I swear by Mvelopes. If you do your banking online, personal or business, then this is right up your alley. Mvelopes is an online budgeting system that makes it brilliantly easy to keep track of your spending. A classic system for budgeting, with technological innovation, you simply create envelopes with set budgeting amounts and as you spend money from those envelopes, the program instantly recalculates the balance. It hooks itself up with your bank account (works with most banks in US and Canada, although no longer CIBC, sadly-- my bank) and as you view your transactions, you just drag and drop them into your designated envelope. Easy-breezy! That's not all that it does-- see for yourself with a FREE 30-day trial. You can also grab the helpful eBook Money For Life for FREE, a $14.95 value.
Magazines.com is giving away some excellent business mags, FREE! They also offer up to 80% off subscriptions in the U.S. Average discount is 35% off. Sweet!
Entrepreneur Magazine is giving away 10 FREE books on various business related topics! Just pay shipping and handling. Entrepreneur is one of my favourite sources of information. LOVE that magazine!
If you need a newsletter for your business, but don't know uh, HOW to do that,Constant Contactwill make it easy on your brain and on your budget because it's free for 60 days and free if you have 50 subscribers and under (so good for brand new businesses). From there, the price is still really cheap and yet the result is professional.
Writely allows you to keep track of all of your notes and To-Dos in one place, and collaborate with other people FOR FREE! There are other sites that charge for this. They plan to keep it free but charge for premium services. The program is so awesome that Google bought it. I love the nice clean interface!!
Roboform (one of my top 3 tools that I use) helps you to fill out passwords and forms online by putting in all your information for you, with the click of a button. It’s a real time saver! With your new business, you will likely belong to more web sites and have so many more accounts, than you ever thought. And the old trick of using the same password on every site may not work: some sites force you to have a certain password of letter/number combos that you'll never remember!
Download Roboform to your computer, and it instantly pulls up all the websites that you have ever gone to and entered a password. You can see this list instantly and remember all sorts of websites and passwords that you’ve forgotten you ever were associated with! (But, that’s not the point of the program, just something that’s kinda cool.) The point of the program is that you will never have to remember your passwords again! You can have really complicated ones, if you want, for greater online security, and Roboform will remember them for you. Once you get to a page that has a form to fill out, or a password to remember, you just click on one of the buttons on your Roboform browser (bar at the top of your page) and it fills it all out for you. And, your Roboform information is protected by one master password—and you better remember that one, because there’s no retrieving it! The free program lets you remember 10 passwords and for any more after that, you have to buy the program.
Would you love to sell to Canada and Internationally but don't want the hassle of shipping? Now, you can ship to these good non-American folks just as you would with any other American! A fabulous company has come along, to fill this great void for both businesses and consumers (like me!!). Just tell your customers about it with a link or banner on your website, where they would go to inquire about International shipping. Then, if your customers are interested, they can set up an account and receive packages to their very own private US address. The company collects their packages and then ships them to the consumer for 70% off regular shipping charges! WOW! Long overdue, I say.
POP Peeper is a cool tool that lets you know when an email has arrived at ANY of your email accounts. So, if you juggle email between Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, and Outlook Express, this tool will let you know when an email has come in without you having to remember to check all of the time.
Analyze the speed and performance of your Web site with this free Web page analyzer. It will let you know what problems lie with your site so that you can fix them and keep people from leaving your site. You have to scroll down to the bottom to see an analysis and then you can contact your Web site's support staff or web designer and ask them how to "reduce the size of your external CSS", for example. 'Cause I certainly can't tell ya! It's all Ukranian to me!
I think of this super-cool thing as a tool for your website: post-it notes! You can type out your message and then click "Give me my post-it" get the HTML code and just enter it into your site. If you look on the right-hand side, you'll see, in small font, the various options of post-its like hearts and there's a fridge with magnets for people to move around or a drawing board where visitors can draw on your face or someone else's. Fun.
Ever forget things? Important things? Me too. So, I searched for an email reminder service and found MemoToMe. It couldn't be easier to set up and navigate. And if you don't mind linking to their website, they will including your advertising banner on their rotating banner for free!
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