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:

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 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.

Read how you can Sync your Appointy with your Android , Blackberry, IPhone, Nokia S60, or Windows mobile using Google Calendar.

At Appointy we encourage our users to schedule a screen sharing session with us, where we help them to get the most out of Appointy. In order to do that, we schedule appointments using our scheduling page at Appointy. (Schedule an Appointment)

We plan everything well in advance and use Google Calendar to Manage ourselves. By linking Appointy with Google calendar we were able to push all the appointments to our mobile phone (Nokia E63).

How to do it?
1. Login to your Appointy Admin. Click on Mashups link in the top menu. Link it with Google Calendar.

2. Go to http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html. Select make of your Mobile. Follow the instructions and get appointments pushed to your mobile.

Note:
1. Google does not support Tasks & Contact Sync yet. So make sure it is turned off otherwise it will not sync your calendar also.
2. Appointy updates Google Calendar with only confirmed Appointments. Appointments in queue gets updated as soon as they are approved.

Try it and if you face any problems then please do not hesitate to contact us at contact [at] appointy.com or schedule an appointment with us.

Last week, we announced our facebook fan page and sent emails to all of our registered businesses using Appointy. Most of them had set auto responders and some email replies got our attention.

We think that this is a great way to fill your appointment books. Even when you are on honeymoon, Appointy will allow you to schedule appointment with your clients. You just have to make sure that you have done the right thing to inform people about it. Auto email responders are a great way to do it. Isn’t it?

If you have such a tip then do send it to contact [at] appointy.com and we will publish it on our blog.

Did you ever feel the need of Synchronizing Appointy with your favorite calendaring tool you use to manage your business? I am sure most of you must have faced the need at some point.

Appointy provides 2 ways to synchronize your calendaring tool with Appointy:

1. Sync desktop calendaring tools like Outlook, Windows calendar, Apple iCal or any other calendaring tool which supports iCal.
We provide iCal feeds which you can subscribe directly in your favorite calendaring tool. Login to your admin area and you will see a iCal feed button besides tab as shown below.

Clicking on it will open a window and will show you the iCal supporting softwares installed on your computer. Select the one, which you want to synchronize with Appointy.

2. Sync web based calendaring tools like Google Calendar or 30 boxes.
We also provide synchronizing web based calendaring with Appointy. It is real time process and Appointy can update your web based calendaring tool as soon as you or your client books an appointment. To enable it login to your account. It can be Admin, Staff or Client. Select Mashups for the menu and find the calendaring tool with which you want to synchronize appointy. You will see something like shown below:

Remember that this is one way synchronization from Appointy to Google Calendar. We are working to make it 2 way.

There is a small bug in synchronizing with google calendar. Google does not update accounts having multiple calendar. We are working to get this issue fixed.

Please contact us for any further question you may have.