vCita is an innovative tool that is designed for professionals, bloggers and freelancers to schedule, meet and communicate with online visitors. The application helps interact with potential customers by allowing online audience approach you and schedule interactive meetings. Using the Internet, these meetings can easily take place over the phone, video or chat rooms. A user friendly dashboard allows you to manage all contacts, meetings, scheduling and payments from one place. Just like a scheduling calendar, visitors and website owners are able to select appropriate times for meetings. Moreover, vCita can be integrated with Google calendar to allow even more flexibility. Besides being extremely flexible, the scheduling tool can be customized to match your style. (more…)

Blogging can become a stressful activity. The constant demand of new content, social media interaction, product development, link building and community interaction can stress bloggers out to the point of many of them quitting and giving up on their blog. However, before you ever reach this point there are several stellar productivity tips you can utilize that will help you avoid the burn out and get more done in less time; here’s how …

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What is social bookmarking and why I need that? That might be the question novice blogger ask. For the dummies, social bookmarking is the concept of sharing your favorite internet articles or websites with your friends and followers using social bookmarking services like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Delicious (Sadly getting scrapped by Yahoo!), Bebo etc. Social sharing is no different concept. The services like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut or any other social networking website where you share your favorite articles with your friends. To ease the process of sharing or bookmarking your articles on your blog or website, most of these services now provides smart buttons which can be integrated with one or two lines of code. Users who likes to share any article can choose any of his favorite service you’ve provided buttons for.

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On the other day, I was trying to figure out how many of my blog visitors clicked on related posts links or share links at the end of my single post. This is important for two reasons, 1) Cliks on the related posts means more page views, which ultimately results in low bounce rate and 2) Clicks on share links means more visits to your blog from social sharing sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Facebook and Twitter. But to know the effectiveness of the style and placement of these items on a blog, one needs to track clicks on them.

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