Kyle W. Schultz

A powerful email marketing platform that does almost anything.

2009-09-03T05:45:00.000-07:00

Does your company need to send out an email blast to your clients showcasing your new product? What about creating a news letter to reach your employees? In either case, and many more I'm sure, you should check out the folks at JangoMail.

They provide an excellent SMTP gateway for all your email needs. They have features such:

Geo Tracking
GMail integration
SalesForce.com integration
Send Emails with Block-Resistant images
Trackable transactional emails
and more...

You can see their full list of features here.

JangoMail has made many top news reports, and continues to grow more and more each month. With a small dedicated team, and huge results, your company can't go wrong. Check them out today.

2009-06-30T06:33:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has launched an experimental new advertising campaign

The new campaign features actor Dean Cain (former Superman from TV's Lois and Clark) in a series of mock-PSAs, advertising the launch of Internet Explorer 8. Produced by Indiana-based ad agency Bradley and Montgomery, the commercials try hard to be funny in spots like S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. ("Sharing Heavily Yet Not Enough Sharing Still") poking fun at web users who over-share lolcats, while going for the gross-out factor in O.M.G.I.G.P. ("Oh My God I'm Gonna Puke") featuring a woman who's accidently seen her partner's obscene browser history.

Currently, Microsoft is only airing the ads online (seen on Hulu), but may consider broader broadcast depending on the public's reception. With IE's shrinking user base, especially among the tech-savvy, its clear Microsoft is hoping the ads will gain a viral audience online.

EYH Mobile

2009-06-28T06:37:00.000-07:00

With the internet becoming more standardized than ever in the way data is delievered; the use of mobile devices is becoming more common and more faster than ever before.

EYH Mobile allows your staff members to enter their hours while doing business where a lot of business is done: out of the office. For those with administrator privilidges you'll be able to quickly find a client or staffmember's phone number.

Start your free trial today!

http://www.enteryourhours.com/freetrial.asp

Hammer Dance Flash Mob

2009-06-08T14:41:00.001-07:00

WOW! OH WOW! How would you feel to be bumrushed by a mob of MC Hammer pants wearing, too legit to quit dancers? Well see the reactions on these peoples faces to find out more!

Watch Hammer Dance Flash Mob on CollegeHumor

Humanizing Technologies

2009-06-08T11:37:00.000-07:00

There is an Indianapolis, IN based company called Humanizing Technologies that is making information relevant to their users. Humanizing Technologies software tools save time, enable customization of the online experience and improve the relevancy of information for specific interests. Humanizing Technologies provides the benefit of customization over personalization.

You might be wondering, "How do they do this?". Well, they have combined flexible portals for user dashboards, integrated a concept search to improve the relevance & speed of information retrieval as well as provided a gadgets interface to mobilize any content from any web site.

I haven't personally used their product YET, but anticipate being able to provide a full overview of before the end of June, 2009. Humanizing Technologies is offering a free 45 day trial of lifepage, however they are currently (from what I have been able to tell thus far) only supporting Internet Explorer based browsers (sorry for all you Mac & Linux users) - but I anticipate that changing in the near future.

Small Business Billing Software

2009-06-08T07:04:00.000-07:00

Wow, 1/2 way through 2009 already. And my company KS Design, LLC wouldn't have made it without the EnterYourHours.com Hourly billing software system. Production is up, time spent on doing payroll is down, and our stress level has really been sub-dued.

I mean, small business billing software is as important to a small business as gigantic ERP software is to a large corporation. While large corporations (over 100 employees) will probably source their software among large ERP solutions like PeopleSoft, Great Plain, MAS, and others, EnterYourHours.com can provide most of these core small business billing functions to small and medium businesses alike. This is why I prefer to use EnterYourHours.com because they give me the ability to operate like a large corporation, with the overhead of a small business.

We are able to track employee hours, expenses, apply discounts, and many other features (which can be found here). If you are a small business owner, and are looking for an hourly invoicing solution, then you have to check out EnterYourHours.com. You can even get a FREE 14 day trial, so why not?

Fantastic set of developer tools for ASP.Net & Silverlight development

2009-06-06T16:16:00.000-07:00

So, for all you developers out there that ready my blog this one is especially for you. KS Design was has been, over the past year, evaluating a suite of controls for development of a high end C# ASP.Net application.

Many of you might know that designing an application is never an easy chore with "out of the box" Microsoft tools, therefore we started looking for a suite of controls that could not only meet our needs, but provide a swift integration, as well as an elegant look, with little or no customizations.

Well, we found em, and they are wonderful. Thanks to the .Net Rocks podcast, which we listen to regularly, we looked into Telerik's Suite of RadControls for ASP.Net. These controls have made our lives so much easier, and thanks to Telerik's well put together help system we are able to reference code samples and find general help on their controls, making integration to our ASP.Net applicaiton very painless.

KS Design was even able to take an existing C# application written in .Net 2.0 and upgrade it to work with .Net 3.5 (because we like to stay on top of frameworks) and then swap out controls like standard text boxes, calendars, data grids, drop downs and more with the Telerik RadControls for ASP.Net in a matter of a few days. These controls truly have saved us time, money, and a number of head aches.

Check out KSDesignServices.com and navigate around our site, we use the Telerik RadControls for ASP.Net to handle navigation, panel bars for services we offer, as well as multimedia controls for our portfolio.

You can also check out Telerik's Demo site for a full viewing of what you can do, right out of the box, using the Telerik RadControls for ASP.Net You can watch a sample video here.

If you don't use them, you should. And if you do use them, you have made a wise investment and will not be disappointed.

Hourly Billing Software with easy integration to Quickbooks

2009-06-03T09:06:00.000-07:00

So, here we are, a quarter of the way through 2009. New clients calling, economy stabalizing, and most important of all.... TAXES. That's right, taxes, well, why not make your tax filing experience a simple one?

Yes, you heard me right. Kyle here back at it again, with another great praise about EnterYoursHours.com's online hourly billing software. These guys, have truly made it SIMPLE to do taxes. How you might say? Well, I am a small business owner, and keeping track of invoices, billing, and employees was a real battle for me. EnterYourHours.com really made it easy to do taxes this year.

How you might be asking? Well just like this:

EnterYourHours.com integrates directly into QuickBooks. My company has no need, at this time, for the full blown QuickBooks Standard Edition, so we use Intuit's QuickBooks SimpleStart version, and EnterYourHours.com hooked right up to it. It was beautiful!!!! EnterYourHours.com's QuickBooks Solution was done so well, they have become a certified Silver Developer for QuickBooks.

I followed their tutorial, and hooked right up. QuickBooks opened, found all my invoices and billing history and pulled it right in. I was able to get that information to my accountant and he was able to get taxes done in record time. EnterYourHour's.com has an in depth, easy to follow tutorial on their website, and I urge you to check it out, because once you do, you will realize the true power, and simplicity, of this system.

Oral Interview Guide

2009-05-24T09:08:00.000-07:00

If you are searching for a solution to answering complex oral interview questions then you have come to the right place. This posting is all about www.itsyourinterview.com, a website dedicated to providing it's buyers with the tools they will need to help land their next career.

It's Your Interview has distilled the job interview down to its essence, and designed the It's Your Interview - Interview Guide around these core questions. You don't want to fumble through your answers, so you'll be off to a bad start if you have to fumble through hundreds of pages of material to figure out what you need to say.

Contrary to popular belief there's no such thing as a single right answer to any interview question. But there are better answers, and the It's Your Interview - Interview Guide helps you find the ones that are right for you. Your interviewer is listening for key anchor words in your responses; and the the It's Your Interview - Interview Guide guides you through how you need to incorporate them into your own personal experiences, so that you hold the key to your own success.

You can purchase the It's Your Interview - Interview Guide, directly from their website for $24.95, which is a small price to pay for such a useful packet of tools. The It's Your Interview - Interview Guide gives you ownership of the key word response and gives you the ability to more accurately relay your answer to your next interviewer. Instead of just telling the interviewer you are dependable, you will be able to give specific examples of ways you have been dependable. All answers are clear and concise, and once you have constructed them, you will have ownership and credibility.

Hourly Billing Software

2008-09-10T16:10:00.000-07:00

If you are anything like I am, you are a small business owner with a hand ful of employees, a collection of clients and a huge headache. The headache being payroll and keeping all your projects in line and billed on time. Until this year I have been doing everything through Microsoft Excel Invoices I designed, QuickBooks for keeping track of payments, Emails to send out invoices, and Microsoft Outlook for contacts and billing information.

My software programming business started picking up this year and I quickly realized that my current biling system wasn't going to work. I was literally spending hours upon hours a week to complete payroll and billing. After speaking with a few colleagues of mine I was able to pinpoint my need. I needed a solid hourly billing software. The challenge that came with that was that I needed to be able to be quickly setup, easily administer, and access the hourly billing software remotely, if needed. I looked into QuickBooks online software, and even building my own, but then a friend of mine told me about www.EnterYourHours.com. I visited EnterYourHours.com and signed up for their free trial with zero expectations. I figured that this was just going to be another ho-hum site that was difficult to use and wasn't going to meet my needs.

Well, boy was I wrong. The web based hourly billing software that www.EnterYourHours.com has developed is so far the best investment I have made for my company. Their pricing is great, the support is phenominal and the interface is easy to use. I have successfully cut my billing and payroll time down to about 30-45 minutes a week. My client base has tripled since I started using it, since I am no longer afraid of my billing nightmare, and my employees are a lot happier, because they are getting paid ontime and accurately. I have employees that use all the different browsers, Internet Explorer, FireFox and yes even Safari. We have had no problems on any of the different browsers which is a huge plus. I am even able to access their site directly from my iPhone and I can create an invoice or estimate while on site and email it right then.

If you are looking for a solid hourly billing software and you need to bill fast but don't want to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in software, then I highly suggest www.EnterYourHours.com for all your billing needs.