Author Archives: Puneet Yamparala

5 Ways Your Competitors are getting More Customers than You

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Puneet Yamparala
5 Ways Your Competitors are getting More Customers than You

As a small business owner or freelancer, the objective of your business is to get new customers and boost sales. To see your business rise to the next level, you must concentrate on the various factors which influence your existing customers to return as well as ways to gain new customers. There are many ways to get existing customers to return to you, but they may require you to spend money. If you are on a budget and looking for other ways to showcase the trust of your business, check out the following list. TrustedBusiness.com TrustedBusiness.com may be one of … Read more

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Sneak Peak at Facebook’s new feature for Businesses

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
Sneak Peak at Facebook’s new feature for Businesses

All the small business owners who have adopted Facebook to promote their business and to engage with their customers have another tool at their disposal. This new tool is the Facebook Page recommend feature. With this new feature you can recommend Facebook Pages just like you are used to recommending other content which you find all over the web. This is how we think this feature works: User opens a Facebook Page and clicks on the “Like” button A pop-over opens which allows you to write a small recommendation for this Facebook Page This recommendation is shown on the user’s … Read more

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Top 25 Upcoming Small Business Blogs to follow for 2012

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
Top 25 Upcoming Small Business Blogs to follow for 2012

This list here is the ultimate list of the Top 25 Upcoming Small Business Blogs which you should be following in 2012. The reason we call this the ultimate list is because we do not rely on some meaningless metrics or numbers to come up with this list. We all know these metrics and numbers can be manipulated. We know about bloggers with 20K+ followers who have junk posts and also of Technorati Top 100 blogs which are just filled with affiliate links. At Apptivo, we use the Human Metrics System which bases blogs on more than 15 criterias which … Read more

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How to More than Triple your Conversion Rate in Three weeks? We did it so can you.

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
How to More than Triple your Conversion Rate in Three weeks? We did it so can you.

You might be wondering why don’t I have an article with quick tips for tripling your conversion rate in 3 days instead of 3 weeks. The truth is that tripling of conversion in 3 days is just not possible unless you are a really very high traffic website and can get statistically significant number of visitors to accurately measure you improvements. So if somebody tells you that they can hep you double or triple your conversion rate quickly, don’t believe them. Now getting back to the topic at hand, one of the biggest ongoing challenges of any web based company … Read more

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Consultant’s Suite – Free Apps for the Independent Consultant

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
Consultant’s Suite – Free Apps for the Independent Consultant

Whether you have been a lone warrior all your life or you are just starting out on your own as an independent consultant, you know it is important to build the right personal brand and have the right tools to do the job. At Apptivo we understand that you need A project management tool that acts as your dashboard A software that can easily send invoices, monitor them and accept payments A software that tracks your hours – because time is money A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software that has all customer information in one place and A web page … Read more

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Using Apptivo Invoicing for billing clients in different currencies

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala

Apptivo Invoicing is a tool designed to help freelancers and small businesses invoice their clients for free. Most freelancers work with clients who are located all over the world and as a result they need the capability to send invoices in various currencies. Though Apptivo Invoice is best suited for billing your clients in dollars, you can get payments in other currencies as well. Apptivo provides this capability with the help of Paypal. Follow these simple steps to start receiving payments from your clients in different currencies Create an Account in Apptivo. Setup Paypal using the following instructions Once you … Read more

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How does Apptivo make money?

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
How does Apptivo make money?

Apptivo is a collection of several applications to help run your business for free. But any viable business needs to generate revenue to sustain itself – this is especially true when businesses like yours are entrusting your data and depend on a single platform for all of your operations. So, lets answer that question – how does Apptivo make money? As a thriving startup, Apptivo has several ways to make money. While we have not reached all the milestones to implement all revenue sources possible, the immediate plan for Apptivo is to make money by selling several business services that … Read more

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Importance of Social Media in Invoice Design

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
Importance of Social Media in Invoice Design

With increasing use of email and electronic invoices, it is extremely important to keep in mind the role social media can play in increasing your sales through invoices. Till a couple of years ago, invoices were considered a dull topic which nobody was interested in. Now, everybody realizes the role invoices can play in helping your customers remember you and also refer new sales leads your way. We earlier covered the 7 must have features for invoice templates, in this post we will go a bit deeper to understand how to leverage social media to increase sales through Invoices. Before … Read more

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Tips for Business: 5 things to consider before buying an existing small business

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
Tips for Business: 5 things to consider before buying an existing small business

Acquiring an existing business is a process. It often focuses specifically on the legal process of transferring a business from an original owner to another owner. However, before you consider how the legal process works, consider the value in making such a transfer happen. It can be exciting and overwhelming to purchase an existing business. It also means taking on a great deal of responsibility in the process. Before you consider buying a current business, ask yourself why you wish to buy it. What makes it an ideal choice right now? It could be that the business has excellent future … Read more

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Knights Bridge Capital Partners closes new fund

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Puneet Yamparala
Knights Bridge Capital Partners closes new fund

Knights Bridge Capital Partners, which recently launched their Apptivo powered website, closed their Knightsbridge Opportunities Fund I and also successfully identified the targets for investment under this fund.

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