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10 ways retail companies can stay relevant on the Web

Jul23
by on July 23, 2014 at 7:43 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, startup, YEC, yec.co, Young Entrepreneur Council

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Although we all remember the mom-and-pop shops we used before Amazon, retail is becoming an increasingly Web-based industry dominated by a mix of big companies and savvy, online-only startups. But merging old-school brick and mortar with emerging mobile and Web technologies has the potential to take the retail industry to a whole new level. To find out what strategies work best, we asked a group of entrepreneurs from YEC the following: What’s one strategy retail companies can use to stay relevant on and offline? These were their tips: 1. VIP Clubs We work with a number of clients in the retail space and have…

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Blue Ant PUMP HD Sportsbuds review: Water-resistant, rugged headphones with staying power

Jul23
by on July 23, 2014 at 6:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Reviews

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Blue Ant has today announced that its HD Sportsbuds headphones are available in the UK, having first gone on sale in the US earlier in the year. With the promise of  ‘wireless’ in-ear buds we wouldn’t have to take out from the start of a training session until stepping out of the shower, we decided a quick review was in order. Blue Ant may not be as much of a household name as brands like Beats or Sol Republic, but we’re no stranger to the name, both for headphones and headsets. And with the PUMP HD now being offered for sale directly from Apple…

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Effective Web messaging: How to say the right thing at the right time

Jul23
by on July 23, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, How-To's

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Des Traynor is the co-founder Intercom, the easiest way for Web and mobile businesses to understand and communicate with their customers. This post originally appeared on InsideIntercom.  Communicating with a large user base is damn hard. Every product owner knows this. We’ve been doing our best to help Intercom customers with this, explaining how to plan a good message schedule, and giving seminars focussing on communication to convert and retain customers. Thankfully it’s working. High stakes communication Mailing tens of thousands of people is really stressful. Nervous pacing, constant questioning. The worry rarely that our customers won’t like the message, product communications are…

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Skype for Android will soon sync with your address book

Jul23
by on July 23, 2014 at 5:53 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Skype for Android got an update today that will add support for importing your address book into the app. While the feature is listed in the latest Google Play change log, it will switch on “in the coming weeks.” You’ll need to verify your phone number, and then your address book contacts will show up alongside your existing Skype friends. If you’d like to opt out of continuous friend search, you can do so from the settings. I’m actually surprised that the functionality didn’t exist before, but a Skype FAQ explains the previous process for adding contacts: manually typing in numbers….

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Reddit Live is now official, lets anyone create their own breaking news live blog

Jul23
by on July 23, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Today, Reddit officially launched its own live-blogging platform. The company calls it Reddit Live and the feature has actually been in “semi-open beta” for a few months now – you may have stumbled across its threads covering Twitch Plays Pokemon and the conflict in Ukraine. During the initial beta period, only Reddit employees were able to create these live streams and authorize trusted “reporters” to contribute. Now, anyone can use Reddit Live and submit their ongoing threads to a dedicated subreddit. Unlike traditional Reddit posts, these threads will update in your browser automatically and in real-time. They also support embedded tweets,…

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