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We’d like to say a big thanks to our October Web.AppStorm weekly sponsors. We’ve had a number of great apps sponsor our site so far, and we’re very excited to be featuring them. If you would like to feature your app on our site with an advertisement, be sure to check out our available slots on BuySellAds or register for a weekly sponsorship for your app.
If you haven’t already checked out our the great apps that sponsored our site last month, be sure to check them out now!
Projecturf 4
The new Projecturf has been completely redesigned to make it better than ever. It is designed to help you work together with your team better, with a stream of updates and a redesigned sidebar to help you find everything easier. It also helps you see your own stuff easier, including tasks, tickets, and events, and lets you manage your own personal tasks unrelated to projects. That way, you can keep track of your own tasks, notes, contacts, and events on your own, as well as keep up with everything that’s going on with your team.
Sprout Social
With Facebook and Twitter sending many brands more traffic than Google search, having a great social media strategy is more important than ever. That’s why your team needs Sprout Social. It gives you one place to manage all of your social network accounts, so you can schedule and publish updates on all of them, together. It’ll even automatically find the best time to send our your updates, with collision detection to make sure you don’t repeat yourself.
Resource Guru
Resource Guru is the fast and simple way to schedule people, equipment, and other resources online. Resource Guru helps companies become more efficient and profitable, and it’s getting a great response from the creative agency world and beyond. Everything you need to track can be tracked in Resource Guru, as you can add custom fields and use them to filter through your calendar. It’s your one-stop-shop for everything you need to schedule and track in your business.
Bidsketch
Need an easier way to send proposals to clients? Bidsketch is a great app that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful client proposals. It’ll cut down the time it takes you to create proposals to just a few minutes. You’ll be able to see if and when your client opens a proposal, and can even check your client engagement and see how long clients viewed your proposal. It’s everything you could want from an advanced proposal app.
And a special thanks to you, our Web.AppStorm.net readers, for reading and sharing our articles. We hope you continue to find our articles interesting and helpful!
Our sponsor this week is Hello Scheduling, an online employment scheduling app. Hello Scheduling makes it incredibly easy for businesses to schedule their employees.
Managing a schedule can be complex enough for your own self, but it can be terribly confusing when you’re managing a team. That’s why Hello Scheduling lets you reschedule employee time in a click, change employee shifts easily, and more. You can use it to communicate with your staff by sending an email or text message right from your Hello Scheduling dashboard. Then, when it comes time to make reports, Hello Scheduling helps you stay compliant with labor laws, lets you create payroll reports, and more.
Hello Scheduling will help your business avoid getting calls from employees about when they work, by letting them access their schedules anywhere. Even if your employees don’t use computers, you can print out their Hello Scheduling schedule for them. You can also export your data in CSV format, so you’ll never lose your schedule. Here’s a quick look at more of the features Hello Scheduling includes:
Hello Scheduling is trusted by businesses from Subway to Residence Inn. From small businesses to large organizations, it’s a tool that can keep your team’s time managed easily.
Go Get It!
If your business needs a better way to schedule your employees’ time, you should give Hello Scheduling a try and see if it’s the app you’ve been needing. You can signup for a free 14 day trial of Hello Scheduling, then choose the plan that works best for your business starting at $19/month. With that, you’ll be well on your way to keeping track of your team’s scheduling without all the hassle.
Our sponsor this week is Bidsketch, a great app that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful client proposals. It’ll cut down the time it takes you to create proposals to just a few minutes.
With Bidsketch, you can reate beautiful proposals in half the time. Easily mix and match content, fees, and designs to create persuasive proposals in minutes. You can use Bidsketch’s premade professional templates, or use the templates that are proven to work for your business with your own custom HTML template. Then, once you’ve sent out proposals, you can easily get detailed analytics about them straight from Bidsketch. You’ll be able to see if and when your client opens a proposal, and can even check your client engagement and see how long clients viewed your proposal. It’s everything you could want from an advanced proposal app.
Bidsketch integrates with other web apps you already use, such as FreshBooks and Highrise, so you can work efficiently with all of your data ready to use in proposals. Numbers of freelancers and teams already use Bidsketch, and on average see 18% more clients sign when they receive a Bidsketch proposal. That’s why you should give it a try.
Go Get It!
Ready to start saving time and seeing more clients signup with Bidsketch? You can signup for a free 14 day trial. Then, you can choose the plan that works best for your team, starting at $19 per month.
Our sponsor this week is Resource Guru, the fast and simple way to schedule people, equipment, and other resources online. Resource Guru helps companies become more efficient and profitable, and it’s getting a great response from the creative agency world and beyond.
With Resource Guru, you can quickly see everything about your team on one clever calendar. At a glance, you can see what projects and clients resources are booked, so you’ll know who’s busy and who’s free without searching for old emails. You can schedule and change bookings lightning fast, with advanced clash management that keeps you from double-booking anything. Everything you need to track can be tracked in Resource Guru, as you can add custom fields and use them to filter through your calendar. It’s your one-stop-shop for everything you need to schedule and track in your business.
Want to dig in and see what else Resource Guru has to offer? Check out the full features list on Resource Guru’s site to see all of the great reasons you should try it out.
Go Get It!
You can get started scheduling your team, equipment, and more online in just 30 seconds with a free Resource Guru trial. You’ll get to try out Resource Guru for free for 30 days, and you don’t even have to enter your credit card info to signup and try it out. Once you’ve decided to use it with your team, you can purchase the subscription that works best for your team, starting at only $19 per month.
Our sponsor this week is Sprout Social, the social media dashboard that can help your team organize all of your social network accounts in one place. It’s the tool your team needs to take your social network marketing to the next level.
With Facebook and Twitter sending many brands more traffic than Google search, having a great social media strategy is more important than ever. That’s why your team needs Sprout Social. It gives you one place to manage all of your social network accounts, so you can schedule and publish updates on all of them, together. It’ll even automatically find the best time to send our your updates, with collision detection to make sure you don’t repeat yourself. You’ll be able to get updates on your networks quickly from the dashboard, and can turn all of your social data into beautiful reports in seconds.
If that wasn’t enough, Sprout Social will also help you care for your customers and find new people that might be interested in your products. You can use the built-in CRM and help desk integration to keep track of your customers and take care of their support issues in real-time. And you won’t be working alone. Sprout Social lets you create tasks, assign them to others on your team, and add internal notes so you won’t accidentally miss anything. It’s everything you need to build your social media presence and take it further, right in one beautifully designed app.
Go Get It!
If you’re ready to take your company’s social media strategy to the next level, you should go signup for Sprout Social today. You can try it for free for 30 days, then choose from packages starting at $39/month to get the social media features your team needs. If it helps you turn more of your fans and followers into customers, then it just might quickly pay for itself!
Our sponsor this week is Bitrix24, a new cloud-based social intranet to help your whole team work together, seamlessly. You can manage your tasks and projects, see what everyone’s doing, store files, chat, store customer info, and more, all in one powerful app.
Employees today are already used to using social networks to share what’s going on with their lives and schedule events together. Bitrix24 brings the modern design and features your employees expect to your company’s intranet, making it as easy to let your coworkers know what you’re working on as it is to update your status on Facebook. You’ll be able to quickly browse a stream of updates to see what’s going on, and can even privately message, chat, share pictures, like others’ posts, and more, in a simple social network layout.
Bitrix24 also includes more traditional business tools for project management, CRM, document sharing, and more, all with the same great interface. You’ll be able to easily track time spent on projects, create employee reports, save meeting briefs, create your company’s structure, find employee contact info, and more, all in the same app. Rather than using multiple web apps for all the tools your company needs, you can use Bitrix24 to keep everything together and make your team more efficient.
Go get it!
If you’ve been looking for a great way to bring your whole team together with a social intranet, Bitrix24 might be just what you’ve needed. You can signup for a Basic account for free if your team only has up to 12 people, or you can get unlimited users and more features starting at $99/month.
Our sponsor this week is Projecturf 4, the upcoming redesign of one of the web’s best project management apps. We gave the original Projecturf a 9/10 in our review two years ago, and with the new features and design, the latest version will be even more of a winner.
As you can see now from the Projecturf 4 site, the new Projecturf has been completely redesigned to make it better than ever. It also has a complete mobile version that will be launched at the same time, so you can use Projecturf anywhere. The new Projecturf is designed to help you work together with your team better, with a stream of updates and a redesigned sidebar to help you find everything easier. It also helps you see your own stuff easier, including tasks, tickets, and events, and lets you manage your own personal tasks unrelated to projects. That way, you can keep track of your own tasks, notes, contacts, and events on your own, as well as keep up with everything that’s going on with your team.
The new Projecturf will help you work better with the services you already use. It includes Dropbox support for syncing files, and has an upcoming API to let you integrate it with your own apps. It’s also multilingual, and will include support for two languages when its launched. Combine that with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface that works full-screen and lets you drag-and-drop files and see comments in real-time, and you’ve got an advanced way to keep track of everything going on at your company.
Go Get It!
If you’re as excited to try out the new Projecturf as we are, then you might want to head over to its promo page and enter your email to get updates on when its released. Best of all, the new version is a free upgrade for existing Projecturf users, so if you’re already using the current Projecturf, you can look forward to a great new version later this year.
We’d like to say a big thanks to our September Web.AppStorm weekly sponsors. We’ve had a number of great apps sponsor our site so far, and we’re very excited to be featuring them. If you would like to feature your app on our site with an advertisement, be sure to check out our available slots on BuySellAds or register for a weekly sponsorship for your app.
If you haven’t already checked out our the great apps that sponsored our site last month, be sure to check them out now!
Sifter
Tracking your app’s issues and bugs doesn’t have to be difficult and confusing. Sifter is a lightweight, easy-to-use bug tracker that’s simple for everyone on your team to use. You can quickly add new issues, track their current progress, and discuss issues with your teammates. You can even integrate it with your apps through its API. Sifter might be just what your team needs to stay on top of your apps’ bugs.
Harvest
Keeping track of the time you and your employees spend on client projects and then turning that data into accurate invoices can be frustrating at best, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Harvest is the leading web-based time tracking and invoicing application relied on by creative businesses in over 100 countries. It’ll help you accurately track time and see where your team’s time is going, and will help you communicate better with your clients with professional quotes and invoices.
Mighty Deals
The Mighty Deals team keeps putting together great bundle deals filled with apps, icons, WordPress themes, eBooks, and more. Right now, they have a deal on a course to help you learn how to make your own professional icons, as well as a web design eBook bundle. If those don’t interest you, they’ve got more deals coming out all the time. It’s a great site that you should be sure to check out frequently for the latest deals!
Sellbox
Do you use Dropbox? If so, you’re already ready to sell files online. Just signup for a free Sellbox account through your Dropbox account, then choose the files you want to sell and share their links on your social networks. You’ll be selling files online quicker than you imagined possible, and it’ll only cost you 5% of your selling price.
And a special thanks to you, our Web.AppStorm.net readers, for reading and sharing our articles. We hope you continue to find our articles interesting and helpful!
Our sponsor this week is Sellbox, a great way to sell files online. If you’ve been looking for a drop-dead simple way to sell your digital creations, it might be just what you’ve been looking for.
Odds are you already use Dropbox, perhaps to sync your own files between your devices and back them up online, or perhaps to share them with others. Sellbox lets you take your Dropbox storage, and turn it into your own online marketplace. You can sell any file you’ve saved in Dropbox, either in a specific folder or in any place in your Dropbox, depending on your settings.
After a quick signup process through your Dropbox login, you’ll just need select the file you want to sell, set a price, add any pictures or descriptions of the item you want, then share your Sellbox link on your social networks and more. That’s it. In only a couple minutes, you’ll be selling your digital creations online.
Start Selling Online Today!
Ready to start selling files online? There’s no need to wait. Just head over to Sellbox’s website to signup with your Dropbox account for free. Sellbox only costs 5% of your selling price, so it’ll only cost you if you make money. That’s quite a good deal!
Our featured sponsor this week is Mighty Deals, an awesome site that offers amazing and exclusive deals for web professionals!
Mighty Deals is a great place for any, and every, web professional to frequent – offering a wide range of deals perfectly suited to designers and developers! The deals range from Apps, to WordPress Themes, to Vector Icons, to eBooks – head over to the site to check them out.
Grab a 15% discount off any deal using the coupon: envato
Here are three current deals to whet your appetite…
- The Mac Photo Bundle – 3 Apps for only $20! – Take advantage of this Photo-Packed Mighty Deal Bundle consisting of three fantastic photo applications for the Mac: Snapheal, FX Photo Studio Pro, and ColorStrokes.
- The Web Designer’s eBook Bundle – only $6! – You’ve heard the buzz words: Responsive design; HTML5; social media. They’re all hot industry terms, but it’s tough to keep up with the technology they’re tied to. You can bounce around the Internet, reading an article here or a blog post there, or you can read some truly helpful eBooks and keep your coding cutting edge. This Mighty Deal eBook bundle features three helpful books for young web designers and developers: Responsive Web Design, Learn HTML 5, and Web Design Trends.
- Ultimate Web Designer’s Bundle – only $39! (reg. $202) – Resources are a web designer’s best friend. From icons to wireframes to UI sets, having pre-built pieces of a website can truly save time and effort. With this Ultimate Web Designer Bundle from Vandelay Premier, you’ll get everything you need to create the coolest-looking website around! The bundle is packed with UI sets, icons and wireframe elements.
Our thanks to Mighty Deals for sponsoring AppStorm this week! Head over and check them out, who doesn’t enjoy a deal!
