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SocialFollows.comWhat it does:
Social Follows is an all in one Twitter Marketing and Management Tool. We help users define, target and engage their customers, users and followers alike. Throughout the fall we will be heavily focusing on Facebook, Linked’in and G+ integrations.

How it beats the competition:
More functional of a design and layout then the competitors, as well as an array of tools to help you better define and engage your audience.

Site:
http://www.socialfollo.ws

Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/socialfollows

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/socialfollows

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Yaware.comWhat it does:
Yaware is the most effective employee time tracking software you will ever use.  It’s an automated, simple and convenient tool for tracking the working time of the whole team. Wherever your employees work, all the data about their working time and  productivity is  in your account. Yaware provides you with powerful business intelligence and helps your team get more productive!
Yaware Features
software and websites usage tracking
visual reports in the form of charts
fully automated time tracking  (NO manual data entry)

How it beats the competition:
1. Track What Programs and Websites Your Employees Are Using at Work
Yaware application sits in the background and records the information about programs, websites, applications being used. A user can open multiple tabs in a browser, but Yaware will record the time in one that is actively used at that moment.

2. Evaluate Employee’s Productivity
Yaware automatically refers websites and applications used by an employee to one of the categories:
productive
unproductive
neutral
Employees can use a variety of resources (websites, software, applications) during the working day. Account or  group manager specifies productivity category according to employee’s  tasks. Thus productive time means using tools related to work, unproductive time means using distracting  applications and websites at work and neutral is something in between.

3. Organize Users in Groups and Assign Group Managers
Yaware allows you to organize users in groups – by departments ( e.g. marketing department, accounts department and so on.), project teams etc.  This is convenient because employees in different department use different resourses for their work. For example, time spent in Photoshop is productive for a designer and unproductive for an accountant. Yaware allows to set different resourse productivity status for different groups. Besides a Group may have its monitoring schedule as well as a Manager who monitors the work of his group and productivity changes.

4. Get Timely Visual Reports
Yaware presents the information in graphs for quick analysis.  With Yaware it takes only several minutes a day to analyze working time and productivity of your team. Taking a look at the diagram you can determine the most productive employees, see who was late for work, compare employees’ productivity within different time periods; determine most distracting websites and applications.

5. Use Hidden or Open Mode  According To Your Goals and Beliefs
If you don’t want your employees to know about the monitoring you can install Yaware in Hidden mode. In that case Yaware icon isn’t displayed in traybar and the software can be detected only in  Task manager window. Though we believe that using Yaware in the open is much more productive as it allows to involve employees in time-management process.

6. Offline Activity Tracking (track non-computer work)
Usually specialists have to solve tasks that do not require computer use. Yaware offers offline activity tracking feature that helps to get a general view of how time is used in your company. This tool helps to track time spent on non-computer work – meetings, phone calls as well as non-working activities. When user’s computer goes idle for some period of time, a message pops up offering to specify the type of activity (You can add whatever options you need).

7. Get the Proofs, if Necessary (Take screenshots and Webcam Snapshots)
You can optionally make screenshots and webcam snapshots and store them in your Yaware account. These features allow to control the work of freelancers, branch-offices and employees working flexi-hours. On the other hand screenshots and webcam snapshots help to prevent possible malusage of time in your office.

Site:
http://yaware.com

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BackSpinit.comWhat it does:
BackSpin is a cloud based SaaS designed to help video and music content producers quickly and efficiently distribute their product to team members and partners for review.

How it beats the competition:
BackSpin is different in that it stores all uploaded content in a single repository, provides a secure streaming environment preventing file duplication, enables targeted comments, and collects data on how your files are being consumed.

Site:
http://backspinit.com

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/BackSpinIt

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/backspinit

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LetsSyncro.comWhat it does:
LetsSyncro is a new, incredibly easy to use cloud-based technology that is designed to make any vendor or service provider’s current website “live” and able to interact visually and audibly with individual customers in real-time. This new technology goes beyond traditional chat software and co-browsing to offer live help in a way that is not found elsewhere
How it beats the competition:
LetsSyncro goes beyond Live Chat companies offering a completely new guided shopping experience which combines text, voice and images. Online Personal Selling will help increase your sales & create a greater sense of loyalty  with your visitors thanks to Live Help
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CorpQNA – Social Q&A for Business

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CorpQNA.comWhat it does:
Ask questions and get answers in your company

How it beats the competition:
Existing knowledge management solutions are cluttered and difficult to navigate.

CorpQNA has a clean, browsable UI that makes it easy to ask and discover answers to the right questions.

Site:
www.corpqna.com

Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/corpqna

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/corpqna

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TrustedHouseSitters.comWhat it does:
Trusted Housesitters connects home and pet owners with trustworthy, reliable and recommended sitters worldwide.
The site provides a perfect win-win scenario between the two groups: pet and home owners get someone to look after their home and pets whilst they’re away (in most cases for free), and sitters get free accommodation, enabling them to stay in another country rent-free in exchange for a few daily chores such as dog walking & pool cleaning.

How it beats the competition:
Pet sitting agencies: most Trusted Housesitters members sit for free unlike traditional pet sitting agencies.

Kennels & Catteries: Pets can stay at home, rather than being locked up. Again, since most sitters also offer their services for free, a considerable saving is available to pet owners.

Sites like Dogvacay and Rover.com: These sites require you to send your pet to someone else (all of whom charge for the service). Here your pet doesn’t have to go to a new environment, they can get the same walks, the same food and the same treatment as they’re used to.

Site:
http://www.trustedhousesitters.com

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/housesitting

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/trustedhousesitters

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Aegora.comWhat it does:
Aegora.com lets you leverage your professional network to build businesses and make money.

Promote yourself and your business, free. Network with friends, colleagues and like-minded professionals. Find high-quality clients in your trust network. Hire trusted professionals recommended by friends. Manage projects and get paid automatically. Create efficient, low-overhead businesses and build the lifestyle you deserve.

Finally – an alternative to traditional employment that everyone can use, simply and easily. Our vision: Everyone an Entrepreneur!

How it beats the competition:
Aegora takes the professional network (for instance LinkedIn) and adds value by letting users monetize their trusted contact networks – buying and selling services.

Aegora also takes the freelance marketplace (for instance oDesk or Elance) and solves its functional and image problems by letting users reach the right trusted person quickly and easily, through their contact network.

Site:
www.aegora.com

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Aegoradotcom

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/aegoradotcom

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HoppyPress.comWhat it does:
We sell handpulled screenprinted art for the homebrewing and craft beer community. All of our prints are printed on high quality artist’s paper using sustainable ingredients.

How it beats the competition:
Our competition only seems to offer cheap, glossy, thin posters that don’t represent the quality that homebrewers strive for. Hoppy Press strives to offer a quality product that can framed and savored for years.

Site:
http://hoppypress.com

Twitter:
twitter.com/hoppypress

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/HoppyPress

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CoolFanPages.comWhat it does:
coolfanpages.com is unique website which allows you to add your pages on this website.
This website has listing of facebook pages and people can also submit their facebook page. It also shows related videos for some pages.

How it beats the competition:
coolfanpages.com has many more fan pages than it’s competitors

Site:
www.coolfanpages.com

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WeatherHop – Severe Weather Notifications

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Weatherhop.comWhat it does:
WeatherHop provides customizable severe weather notifications to both business and consumers. The service provides notifications via voice, SMS, email, social, and API. The alerts are customizable by weather type (tornado, thunderstorm, flood, winter) and notification type.

It’s free to sign up for social alerts sent to your Facebook wall or Twitter feed. Paid plans start at $2.99/mo for alerts sent to your phone or email.

The service is built on top of other cloud-based providers such as Twilio and SendGrid to provide a fast, reliable, and scalable solution.

How it beats the competition:
The configuration of WeatherHop is by far the best of any service out there.

We also pinpoint your location to the latitude and longitude so you’re only alerted if you are in the path of severe weather.  Other services base their notifications at the county level which leads to notifications when you don’t need them.

Site:
http://weatherhop.com

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/weatherhop

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/WeatherHop

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