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.