Looking to schedule a meeting with some friends or colleagues? “When is Good” provides a quick and simple method for groups to indicate what times they are available so that a meeting time can be selected.

When is Good

It can be pretty confusing when a group needs to establish when their next get-together will be. Everyone starts talking at once and really nothing gets heard. When is Good has the solution — let each individual inform the group leader all at once while still being clearly heard.

How is this possible? When is Good provides a single individual (ideally the group leader) a password and a link. The individual provides the rest of the group with the link which leads to a calendar. Each individual simply selects the times that will work for them by clicking or “painting” by clicking and dragging. The single individual with the password is then able to go onto the website, input the password, and access the results (example results shown in the picture above). Times without conflicts are highlighted and all other times have the number of people with conflicts indicated with red dots, providing a clear and succinct report for the group leader to make a quick and well-informed decision.

The website is funded by advertisements and sale of premium and branded accounts which provide users with additional features and removal of the advertisements. Branded accounts also enable the user to further customize their own subdomain which is dedicated to their individual company.

A simple solution with a simple website layout to accomplish this complex task? Ockham and his pointy little blade would be proud!

Now that everyone and their grandma has a smartphone companies can take advantage of this opportunity.  Traditionally in an advertisment the company website will be mentioned.  In a TV ad it will be listed on the screen or on a billboard.  This is the old way of getting people to your company website.  It’s designed for the days when people had to remember the address and then go home to their desktop computer.  Since most people have the web literally in their pocket businesses need to capitalize on this opportunity.  We’ve known about QR codes for a few years but they aren’t as widely used as they could be.  For the internet entrepreneur these codes offer a great method of reaching out to your customers.  Put these code as many places as you can where your target market will see them.  Then your web based business will grow.

In case you have not noticed that Facebook has changed to timeline, it has. This transition also introduced the use of a custom cover banner photo which is awkwardly 850×315 pixels. What does this mean for you? It means that your normal photos that are 4×6 inch format like most cameras take, will get stretched and distorted (and look really goofy) in the new Facebook when you choose to use them as a banner. But, why am I writing about this (this is an internet entrepreneurship blog, not a jazz up your Facebook blog isn’t it)?

`I am writing this blog to introduce you to a marvelous little add-on to most browsers that is known as MeasureIt. This add-on/extension is a must have for web-designers/web developers looking to make their sites look professional. MeasureIt allows the user to click and drag across the screen in order to determine the pixel size of an area. This is incredibly useful for determining how to big to make your photos on a website (it can also be used to determine the size of the cover banner of Facebook).  Once you have determined the dimensions of your photo, you can easily change the size of a photo file in photoshop or other photo editing software. (For a free version, download gimp). (You can also do the exact same thing with your facebook photo as well). What does this mean for you, the internet entrepreneur? It means you should probably get on google and type in measure it (or hit the link above) and install the add-on to your browser and start making your photos fit the dimensions of your website so that pictures will look crisp and professional, which will add legitimacy to your online business.

If you are anything like me, it is all too easy to get distracted while working on schoolwork or internet based projects outside of school. Perhaps this is because procrastination syndrome makes it so easy to enable and justify wasting time, but fear not internet time wasting pro’s, there is a fix for your mental meanderings. While there are many websites and add-on like stumble upon that make searching and wasting time a whole lot easier; STAY FOCUSED, however, makes it easier for Google chrome users to stay on task.

The Stay Focused add-on for Chrome is an incredibly thorough tool. It allows you to choose which websites you would like to block (ex: facebook, youtube, etc.) and then allows you to set when you want to block them, how long you want to allow the website to be available throughout the day (the default time limit is 10 minutes total per day for all your blocked sites). This feature is very helpful because it allows you a way of weening yourself from the time wasting instead of completely blocking the sight like most other blocking add-ons do, but if you need to quit cold-turkey, this program also allows you to do that as well. It even provides a way to stop you from reversing your decision to waste less time by making you go through a time consuming, yet doable, process of unlocking the blocking mechanism. (It’s similar to getting your password changed on facebook when you forget it, only you have to type a paragraph and do other frustrating things that actually help deter the user from changing the settings on Stay Focused). When your time runs out on the blocked sites, Stay Focused posts a page that jokingly says “shouldn’t you be working” on your blocked sites that does not allow you to enter the website.

I have found that Stay-Focused has actually been an immense aid in staying on task and wasting less time while doing work. If you do struggle to pay attention to your tasks at hand due to internet A.D.D. then give this add-on a  try and start being more efficient today.

I handle all of the audio/video stuff at my church but the church building is half an hour from my house.  So if I was working on something I would have to be at the computer at the building.  Dropbox is a great application that has made my life  a lot easier.  Here is how it works…

This can  be used to do much more than to transfer files.  I use it to host some media that is on the church website.  You can create a “public” folder in Dropbox which lets you copy a web URL to incorporate that video or document anywhere on the web that you want.  The weekly bulletins, lesson notes even some videos are hosted on the Dropbox account.

Now that you have a successful web based business and you are getting orders from people all over the country, you might run into a significant yet often underestimated problem.  This is the problem of culture.  Culture even in one country can be interesting and diverse especially in the United States.  Do you know what the official national language is?  We don’t have one.  So why would your website be ONLY in English?  What about your potential customers whose first language is German or Italian or Spanish?  78% of articles on Wikipedia are NOT in English.

Google has a great tool to deal with this problem.  Google Translate is a simple and easy way to help people from all backgrounds access you website.  All you need to do is to add a small section of html into your website.  Then there will be a button on your page that people can use to instantly and very accurately translate the entire page into their language.  Google Translate currently offers 64 different languages.  Google hasn’t figured out how to translate all aspects of culture just yet, but the language barrier is a great start.  You should make that start.