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The new year is coming up quickly, and if you’re a freelancer, you’re likely starting to think of how your income looked in 2011 and how you can increase it in 2012. Hey, even if you’re working a standard 9-5 job, you’re likely thinking of ways you could do some extra work in the evenings or on weekends. You can only be around so much Envato stuff before you start getting an itch to create your own products.
ClientBiller is an app that might help you in that pursuit. It’s a new invoicing app that helps you stay on top of the whole process from sending out estimate to billing your clients to actually getting paid. It’s currently in beta, but already shows promise as a great tool to keep up with your team’s whole billing and invoicing solution.
ClientBiller has a number of great plans priced for every budget and team, but we’ve got something even better. We’ve got an exclusive giveaway of 500 account for free. Just signup for a new account with the link below, and you can get any ClientBiller account for free for 6 months.
Signup for a free ClientBiller account (first 500 user only)
December’s the month of giving, and here at Web.AppStorm, we’ve had an awesome lineup of giveaways so far this month, and still have more to come! So, hurry and get your free ClientBiller account, and then stay tuned for more of our exciting articles and giveaways before the end of the year.
Our contest is now closed, and we’ve sent emails to our 5 lucky winners! Congrats to everyone who won. Thanks for entering, and stay tuned for our next giveaways in the future!
The world of web apps is over-saturated with project management apps. It often seems like the only new apps you hear about are new project management, time tracking, or invoicing apps. There’s only so many ways you can design an app for the same purpose, and so many project managers look like they were copied right from 37signals playbook. Then, the features different project management tools include vary widely, and they’re often designed more for large teams than freelancers.
Solo is a fresh new entry into the project management field that uses a drastically different approach. It’s a fully unique design, with modern, beautiful typography and charts that make the important parts of your work stand out. Plus, it’s designed from the ground-up for freelancers, so you won’t feel out of place working without other employees. Keep reading to see our review of Solo, and get a chance to win one of 5 year subscriptions for Solo!
Looking through your site’s analytics can be insightful and unsettling at the same time. You can see how many people read your latest articles, but then wonder why they didn’t share the link or join in the conversation. Disqus has tried to take on this problem by making comments more social, and building in a new ranks system to let your loyal readers show that they’re staying involved.
We’re going to take a look at some of the newest features in Disqus, and how you can use them to enhance your site’s community. Then, we’ve got 2 Disqus Pro accounts to giveaway to our readers: a 1 year subscription, and a 6 month subscription. Keep reading to learn more about Disqus and how you can win Disqus Pro for your site!
Our giveaway is closed for new entries, but you can vote on the site you want to see with a Disqus Pro subscription on our 2nd round article!
Our contest is now closed, and we’ve sent emails to our 3 lucky winners! Congrats to everyone who won. Thanks for entering, and stay tuned for our next giveaways in the future!
If you’re a freelancer, writing up quotes and proposals for your potential clients can end up being quite a bit of work. Today, we’ve got an interview with the team from Quote Roller, who’ve made it their job to make confusing quotes and proposals a thing of the past. They’ve come to the US, done client work, and are now using their experience to make client work easier for others.
In addition to an exclusive interview with the Quote Roller team, we’ve also got 3 Quote Roller Basic subscriptions to giveaway to our readers! Keep reading to find out more about the team, and how you can get your hands on a free Quote Roller account.
Our contest is now closed, and we’ve sent emails to our 6 lucky winners! Congrats to everyone who won. Thanks for entering, and stay tuned for our next giveaways in the future!
Whether you’re freelancing or working for a firm that bills by the hour, keeping up with the time you’ve spent on projects can be a pain. Then, when it comes time to bill your clients, you’ll have to bring all of the information together and create an invoice. Often, you’ll end up needing to use several apps to do it at all.
Paymo tries to solve this problem by bring together top-notch time tracking and a full-featured invoicing tool in one package. You can keep up with what you’re doing, manage your projects, and send out invoices to your clients, all from the one app. It’s a great way to streamline your business, whether you’re running a creative agency or are freelancing from your local coffee shop. It can even help you out on the go with dedicated iOS and Android apps.
Paymo has a great free account that lets you track time and work on unlimited clients and projects, but you’re limited to producing 3 invoices per month and can only store 50Mb of files. To get the most out of Paymo, their Paymo Basic subscription at $9.99/month gives you all of Paymo’s great features with unlimited invoices and up to 5Gb of file storage! You can get started with the free account, and upgrade anytime.
Best of all, we’ve got 6 free six-month Paymo Basic subscriptions from the Paymo team. Just let us know how you’ll put Paymo to use in the comments below, and we’ll pick 6 random comments as winners when our contest is closed! While you’re waiting to see if you’ve won, you can go ahead and be giving the free version a try to get started integrating it into your workflow.
Please Note: Envato staff or people who have written more than two articles or tutorials for AppStorm are ineligible to enter.
We’ll announce our winners after the contest is closed midnight Wednesday, October 26, 2011, so be sure to get your comments in quick. And as always, stay tuned for our future giveaways!
Our contest is now closed, and we’ve sent our free Pro accounts to 10 lucky winners after we got some more codes from the Penzu team! Congrats to everyone who won. Thanks for entering, and stay tuned for our next giveaways in the future!
Life is simply too short. By the time you’ve taken pictures to share on Instagram, tweeted about something someone said, checked-in your location on a dozen services, and added yet another friend on Facebook, you don’t have any time to actually enjoy what’s going on, much less really remember it yourself. Sometimes, it seems that we’re living a fake life just so we can share with others online.
A great way to do this is with a journal. Paper journals are nice, but they can be hard to keep up with. And digital journals can be difficult to use, and often don’t work on all of your devices. One of our favorite journal apps is Penzu, an online journal that’s beautiful and has a ton of awesome features to make journaling even easier.
Penzu is totally free, but it’s got some great extra features if you have a Pro account. With a Pro account, you can send in journal entries via email, see versions of your writing, go mobile with rich mobile apps, and more. It normally costs $19 a year, but we’ve got 3 free Pro accounts from the Penzu team for our readers.
Want to take advantage of Penzu’s best features? Just leave a comment here and let us know how you’ll put the extra Penzu Pro features to use. We’ll select 3 random comments as winners that can get a full Penzu Pro account for free!
Please Note: Envato staff or people who have written more than two articles or tutorials for AppStorm are ineligible to enter.
We’ll announce our winners after the contest is closed midnight Friday, October 7 (Update: Closing midnight Thursday, October 8 CST), 2011, so be sure to get your comments in quick. And as always, stay tuned for our future giveaways!
Our contest is now closed, and the winners are Lee, Jeff P, and creatix. Congrats! Thanks for commenting, and stay tuned for more giveaways in the future!
Most of us have to send way more emails than we’d like to. No matter what your job is, you likely feel like your job is sending emails. Worst thing is, often the emails you send are very similar to ones you’ve already sent.
That’s where Tout app comes in. It lets you save the emails you’d send the most, then tweak them for your audience. Better yet, you can compare the performance of each message, to see what works the best. Then, you can integrate it with your CRM system so you’ll keep up with your clients and customers easier than ever. It’s designed to save you more time with email, and help you do the work you actually enjoy doing.
Our friends at AppSumo have a special running today to let you save time with Tout easier than ever. Today only, you can get an annual Tout premium plan for just $69, a 80% savings. Even better, we’ve got 3 annual Tout premium plans to giveaway to our readers for free from AppSumo. Just leave a comment to let us know how you’ll put it to use, and we’ll pick 3 winners at random.
Please Note: Envato staff or people who have written more than two articles or tutorials for AppStorm are ineligible to enter.
We’ll announce our winners after the contest is closed Midnight tonight (Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 11:59PM CST), so be sure to get your comments in quick. And as always, stay tuned for our future giveaways!
Our contest is now closed, and the winners are Carlo Laitano, Justin Roselt, and Nûmenor. Congrats! Thanks for commenting, and stay tuned for more giveaways in the future!
Whether you’re a freelance designer or a developer running a new startup, there’s one thing that’s always frustrating: billing. Sending out invoices and making sure their paid on time can be one of the more irritating tasks, especially when you’d rather be designing or coding an awesome new web app.
Blinksale is one of the most popular invoicing web apps. Unlike most invoicing apps, they only have one flat fee for unlimited invoices to unlimited clients. Then, with their new Blinkpay service, you can accept credit card payments directly without having to use PayPal or other payment systems. Just create your invoices, and Blinksale can take care of the rest.
We’ve reviewed Blinksale in the past, and had a chance to interview their team earlier this year. Now, we’ve got a special treat for our readers: 3 free Blinksale Unlimited subscriptions from the Blinksale team!
If you’d like to win one of the subscriptions, just follow @WebAppStorm and @Blinksale on Twitter, then tweet:
Enter to win a free @Blinksale Unlimited account from @WebAppStorm!
Or, simply click the button below to do it in two clicks:
Then, come back here, and leave a comment with a link to your Tweet. The contest will be open until midnight Friday CST, August 5th, 2011. Be sure to hurry and get your entry in, and you just might get to do your invoicing for free this year!
Please Note: Envato staff or people who have written more than two articles or tutorials for AppStorm are ineligible to enter.
Our contest is now closed, and the winner is James Eisenlohr. Congrats! Thanks for commenting, and stay tuned for more giveaways in the future!
Conventional wisdom would say that web apps generally are less feature-full than their native app counterparts. Google Docs is less polished than iWork or Microsoft Office 2010, but that’s just to be expected. And on mobile browsers and tablets, many web apps are much harder to use than native apps, but hey, it’s just a web app. You can’t expect so much, right?
LucidChart is one app that’s proving the conventional wisdom wrong. They’ve created a web app that runs faster and smoother than many desktop apps. Visio can drive you insane after using it for a few minutes, but we were very impressed at how nice LucidChart was at creating diagrams and more when we first reviewed it. Since then, the developers haven’t rested on their laurals. Instead, they’ve added a Visio file importer, offline support, and amazing integration with the iPad that lets you draw intricate diagrams quicker than ever.
Keep reading for a peek at the new features, and a chance to win a free year of LucidChart Professional! (more…)
Our contest is now closed, and the winners are Rasmus Andersen, Alex, Kevin O’Connor, Eric Brynsvold, and John. Congrats! Thanks for commenting, and stay tuned for more giveaways in the future!
Sometimes it seems like it can be more difficult to run the business end of a job than to actually do the job. Keeping up with your expenses, rates and services, clients, and invoices can be a full time job in itself. The good news is, there are many great apps that can help you keep track of your invoices and the info you need for them, so you won’t have to worry about it.
One great invoicing app we’ve reviewed is Invoicera. Invoicera lets you bring your clients, services, products, and more together in a simple invoicing app, so you’ll spend less time billing and more time getting your work done. It’s a handy tool for freelancers and businesses of any size.
One of Invoicera’s best benefits is its reasonable prices for the hosted application, so you can scale your account as your business grows. Or, if you’d rather keep your invoicing data on your own servers, Invoicera recently launched a new self-hosted version of Invoicera. This lets you take advantage of Invoicera’s app while still keeping your billing data internal.
Best of all, we’ve got 5 free 6 month Invoicera Business accounts to giveaway to our readers. With this, you’ll be able to create unlimited invoices for unlimited clients with up to 4 other people in your team. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment below and let us know how you’d put an Invoicera account to use in your business. The contest will close at midnight CST on Tuesday, June 21, 2011, so make sure to get your comment in quickly!
Please Note: Envato staff or people who have written more than two articles or tutorials for AppStorm are ineligible to enter.
