What’s Poppin tonight?

What’s Poppin tonight?

As successful entrepreneurs and small business owners, you want to be able to maximize your social time. When you go out on the town, you want to know that you’re headed to places that are going to be fun and happening. With the new What’s Poppin app, you’ll have the ability to know the hot spots before leaving home.

As soon as you open the What’s Poppin app, you will have access to live video streams of places near you. Think of this as a “sneak peek” of coming attractions. Not sure if you really want to go to that restaurant your friends have been talking about? Open up What’s Poppin on your smartphone, and you’ll have a chance to see what’s happening tonight.

Or, maybe you’ve decided to make it a long night after dining out with your friends. Which bars or clubs are already happening? With What’s Poppin, you can check it out. You can see which clubs have crowds out front, or which bars are filled with fun, fascinating people.

What’s Poppin helps to solve the “Yelp problem.” How many times have you read a fantastic review of a restaurant, only to find out that the place is empty the night you decide to go there? How many times does the hype or buzz around a highly related Yelp business turn out to be wrong?

On any given night, it’s hard to know who’s going to be at a particular place, and it’s hard to know when – if ever - the really happening people are going to arrive. With the What’s Poppin app, you’ll always be able to have an advance peek. Your friends will be amazed – “How did you know this place would be so much fun tonight?”

The key to What’s Poppin is the live video stream from the bar, restaurant or club. This is more than just a static webcam showing the same image, over and over again. This is more along the lines of Facebook Live or Periscope, giving you a live video feed of what’s happening.

And there’s one more feature that makes What’s Poppin so much fun – you can also see if any of your friends are out at these places. If you see someone you recognize, there’s Point of Sale (POS) functionality that lets you buy someone a drink, an entrance fee or even food, all from the app.

Party promoters and club owners are going to love this app, too. It gives them a chance to give “social proof” that their establishment is worth going to on any given night. It gives them a fantastic opportunity to increase sales and activity.

In short, What’s Poppin is a fun app used for people that want to go out but would like to know the hot spots before leaving home. No more sitting in your hotel room in a strange city because you don’t know what the crowd is going to be like tonight. And no more arriving at a bar or restaurant, only to find out that it’s not as cool or happening as all the reviews claim it is. With What’s Poppin, you’ll always know what’s poppin.

The Right Now App Will Change How You Do Business

The Right Now App Will Change How You Do Business

As much as we’d like to think that we can perfectly plan our days as small business owners, the fact is, we can’t. Clients cancel at the last moment. Deadlines change. Lunch or dinner plans are moved to another day. And that means that you need some way to handle all those breaks and interruptions in your day.

That’s where the Right Now app will change how you do business. It helps you manage all those unpredictable moments in your day by providing access to service providers all over the country, 24 hours a day.

Say, for example, your laptop computer stops working just as you’re about to finalize a client presentation. Where can you get it fixed right now? The Right Now app provides a list of technology service providers who can help you with your problem.

Or, what happens when a block of time opens up in your schedule, and you’d like to take advantage of that time to get your hair styled? Once again, just open up the Right Now app and you can see which hair stylists are able to see you within a two-hour time window.

The Right Now app is especially powerful for handling the intersection of your personal life and your professional life. Long ago, you realized that the old 9-to-5 has been replaced by a seamless blurring of the personal and the professional worlds. Text messages and urgent email requests come in during family dinners, while you’re often left scheduling family-related events during the day at work.

That’s the power of Right Now – in addition to including a listing of administrative, business services and technology providers, it also provides a growing list of all the everyday service providers that you use in your daily life – the lawn maintenance company, the pet care specialist, the fashion stylist and the catering company.

Right Now is about the way you actually run your business. You’re used to getting things right now. Schedules are just so hectic that it’s hard to plan things out weeks in advance. Ever had the type of day where you feel like you’re bouncing from one meeting to the next, without any ability to control where you’re going next?

Right Now gives you back that control. By using the app, you’ll know that you can optimize every moment of your day. You won’t worry about clients canceling on you, or lunch reservations being pushed off to the next week. You’ll start to view those as two-hour windows of opportunity to get other things done.

And, best of all, Right Now works wherever you are doing business. Whenever you’re in a new city for business, you’ll have access to service providers near you. Just change your default settings to your new geographic location, and you’re good to go.

Right Now is a productivity tool as much as it is a lifestyle tool. It enables you to make sense of your hectic, busy schedule in a way that frees up time for you and gives you peace of mind so that you can focus on what really matters – growing your business.

MP Me: Making Music Part of Your Life

MP Me: Making Music Part of Your Life

Think of all the times when music has made a real impact in your life. Remember the songs you played at your wedding, or the music that happened to be playing during a special moment in your career? Until now, these were just fleeting moments that were impossible to catalogue. With the new MP Me app, however, you can now re-live the most memorable music from your life and share it with others.

MP Me is an app that chronicles your life through music. Just as Instagram makes it possible to tell your life’s story via photos, MP Me allows you to tell your life’s story via music. All the music you save is stored and indexed by date, time, person or mood so that at any given moment, you can easily share this music with others. This is literally the soundtrack of your life, enabling you to listen to exactly the music you were playing at any moment in your life.

As a small business owner or entrepreneur, this is a great way to recapture the inspiration of starting your first company or the songs that were playing when you first made the decision to go solo. As a husband or wife, this is a great way to tell your life partner exactly what you are feeling right now. And as a friend, this is a fantastic way of deepening your bonds of friendship.

That’s because MP Me includes a sharing feature that makes it possible to share a group of songs with people in your network. Think of this as a “mix tape” feature that you can use to connect with friends, family and colleagues. Just add in however many songs you would like to be part of this mix tape, add a title or description to the collection, and then share it via email.

This makes a very thoughtful gift for the people around you every day. Unconsciously or not, we all pay attention to the songs that motivate our friends, colleagues and co-workers. We all know what makes them tick, what music inspires them, and what type of music helps to define their personality.

That’s the premise behind the launch of MP Me – it brings back a feature of the old analog era that everyone misses – the care and devotion that went into making the “perfect” mix tape. The process was so manual and required so much time, and that in itself helped to make the sharing of this music so intensely personal.

Now, you can re-capture that magic with MP Me. You can create volumes based on what is going on your life at any time. If you’re on the road a lot for business, you can share with your family the music that you’re listening to right now. If you’re out at a poppin’ restaurant with friends, you can share that music with people who couldn’t make it out that night. This is reality music, life through song.

Music is an extraordinarily powerful force that works at the deepest emotional levels of our brains. Remember when we used music on our answering machines to reflect how we felt at the time? Or how we download ring tones our smartphones to reflect our own unique personalities? With MP Me, you have the ability to channel all those emotions, feelings and thoughts and communicate them to others via the power of music.

We Think You’re A 10!

We think you’re a 10!

 Show us what you’ve got and win new contracts!

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Contracts and Grants, LLC is looking for small, minority and veteran owned businesses to participate in an exciting and potentially lucrative opportunity.  As leaders committed to matching government contractors, agencies and corporations worldwide with quality product/service providers, we’re hosting a Fed_Tank event for top performing business.

You are invited to present to our expert panel for exposure and inclusion in our verified Teaming Exchange Network (TEN) database.

TEN is where contractors go to find “cream of the crop” providers!  They rely on it for access to a verified list of top performing businesses—all of which have completed our CnG-PARS performance assessment-rating program.

Fed_Tank proves you’re a TEN!

This is an exclusive opportunity to show our panel of buyers—professionals who sell directly to the federal government—what you can offer. All presenters will be rated based on specific performance indicators, and when necessary, offered detailed improvement plans specifically geared towards winning contracts.  As a qualifying business, you will receive:

·         30 minutes to pitch/present your USP

·         Undivided attention from a captive audience with invested interest in your products/services

·         Detailed feedback and performance enhancement advice from field experts

·         Inclusion in our verified TEN database as a reliable business of choice

·         Revenue generating opportunities with government contractors, agencies and corporations world-wide!

Space is limited for this event, so express interest today to ensure a place in our exciting Fed_Tank event!  Click here to sign up!

REVIEW: The New Must-Have Apps for the Business Diva

Most of us have apps for our social lives, or apps for our business lives, but how many of us have apps that combine the best of both worlds? That’s the basic idea behind The App Diva, a rapidly growing suite of apps that are geared to the startup entrepreneur and the small business owner. In other words, the apps are perfect for all the business divas out there.

Specifically, The App Diva apps are meant to help you take advantage of all those free moments in your life when you feel like you should be doing something more than just checking Facebook or catching up on the latest Internet meme. As of launch, there are three powerful apps – Right Now, Plus 1, and What’s Poppin – each of them geared for a specific part of your business life.

If you’re caught up in the blurring of the line between your personal and professional life, the first app in the suite you’ll probably want to use is the Right Now app. It’s designed to be a comprehensive directory of all the local businesses in your area that can deliver services within a two-hour window.

Maybe your lunch date has canceled on you, or your afternoon sales call has been postponed until tomorrow. That’s when you’d open up Right Now on your smartphone. Right Now recognizes your GPS location and automatically presents you a list of local area businesses that are open for business. You can sort by industry or region, so that you can find a business in your part of town that’s available to provide service “right now.”

Here’s just one possible use case of the Right Now app – you’ve been using your laptop computer all day and it suddenly stops working. At that point, you have two basic options – you can either throw your hands up in despair and write off the rest of your day to DIY tech support, or you can open up the Right Now app and see what technology service provider can fix it for you ASAP. Maybe there’s a computer repair shop just a few minutes away.

What’s unique about the Right Now app is that it’s been designed with the business owner in mind. The creators of the app realized that even though you’re in the office early in the morning or late at night, you still have a personal life to take care of. So you could just as easily use the Right Now app as a way to plan a weekend catering event or plan the next lawn maintenance appointment for your house.

All of the apps from the App Diva seamless integrate with your smartphone’s calendar apps. Moreover, since this is a suite of apps, they also integrate with each other. You can take contacts from the Right Now app and add them to the Plus 1 app or the What’s Poppin app, for example.

Again, it’s pure diva genius – the apps recognize that there are no longer “business contacts” and “personal contacts” any more once you’re a small business owner. So download the suite of apps from the App Store or Google Play store today and run your business like a true diva!

OVERALL APP RATING: 5/5

Music, Mood and More—All in One App!

Music, Mood and More—All in One App!

Like our favorite movies, we all have soundtracks for our lives! Certain songs instantly bring back memories of relationships, people, places and more. Music has the power to evoke strong feelings, tell a story and reveal a multitude of moods. Now, you can easily create and share these soundtracks, chronicling the days of your life, with a new app called MP Me! 

·         A modern take on the mix tape or custom playlist!

·         Save songs based on mood, memory, etc.

·         Easily store and retrieve songs that mean something to you!

·         Create heartfelt gifts that will be played again and again!

·         Chronicle your own life through music!

Like popular Social Media apps do with photos, MP Me allows you to store and index music by date, person and mood.  Easily grab songs to create playlists for yourself or others.  “Tag” friends and family on certain songs that spark a feeling or allow them to contribute to your playlists.  MP Me makes gifts because it shows you’re always listening!

Download MP Me and turn on the soundtrack of your days today!

Get the inside scoop on where to go with What’s Poppin!

Get the inside scoop on where to go with What’s Poppin!

All dressed up and don’t know where to go?  Make it a night to remember at your ideal place to be with What’s Poppin.  Real time streaming allows you to peak at a bar, club or event to see if it’s your scene before you get there.  This location-based application works no matter where you are.  It’s great for travelers looking for entertainment in unfamiliar cities or in your own hometown when you’re not sure what the crowd is like at a nearby haunt. 

What’s Poppin takes the guesswork out of great nights by giving you the power to actually be a “fly on the wall.” Don’t waste time standing in lines or traveling to bars that are disappointing.  Know before you go whether you’ll actually love that club everyone’s talking about.  Or get a sneak peak at an event to know exactly what to expect when you get there—or decide to skip it.

What’s Poppin’ is:

·         Perfect for getting the most out of your nights in an unfamiliar city

·         Easy-to-use with live streaming access to what a bar, club or event is really like

·         Great for event planners, promoters and establishments looking to attract clientele

·         Equipped with a Point of Sale feature for treating others to drinks, food or tickets

·         A fun, smart way to make it a great night—wherever you are!

Register here for the latest news on What’s Poppin and make it a great night every night.

Great Services When You Need Them Most: Right Now!

In this fast-paced mobile age, every second counts and a few hours—no matter what time of day—can be precious time to get something accomplished.  Whether it’s beauty services, business services or anything else, Right Now can help you identify someone who will help you get it done within a two-hour window. 

Busy entrepreneurs and travelers will want to download Right Now for access to trustworthy service/product providers in cities all over the U.S.  For those who offer on-demand services, Right Now offers a platform to get noticed, earn new customers and build your reputation for fast, reliable service.  This application creates a win-win marketplace for all involved—connecting motivated people to those who need what they offer most. 

·         Results within a 2-hour window—regardless of what time of day you need something!

·         Access to motivated professionals who can help you accomplish almost anything in a pinch.

·         On-demand services for hair, nails, pets, office assistance and much more!

·         An innovative way for providers to reach a wide audience of customers in need of their services.

·         Designed for travelers, entrepreneur and busy people looking to make the most of their time!

Download Right Now Free to get started!

Join the Mobile Marketplace

Teleconnect is like a passport to E-commerce right on your phone or mobile device.  It’s an application designed to easily connect teleworks and mobile-preneurs, as well as large offices.  By creating a shared community where professional services are easy to find, refer and access, Teleconnect delivers an experience like no other. 

For mobile-preneurs and independent contractors, Teleconnect provides an “office-like” experience.  And for larger companies, the app offers features for hosting remote workers in a collaborative space for a dynamic exchange of online services among tele-workers, telehosts and mobile-preneurs. Teleconnect is great for small businesses on a budget and large businesses looking to cultivate an innovative outside sales force!

·         Login and connect with a huge network of professionals who provide off-site services

·         Find independent contractors and mobile-preneurs to enhance your company’s reach or fill in gaps when necessary

·         Showcase your talents as a tele-worker to an audience of those actively looking for what you offer.

·         View and submit referrals to help build a reputation-based marketplace!

Download Teleconnect FREE to get started as a company or tele-worker/mobile-preneur and start making smart connections immediately.