Online Business Resources
Donna Gunter Recommends
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Assessment Generator:
Like to create an interactive survey or assessment that will help your
visitor learn something about his/her life or business? With Assessment
Generator, you can create online assessments that you can post to your
website to increase your traffic and attract more clients.
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AudioAcrobat:
AudioAcrobat
makes audio streaming fast and simple, whether you want to add an audio greeting
or audio testimonials to your website or send out an audio postcard or record a
teleclass.
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aWeber:
aWeber is a great
service for creating, mailing and reporting back on the success of your
newsletter as well as to subscribe your readers to a
sequential autoresponder, either associated with your newsletter or with another
product. I love to be able to see how many readers opened my newsletter, who
opened the newsletter, and what links they clicked on from the newsletters.
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Edit.com:
How can you update awebsite if you don't want to
learn a website editing program, like FrontPage or DreamWeaver,
and don't want to use a template-driven service like Go-Daddy?
Edit.com is a website maintenance
service that makes your current website editable, so you can
change the content yourself. They handle everything to get your
site set up and provide you with a phone training to walk you
through your first edits. It will work with your current website
design and hosting.
With their Do-It-Yourself Editing Service you can change text,
images, links, PayPal and even add new pages to your site
yourself. There is no software to install because it just uses
your web browser. They also have web developers who provide
free, fixed-price quotes if you need work beyond the scope of
things you can do yourself such as adding drop-down menus or
changing the core structure of your site.
At no charge, you can have them review your website to ensure
that Edit.com will work with it. To get their Free Site Review
and more information,
visit their site.
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LiveOfficeFreeConferencing:
Ever need to meet with colleagues, associates or even family members at a
distance but don't want to do it face-to-face? A teleconference bridge line can
bring up to 250 people together at one place over a teleconference phone line.
You can also conduct classes and training this way and record
your calls, all free of charge!
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Google News Alerts:
Need a
quick way to find out who's talking about you online? Want to know on what
sites your content might end up? Need to discover what your competitors are up
to? Google Alerts let 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.
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Kickstart Cart:
Kickstart Cart is easy to use and setup, and offers the ability to create
affiliate programs, follow up with prospective and current customers with
autoresponders, create coupons for limited-time offers, as well as enable buyers
to immediately download electronic purchases (ebooks, audio files). There is a
free 30-day trial, but don't sign up until you have the time to test drive
it--30 days goes by fast! Get your free ebook here,
How to Pick a Shopping Cart System That Makes
You Money.
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Press Release Distribution
Services: A well-written press release about a new
development in your company can earn you great amounts of free publicity, at
little or no cost! I use the services that distribute the releases at no cost,
and several of them offer a low-cost upgrade ($10-$30) to expand the reach of
your release. Here's the listing of the free services that I use:
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Submit Your Article: If
you've ever tried to manually submit your articles to article directories,
you'll find it to be a time-consuming task. SubmitYourArticle.com automates
this process by allowing you to submit up to four articles each month and then
distributes the articles to hundreds of web sites, article directories and ezine
publishers. I've just started using this service, and I'm already seeing
results!
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SalesLetter
Generator: Need to create a
quick one page website for a special program or product you're offering? I
often need to do this, but need a bit of help in writing the content. Salesletter Generator asks you a series of questions about what you're offering,
and when you've answered the questions, generates a one page sales letter in
HTML that you can post immediately! It saves me lots of time and energy--much
easier than trying to determine how to write this on my own!
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 I've tried out
several blogging software services, and Typepad is the one that I found to be
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. You can also password-protect your blog and use it as a client-only
portal to share info and files with your client base.
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Many web site owners don't bother to look at their traffic online,
feeling that ignorance about the subject is bliss. How will you ever improve
your online performance if you don't know how you're doing?
123Stat
provides easy-to-understand reports detailing how much traffic your web site has
gotten, along with info on sites that referred visitors to your site and
keywords used to arrive at your web site. All you have to do is cut and paste
some code on each page of your site and let the statistics roll in! Try it free
for 30 days here!
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AddressGrabber Business:
Address Grabber Business helps small business owners capture names and
addresses from sources like email signatures, web sites or documents into a
chosen database (ACT, Excel, Outlook, etc.) in just one click.
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Argali White and Yellow:
Argali White and Yellow searches multiple telephone and email directories so you
don't have to. The found listings are combined, formatted in uniform way and
displayed as if they came from one integrated metadirectory. You can also do a
reverse search for a phone number and search for area codes. And, the program
updates itself with any new listings every time you open it. Both a free version
and a paid version are available for download.
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Carbonite:
Carbonite offers an unlimited amount
of data storage for $50 per year (I was paying $200 a year for
10 GB of storage on XDrive. I tried their 15 day free
trial period, and Carbonite was very intuitiive and went
directly to my email files and Roboform files to back them up
without me having to manual select the backup files like I had
to with XDrive. What a deal! Get your fr*ee 15-day
trial here.
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Counterspy: Spyware is
the most common computer security menace; it impacts more than 80% of all PCs
and recent reports show that estimate is probably low. You can trust CounterSpy
to protect your computer from spyware, adware, Trojans and other malware
threats. Get your 15-day free trial
here.
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Evernote:
With EverNote you can easily store and quickly access typed and handwritten
memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords,
brainstorms, sketches, documents and more! A free version or a 30-day trial of
the paid version is available for download.
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GotoMyPC: Need access to
your files but don't want to drag your laptop with you on vacation or on a
business trip? A subscription to GotoMyPC.com will enable you to log into your
office computer and retrieve whatever you need, just as though you were sitting
in front of it. A free 30-day trial is available for download.
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MaxEmail: I bought a fax
machine and it sat unopened on the floor of my office for over a month, and I
eventually returned it. Why? Because MaxEmail lets me send a receive faxes
through the Internet/email and made my need for a fax machine obsolete. The
faxes arrive in PDF format, so you can easily share you faxes with others as
needed.
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Practice Pay
Solutions Merchant Account: If you're not taking credit cards
in your business, you're missing out on sales. 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.
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Roboform: This program 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! I maintain both my passwords and user info and that of my clients in this
program.
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SpamArrest: I
receive almost 1000 pieces of spam per day. Instead of letting it bog me
down, I use SpamArrest to help me filter my email and see only those messages I
want to see.
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SPURL:
SPURL 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.
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Tidy Start Menu:
As time goes by, the list of the programs in the Start Menu becomes too long. As
a result, each time you want to launch a program, it takes too much time to find
it in the menu. The "Tidy Start Menu" program will help you to put the menu in
order and make your work comfortable. Thus, after using the program, you will
have a compact menu, which will contain nothing but categories' names and you'll
have no trouble finding a necessary program. A freeware version and paid version
are available for download.
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Insider Secrets to Internet Marketing:
Do you want to start a profitable internet business in less than 48 hours
or iincrease sales
 from your existing business in less than 12 hours?
Then "test drive" this powerful new system to generate massive profits on
the Internet ...risk free. I got my first version of this course back in
2000 and want to kick myself sometimes for not taking any action earlier
than I have. A good bit of what I've learned about having an online
business has come from this manual and the great newsletter I receive from
the Internet Marketing Center. This system has
been scientifically tested and proven with over 1,000 small businesses on
the Internet, and the results speak for themselves.
Take action today
here.
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Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port. If you're fairly new in
 business or aren't sure about your basic business foundation issues, like
who comprises your target market or how to categorize your expertise, then
you need to get
Book Yourself Solid to get your business foundation created. I
routinely recommend this to my online business coaching clients to give them
a deeper understanding of their businesses so that they'll get more clients
online. Once you've purchased this book, get the free workbook
companion
here.
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The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business by Tom
 Antion.
This is a resource-rich guide for all kinds of tools and advice you can use
today to enhance your Internet Marketing efforts. I recommend this to
my advanced online business coaching clients who want new ways to ramp up
their Internet marketing.
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