference calling, call screening, call blocking annoying telemarketers, and check call history.

You also get the Mobile App, which will reduce mobile phone service costs as you will need to pay to send and receive text messages. It’s free.  Check Google Voice site for more information about this application.

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Creating a great website and promoting your business via search engine optimization and social media websites can be done in 8 steps

1. Learn how to build a basic website with freeware. You can build a basic website without spending anything. There are different freeware available, which can be used in building a website. If you just buy a domain for a few dollars, you can start your own website within hours. The end, open source frameworks like WordPress can be used to create a website without the need to know HTML, CSS or any other code. With WordPress, you can create a website within minutes. It offers all the necessary tools and widgets and chance to customize and optimize your website for users. You can upload your name, business name, photos, and content in your website with just a few clicks.

2. Set up the road signs on the information highway. Do you remember seeing numerous billboards when you travel on a superhighway? In the same manner, you have to set up signs that will show and tell about your business. SEO can be the tool to set up such signs and billboards for your customers.

After some time, when you make your website public, you can find yourself in the Internet by searching using an Internet search engine such as Google or Yahoo. You will definitely feel good when you see yourself in a Google search. But, you do not appear in the first few pages in Google initially and people do not search beyond the first two pages in Google search results. SEO can be the answer here. Using SEO, you can reach the first one or two pages in Google search for a particular keyword. Search Engine Optimization or SEO drives your business to the top of the search engine using strategies, Tactics and techniques.

Start with the domain name. However, this step should come before you buy the domain and make your website public. Get a keyword rich domain if possible. Use good keywords in the title of the page as well as in the heading. Scatter different keywords in your content. Always use variations of the keyword phrase. Long tail keywords are better than shorter keywords.

3. Drive more traffic to your site. Now, this is the time to drive as much as traffic possible. Install a software or a tool that can tell you the number of visitors to your site every day. There are several such free web analytics tools are available today, which you can install with a click. I use StatePress. You can also try site meterweb analytics. My StatePress tool tells me about traffic, number of visitors, their locations, keywords they have used and other necessary details.

Provide your e-mail address and other contact details, so that customers can connect to your whenever they want.

Build links back to your site to show the prospects what you do and how you can help them. Link building not only helps in getting traffic but also helps in search engine optimization.

4. Blog about your passion, and do it consistently. Along with your business and website, start a blog. A Blog is a very common, popular and effective medium to connect with customers. Your blog can be your daily Journal, the platform to meet customers, talk to them, answer their queries and connect to them.

You can create a free blog or a blog that you own personally. Use blogger or wordpress. Creating a blog that you own does not cost you much. Again, you can use WordPress for creating your own blog, which will be controlled by you. You will just need a few clicks to get started on your blog.

Update your blog frequently and consistently so that your customers and readers know when to expect something new from you and they do not get disappointed because of your old content on the blog. It is the way to create loyal readers, and thereby loyal customers.

5. Get connected through social media sites. Use social media to connect to your customers and also the contemporary marketers. This is a very effective and easy way to connect to your customers. Social media also allow you to connect to other marketers in your niche or related fields. Use Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other social media sites to remain connected all the time.

These media sites can take your blog post to your customers and you and marketer friends. These are the best places on the web, which can get you huge exposure to unlimited amount of traffic.

6. Stay in Touch. Be helpful, and give simple but useful answers. Always stay in touch with your friends, customers and colleagues. Staying in touch help people to remember you all the time. Offer your help in any manner you can. Extend your helping hand to customers and friends. Offer them solutions and answers to their problems and questions. This is the way to become popular and indispensable.

7. Update or redesign your original website to include tantalizing new features. Redesign your original website after some time. Also, keep your website updated all the time. If a customer visits your website and finds the same content all the time, he will not come back to your website again. Create sensational and interesting content, which people would love to talk about

Adding videos to your website can do wonders. Use different tools like animoto.com, JingProject.com and ScreenToaster.com to create videos and to upload them to YouTube. You can create videos about anything you like till it is useful to your customers.

8. Commit to providing excellent customer service. Now, you will see this part in any other classic marketing book or website. Customer service is the key to a successful business. If you have a very good customer service, you can definitely expect your customers to come back to you for your products and services. Excellent customer service will elevate your business to a new height. Pay attention to your customers and what they are talking about. Listen more and speak less. Respond to their questions, requests and expectations. And one more thing-do follow-up.

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Ok, let’s continue from the last two discussions about membership sites. For creating a membership site with content, you will need content for it. What about the content you want to use? Many of the work from home businessmen believe that you need to create all the content yourself? Is it true that you will have to create all the content? Is it good for you?

Now here lies the problem. There is a myth that creating content is very hard and it takes lots of time. So you fear that a membership site will eat up all your free time. But the reality may be totally opposite. However, for few people who do not know how to do it, the myth may appear true. But for intelligent people like you it may not at all be hard.

Content creation

• Content creation may not take lots of your time. How?
• You can get already created content
• You can speed up the process of content creation
• You can outsource content creation and so can save your time. You just need to go through it and manage it
• You do not have to be an expert to create content

Content creation can be easy because you do not have to be an expert in any niche to create content for it. You can simple get an expert to write it for you. There are hundreds of such experts available with great content and they would love to share that content with you. We will talk about how to get the content from such experts.

Some examples of easy and fast content creation

You will find many membership sites which will only provide interviews with other Internet Marketers. You get only one interview every month. How much time dos it take to create an interview? How much time dos it take to create an interview? An interview will take one hour at most. Then you need to edit it and finalize it and then upload to your site. Maximum 3-4 hours! So, this is the amount work some membership sites do every month. Three to four hours every month. Simple?

This shows how simple it can be. A membership site does not mean that you need to have a big , great site with reports, software, forums, discussion etc. You ca create simple membership sites which will earn you a good income. You can create millions of sites. There is plenty of good and premium quality content available. We will help you to find out the content you need.

Now let’s see how you can work less, work smart and earn lots of money-

First let me tell you that you can create content yourself. But for that you need to be an expert at that niche. You already may be an expert. Then there is no problem. But suppose you are not an expert, then it will hard for you. So, let’s keep aside the idea of creating content yourself.  

The money is in marketing content not in creation. Most of the authors do not have this marketing idea. So we can use a model here -”Content Publish Model.”

Content Publish Model

Use the Content Publish Model to market content.

1. You can hire an expert to write the content for you

2. You can partner with an expert to create content for you or you can sell the content he has created.

While choosing an expert or partner make sure he has lots of experience and expertise in the field. Talented and proven experts will help you do it easily. You can hire such experts for dirt cheap. If you partner with them, then you can give them a share of the sales. It is up to you to decide the type of association you want.

Content Publish Model – Republishing Existing Content

You know there are millions of existing content which you can republish without any expense. There are free content which are republishable. We will discuss it in details in another post. Just look around and you will find millions of such free content which you will be able to republish.

One more point- You can publish your own content. If you create content then you can publish your own content. Now here even though you publish your own content, but you will need to have the mindset of a publisher and not an author. If you have a publisher mindset, then you will be able to see what your content worth is.

As a publisher (whether it’s your own content of someone else’s) you will have the focus on marketing the content which is more important because without marketing even good content has no value. Have you heard of SEO Book by Aaron Wall, one of the best and most popular books on SEO? The book is good but the marketing is even better. There may be hundreds of such books, but no one is able to market it like Aaron. Content will not have any real value unless it is marketed well.

Content Publish Model is replicable

The best thing about Content Publish Model is that you can replicate it. Once you succeed with it in any niche, you can replicate it in other niche. You can use it in unlimited niche markets. You do not have to be an expert at anything, you do not have to learn anything reading through books, notes, reports and understand any new niche. You can simply find experts in any niche and start marketing their stuff and thereby earn money from your efforts. This is a quick way to start a membership site business for you. Content Publish Model offers you the opportunity to start your own membership sites even though you do not have your own content.

Types of Content for Your Membership Sites

There are different types of content that you can provide with your membership sites. You need to add value to your site to get people to buy it. Here we list out some of the content models that are offered by different membership sites-

1. Single type of content like articles, audios or videos

2. A bunch of stuff together for the members

But remember that whatever you chose, you need to offer something that has got real value.

Your content should be in a format which is helpful to the members. Your members need something that they can use. If they are not able to implement the ides, then they will surely leave your site for something different and usable. If members try to use your ides and get frustrated, then they will leave you. So, it is very important to offer content which the members need.

Simple content that is simplest to create has the highest value to your members.

So, instead of offering them a huge bunch of content, break your content into small groups, provide checklist if possible. Make sure your course or content has actionable points and members are able to see the actions they need to take to fulfill the content promise and their needs. Do not overload your members. Information overload is dangerous for your membership sites. Some of the useful elements of your content can be -

Checklists, spreadsheets, templates and lists.

These are easy to create, takes lesser time and they save many hours of your members. Members can clearly see the works to be done and they can also gain the happiness of completing small tasks.

So you need to provide QUALITY CONTENT in a SIMPLE FORMAT so as to get more members and retain them. Such content save time and time is money. Members will love your content which is useful, of good quality, actionable and which save them time. It will bring in more and more members and more and more money for you.

Want to know more? Want to know how you can create your own membership site using other people’s content? Want to discover how you can create your own automated niche membership sites using free content then continue reading.

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Do you create PowerPoint presentation? Probably you did for your boss and friends or for yourself. But did you earn any money doing it? Do you know you can earn money by selling your power point presentations?

Check Gazhoo and find out that you can earn money from your presentations. Gazhoo is a content marketplace. It allows you to upload your presentations, templates, business forms and other such things online. You can also upload term papers, admission essays, reports etc. You can upload documents that you do not need and want to throw out. You can upload such documents from trash and earn money by selling them online.

How do you earn money from your old stuff?

First you upload your old documents. When someone downloads your documents, then you earn money from it. Whatever documents you have, you can upload them to Gazhoo. Every time someone downloads your documents, you earn money. The more downloads you get, the more money you earn.

Potential Earnings and Mode of Payment

You can se the price of the documents you sell. The price may range from $1 to $100.00. Gazhoo takes a 30% share of your total gross sales. It deducts the commission from your earnings. It pays the earnings through PayPal.

Open an account with PayPal before joining Gazhoo

Let me remind you one thing- it may not be a great source of online income in the initial stage. However it can be a great source once you establish your name. Gazhoo reports that one of the users earned $9,500 for selling copies of eight documents.

Check out Gazhoo

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When I started by own blog, I did not know which host to use for hosting my blog. I checked a lot of hosting service providers before settling for Bluehost.

One of the main reasons why I settled for Bluehost was because it offered one click blogging platform installation including WordPress and Blogger. As a novice this was the best solution for me because I am not that good in coding. So I did not know how to install and activate it, how to tweak the features to suit me and my needs.  There are some other benefits and features of Bluehost-

Bluehost comes with Cpanel. You can install the latest version of WordPress in a click using Fantastico which is present in the Cpanel. When you need to upgrade to the next version of WordPress, it’s very simple. You do not have to download the new version and then upload to your hosting account. You can upgrade to the new version of WordPress in a click.

I am listing all the features here for people who want the technical specifications

Blue Host Offers-:

Free Domain Name
Site Promotion Package
Free eCommerce/Cart
Free Blog, Forum, Board
Top Notch 24/7 Support
$25 Free Yahoo Credits
$50 Free Google Credits

Bluehost  provides the following -

UNLIMITED Hosting Space
UNLIMITED File Transfer
Host UNLIMITED Domains!!!
2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
2000/2002 Front Page Extensions
Free Domain Forever!
Free Site Builder
24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support

I paid them the fee and bought a domain. Then I clicked on the WordPress installation and it installed WordPress in one click. All my worries solved in one click. That’s good I thought.

When I upgrade to a new version of WordPress even today, I simply click on the new version and Bluehost updates to new version of WordPress. It saves my time.

Plugins

You would know a few plugins in our blogs- Work Home Money and Take A Plunge

WordPress has a long list of plugins and so I do not need to download, tweak and add any coding anywhere in my pages. It’s difficult to find the appropriate place in the WordPress themes because they are not like a normal website. Now I simply upload the plug in using “Fantastico” option of Bluehost and within minutes new features are added to our blogs. THAT”S GREAT.

While trying to change some of the codes in this blog, I lost some of them and the browser started showing “Page not found” message. I contacted Bluehost and through chat option let one of their technical member know about it. Within minutes he restored the site to normal. I specially liked it because in many so called good web hosting service providers do not offer very good support to their customers.

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I hope the way Bluehost helped me to start my blogging, it will also help all the new and experienced bloggers in future. In case you need any help, let me know. Other than Bluehost I used Hostgator and GoDaddy. If you know about other good hosting service providers, let me know.

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