Safeguard Your Published Content on Wordpress

Small and Medium businesses are leveraging free and easily available, intelligent technology to be operationally smarter and powerfully address business challenges. Many small and emerging companies are leveraging the freely available web content management system Wordpress, to host their official blogs and in many cases official websites. Wordpress is a freely available CMS and is fairly powerful till a certain size of the website.

Small companies are setting up such web based CMS's to quickly design and host websites which are highly usable and can be set up almost at a no cost basis. You don't specifically need a designer to design your sites and you would not really require a great coding team to build you a great piece.

To download and host your own version of wordpress, all you need to do is buy a domain name along with web space and upload wordpress on the root directory, using the Cpanel that you get from your web host.

The data challenge
The one thing which remains a challenge still is safeguarding the data from crashing. There have been cases before, when companies have lost their published content due to server shifting/ crashing of the site. Some malicious code working in an unwanted manner etc.

Backup your data on wordpress DB
Now you can use WP-Dbmanager, which is a free plug-in provided by wordpress which essentially helps you in backing up your content which you publish using the WP platform. Since all your content is now saved in the database, it keeps getting backed-up and hence is safe, even in the event of a crash or a server failure at your host end.

Team IndiaMART Knowledge Services is committed to enable SMEs with tools, tips and techniques to help them reach up the value chain and hence achieve the next level of growth. For more information on how you can create new opportunities for your business, drop in a comment to this post and we will get in touch with you!

Let Your Presentations Stand Out With Great Fonts: Font Squirrel

For any business, delivering proposals, making presentations is a crucial part of the business. Business presentations are many times the first point of contact for the sales team with the prospective customers. In the world of social networks such as SlideShare, there is much emphasis on creating powerful presentations and documents which present the best foot forward for your business. Even while you are not actively promoting your business, your content appears in search results worldwide and it gives your prospects a certain sense of your business, which creates a powerful propositional value for them.

Let Your Presentations Stand Out With Great Fonts
One of the biggest challenge with SMEs is that they cannot afford to hire great designers to create world class presentations, which obviously is essential for any business reaching out to prospects. To make great presentations, other than powerful content which you want to deliver across, great images and "fonts" help in making powerful impact on the user.

You can now download free fonts which can be used commercially, from Font Squirrel.

How do I install these fonts?
Whether you have a windows OS or a Mac, all you need to do is to download these fonts from the website and they will auto install on your system, depending upon the OS.

You can use these fonts in your presentations and make your text stand out with much emphasis. This helps you keep your message clear and direct and helps in keeping the communication strong.

Team IndiaMART Knowledge Services is committed to enable SMEs with tools, tips and techniques to help them reach up the value chain and hence achieve the next level of growth. For more information on how you can create new opportunities for your business, drop in a comment to this post and we will get in touch with you!

Give Your Business the Right Direction with Scribble Maps

Almost every business, small and medium uses Google Maps in more ways than one. Obviously one of the prime usage of Google Maps by any business is to help customers and other intended audience who are searching for them, they find their office locations easily. Lets say if a customer is visiting you, chances are that he/ she would look your business up at Google Maps and set his/ her directions on the GPS devices and hence reach to the right location without really wasting time in asking for directions.

Now make custom Google Maps for your business!

With scribble maps you can create custom looking Google Maps, by creating specific directive pointers on LIVE maps, hence helping your customers locate your business on the maps easily.

Example, if your business is located at Noida Sector 6, India, all you need to do is to write the place on the top address bar on the screen as shown in the screen capture below:

Once you have located your business on Google Maps, now you can make custom maps by editing the current map with the tools provided on the top. Example as shown in the screen capture below:

Once you have edited the map, the way you wanted to, with all the specific directions to your business for a client to reach you/ locate you, you can also tag it along with YouTube videos of your business, as shown in the screen capture below:

Once the above is set, you can share the maps with clients as a link, share it on facebook, or save map as a jpeg to be shared with the intended audience.

ScribbleMaps essentially helps in making your business more attractive with all the relevant information about your business available to the clients right on the maps. This helps you be more effective in your communication and hence generate relevant business.

Team IndiaMART Knowledge Services is committed to enable SMEs with tools, tips and techniques to help them reach up the value chain and hence achieve the next level of growth. For more information on how you can create new opportunities for your business, drop in a comment to this post and we will get in touch with you!

Create and Collaborate With Documents in Real Time with TypeWith.me

Businesses are collaborating daily, many times the need for businesses to collaborate is in real time. There are many complex project management softwares which enable such critical and crucial collaboration among-st the intended audience. The simplest form of such collaboration is around word documents. In the simplest of the formats, once you create a document, you simply either share with people over Email OR utilize tools like Google Docs/ Zoho Docs to really collaborate and create the document in real time.

Will You TypeWith.me helps you create and collaborate around documents in real time!

Once you click on the create a new document link, you are re-directed to the following screen as shown in the screen capture above. The above screen capture reveals how you can create LIVE documents and collaborate around with people on the same in real time.

Once you have started the document, you can simply share it with the collaborators you wish, by clicking on "share this" button, which will generate the following URL which you can share with intended collaborators online OR on Email:

As shown in the screen capture above, you can simply share the link with the intended target audience and they will be able to login to the document and each one of you can start collaborating online in real time.

Team IndiaMART Knowledge Services is committed to enable SMEs with tools, tips and techniques to help them reach up the value chain and hence achieve the next level of growth. For more information on how you can create new opportunities for your business, drop in a comment to this post and we will get in touch with you!

Present Your Data With Amazing Infographics: Visual.ly

Businesses today are working in the knowledge economy. There is data being created each day which is of a certain relevance to targeted stakeholders in every business. With new technologies and internet coming up, there is data in terms of consumer behavior, consumption statistics, online behavior towards a certain product etc. coming up. For Small and Medium businesses capturing this data and making actual business sense out of it is crucial.

Infographics for business
When raw information is presented in a well readable and visible format, it makes more business sense. Information presented in a good format can always make work more effective and efficient. Visual.ly helps you do just that. Visual.ly helps you create powerful infographics while displaying raw information in a more businesses oriented manner.

While using some very interesting self service tools online, you can build powerful visualizations which have their basis int he data which you provide into them.

What visual.ly helps you do is to make information look beautiful, more comprehensible and easy to understand. This obviously helps in making key business decisions while using complex data in a simplistic format.

Ho to use Visual.ly?

Using Visual.ly is fairly easy. All you need to do is to quickly create a login on the website as shown in the screen capture below:

While they are building their services, Visual.ly has given the following twitter service free to try to customers:

Once you fill in all the key details, the software automatically captures details from your twitter id and displays the final result in a very easy to comprehend simple looking infographic which will let you know all about your twitter profile and how well are you doing?

How does it help my business?

Powerful infographics help businesses in more ways than one. You can capture information and display the same in a format which is powerful and easy to comprehend. As the management you can take quick management and business decisions using this information. Access to such simplified information can help businesses take quick decisions and hence make the business operationally more active.

If you wish to know more on leveraging online tools for your business, our team of experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services will be happy to help. Drop in a comment to this post OR contact us on our website: www.indiamart.com

Read All Your Top Blogs At Once on: Google Reader

There is a plethora of information available online about anything and everything under the sun, one can imagine. While obviously not all pieces of information are relevant to you/your business. The one's which are, obviously the one's on which you must be spending the major amount of your time. But with information lying across everywhere and only the search engines helping out to get a hang of it, how do you ensure that you are investing your time on just the right information only?

Blogs
There are millions of blogs out there. Some of them actually are fantastic sources of great information. At times you get to see the perspective of some great people across the globe who share their thought leadership/ learnings through their blogs. But with so many blogs being published on every subject out there, how will you ensure that you get access to them all, while maintaining the relevancy of your time spent.

Google Reader
There are many feed readers globally which are available online, which can be used to automatically fetch the blog feeds from these blogs. Google reader is one such free tool, which helps you subscribe to any blog/ source of information which ha a valid RSS feed.

The above screen capture shows how the Google reader looks like.

How to work on Google Reader?

Google Reader is simple to activate and use. All you need to do is type in the following URL in your address bar: www.google.co.in/reader. Once you are done, you will be re-directed to the home screen as shown in the screen capture above and you can now start subscribing to your favorite blogs by clicking on the "Add a Subscription" button on the top left.

As shown in the screen capture above, simply copy and paste the RSS feed of the blog/ online resource and press the add button. In seconds, Google Reader will automatically pull the feeds from the source, which you can see in the left sidebar, clicking which you can expand the posts.

How does this help my business?

Google reader helps you save on time and be updated while going through global top content sources at the click of a button. Also since it automatically updates the feeds, therefore you don't have to login each time to these blogs to access the content.

There are many such online tools available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about.

Small Business Looking to Expand Outreach? Try facebook Ads

While many Small and Medium businesses are looking at innovative ways of expanding their outreach and engaging the target audience, the essential part still is to manage it all while playing within the restricted marketing budgets. Social Media has made it possible for small businesses now to leverage the power of targeted media buying to reach out to the relevant TG for your business.

Tried facebook advertising yet?
Many businesses are now experimenting with newer ways to increase outreach to the intended target audience and facebook is the increasing choice for most of them. facebook provides a whole new way of targeting the customers very minutely. You can choose across age groups, demographics, geography etc. to ensure that your message is reaching out to the relevant most TG.

This ensures that you spending only the right money to effectively ensure the ROI on your advertising budget. facebook advertising platform is robust and highly cost effective, especially for the SMEs, its easy to work around and gives powerful statistics to ensure that your business can measure each advertising dollar spent.

The volumes?
While facebook reached to about 700 million users globally, there will definitely be users who will be interested in your product/ service and hence you are targeting to an interestingly, socially engaged user base.

The Targeting:
The real power of facebook advertising is not just in its volumes of the user base, but actually in its ability to target highly granularly. facebook ads can reach out to just the potential customer base for your business. Though as many people feel, facebook ads are more B2C in nature and they are more effective that way, there are newer engaging techniques for B2B players.

Your fb ads platform looks like as shown in the screen capture above. You can manage multiple accounts and also manage statistics, showing you the real effectiveness and ROI.

The statistics above show how facebook ads can really be tracked and the numbers marked upon to assess the effectiveness of the Ads.

The menu on the left helps you track your investment on the media buying and also you can any point in time pause your advertising campaign and start it afresh if you think that an updated approach might help you be more effective in engaging your TG.

The fb ads ensure that your targeting is highly defined, which effectively helps you reach out to only the relevant users globally. The targeting can be set as shown in the screen capture above.

There are many other ways of increasing outreach, but for small and emerging businesses facebook Ads are the most effective and highly targeted way of reaching out by buying media. The interesting part here also is, you don't need someone to tell you how to do it, anyone who is using the fb ads for the first time, can quickly configure the platform according to their needs easily.

There are many such online tools available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

How to Keep Updated With All the News of Your Domain: Linkedin Today

The advent of the Internet has changed one dynamic starkingly for businesses and individuals and that is access to information. With internet now being available across devices, both mobile and laptops, people have the ability to keep abreast of everything which is happening around them. You no more require just news channels to know the latest news, all that you need to do is log-onto the internet and you are good!

There is a such a lot of information, how to access it in a focused manner?
There is a whole lot of information on the internet, how do you ensure that you don't waste time and that you reach out to only the content pieces which are relevant to you?! There are many ways to do it, obviously one is that you can always subscribe to all the quality blogs out there online, which are relevant to your domain and keep reading them daily. Its like reading many newspapers to keep yourself updated with all the happenings. But is it scalable, probably not!

Access relevant global information as you login to Linkedin!

The screen capture above shows (the red arrow) a new feature of Linkedin called : Linkedin Today, which actually is like your real world newspaper, just that here you access it online and not read it page by page.

What is Linkedin today?

Linkedin today is a platform which aggregates content from the top sources of the world on various domains. The various industries it covers is:

• Automotive
• Banking
• Computer Games
• Computer Software
• Construction
• Design
• Education Management
• Entertainment
• Fashion & Apparel
• Film & Motion Pictures
• Financial Services
• Food & Beverage
• Graphic Design
• Health, Wellness & Fitness
• Higher Education
• Hospital & Health Care
• Hospitality
• IT
• Insurance
• Internet
• Law
• Leisure & Travel
• Management Consulting
• Marketing & Advertising
• Nonprofit
• Oil & Energy
• Online Media
• Pharmaceuticals
• Public Relations
• Publishing
• Real Estate
• Restaurants
• Retail
• Semiconductors
• Staffing & Recruiting
• Telecommunications
• Venture Capital & Private Equity

The above screen capture shows how the Linkedin Today looks like and how can you easily follow/ un-follow a certain source and an industry.

Is it free?

YES! all the information provided by the platform is free for your use and consumption. You can access it anytime on your mobile phones, or laptop, anywhere across the world and be updated with the latest globally.

How does it help my business?

As an emerging company, you are always looking out for opportunities and opportunities don't come wrapped in silver platters. They are to be found. Access to real time news obviously helps in ensuring that you keep track of everything happening in your industry and hence create new opportunities for your emerging business.

There are many such services available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

Help Your Customers Take Intelligent & Informed Buying Decisions: naaptol.com

Introduction of the internet has changed everything. How businesses communicate and today transact has evolved from being just a one sided conversation to a multi way dialogue which has empowered customers to be well informed of what they are buying. Today if you are going to buy any product you probably have the reviews of the same available online already.

E-commerce helped it all evolve
E-commerce thought is still catching up in India, but with broadband spreading across the country, there is a lot being achieved with people actually making purchase decisions online. There are many e-commerce portals which are empowering the customer with all sorts of information, which is helping them make powerful buying decisions. While it becomes easier for both the customer and the seller to transact online, its also scalable, as, if you are a seller you can simply host your product/ solution/ offering online on an e-commerce platform and the rest is taken care of by the platform. Your product can reach out to target audience which generally you would not have reached out to.

Comparing the products before buying helps: naaptol!
If you are able to compare the product you want to buy with similar offerings in the market OR comparative brands, you are better able to judge, if you are making the best choice or not.

While there are exciting deals on this platform, the interesting part for Small and Medium Enterprises is that they can sell their products on the website, while listing them with their features for the buyers/ customers to have a look at and explore.

As shown in the screen capture above, naaptol allows users to be a seller or a buyer. As a seller you can list your products on the site and be assured that many prospective buyers would be comparing them online. 

How do I list my product?

To create your own e-store on naaptol, all that you need to do, is to create a login to the website, as shown in the screen capture below:

Once you are done, you can start listing your products online with all the various details about them, which you think, the customers would want to know and will help them take a buy decision.

How can customers choose brand and products?

Lets take an example. Lets say you want to buy a hands free for your mobile phone, all you need to do for it to navigate across to the hands free section under mobiles on the website and you will be re-directed to the following screen:

The customers can now choose amongst the various brands existing and can also get a comparative differentiator chart created for the choices they have made. These differences are not just limited to prices, but also features and many other comparison pointers, which are provided by the platform and help customers make an informed buy decision.

How do SMEs benefit?

SMEs which are in the product selling space can actually list their products for free on these e-commerce websites and generate sales. The process pretty much remains similar as it is in the offline world. As you buy from trusted brands and shops/ establishments, you obviously have to create your reputation and credibility in the online marketplace, where your customers have to believe you and place their trust on you monetarily.

Selling online reduces down the cost of sales and also reduces down the sales cycle time and customer acquisition process. Hence for SMEs its more scalable and a far better option to sell online.

There are many such online platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

The Most Advanced Open Source ERP and CRM Tool: OpenTaps

What is Opentaps?

Opentaps is the most advanced open source ERP+CRM solution. Opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM is a fully integrated application suite that brings together top-tier open source projects to help you manage your business more effectively.  Today, opentaps supports ecommerce, Customer Relationship Management, Warehouse and Inventory Management, Supply Chain Management, and Financial Management to Business Intelligence and mobility integration out-of-the-box.

Opentaps: free Software

Opentaps is a free ERP+CRM tool. Being open source, its source code is freely available to be modified/ built upon. It's also "free" as in "free lunch," so you can freely download and use a production-ready, enterprise-grade ERP system.  If you are technically knowledgeable or have unique needs not covered by our expertise, this is probably your best option.

Obviously if you are not really technically oriented and are a business view person, you can always have a technology team to architect a powerful fully customized open source ERP+CRM tool for your business. Any ERP or CRM application must ensure that it meets the various business objectives which are related to the business and for which the application is being created for.

Who all are using Opentaps?

There are many organisations which have been using Opentaps, the most of the industries include:

• Industrial machinery manufacturers
• Online goods retailers
• Online content distributors
• Telecommunications companies
• Independent software vendors
• Hosted service providers

What features does opentaps provide?

• As a fully integrated ERP and CRM suite, handling everything from leads, order management, and customer service to purchasing, production planning, inventory management, and manufacturing, to shipping and accounting.
• As a specialized production and purchasing planning and scenario analysis tool
• As a CRM tool for sales force and customer service automation
• As an inventory, order, and accounting back end application for PHP front end stores
• As an ecommerce platform supporting multiple online stores with special offers, promotions, and gift certificates
• As a specialized vertical industry billing solution
• As a hosted ecommerce product offering

Source: http://www.opentaps.org/sites/default/files/images/OrderFulfillment.jpg

The CRM dashboard of the system looks like the following:

Source: http://www.opentaps.org/sites/default/files/images/CRM_Dashboard.preview.png

The financial Dashboard looks like the following:

Source: http://www.opentaps.org/sites/default/files/images/Financials_Dashboard.preview.png

Is there a services support for Opentaps?

Yes, being open source and the code being free and the software essentially being free for a download, Opentaps has a strong services-support system. Being open source the biggest advantage is the community driven support. Users create new used cases and include them online for everyone's benefit.

Opentaps has the following different versions:

• Update Service
• Professional Edition
• Professional Evaluation
• Professional Implementation
• Training
• opentaps In The Cloud

You can also access the services an support by directly navigating to the following URL: http://www.opentaps.org/services-support

How do I get Opentaps for my business?

You can get in touch with any of the following Opentaps partners who will help you in customizing and implementing Opentaps for your business. These partners are business associates for opentaps who understand your business and act as direct opentaps vendors to you. They also extend personal service and support for your business.

All you need to reach out to these partners is to follow the following URL: http://www.opentaps.org/partners

Where can I learn more about opentaps before taking a business call?

While you can always get in touch with a partner, you can also get to know more about opentaps with the opentaps shop which is available through this URL: http://shop.opentaps.org/ 

There are many such online platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

Get Free Information on Tenders Online Through B2B Exchanges

Applying to tenders floated by the Indian Government is a difficult job. The first stage is to know them and much before that is to get the information. Though these tenders are published in national dailies etc. still there is much gap in the information process flow. From the information being released to the information being consumed by the service provider/ business.

For Small and Medium Enterprises its a challenge to keep abreast with the latest information about all tenders related to their domain and on top of that is applying for them. The information flow gap also gets created due to the lack of a single dedicated resource for all tenders across India which businesses could apply to.

B2B Exchanges plug the gap
There are many online B2B Exchanges which have started aggregating information about Indian tenders and such information is free to access for the various service providers all over the country. This creates a win-win situation for both the government and the vendor. While the government gets bids from service providers across the country, the competitive nature of these bids helps them to ensure that they choose the best from a host of many options available to them now.

A sample tenders section from one of the leading such Exchange in India is shown in the screen capture below:

For any SME, while looking to bid competitively for the tenders, IndiaMART.com's tenders information plugs in the information accessibility gap. The information access becomes far easier when you have it available by state, by industry and also by authority. Hence you can now reach out to classified information in seconds.

How do I access Tenders on IndiaMART?

To access tenders on IndiaMART requires nothing more than two clicks. All you need to do is go to the URL: www.indiamart.com and click on "Tenders" in the top menu navigation. Now lets say you are in the Automobile industry and are interested in getting only those tenders which are from your industry.

All you need to do is navigate to the menu in the extreme left sidebar and click on "Automobile". Once you do this, you will have access to an expanded choice of items under Automobile, as shown in the screen capture below:

So now that you have access to information bout tenders from all over the country, specific to your industry and that too in just 2 clicks without paying a fee, this is a true win for you.

The next step

There is another way to get these tenders reach out to you, rather than you coming on the website and only then accessing the information. To do this, you must click on the following link which says, "Tenders E-Mail Alerts", as shown in the screen capture below:

Once you click on the link, you will be re-directed to the following page, as shown in the screen capture below:

If you are a New User, all you need to do is to register online by clicking "Join Now" as shown in the screen capture above and you will start getting all the relevant tenders in your email inbox.

So go ahead and get to all the interesting tenders that you have always been on the look-out for and.

There are many such online platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

Store and Preview Your Documents Online With Docstoc MyDocs

As we are living in the knowledge economy, there is much happening around us all any given second of time. There is far greater knowledge being created globally by individuals, businesses and others which is being shared at light-speeds through the internet. Now you can view global knowledge while sitting online right from the comfort of your office desk.

The Challenge and the Opportunity
But with such a lot of knowledge being generated, there has to be a secure place where it can be shared. Example if  my business has documents which I would like to digitize and upload somewhere to share it with the world, how do I safely do it? Also if I wish to publish my private documents only for the view of my clients/ the intended party, how do I achieve that?

For SMEs especially while they are generating these amounts of information, they have to create a scalable solution to maintain and manage such information.

The Solution: Docstoc MyDocs
Docstoc MyDocs is the best place to keep your documents online. With Docstoc MyDocs, you can store ALL your documents (.doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf) in your own customized, personal online folders for anytime, anywhere access. Access your private documents, and manage public documents you can publish to Docstoc from one location. Docstoc MyDocs is the fastest and easiest way to preview and access your documents. Effortlessly sync all the documents on your personal computer with Docstoc MyDocs. To get your documents uploaded to MyDocs faster, try our Docstoc Sync application

The video above shows how Docstoc Mydocs can change the way you do business, while making it easier for you to share and manage documents.

What are the various benefits that I get using Docstoc MyDocs?

• Access your important docs from any location
• Quickly Preview any doc with the Docstoc Viewer
• Search through all your documents
• Display in Thumbnail View or List View
• Unlimited online file storage
• Add any doc on Docstoc to your MyDocs folders
• AutoSync your computers’ docs with Docstoc Sync

How do I use Docstoc MyDocs: getting started:

To get started, you’ll first need to be a registered Docstoc user. Registration is free and quick, join here. Once logged in, click the "MyDocs" tab located in the top navigation bar. Here you will find any documents you’ve uploaded to Docstoc. If you haven’t uploaded any documents to Docstoc, try our Bulk Upload Tool, the Docstoc OneClick application, or Docstoc Sync.

What all can I do with my Docs once uploaded to Docstoc?

• You can view in the thumbnail/ list view

Source: http://i.docstoccdn.com/mydocs/thumb-view-modes.jpg

• Preview documents

Source: http://i.docstoccdn.com/mydocs/thumb-mydocs-preview.jpg

• Showing and Hide Folders

Source: http://i.docstoccdn.com/mydocs/thumb-folder-show-hide.jpg

• See documents in full screen mode

Source: http://i.docstoccdn.com/mydocs/thumb-fullscreen.jpg

• Mark documents Private/ Public

Source: http://i.docstoccdn.com/mydocs/thumb-private.jpg

• Edit document meta data

Source: http://i.docstoccdn.com/mydocs/thumb-edit-document.jpg

• Download, Create and Email Folders

Source:http://i.docstoccdn.com/mydocs/thumb-email-document.jpg

Once you are logged into the Docstoc portal, you need to go to the following URL: http://www.docstoc.com/MyDocuments/ this will show the following screen as shown in the screen capture below:

Once you reach here, all you need to do is "Upload" your documents and classify them into specific folders, which you can later on manage.

There are many such online platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!

Embed Your Documents Anywhere on the Web with DocStoc Embed

Lets begin with a case. Lets say, you made a fantastic presentation for the benefit of your target audience. Example, if you are in the mobile apps domain, you made a presentation on how to make intelligent mobile apps for businesses.

Step I completed, but who ensures that Step II, which is taking the presentation to the target market also gets completed and that too while driving relevant traffic to your presentation online. Obviously you will have to host your presentation somewhere for people to see it. In this case you have two possible options. Either you host your presentation by buying server space online and drive target audience there OR you can host it at a public documents hosting website which already has access to your target audience globally and also gives the solution free to you.

docstoc Embed does just that
If you wish to publish your documents, presentations anywhere on a website OR a blog, all you need to do is host the same on docstoc and copy the embed code of the same on the space of the website/ blog where you want to host it. Upon publishing, any visitor to that page will be able to view your embedded document. And while they are viewing it, the number of views to the document are being recorded by docstoc, which help you understand how many people have viewed your document.

How do I embed my first document?

The first step will be to login to docstoc.com which you can do as follows: either you can go and register on the website OR you can login with your facebook profile, which is a far simpler process. Once you are logged in you will be re-directed to the following screen, as shown in the screen capture below:

Click on the Upload option on the main menu as highlighted in the screen capture above, once done, you will be redirected to the following screen below:

Simply click on 'Select Files' and start uploading. Once the uploading is complete, you will see the following screen as shown below in the screen capture:

Once you have filled in the details and tagged the document right, simply click 'Save and Publish' and your document will be hosted LIVE on docstoc.

Once done, click on 'View my Documents' which will take you to the screen as shown below:

This is where you will get your embed code. The embed button on the top menu will provide you an embed code, which you can simply copy and paste on any section of your website/ blog and it will automatically fetch information from docstoc and show your document LIVE.

There are many such online platforms and tools available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!