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How I Run My Business From My iPhone with GoDaddy

by Vincent Polisi on January 30, 2010

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In truth, the various ways that I run our multiple businesses from my iPhone cannot be totally cataloged in one post so this will be more like a series of posts on the different functions and apps that help me release the leash from my laptop and still get things done.

Because we run numerous web based businesses, apps related to every aspect of setting up and managing websites is of vital importance. Few things are more frustrating than having a web site down or needing to add or correct something while you are away from your laptop. Thankfully, the iPhone App Store has solved that problem.

As an example, recently GoDaddy upgraded their iPhone App to have much of the functionality that you get from their website. This is huge!

Sure, it was nice to have an app to easily search for new domain names to purchase, but this new upgrade solved many of the frustrations with their freshman offering. The ability to easily handle Domain Management from your iPhone in an easy and intuitive interface is truly incredible.

With the GoDaddy iPhone App, you can search domains, check your mobile mail, view their Product Catalog for new products and services to purchase, watch their upcoming (and BANNED!) Super Bowl 2010 commercials and handle virtually every aspect of domain management including DNS Management, Forwards, Nameserver management, locking, renewing domains, updating contact information, you name it.

For those of you who don’t have your own websites or domains (YOU SHOULD!) and don’t yet run Internet based businesses (WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?!?!), some of this will sound like a foreign language. Those of you who do run Internet based businesses understand that you now have the ability to tune-up your Ferrari from your iPhone through one simple iPhone App.

This app, in conjunction with other apps that I will be discussing, reviewing and rating in future posts, helps me truly manage my Internet based businesses from my iPhone. GoDaddy did a phenomenal job in updating and improving this application for web developers and publishers beyond their initial offering which wasn’t much more than a domain search portal so they could sell you a new domain name.

If you don’t have or run Internet based businesses, it is time to get on board because the train is leaving the station. The Internet represents unparalleled opportunity to market to a global audience 24 hours a day. You don’t have to be a professionally trained programmer (I’m not). In the time you waste watching TV or mindlessly surfing the Internet, you could be developing your own websites, monetizing them and earning money doing something you love.

With an iPhone and apps like the GoDaddy app, you can truly run your entire business from your iPhone.

What’s On My iPhone: The GoDaddy App

& Why?: It works! It helps me run my websites from my iPhone with a seamless user interface and increases mobile efficiency without creating headaches and frustrations

Popularity: 9% [?]

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Getting Business Done With Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite

by Vincent Polisi on December 31, 2009

The one thing the App Store has provided me is the ability to handle a myriad of things from my iPhone that previously I could only handle with an Internet connected laptop. In addition to the myriad of other projects I am involved in, I run a real estate investment firm. When conducting real estate deals, timing is everything. In sales, they say, “time kills a deal”. This has been my experience. So, as a result, we do everything possible to keep deals moving forward constantly.

On this particular day, I was running errands and had a client who was ready to go to contract on a deal but wanted to do her due diligence on our contracts prior to committing. Though I should, I did not have the contract I needed saved on my iPhone for easy access to email. So, I began thinking, how can I get her the contract before I get back to my laptop 4 hours later?

I have two different Microsoft Office based applications on my iPhone, Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite and Docs To Go by Dataviz both of which now natively support the storage of frequently used documents, images, PDFs, txt files, etc. The problem is that they can only store what the user manually stores and I hadn’t done that yet.

So, I put my thinking cap on. They both have an ability to extract attachments from an email if you are using a hosted Microsoft Exchange account for email, which I do. Earlier that morning, I had actually emailed the very document that this client was requesting to yet another client from my laptop. So, I located that email and forwarded it to myself, then pulled it up in Quickoffice and forwarded it to files@quickofficeconnect.com .

This then gave me the ability to extract and save the individual attachment of that contract for storage on my iPhone from within Quick Office. Once saved, I was then able to immediately email the document to my client. The ability to do this remotely using a document not saved or stored on my iPhone was huge. It also earned some professionalism points with the client for the alacrity with which she got the document she requested while I was not at my home/office.

Now, obviously, this was the long way around to make this happen and a few ounces of prevention of adding all of my frequently requested documents to the iPhone prior to leaving the house would have made the task much simpler and been the pound of cure. The key point here is that despite lacking having the actual document with me, I was able to quickly use a workaround and keep a deal moving forward with the Quickoffice app.

Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite-Why It’s On My iPhone

Enables me to get the job done despite my lack of prior planning

Popularity: 44% [?]

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The App Store’s Best Kept Secret…….and it’s free!

by Vincent Polisi December 2, 2009

OK, I admit it. I am an App Store and iTunes junkie. As ashamed as I am to say it, I actually look forward to every Tuesday. For the unacquainted, this is the day that new media is released (books, CDs, DVDs and as it turns out, Apps).
Having purchased and/or downloaded hundreds of apps, it [...]

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Why I Love AT&T

by Vincent Polisi December 1, 2009

Having had wireless service from nearly every major cellular service provider, I can accurately reflect on the pros and cons of each provider and my experience with them. Being happy with a wireless provider these days goes beyond just the caliber of the wireless service. It can be argued that they are all pretty much [...]

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OtterBox

by Vincent Polisi December 1, 2009

As a power user of technology and especially my phones, protecting the device that is my link to making money while not in front of a computer is vital. Prior to having an iPhone, I was an avid Blackberry user. Due to my power usage and the general delicateness of Blackberry devices, for several years, [...]

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Why?

by Vincent Polisi November 14, 2009

It seems only fitting that the first post for What’s On My iPhone & Why should be posted directly from the game changing device that this site is about. To the unacquainted, it is difficult to adequately illustrate what an unbelievable device the iPhone actually is and the capabilities it has due to intelligent design [...]

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