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We’ve been gone for a bit of a holiday break. We thought we’d make up for it with our top ten apps; a “best of” compilation from a year’s worth of hands-on experiences with the apps and services. These are the tools we use every day and depend on to keep our sanity and keep our […]

Kimba digs into ways to be more effective with Instagram. Tips on captions, tags, searching – everything you could ask for. Rate us on iTunes Show Notes   Links from the Show Instagram (duh!) – https://www.instagram.com

Woohoo, it’s episode #50! To celebrate this landmark, we have a bonus for you today. Not only are we covering Whatagraph, a service to make gorgeous reports for your department or your clients, we’re also giving you details about AppSumo’s new service, Briefcase. We’ll pick on Google Analytics for a moment. Their reports provide tons of data, […]

There are lots of cloud storage services out there. The top players in the cloud storage arena are Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box. We’re doing a comparison of features and prices so you can make an educated choice which one is the right fit for your business. Rate us on iTunes […]

It’s no surprise that if you don’t ask for your money, you’re not going to get paid. That’s why this week we’re showing you some of the best invoicing tools we’ve used. Some are free, some aren’t, but you know that saying: you have to spend money to make money. Let me tell you, paying to […]

Not happy with conference calls? Tired of all the disembodied voices and no visual cues to see if Bob is attempting to be witty again or is just confused? Sounds like it’s time to consider video meetings. Kimba and Glen take a look at the current video conference offerings and try out a couple ones […]

PDFs. Everybody reads them, some apps give you a “Save as…” way to make a simple one. There’s a huge amount of flexibility in the Portable Document Format (PDF) that lets you create forms and other interactive documents. The question remains though: what tool can I use to make or edit a PDF? Give a […]

Virtual Assistants, or VAs, have been a growing part of the “gig economy” for several years. While the folks on eLance and Fiverr generally occupy the artistic or creative roles, VAs usually perform office-related tasks. Need someone to book your travel reservations, process forms and paperwork that you might think of as routine, make calls or do […]

Writing the next great American novel? Maybe it’s an academic or technical paper or even a screenplay. whatever it is you’re creating, save your sanity by using the right tools for the job. Scrivener lets you organize your thoughts, create a corkboard to pin your notes to, update your outline with drag and drop. Rate […]

Fast, Reliable, Cheap: pick any two. That’s the adage for lots of things, and website hosting is no exception. Today’s podcast looks at the pitfalls people make when choosing business website hosting. We’ll point out how to avoid those problems and give you alternatives that are affordable (because cheap isn’t an option if you want fast […]

What if you rolled your day planner, GTD system, and project manager into one app? You’d probably wind up with OmniFocus. Built for iOS, WatchOS and MacOS, this scheduling, organizing, project managing tool covers a myriad of use cases and lets you organize work and real life while keeping both separate. Kimba’s become dependent on […]

Facebook Live is getting a lot of traction these days. Leave it to Ken and Glen Aspeslagh of Ecamm Network to take a cool service and make an even better app around it. Ecamm Live is their newest piece of software for the Mac, and it has an amazing set of bells and whistles to move […]

Episode #40 seems like a good time to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past year or more that we’ve been recording. We’re airing our failures too because nobody ever seems to talk about their flops. All the main points come to mind – audio and other technical problems, sounding stiff and uncomfortable, not publicizing […]

We’re changing things up a bit. It was bothering us that we had to cram each topic into ten minutes, which meant going pretty quickly, overloading you with info, and just scratching the surface of our topic. Add to that the hassle of trying to get two subjects into the title, well, you get the […]

cc Cory Doctorow You know how your project files seem to wind up in different folders all the time? Original photos are in one spot, cropped and web-ready ones in another, logos in yet another, and your project documents and contracts are somewhere else. Add in cloud storage as a potential location and it becomes […]

Have you ever thought that a video showing how to do a task would be a far better solution than a bunch of written instructions telling how to do the task? The video platform Wistia recently released Soapbox, a Chrome browser plugin that gives you an easy to use way to record, edit and publish videos. Kimba explores dapulse, […]

At some point, as a business, you’re going to hold an event, and that means dealing with tickets or RSVPs. What’s different about Sparxo is it lets your attendees chat with one another – using voice. On the social side of the ‘net, Missing Lettr takes your blog posts and turns them into social media […]

Sometime, somewhere, you’re going to have a need to record a conversation over Skype. Maybe you’re interviewing a candidate for a job. Maybe you’re making a video podcast and are interviewing an author or performer. Maybe you’re recording a business meeting, so there’s an official record of what was discussed. Sooner or later, the need is […]

Twitter is still all the rage so let’s use it efficiently and effectively! Way back when, like pre-Y2K, a few credit card companies offered virtual card numbers, one-time-use cards that would allow us to “safely” buy things from that new thing called the Internet. Fast forward to 2009, and more companies like PayPal and some […]

This week we tackle taking credit card payments in-person. You’ve seen them at coffee shops, food trucks, boutique retailers and even craft fairs and farmers markets. Those little white square card readers are just that – Square. Rate us on iTunes Show Notes Taking Payments In-Person Square is the most prevalent and, from my experience, the […]