Little Soft Shop’s giveaway time is BACK! To show just how much we truly appreciate your business, we are announcing the Corel Bundle Giveaway!

Valued at over $80, the Corel Bundle comes equipped with Painter Essentials 4, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, Ulead DVD Movie Factory 6, and Photo Album 6! The contest begins Tuesday, February 21^st and ends on Tuesday, February 28^th.

We are giving away the Corel Bundle prize to 20 lucky contestants. Don’t miss out on a chance to join 20 contest WINNERS!

We are asking that you take a few minutes of your time to write a review about ANY of our products. Reviews help users to better understand our products and the advantages to using superior software.

How to Win!

1.) In order to win you must write a review about ANY of our products on Little Soft Shop.  To add a review simply click on either, "Be the first to review this product" or "Add Your Review" on a product page.  These links in red can be found under "Email to a Friend".

2.) You must "Like" Little Soft Shop on Facebook and enter your name, email address, and the product name you reviewed.  Please enter this information on Facebook under the “Win Corel Bundle” Tab.

Upon entry, be sure to include your name and the name of the product you reviewed to register. No purchase is necessary, simply leave a review and enter to win BIG!

Now it’s your turn! Click on www.littlesoftshop.com to leave a review, “like” us on Facebook, enter the contest, and WIN!

If you haven’t already, please follow us @LittleSoftShop for promotion updates and discounts!

Rules and Regulations

As photography continues to evolve, the computer has truly become a digital darkroom. The proper tools and applications can make the difference between a masterpiece and a simply forgettable image. So, how do you achieve digital imaging greatness? Enter the Corel Bundle from Little Soft Shop. The package includes 4 of the most fundamental products to creating beautiful designs: Corel Painter Essentials 4, Corel Photo Album 6, Corel’s Ulead DVD Movie Factory 6, and Corel’s Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. The combination of these design tools opens the doors to limitless creations. Let’s pick apart the best features from each product.

Corel Painter Essentials 4

Taking drawing, painting, and photo painting to new heights, Painter Essentials 4 has an elaborate, wide-ranging palette. You can choose from dozens of Natural-Media tools, utilizing everything from pencils, chalk, crayons, oil, acrylic, and watercolor brushes. Mixing colors yourself and painting photos makes this program instrumental in digital painting.

Corel Photo Album 6

Digital cameras can sometimes become more of a burden than a solution. Corel’s Photo Album 6 makes using, downloading, and organizing all things digital camera both easy and quick. Designed to be simple and straightforward, Photo Album 6 automatically handles the regular tasks of transferring and arranging your digital photos.

Corel Ulead DVD Movie Factory 6

Digital media can now be manipulated in more ways than ever before. Using Ulead’s DVD Movie Factory 6, you can take video from virtually anywhere (VHS tapes, DVD’s, cameras, downloaded DivX movies, etc.). Burn any content flawlessly onto discs, creating stunning videos old and new. Finally, use Ulead DBD Movie Factory 6 to create professional menus that can be customized to your exact specifications.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the most effective, efficient method to getting professional-looking photos. Repair brightness, color, and photo flaws in a few clicks; use precision editing tools to create the picture you want; give photos a unique, exciting look using hundreds of special effects, and much more! Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is one of the best products on the market for advanced photo editing.

The Corel Bundle package is certainly one of a kind! Purchase today and elevate your digital experience!

Technology has been a recognizable force in our economy during the first week of February. As companies continue to release the latest and greatest technology advancements for our everyday living, it is sometimes overwhelming. Keeping up with the trends that seem to move a million miles a minute is difficult. We have put together a list of our top 5 technology releases in the past week.

1. Liquipel: prepare to be wowed! Liquipel is a new, ingenious invention that prevents electron devices from water damage. A coating undetectable to the eye is applied to the device and water is no longer a threat to a functioning piece of technology.


2. Hot Wheels iNitro Speeders: these are not the Hot Wheels you grew up racing. These tiny play cars go so fast they are almost unseen. Use the iPhone app to control the cars course.
3. Andru: this microUSB charger is quite the looker. The little green guy is an Android-themed charger is affordable, useful, and noticeably cute.


4. VooMote Zapper: a lazy person’s dream. Download the app and this gadget connects to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod, giving you the power to control your all of your home entertainment from any iDevice.


5. West Coast Chill: are cooler’s days numbered? Their lifespan may be shortened due to the West Coast Chill energy drink in the world’s first self-refrigerating can.

As a software company, we love and appreciate the rapid introduction of new technologies almost everyday.

With Facebook’s 8^th Birthday right around the corner, we figured a discussion about software and social media was more than appropriate. With upwards of 800 million active users, Facebook is where the people are living. Those people, your potential customers, are spending the majority of their time on social media sites. As such, recognizing the opportunity to market to these people is critical. Social media users must be relatively tech-savvy to operate and execute on these platforms. Take advantage of social media to propel software sales, increase site traffic, and elevate branding. All in all, social media has substantial power, use it to fuel software sales via strategic tactics.

Contests and Giveaways

Creating a competition for clientele is a phenomenal way to garner buzz, assert web traffic, and build a great image behind your brand. Not only does a promotion or content on social media push your brand message out at rapid rates, it also provides a humanistic quality for your software business. A large number of software sales are conducted online, taking away the person-to-person interaction that customers often seek. Being an active member of your social media community is an important step in gaining a following online.

Crowdsourcing for Victory

Social media presents another incredibly useful tool, crowdsourcing. The ability to scan the community for trends, industry favorites, and general opinions are monumental aspects of running a successful social media campaign. Using your fan base as a source of information will help to formulate promotions, best practices, and the best means of connecting with the end user. Reaching consumers on social media platforms to gain website traffic is a wonderful way to elevate your product lines and customer service.

Repeat Customers

People who have made a purchase and are then sought out by the company via social media platforms are more likely to make a purchase in the future. Reaching out to past customers on their personal social media pages makes them feel connected to the brand, encouraging a repeat purchase. Further, when a company connects to a customer on social media, they are likely to share this connection with their friends and family, promoting your organization in the most organic method possible.

Software companies must learn to use social media to successfully connect with their customers and their online community. Here is a good example of a software Facebook page:

Little Soft Shop's Facebook Page

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a critical aspect of any organization. While the basis of CRM must stem from a universal approach, a company’s overall view of how their customer relations fit within their all-encompassing strategy, there are a variety of ways to augment this strategy. Using CRM software is a phenomenal way to not only take care of your customers, but to be able to prove that care with reports, tracking metrics, and constant communication. Choosing the appropriate software to elevate your company’s CRM is essential to laying a foundation for how all employees will treat their customers. In essence, it is the lifeline of your company, because no organization can remain successful without customers.

Elevated Organization

Using CRM software to track your clients makes organization easy, and most importantly, consistent. With the ability to track specific metrics and data in a dependable system and on a steady basis, creating reports become relatively painless. Setting customer goals on the platform will allow for tracking outlined objectives, and thus, improving overall productivity. In addition, CRM software puts all of your client data into one place. Making comparisons between customers and their activity will develop and alter your company’s strategy to meet the specific needs of your clients.

Ability to Grow

CRM software takes out a significant component of many sellers’ day-to-day processes. By alleviating the need to track customers by hand or in an ordinary spreadsheet, employees will have more time to do their jobs. Managing customers not only becomes easier, it become apart of an overall process. Selling and distributing products must be the focus in order for your company to be a success. As employees dedicate less time to managing customers, productivity will increase, allowing room for additional resources. All in all, as CRM is perfected, the overall efficiency of the company will flourish.

Software Spotlight

ACT! Contact & Customer Manager is the spotlighted software for a few purposes. ACT! Was chosen because it truly helps you grow your business by attracting new customers and getting more from existing relationships. The software is affordable and beneficial for capturing and managing qualified leads. Unlike some of the competing products, ACT! has the ability to integrate with your e-mail, calendar, and more than 10 popular business solutions, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and Lotus Notes. Searching for customers, creating dashboards, and tracking data are fluid and easily accessible. Mobile access allows for ultimate information retrieval on the go.