Monetizing an online web site

As you’ve already know from my last post, we’ve launched a new site that gives an overview of the Santo Domingo public transportation system. It’s the first time we launch a service like this and we’re excited on watching the results. We’re aiming at least in covering the hosting costs.

The site basically shows a Google Map with the principal Santo Domingo buses routes in the city in combination of the Santo Domingo metro (subway). For now, the subway only has one line (the red line in the map). This forms the official Santo Domingo Transportation system of the city and is a great resource for tourist but also to local users.

For the moment, the only income we can get from the site is the AdSense ads from Google, although we are brainstorming some other ideas.

For marketing, we are using SEO techniques and placing some special keywords that get us in front of search engines. We’ve create a Facebook fan page where users can joined if they liked the service.

It’s really a different service, but we’re excited in trying these new things and we’ll be updating ahead how everything evolves.

Santo Domingo Transit Map

I really like experimenting with maps and playing with streets and avenues and trains. So, if you are planning to visit Santo Domingo when you get your latest vacation in Punta Cana, Bavaro or Samana, then take a visit to Santo Domingo Transit Map. You will find all the official bus routes in the city and also incorporated the recently created first subway line.

Leave any comments on the same site’s contact section.

SkyXoft Procx is SQL Server 2005 certified!

Some months ago Microsoft had a program called
SQL Server Front
Runner in which different companies submitted their product to be tested
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by VeriTest, a famous third
party company dedicated to testing software.

We submitted SkyXoft Procx and got our
certification of good to go!

Why do a SharePoint installation and implementation?

Yes, you have to do it. No, don’t ask more questions about it. Yes, you will
need to learn a couple of things, and some of your colleagues are going to
refuse using it, but you have to. In the long run, you will increase your
organization productivity and you won’t be able to live without it.

Some of the things you’ll get:

• Central document repository: no more storing files on your local
  hard disk or on a shared folder in the network. With SharePoint you will be
  able to store documents in a repository accessible via web. When some other
  person needs to collaborate on the document, they can just go the specified
  web site, open the document, edit it and save it back to the repository. No
  more documents lying around.
• Document versioning: yes, will have a whole history of all the
  edits made on the document and go back and recover that version that you
  need.
• One search: search for documents and information inside documents
  from a single place. When you install SharePoint Portal Server, you will get
  the ability to search across sites and document libraries everywhere. Now
  you won’t loose a document again.
• Metadata fields: Add information about documents. Forget about
  folder hierarchies for classifying documents. Add metadata fields for
  describing and searching.
• Forms: create a repository of standard forms used in your
  organization. Training requests, purchase orders, expense reimbursement,
  etc., etc., etc. Create and publish them in SharePoint.
• Sites: create special sites for collaboration. A site for the
  sale department, human resources department. For that new project we are
  starting.
• Collaboration features: create calendars, meeting spaces, assign
  tasks and create contacts around documents and other objects of the
  organization. Everything integrated in one site created for that purpose.
• It’s the future: yes, it is. We will have one environment,
  invisible in the background, where all our documents will live and all the
  collaboration information will be stored. Today is called SharePoint.

Of course, this are just some of the things you will get when deploying
SharePoint. There are a lot of other things you can do with it and customize it
to your needs.

After your implementation don’t forget to go a step further with workflow.
Add document approval and routing to those documents and forms in SharePoint
using our product, Procx. With it, you can really streamline processes and
really do more with less. Go, give it a look at our
SharePoint Workflow
site and our InfoPath
Workflow site.

You need to increase the productivity

Productivity has been key factor of growth of companies now days. When
organizations can’t reduce more costs and you have others rising, in which you
cannot have a direct influence, the only way to increase profits is getting into
productivity.

When people ask me to define productivity, I respond a four word sentence: do
more with less. That’s it. Process more insurance claims without increasing
personnel, find company documents and information more easily without wasting
time, automate processes and relocate employees to perform value added
activities in the business, handle more loans without increasing officials, find
new channels of delivering your product without investing lots of money.

Technology has been playing a huge role in productivity, especially
information technology. Today organizations have a portfolio of software
products available online that can automate almost any part of your company.
Identify your needs, look for manual routines that employees do and think how
you can improve that part of the business and which software can help you
achieve your objectives. A small increase in productivity can yield into high
profit values.