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Assessment Generator Self Assessment Center Free Quiz Maker for your website, blog, Facebook, etc Free audio recording and editing software- Audacity for Windows or Mac Record streaming audio to your computer CastingWords.com transcribes audio for 75 cents per minute Cabbagetreesolutions.com transcribes audio for 50 cents per minute Record your conference calls and tele-seminars- FreeConferencePro, up to 200 callers, recording, telephone access replay, custom audio message for callers, online control panel, lots of other cool features- free! Easily add audio to your website- SwiffRecorder Free software for creating flash player for putting audio and video on your website Free music clips for your website, powerpoint presentations, etc. Will your business survive a PC Disaster? Carbonite Online Backup protects your important files. If you're reading this and do not have a way to backup your hard drive, it's only a matter of time. ACT NOW! Best collection of free software Need a software program of any kind? Look here first! OpenOffice - Free office suite. Contains a word processor, database program, spreadsheet, presentation program and drawing software. Handles creation of PDFs and reads MS Office file formats Computer troubleshooting, reference, resources. Free downloads, shareware, etc, for just about any need or want for your computer. SPAM Solutions Research Unrecognized Startup Applications Annoyances.org Great site for problem-solving Windows OS questions and problems Accept credit cards in just minutes with PayPal PayDotCom allows you to sell digital and physical products as well as services online. Free to set up, includes affiliate tracking. Works with Paypal. 2Checkout.com is another resource for selling digital and physical products as well as services online. ClickBank to immediately accept credit cards online for your digital products Download Defender works with ClickBank and Paypal to prevent unauthorized downloads of digital products from your website Alternatives for Accepting Credit Cards Acteva provides quick, easy and secure online registration and payment processing from your website. There's no risk and no up-front cost and you can start collecting event or class fees immediately. Increase sales and attendance for your event or class while decreasing administrative headaches. Professional Liability Insurance for Coaches- www.lifecoachinsurance.com On-line ISBN application for ISBN number for your book- ISSN number for your newsletter The ASK Database Highly recommended! Easily generate surveys, questionnaires, exit surveys, ASK campaigns, etc. We use it! Compete.com Analyze the effectiveness of your website, compare and track your competition MajikWidget.com Create polls and other interactive "widgets" for your web site or blog Quickly and easily create polls and surveys for free at Survey Monkey Free Online Polls for your website, blog, Facebook, etc WhosTalking.com is a a social media search engine. Enter your name, brand, or key words to find current mentions on Web sites, blogs, social media posts, basically anything online. National Association for the Self-Employed; Great source for access to health/life insurance, business/tax info, etc. Healthcare Providers Service Organization; Great source professional liability insurance, health/life insurance, etc. HowStuffWorks.com; informative, entertaining, you never know when you need it! PhpList Free software for managing your newsletter list SendFree.com Free autoresponder (includes ads) Aweber Autoresponder System for opt in, subscription management, and broadcasting your newsletter or e-program Customized Newsletter Services for custom-designed newsletter with your professional or company name in the masthead, your photo, logo, and professional bio/marketing message on the front page Favorite daily newsletter; Early To Rise ***Got a website? Check out this free, easy way to generate passive income from EACH and EVERY visitor! Pay per Play Google Ads On Your Website; Google's Adsense Program Amazon.com; Join the Amazon.com Affiliate Program Affiliate Program Alternatives Do-it-yourself Affiliate Program Group Coaching Manager Great tool for implementing and automating a high quality group program. Check it out! MindBloom helps you help your coaching clients track their progress, stay motivated, etc. Free 14 day trial The Coaches Console Save time and money by automating your practice- highly recommended! Finding Affordable Help- Free voicemail and fax-to-e-mail You get your own voicemail and fax number and receive messages and faxes to your e-mail as attachments or on the web- FREE Online Scheduling System - No more telephone tag! Appointment Scheduling System Automatically syncs with Outlook and Google Calendar, makes scheduling and tracking appointments easy! Free 30 day trial, nominal yearly cost ($29.95 per year as of this writing) Free resources for sending files too large for e-mail attachments Client Compass Complete business management software for private practice professionals. The Best! Free daily PR leads- www.helpareporter.com Free release distribution- PR info and strategies Trash Proof Press Releases (free PDF) Designing Press Releases- Get Famous!Work with Get Slightly Famous author Steven Van Yoder and his marketing firm. Affordable individual and group programs available. Clip & Copy Free licensing rights to reprint news articles, track industry trends in your niche, get notified when your name (or competitors) appear in the news, etc. Google Alerts Get notified when your name, brand, niche, key words, or anything else you want to track shows up on the internet WhosTalking.com is a a social media search engine. Enter your name, brand, or key words to find current mentions on Web sites, blogs, social media posts, basically anything online. The results are shown in chronological order. Like Google Alerts on steroids. Best PR newsletter and source of leading-edge PR info- Subscribe here Highly recommended! CastingWords.com transcribes audio for 75 cents per minute Cabbagetreesolutions.com transcribes audio for 50 cents per minute FREE article writing templates make writing articles easy iDictate.com will transcribe your audio programs for 1.25 cents per word and up Article Submission Sites
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DeskPDF: Create PDF documents for e-books, etc, affordably. Inexpensive alternative to Adobe Acrobat. FormatIt Formatting Utility; Automatically format your text before pasting into newsletter or autoresponder to prevent line wrapping control characters per line. ClickBook: Easily create a booklet, poster, flyer, business card, banners, bookmarks, etc. Spam Check Check your e-mail broadcasts for "spamminess" prior to sending and avoid getting caught in spam filters. URLcut.com: Free resource for converting long affiliate URLs to shorter versions that won't get broken in your text e-mail broadcasts and e-zines. Great feature- you can choose your own URL! Writers.net Find publisher, editor, agent for your book project. National Writers Union: Find a ghostwriter, co-author, collaborator for your book project, web site, marketing materials, etc. Free Doodlelab Online Publishing Applications
Book Covers and 3D Book Cover Graphics Book Cover Express Highly recommended! Cover Factory software free to download and try for do-it-yourself e-book covers, graphic representations of your newsletter, audio program, etc. Converts to 3D images as well! Killer Covers for e-books Highly recommended! NetTrace and SkipEase: Find people, reverse directory, find e-mail addresses and telephone numbers, public records, links to many other "find" resources. BetterWhoIs: Find the owner of a website or domain name. AnyWho: On-line white pages, yellow pages, reverse directory. Google.com Favorite search engine Googlism Find out what the web is saying about you WhosTalking.com Googlism on steroids. FindYourSpot.com Take their quiz to discover where best to live and work How To Get Just About Anything At The Lowest Cost:
Easy Seminar is our top bridge line for conference calls and tele-seminars. In addition to large capacity, web-based control panel, high quality recording, this service includes many features the free services don't have, including hand-raising, local calling numbers, backup host number if the main number goes down, dial out from bridge, web simulcast, web pages for each event (no html knowledge necessary), download page and links for MP3 replay, and much more.. FREE 30 day trial! Skype makes it easy to conduct video chats, VoIP telephone calls from your computer, free international calling, etc. Free Skype-Skype calls and low rates for Skype-Landline calls. Chatter Bug- Unlimited long distance for $9.95 per month Pingo- best international calling service we've found to date Magic Jack Easy, affordable VoIP solution. $99.00 for 5 years, great international calling rates that also work like a calling card allowing international calls from your landline or cell phone DimDim Free voicemail and fax-to-e-mail You get your own voicemail and fax number and receive messages and faxes to your e-mail as attachments or on the web- FREE Looking up telephone area and country codes; Free conference calling services Note about free conference calling services- List your teleclasses and tele-seminars with Conference Call University Time zone information and resources: Atomic Clock Sync; free program for synchronizing your computer’s clock with the correct time. Fixed Time Calculator for your conference calls Twitter deserves a category by itself. A free service you can use in many ways to market, build your list, provide value by sharing your expertise, etc. You can create multiple accounts- for each niche, personal use, etc. Sign up free here Here are some Twitter resources we've found useful. Almost all are free: Twitter Tips Weather; look up weather in your area then bookmark to easily check forecast. Learn how to easily create your own website Free alerts when your website is down- Free Site Monitor Free alert when your website is infected with malware- Dasient Free, easy contact form for your website or blog- Kontactr.com Free Tell-a-Friend widget here Free Share/Bookmark button for your website, blog, ezine, etc www.addthis.com Free service to add powerpoint presentation to your website- www.slideboom.com/ Free service to use your photos to easily add cool, jazzy video slideshow with music to your website (or send link by email)- www.animoto.com Free services to add video to your website- YouTube Easily add audio to your website- Add calendar to your website- free Google Calendar Free button creator www.onlinebuttonsecrets.com Instant Banner Creator for free website graphics- banners, buttons, headers, footers, animation, etc. Free exit survey www.exitsurveygenerator.com Free, easy websites at Google - Google Sites Elance- Freelance Project Database Find a virtual assistant from India, brochure/logo/web design, editor, just about any help you need for your business projects Nvu Free HTML editor / web page creator Easy Web Page Creator also optimizes web pages for search engines SwiffRecorder Free software for creating flash player for putting audio and video on your website GotLogos.com professionally designed logos starting at only $25. Web-Inspect.com a great site for getting your pages ready for the internet and the search engines. Compete.com Analyze the effectiveness of your website, compare and track your competition. Good tool for search engine optimization Web Site Templates(Most well under $100.00) Website Templates (most are $5.00) Lockedarea.com Free software for creating a password protected area of your website for members or clients Add a free search feature for your website www.Atomz.com HTML code reference list- www.htmlcodetutorial.com HTML Validator; HTML is easy, but unforgiving. This tool helps find mistakes when you do it yourself. Free music clips for your website, powerpoint presentations, etc. Royalty-free music ($7.00 per song) Stock20.com LinkPopularityCheck.com; assess popularity of your website pages. Do-It-Yourself Web Forms (Surveys, response forms, registration forms, order forms, etc) Free Quiz and Poll Maker for your website, blog, Facebook, etc Good KeyWords is a free utility for identifying effective key words for good search engine placement. Includes meta-tag generator, link popularity meter, and more. Nichebot is another good resource for researching key words. Instructions for creating a redirect URL Aweber Autoresponder System for your website opt-in system, subscription management, and broadcasting your newsletter or e-program Instant Niche E-mails creates 52 unique followup autoresponder messages to build relationship and increase sales Article Dashboard free program for creating your own article bank Free blog hosting- Blogger.com Free membership website hosting- Yahoo Groups Membership Website Hosting using Wordpress- Wishlist Member Highly recommended! (I use it) Video tutorial here PhpBB Free program for creating your own online community forum or discussion board WebResizer - Free online resource for modifying photos and graphics for the web Bartleby.com; On-line Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotes, Encyclopedia, Reference, and more.
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