Almost all online businesses are actively using at least a few web management tools to help keep things running smoothly. There aren’t too many “all-in-one” services that do anything that a micro-biz would need. Most of us use email of course, maybe Evernote, perhaps Basecamp, FreshBooks and Mailchimp too—but they are all separate services. But, what if there was a way to automatically move information from one to another? Think of the time it would save…
Enter Zapier. Zapier is similar to IFTTT in concept in that the user and create their own “recipes” (read my previous post about IFTTT here) – but Zapier focuses on user-created connections between web services (“Zaps”) rather than linking actions based on specific types of information. Zapier will create connections between AWeber and Highrise, Twitter and Infusionsoft, or GoToWebinar and Google Contacts… it’s up to you.
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Google+ Goodness
Almost a year ago, I posted here about my initial impressions of Google+ (which was brand new at the time). As I shared in the post, I felt that it was easy to use and had better features and should be a big hit – but I proceeded to ignore it, as it seemed not many others were using it. At the time, I thought that it would be the long-predicted “Facebook killer” – but now that Google+ is more fully baked, I’m really convinced of that now. Last night, I had the pleasure of attending (with my Online Biz Insiders Podcast partner Carla Wilson) a Google+ workshop, presented by Google marketing reps Jeffrey Salvitti & Kyle Bruley.
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