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1. Article Marketing:
SubmitYourArticle.com
automates the article submission process by allowing
you to submit up to eight articles each month and then
distributes the articles to hundreds of web sites,
article directories and ezine publishers.
2. Audio Recording/Podcasting:
AudioAcrobat.com makes audio streaming fast
and
simple, whether you want to add an audio greeting,
audio testimonials, pod cast or videos to your website
or send out an audio postcard or record a tele-class.
3. Backup: Carbonite.com
offers an
unlimited amount of data storage for $50 per year and
is very intuitive.
4. Blogging: Typepad.com is
both simple to
use and powerful. You can set up as many blogs as
you desire with a Pro account, and you can customize
your blog in an infinite number of ways. Once it's set
up, the online interface makes it a snap to make new
posts to your blog.
5. Bookmark Manager: SPURL.net makes
managing a moderate to massive amount of
bookmarks very easy. You create any number of
categories in which to file your favorites, and adding a
favorite website is as easy as clicking a button.
6. Color Matching: Pixie
is a tool that helps
you match a color exactly for a document your creating
or color you want to replicate on your website. Run it,
simply point to a color and it will tell you the hex, RGB,
HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that color.
7. Content Management: EditOnSite.com
is a
website content management system that makes your
website editable so you can change and/or add
content yourself. They handle everything to get your
site set up and provide you with training, a reference
manual and phone support to walk you through your
first edits.
8. Email List Management/Email Marketing:
Constant Contact is a
great service for creating,
mailing and reporting back on the success of your
newsletter. I love being able to see how many readers
opened my newsletter, who opened the newsletter,
and what links they clicked on from the newsletters.
9. Fax: MaxEmail.com
lets you send and
receive faxes through the Internet/email and makes
your need for a fax machine obsolete. The faxes arrive
in PDF format, so you can easily share you faxes with
others as needed. They also offer voice mail on your
fax line, and the voicemail message arrives as an
audio file in your email inbox.
10. Graphics Program:
SnagIt.com lets you
show someone exactly what you see on your screen.
Select and capture your screen image and send it to
SnagIt's editor to add professional effects, edit the
image (resize, adjust color), and or drop it into your
favorite application.
11. Hosting: NGMplus.com
offers the ability
to buy a hosting plan in which you can host and
manage a large number of websites through one
account rather than buying multiple hosting plans for
each website for your business. And, their customer
service can't be beat. This is a do-it-yourself type
hosting.
12. Idea Management: With EverNote.com
you can easily store and quickly access typed and
handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails,
telephone messages, addresses, passwords,
brainstorms, sketches, documents and more! A free
version or a 30-day trial of the paid version is available
for download.
13. Payment Gateway: Authorize.net helps
you take payments online. The coolest feature that
they offer in this service is the ability to do batch
uploads of charges, so if you have a number of clients
on retainer that you invoice every month, you can
simply create a spreadsheet and batch upload the
data rather than entering each client's information
individually.
14. Publicity Tracker: Google
Alerts lets you
type in an unlimited number of search terms, like your
name, your company name, your industry, the name of
your competitors, etc. Google will then deliver an
email alert for any mention of your search term online.
This is a wonderful way to track your own PR as well
as industry trends.
15. Password Management: Roboform.com
is the top-rated password manager and web form
filler that completely automates password entering
and form filling. You'll never have to remember a
password again!
16. Shopping Cart: Contact Narrow Gate Media on this one.
There are so many different
options that I suggest you get a professional opinion
based on your specific needs before diving in on
which cart to use.
17. Spy-ware: CounterSpy.com will protect
your computer from spy-ware, ad-ware, Trojans and
other mal-ware threats.
18. Teleconference Line:
LiveOfficeFreeConferencing.com lets you meet
with
colleagues, associates or even family members
through a teleconference bridge line that can bring up
to 250 people together at one place over a
teleconference telephone line. You can use the line to
conduct classes and training and record your calls, as
well as manage your participants from an online
interface.
19. Time Tracker: TraxTime.com
Track
consulting projects and much more. You simply
create projects and clock into and out of them, with the
ability to write memos about how you've used your
time.
20. To Do List Management: Accomplice.com
works online and offline, integrates with Outlook and
other software you already use, and syncs with your
PDA. What some like most about this software is that
you can create in-depth, hierarchical to-do lists (tasks
and sub-tasks of a bigger project) very easily, and add
additional tasks on the fly as they occur. You can see
at any point what your more important tasks are and
what is coming due soon.
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