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Have you ever expect this from your child's school? - Apps Masters™ - Blog

Have you ever expect this from your child's school?

School Management System

There are many aspects that are involved with managing and maintaining a school or school district. There are student records to keep track of, teachers to evaluate and parents to keep informed. In the past, all of that work has been done by people using paper and pencil methods and filling up endless filing cabinets with all of the paperwork. Most schools have now gone to an online school management system that makes life easier for everyone involved. These management systems typically include features that would include some or all of the following: attendance, online grade book, parent access to see student progress, seating charts, student emergency information and test scores, and a few others.

While many of the school management system programs are jam packed with features, that doesn't mean they are a good fit for all schools. In larger schools, many of those extra features are welcome because there are people that have the time to work with the program, and there are more students to manage. With smaller schools, however, they are often times looking for a more scaled down version that can help them save time with student management, but not create an overwhelming new program that they need to implement. Be sure to pick a school administration system that fits your needs.

A couple of the main features in any student management system that small schools would benefit from would be the attendance and online grade book. Both of these items simply make life simpler for teachers, students and parents. One of the nice features of taking online attendance is the fact that the building secretary can see who has and has not taken attendance during the morning hours. They can remind the teachers to get their attendance done and stay on top of things much more effectively. They are also able to see much more quickly who is gone for the day, and whether or not they knew ahead of time that those students would be gone. This helps with tracking down unexcused absences.

The online grade book feature is great because it allows teachers to enter grades from home, and it gives the school the ability to print out report cards rather than having teachers fill them out by hand, which can be a painstaking process. These school management system features will certainly become staples in any small school setting in the very near future.

Apps Masters provides a website for Schools not just this a complete Cloud based School Management System, which has separate panel for each of the following:

1. Administrators

• Control all areas of application 

• Create new accounts and approve registration requests 

• Send Mail / SMS to users 

• Control site settings, dormitories, classes, subjects, news, events and grade levels • Set class schedule for each class 

• Can use private messages with other site users 

• View library, download and check book status

• Can Switch between default theme 

• Control languages and set default one and add new one 

• Payments Control 

• Import/Export User details via CSV & Excel • Set School terms 

• Enable/disable activated modules .

• See users profiles 

• Control Mail/SMS Templates 

• Send Exam details to students and parents via Mail / SMS 

• Control Transportation 

• Control Polls system 

• Control Media System

2. Teachers

• Can see classes schedule 

• Add / Control attendance for students 

• Add / Control grades for students 

• Create online exams for classes and review marks 

• Can use private messages with other site users 

• View library, download and check book status 

• Can view news, events and calendar 

• Select language for his account 

• See users profiles 

• Send Exam details to students and parents via Mail / SMS 

3. Students

• Can view exams and assignments 

• Can view online exams and take them 

• Can see classes schedule 

• Can view news, events and calendar 

• Can use private messages with other site users 

• View library, download and check book status 

• Select language for his account 

• Pay invoices via PayPal 

• See users profiles

4. Parents

• Can see his student’s mark sheet and attendance 

• Can view exams and assignments 

• Can see classes schedule 

• Can view news, events and calendar 

• Can use private messages with other site users 

• View library, download and check book status 

• Select language for his account 

• Pay invoices via PayPal 

• See users profiles

Further Features:

• Black & Blue themes (2 modules) • Administrators, teachers, students and parents (4 core modules) • Import/Export User details via CSV & Excel • Administrator must approve registrations of teachers, students or parents • Languages System with pre-build 9 different languages : English, Arabic, French, Dutch, German, Hindi, Italian, Turkish, Russian • Administrator can define new language • Users have the ability to change language and administrator can deactivate this feature. • Payments with PayPal integration and tax calculation. • Invoice generation • Private messages : simple way to communicate with other users by messages • Mail / SMS : Administrators can send e-mail or SMS to teachers, students or parents • Support different 8 SMS APIs and 4 methods of mail delivery • Send Exam details to students and parents via Mail / SMS • Send Student’s absence notifications via mail / SMS • Ability to edit the messages sent for Exam details and Student’s absence notification ( Mail/SMS Templates ) • News Board : Publish school news on board • Events : Publish scheduled events • Calendar : List events, news, exams and online exams on calendar • Attendance : Track attendance of students • Two attendance models • Subject-Based • Class-only based • Attendance selection status from : Present, Absent, Late, Late with excuse Or Early Dismissal. • Attendance Statistics and search for attendance features. • Student can see his attendance history • Exams : Add exams scheduled for school students and grade levels • Assignments : Upload assignments related to each class • Online exams : Create online exams ( Multiple choice ) for students with auto marking • Dormitories : Add your school dormitories • Classes : Add your school classes • Class schedule : Create class schedule for each one • Subjects : Add subjects and their relation to teachers • Books library : Create online library by either download or book availability on library • Media center with unlimited sub-albums features • Polls System • Transportation : Manage school transportation with ability to list subscribers • Popup profiles for students, teachers and parents • School Terms

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How to build Brand Identity?

Branding by UK Experts

The key to creative and effective branding of any program, product, service or institution is finding the right positioning--to drive the advertising and other marketing tools. It doesn't have to be complicated or weird. In fact, if it's good and effective, it's simple and will follow this "Rule of consumers"--"You are what you appear to be." This position, or 'brand' is really an identity (not in your mind but in your audience's)--a way people can sort through all the confusing information and summarize what they think about something.

What do you get with a brand identity?

Over the last 25 years we have come to learn that the development of a brand identity is much more than a mere benchmark denoting successful arrival in business, or its evolution and growth. A clearly defined and easily recognized identity has, in fact, become a critical success factor in today's highly competitive business environment.

Just to lay some "groundwork", here are ten reasons why doing so can have a strategically important effect on your bottom line.

o It's easier to know who you are, which means:

o It's easier to know what you do. (Helps develop goals)

o It's easier to know how to do it. (Helps with implementation)

o Less energy is expended overall. (Creates efficiency in communications)

o Team building occurs naturally when staff can identify with a common symbol, common language and therefore common goals. (Sports uniforms are a good example. Every player feels like a part of the group.)

o You can match your image to your clients needs or view of his business. (A simple matter of "give'em what they want.")

o With a clearly defined identity you communicate more efficiently with your customers, and they remember you more easily. (Memorability is easier when everybody clearly knows who you are.)

o Enhancements in the overall quality of your product or service. (Consistency always counts.)

o Benefits and unique qualities of your business are communicated more clearly to your clients thereby increasing sales. (Marketing tool)

o Helps set identifiable standards of quality in your product or service. Helps with a sense of reliability by developing a "brand identity." (Brand names are trusted.)

So, what is a brand anyway?

As we begin the process of making recommendations for developing a brand identity let's talk about what we really mean by "brand." What is it, why does it work, how does it work and who makes it work.

Philip Durbrow, vice chairman of the international design firm of Frankfurt Balkind Partners, recalls, "When I first started working in branding, it became obvious that there were no clear universal definitions of key words like marketing, strategy, identity, image and brand. I've developed specific definitions so that we are clear on what we are talking about. Fuzzy words yield fuzzy thinking and fuzzy brands."

Some Definitions

There is very little consistency in people's understanding, or usage, of brand terminology. For clarity, we offer the following definitions:

A Product: is something that is produced to function and exists in reality.

A Brand: has meaning beyond functionality and exists in peoples minds.

Product Quality: has major influence on Brand Qualities.

Brand Qualities: are the thoughts, feelings, associations and expectations created by a Brand Identity.

Brand Identity: is the way in which a brand is expressed visually and verbally.

Branding: is viewing every customer related activity as part of the branding process and managing it accordingly. Everything a company does that affects its customer, affects the value of its brand.

Marketing: means making it easy and motivating people to buy your product--through product design, pricing, packaging, distribution, advertising, etc.

Brand Marketing: is pushing beyond product benefits to fulfill a strategic core promise. It means looking past the tangible to the intangible, accommodating buyers' practical needs while resonating with their deeper feelings.

Brand Strategy: means deciding which brands are going to be used to deliver which products and services to which customers. (This may involve usage of global brands, umbrella brands, megabrands, subbrands, flanker brands, brand extensions and brand families.)

Brand Equity: is the present value of the future combined purchases that are a result of the preference created, or the premium paid, for a brand's products.

Why do we want a brand?

All brands start by speaking to the needs and aspirations of an audience. The aspiration is the brand identity: that's a projection of how the brand wishes to be perceived by its target audience (as opposed to the brand image, which is the way the brand is, currently perceived).

Knowledge and appreciation of this core concept will allow the steward of the brand to develop the mission, build and nurture the market, maintain the brand philosophy, strategy, overall look and feel of the brand and, of course, the logo. What is the audience going to be satisfied with or disappointed by with the message coming from the brand? What is going to help build a strong brand identity (what would weaken it)? How can the aspirations for the brand identity be reached?

Who's Minding the Store?

The brand steward, usually senior executive from the parent company, must protect and cultivate the immutable core of the brand (about 50%) in order to ensure that the brand remains strong. The steward manages the part of the brand that must remain fluid (the remaining 50%) in order to keep the brand relevant and exciting. Typically we see a freshness and evolution in the brand's advertising and packaging, that's the part of the brand that is constantly evolving. The steward is responsible for overseeing the advertising agency's efforts to promote the brand, to develop brand segmentation internally (that is, the sub-brands) and to direct the packaging of branded products. The overall responsibility of the brand steward is to keep the brand on course and profitable.

Companies that have broad, strong brand recognition can diversify through their sub-brands more than narrowly focused companies. For instance, Brit Richard Branson, a courageous babyboomer, started his first business in 1968 at the age of sixteen and has cultivated companies in the entertainment area ever since under the umbrella, Virgin Group (www.virgin.com). First came Virgin Records. Ten years later Branson branched out to form Virgin Atlantic Airways, then a year later added Virgin Holidays. Two years after that Virgin expanded to include Virgin Airship & Balloon Company, Virgin Publishing and Virgin Hotels, among others. Branson, a highly visible and consistently strong leader, is the very essence of pioneer spirit and innovation. Consumers 'get' virgin's abstract brand identity because Virgin's broad target audience identifies with Branson and all he stands for: unencumbered global vision and maverick style. He is a self-proclaimed Virgin for life.

Durbrow offers this wisdom, "There is no long-term advantage to having a brand image that is greater or lesser than the brand really is. If the image is greater than the reality, people will be disappointed whenever they encounter the brand. If the image is less than the reality, the company will never benefit from all its hard work, i.e., the brand won't command a premium or create a preference for the company's branded products."

The Brand As Asset

When included on the balance sheet, the brand's equity is an intangible asset like good will. Its value brightens the parent company's fiscal picture: this is one big reason why companies are eager to develop strong brands. An enhanced financial picture allows the parent company to generate revenue, grow and expand. The brand, which is structured to be easily separated from the parent company, may be sold. The brand may be segmented to increase the market by creating sub-brands which appeal to more specific consumer needs, further increasing the value of the brand.

In the long term, it's the brand's core message that must be honored. All the strong brands--CocaCola, Nike, Calvin Klein, to name a few--give the impression of unswerving confidence, through their billion dollar advertising campaigns. This is exactly the kind of motivational leadership our emotionally charged culture craves. "The branding statement has to be honest, relevant. For example, the Coke brand is the value of constancy. The contour bottle and Spencerian script are promises that the Coke you'll have in Thailand is the same as the Coke you'll have in Oakland. The challenge for us is always to find ways to make something change and stay the same." People have a strong emotional attachment to CocaCola--it's something they grew up with. Coke is a part of the history of America. Waterbury adds, "The CocaCola headquarters and museum in Atlanta are a testament to excellent management of a global brand: A brand that makes a personal connection for almost everyone."

How Brand is Different from Product

Many organizations use the term "Product Manager" interchangeably with "Brand Manager." While most of us could think through the semantic difference between a "product" and a "brand," it seems that (with a few exceptions) the two concepts become indistinguishable when it comes to their management. This confusion may explain in part why there are so few brands and so many products.

The product is defined by its form and function, what it is and what it does. The product is physical attributes, such as price, performance, ease of use, design and style. What a product is can be relatively easily communicated, rapidly changed and effected in the short term using a number of tools: just add a new ingredient or change the shape of the packaging and you have a new product or, at least, a different one. A good product/ marketing strategist is one who can distill a large amount of data about the consumer, the market, his competition, distribution, and boil it down to the few essential premises that will form the backbone of a focused marketing plan. He should be able to distill these premises even further to write an effective communication strategy which, as any honest advertising person will tell you, must be based on a single minded selling proposition. This ability to distill facts down to their simple essence presupposes an excellent knowledge and understanding of the product's consumer or end-user and buyer.

The brand is almost the opposite on all points. Whereas the product has a form, the brand does not have a physical embodiment: It is merely a promise, a covenant with the customer. Some say that the "logo is the brand"... but this isn't so. A logo is meaningless if it does not communicate the brand's covenant with the consumer. And, whereas communication of a product's physical attributes is straightforward and fast, communication of brand values is inherently circuitous and slow. Like the character of an individual, brand character is most difficult to communicate proactively: The individual cannot tell what his character is; the observer must figure it out for himself... an indirect communications process which requires time and absolute consistency. And, contrary to product communication which is best based on one single minded forceful proposition, brand character, like the character of a person, becomes better defined as it gains in complexity. Lastly, whereas the product manager must gain a superior knowledge of his consumer to be effective, the brand manager's success is in great part based on a thorough knowledge of the idiosyncrasies and the values professed by his company and its long term corporate players, its top management.

Written by UK Branding Experts

How To Be Successful?

Many people want to know how to be successful. I believe the secret to success is quite simple. Notice I didn't say it is easy, I said simple. I am going to illustrate with several quotes from Brendon Burchard's book, "The Millionaire Messenger".

The first and perhaps most important secret to success is, "Don't give up on your vision or play small because you are starting out."

Brendon goes on to describe his circumstances when he was living in a tiny apartment in San Francisco broke because he spent every dollar he had on rent and "cheap burritos". He was writing on a tiny, three-legged, fold-out table his mom used to use in her sewing room. Brendon was drafting a newsletter on the psychology of success working on an outdated laptop that was gathering condensation on the screen from the broken radiator that was hissing steam. Hardly the vision one would expect for someone writing a newsletter about success. But he didn't quit, he didn't give up

He asked himself, "Who am I fooling? Who cares what a poor, goofy kid has to say about success?" "You need to have a grand vision for yourself and your message, despite your present circumstances" says Brendon.

So there you have it. The secret to how to be successful is quite simple. Start with a grand vision of what you want and what your life is going to be lie. Best to have a vision of how you will serve and help people because as Zig Ziglar has said, "you can have everything you want in life if you help enough people get what they want in life"

The next important ingredient in the "how to be successful" formula is to never let your present circumstances become the excuse for not taking action. Many times would be entrepreneurs make a plethora of excuses. Common among these excuses are: not enough money, not enough time, too busy, don't know enough, who wants to listen to me, who am I to tell others what to do, I haven't achieved anything yet... The litany of possible excuses is endless. Every great person started at the beginning and you can too.

One of the most common phrases in network marketing is "getting ready to get ready". Many people are capable of spending a lifetime getting ready. Maybe I will get started just as soon as I clean my desk, organize my files, get a better camera, buy a new computer are all common excuses.

Once again the secret to how to be successful is quite simple. Create a vision and take action! That's all there is! Maybe there is a third ingredient in the secret to success. No excuses permitted!

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Apps Masters™ Inc: Why Is Email Marketing Important for Any Business?...

Apps Masters™ Inc: Why Is Email Marketing Important for Any Business?...: Email Marketing Service Every email sent to a potential customer is considered as email marketing. Email marketing is very important...

Why Is Email Marketing Important for Any Business?

Email Marketing Service

Every email sent to a potential customer is considered as email marketing. Email marketing is very important for any online business for a whole lot of reasons.

1. Easily reach out to your customers:

Staying in touch with your customers through some sort of medium is a must for any business. Email marketing has just made it easier to reach out to your customers.

You can send a message to the whole list of customers easily and effectively.

2. Promote your brand:

When it comes to the sales of your product, it is all about promotion of our brand. The better the promotion, the better the results. Email marketing is a very good and effective way to promote your brand.

3. Discounts and offers updates:

Regularly updating your customers about the new offers and discounts is a good to boost your sales.

4. Increase your brand visibility:

Things that fade from eyes, fade from memories. Customers buy what they see, so it is very important to remain within your customers eye sight. Marketing makes it easy for you to increase your brand visibility to your customers.

5. Make new customers:

Make new customers by sending emails to people who have the potential to become your customers in the future.

Best email service provider:

MailChimp: MailChimp is the best email service provider there is, more than 8 million people use MailChimp to send emails. It has many features, a lot of pre-designed email templates and very good reporting. It is free for sending low volume of emails but if you need to send high volume of emails, you need to sign up for a premium account. If you can afford the cost of a premium account, it surely is a great service and you should try it for your business.

Do you need an email service provider?

Whether or not you need an email marketing service provider depends upon your requirements. If you have tons of users, a whole lot of emails to send and need very good reporting of your email bounces, clicks and more, then you should probably use an email marketing service provider to do the work for you. Otherwise, if you are good with a simple email management system that sends emails to a list of users and your server can afford to send emails to your user lists then you can develop your own email marketing software.

Click here, if would you like to proceed with modern email marketing solution.

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Hospital Management Systems - Healthcare Services

Hospital / Clinic Management System

Health management is one of the most popular professions as per the recent survey. Since health or hospital management is turning out to be increasingly privatized so there is great requirement of not only skilled doctors but also effective hospital administration tools. Hospital management systems make the best utilization of available information technology and improved telephonic infrastructure which will manage hospital in effective ways. This system offers the benefits of enhanced administration, strict cost control and other streamlined operations. It addresses all basic hospital needs and covers wide area of hospital management and administration.

There are different modules of hospital management system such as:

Laboratory information system:

This module is generally used by hospital pathology lab for recording as well as disseminating information regarding the performed tests. Hospital Management Software gets online requests from surgeons and doctors and helps the laboratory personnel in generating requests. On the basis of requests, a user can input sample as well as generate sample numbers too. In case the test demands approval, it becomes necessary for the supervisor to approve result and make it available to the respective concerned doctors.

Pharmacy management:

This module caters to various systems such as stock management, dispensing, control functions, drug information system within the pharmacy department. It receives prescriptions from their respective doctors and departments. Different pre-defined stock levels are managed within the pharmacy for avoiding irritating conditions like as OOS. It offers a whole comprehensive collection of the available drugs. With the help of this system medicines can be easily implemented based on different aspects.

Billing module:

Billing module of hospital management system looks after all types of billing within the organization for long term. It facilitates billing operations and cashier functionalities such as inpatient, referral and outpatient. The system also offers automatic posting of all charges which are related to various services such as lab tests, medicines which re issued, telephone charges, food, beverage etc.

Queue and appointment module:

This scheduling system helps you in effective scheduling of patients and appointments. It helps nurses and doctors to see available time slots as well as allocating appointments. It prevents system from generating appointments in case the doctor is busy or unavailable.

Operation theatre management:

This clinical information system tracks all types of surgeries which are taking place inside the hospital. It assists in scheduling theaters, records of surgery details, surgery team and other checklists related to surgery.

Some other popular modules of Hospital Information Systems are:

• House Keeping and Laundry Management

• Bio-Medical Waste Management

• MIS (Management Information System)

• Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

• Blood Bank Management

• Stores and Inventory Management

• Billing and Financial Accounting

• HR and Payroll Management

Hospital software is powerful, easy to use as well as flexible and has been developed for providing real conceivable offers to the clinic and hospitals. It is completely integrated tool which offers all relevant information throughout the hospital for providing relevant information throughout the hospital. In a nutshell, it can be concluded that this system plays an active role in strong decision making for financial accounting, patient care and hospital management systems in a proper way.

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