First Preview: Email Marketing Tool

December 23rd, 2009 | by Nemesh | in Preview | with Comments

We are so excited to release first preview of our most awaited Email marketing tool today. Within few hours from now it would be live for some Businesses.

Our Email marketing tool is very flexible and can be compared to any other email marketing solution in the market. You can either use ready-to-go templates or create your own in few minutes and send it to your clients.

Send Season Greetings, Wishes, Promotional Discounts, or Newsletter etc to your existing clients into Appointy or import from your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL or other 15+ email providers.

Here is the first preview of our Email Marketing Tool:

Email Marketing - First Preview

Appointy is the most powerful appointment Mgmt. software. Our free features are far most advanced than many other solutions available in the market.

If you haven’t tried yet then we would suggest you to try Appointy & also experience our wonderful customer support. Our free version allows unlimited bookings, unlimited service & unlimited staff. Try Now!

Time to get a Facebook Page now.

December 21st, 2009 | by gaby | in Appointy Tips | with Comments

As you all know that we are launching our Email marketing solution, we would suggest every business to get one Facebook page now as our ready-to-use email marketing templates would be centered towards Facebook Page.

Holiday season is a great time to thank clients by offering them discounts, gifts, and deals and at the same time increase sales. You might be doing it already in the past. But this time, we want you to take a step forward and try to make a community of your fans from your clients.

This time, by offering discounts you will be getting 2 things:

» 1. More sales.
» 2. Managed Client information and feedback which you can utilize for future promotions.

So instead of sending discounts or deals in emails, our email templates would focus on sending information about discounts or deals on Facebook Page. Because of your offers, there would be more chances of your client becoming your Fan on the Facebook and we want you to take the advantage to form a community of fans.

Are you new to Facebook page concept? Consider reading below:

A Facebook Page is a customizable presence for an organization, product, or public personality to join the conversation with Facebook users. The Page focuses on the stream of content posted by the Page administrators.

By leveraging the real connections between friends on Facebook, a Page lets Fans become brand advocates. Posts by the Page will start to appear in News Feed, giving Pages a stronger voice to reach their Fans.

The three most important ways of leveraging Facebook for marketing:

» Establish a strong profile as this is the basis of your entire Facebook marketing strategy because it gives you the ability to show others what you can do, who you can help and what you have to offer. This is where you can list your website or blog and works as a wonderful portal to take people there. Get people to your profile and if they find it interesting enough, they will click on the links.

» Reach out to people in your niche and make connections. This is a wonderful way to reach out to others who are out there and share similar interests, and see how you can leverage that and help out both your businesses.

» Reach your target market easily by using the Facebook feature that allows you to see friends of friends.

To know more about Facebook pages visit Facebook’s official guide here. If you need help in creating your Facebook page then please do not hesitate to contact at manishi [at] appointy [dot] com and we would be more than happy to assist you further.

So stay tuned as in December 2009 we have more surprises for you (other than email marketing).

Note: Do not forget to update your Facebook link in Appointy from Admin area, within Customize tab under Settings menu. Once updated, you will not need to make any changes to ready-to-use templates and you can be growing your business with few clicks in less than 5 minutes.

Appointy’s Affiliate program

November 13th, 2009 | by gaby | in Launch | with Comments

Over the last year, we have found that most of the Business registrations are coming from websites which are already using Appointy. We have heard from various Businesses using Appointy that their client fell in love with their scheduling software (Appointy) at first sight and if there is a way they could monetize it in some way or the other.

We listened, and finally we are releasing our Affiliate program. You don’t have to pay anything to join it. You can join if you are using it. Your client will see it and they would click on the powered by link and if they join as a premium member we will pay you at least 25% commissions of his membership every month for his entire paid cycle. Our commission struture changes as you refer more clients and we share 50% revenue if you have 150 premium clients.

Appointy is a self selling software and we would strongly suggest every one to join us as an affiliate.

If you are interested then please send us an email at contact@appointy.com along with your username at appointy and we will make you our affiliate.

Note: This affiliate program is for limited clients only and we reserve the right to approve or disapprove any request.

Wordpress Plug-in: Facebook share button with count like tweetmeme button

October 30th, 2009 | by gaby | in Lab | with Comments

Releasing today, Facebook share plug-in for WordPress which shows the number of times the post or page has been shared through out the Facebook just like tweetmeme button does for twitter.

fbshareThis is how it looks on your blog (See on the left). Click here to download or to know more about this plug-in.

Sharing content on Facebook hasn’t generally been as easy as it has been on Twitter. Part of Twitter’s advantage is just how easy it is to share from blogs and other websites. A lot of this has to do with the Tweetmeme buttons, which are those Twitterbuttons you see on Mashable and elsewhere that count up how many retweets a webpage experiences. Facebook’s never really had an equivalent. Until now.

Quietly the world’s largest social network has been working on a new version of Facebook Share, one that includes buttons that can count the amount of shares a specific article gets across Facebook’s vast platform. They launched it officially on 26th Oct 2009, though you’ve probably already seen them being tested on a few websites, including Mashable, during the last week or so.

At Appointy, we realized the potential of new Facebook Share button and added the button to our blog. We put some extra efforts and created a WordPress plug-in so everyone can benefit from it.

Please do not forget to leave a comment. :)

This post is a part of Appointy Lab release: At Appointy, we, a bunch of nerds, are constantly tinkering around with technology. Sometimes, our experiments make it into our products (in some shape or form). We thought to put some extra efforts and release some useful products for our friends like you.

Convert your facebook friends into customers – Appointy Facebook Widget

October 9th, 2009 | by gaby | in Launch | with Comments

Install “Schedule Me” application in your Facebook Profile or Fan page and start accepting appointments from your friends directly on Facebook. It works with your Facebook profile as well as your Facebook page. This is a must install widget for every business.

ScheduleMe1Today Facebook pages have evolved as a powerful tool to form a great social community of happy customers. Most businesses already have presence on Facebook and they are dedicating time to build a great community by either adding their clients as friends in their own profile or creating fans on Facebook pages. Both these strategies have helped businesses to grow virally. There is a saying that acquiring a new customer requires more investment than retaining an old client. You can get recurring business from your existing clients if you have the right channel to promote yourself. Our “Schedule Me” application would allow your happy customers to see latest Discounts on your Facebook page and allow them to book an appointment instantly from your Facebook profile or Facebook Page.

At Appointy we are constantly working to increase your visibility on these social channels and “Schedule Me” application is one of such an effort.

Read instructions here to install it on your Facebook Profile.
Read instructions here to install it on your Facebook Page.

If you have any question and need help to install this widget then schedule a screen sharing session with us from our Fanpage.

You like it? Please show your love by rating this application and also join us on our Facebook page here. Do not forget to pass it through the social links below :)