Teaching financial literacy to kids has reaped its own financial strength for Scottsdale-based My Job Chart, which founder and CEO Gregg Murset says adds a new member every two minutes. A certified financial planner with 20 years’ experience in the insurance and financial services industry, Murset says the idea came from wanting to instill in his own children characteristics … [More]
Mobile Business Card Connects
The vizCard mobile business card solution, available from All-State Legal, is a personalized mobile website that can be shared easily. A QR code, text messaging, email, a mobile wallet card with NFC, and Apple Passbook can be used to download vCards, view CommonConnections™ on LinkedIn and Facebook, and view hand-picked profiles, videos and other online content. … [More]
First Impressions Help Hire
Gone are the days of stock cover letters, sweaty palms and nervous interviewees; job seekers can let their personality, creativity and professional accomplishments shine through resumes, LinkedIn profiles and more with the simple click of the button. Zip Intro offers a free video platform that accelerates the hiring process for everyone involved. … [More]
Funding for Your Idea or Product
Business ideas usually need funding and funding is not always easy to find. Go online. Entrepreneurs are using these services to fund products, ideas, innovations and more. Both GoFundMe and Kickstarter have business opportunity to fund or get funded. … [More]
Hiring Help with Reschedge
Reschedge is an advanced scheduling tool for interviewing of candidates for open positions. The tool is an intuitive interface that functions as a virtual recruiting coordinator. Recruiting professionals can instantly import company contacts from their calendar or email platform (Google or Outlook), click “Schedule Interview” and instantly receive a menu of interview options. … [More]
SiriusXM to Launch Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School
SiriusXM channel 111 is set to deliver invaluable business advice for business owners, entrepreneurs, executives and those who dream of starting their own companies. The live, call-in format offers millions of people unprecedented access to world-renowned Wharton professors, distinguished alumni and expert guests. Coming in early 2014. … [More]
Get Bumped
Sharing documents just got easier. With the recent-Google-acquired Bump app for the iPhone and Android devices, individuals can share contact information, photos, videos and files by simply bumping two phones together. Users can also share contacts, photos and files with others and sync with their own computer. The app will sync to the user’s devices or update others. … [More]
Simplify Your Expenses
With Expensify, employees, executives or house husbands and wives can simply record expenses for daily receipts, card transactions, mileage, travel and more. The mobile app syncs with the program back at the office for full download of expenses to an available accounting package that integrates to most office accounting programs. … [More]
GPS Finds Its Way in Business
As fleet manager for Pink Jeep Tours, Greg McCallum deals with his share of questions: Did a jeep make it to the Grand Canyon yet? When is the Trekker getting to the hotel to pick up guests? Just where is that jeep that left not long ago? To find the answers, McCallum turns to the heavens. If you think he’s guided by the stars, you’re close. His fleet relies on on-board … [More]
County Procurement
Do business with the county through the Procurement Office. Maricopa County and the City of Phoenix actively solicit vendors to participate and benefit from doing business with state and federal civic entities. Find out more. … [More]
Healthcare Mandate: Deadline Looms
The clock is ticking for U.S. businesses with more than $500,000 in annual revenues to comply with a new requirement created by Section 1512 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This requirement mandates that employers provide a notice to employees of coverage options available through the Health Insurance Marketplace (i.e., “Exchange”) no later than Oct. 1, 2013. … [More]
You Sent It
The well-known file transferrer has changed its name and gone mobile, touting that “your working life doesn’t require you to be chained to your desk from 9–5.” Hightail, formerly YouSendIt, is a mobile app that will help you work from anywhere by downloading the free app for iPhone, iPad or Android to access your Hightail folders wherever you are. You can send files, share … [More]
Office Entertainment
For seven years, attorneys at FordHarrison have amused and enlightened weekly readers of their employment blog “That’s What She Said” through references to NBC’s “The Office.” While the series finale of “The Office” marked an end to “That’s What She Said,” FordHarrison is adopting the entertainment-industry maxim and launching “EntertainHR.” The blog will offer a lighthearted … [More]
Counterfeit Call Out
uFaker, a new app, calls out the counterfeit products and alerts brand owners as to who is counterfeiting their products. In an effort to entice the communications, the app not only sends reports, it also allows users to earn discount rewards, protects families from harmful products and combats the thriving global counterfeit epidemic. … [More]
Wait No More
QLess has created a mobile application that solves the problem of customers or patients having to wait in line — it’s a mobile queue. Customers can roam freely until their “time” in line is announced through a Web browser on a mobile phone, a kiosk in the waiting area or a computer. QLess sends an SMS or calls shortly before their turn comes up. There is also a marketing … [More]
Fast & Friendly Organizer
Pocket Informant is a new app from WebIS that is all the rage. Users are able to put their tasks and notes into their calendar, sync with Evernote and with Google, and get maps and other key information about what is going on in their calendar. An easy-to-use calendar that places events with ease, swipes through the user’s calendar and alerts the user as to what’s next. $12.99 … [More]
Product Tours and Demos
SimpliMotion, a small studio out of California, is single-handedly producing client videos and marketing them with high-quality services that are getting results. The company has multiple clients, from tech product companies to retailers, that demonstrate the power of the product through high-quality video, music and voiceover that can bring a product to the world stage on … [More]
Hospitality Company Spawns Software Division
Sparked by popular demand, Choice Hotels recently rolled out for public use the software program it initially developed for its own hotel management system. In fact, it created an independent division for the endeavor — SkyTouch Technology, based in Phoenix — and, according to SkyTouch president Ric Leutwyler, “became our first customer.” Choice decided to create SkyTouch as … [More]
