Great Resources For You & Your Business
The following list of business and internet productivity tools is a quick reference guide to services that can help grow your business online. This is by no means a complete list however these resources are highly recommended by our readers. Online Media Today in no way endorses these companies.
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Also, make sure to check out our Friendly Sites page. If you are interested in exchanging Links with Online Media Today, please visit our Link Exchange page for details.
Website Development
www.hostgator.com – HostGator has been a world-leading provider of web hosting service allowing you to easily build your own websites giving you everything you could possibly need. Over the last 7+ years they’ve one over 28 awards for their services. Very affordable and comes with a 45 day money back guarantee
www.weebly.com – Create a free website or blog in minutes by using a simple drag and drop interface. No ads. One of Time's 50 best websites of 2009.
www.favicongenerator.com - Favicon Generator
www.wufoo.com – Free custom contact forms for your website.
http://n2.nabble.com – Create your own free forum and add it to your website.
www.xml-sitemaps.com - Create a Free XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google, Yahoo and other search engines to help them crawl your website better.
www.PeekStats.com – Type in your domain and the site will give you a number of valuable statistics about your site including the estimated value, all for free.
Legal
http://www.digicontracts.com - Very Important. Your website must be legally compliant. This site gives you the needed legal documents for your website so that you are protected. A very affordable and beneficial site.
Auto Responders and Email
www.aweber.com – AWeber is an email marketing service that allows users to set up website auto responders, send and manage email campaigns. They have an option for you to get your first month for $1 and a 30 day money back guarantee.
www.constantcontact.com – Constant Contact is email marketing software that makes it easy to create professional HTML email campaigns with little to no technical skills. They have a free 60 day trial available.
www.icontact.com – iContact is another option for email marketing software that makes it easy to create professional HTML email campaigns with little to no technical skills. They have a free 15 day trial.
www.streamsend.com – Streamsend provides a powerful email marketing suite to marketers, entrepreneurs and online retailers around the world. Free 30 day trial.
Communications
http://faxzero.com - This free service allows you to send a fax for free using your computer.
www.grasshopper.com – Grasshopper (formerly GotVMail) is a paid telephone service that allows business owners to deploy a low cost virtual phone system. 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
www.eVoice.com - is a paid telephone service that allows business owners to deploy a low cost virtual phone system including Toll Free & Local Phone Numbers * Enhanced Call Forwarding * Voicemail-to-Text * Auto Attendant * Customized Menus & Greetings * Multiple Extensions * Hold Music, etc. 6 month Free trial.
www.freeconferencecall.com – Freeconference is a free (for the basic service) teleconferencing platform that allows users to set up and manage professional teleconferences.
http://connect.microsoft.com/site94 – Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of people; anytime, anywhere all for FREE.
File Management
www.transferbigfiles.com – Free large file upload site.
www.sendspace.com – Free large file upload site.
Multi-Media
www.tubemogul.com – Tubemogul is a single point website that enables users to upload your video’s to all the video sites you belong to and includes powerful analytics.
www.slideshare.net – Slideshare is a free service that allows users to upload and share PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios with your audience as well as the Slideshare community.
www.flickr.com – Flickr is a free service that allows users to upload and share photos with your audience as well as the Flickr community.
www.photobucket.com - Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. The service allows users to upload photos, host videos, and shar them with friends and family.
Blogging
www.wisestamp.com/ie-other - Free service that allows you to add dynamic email signatures to webmail (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.)
http://en.gravatar.com - Gravatar is a free service that allows you to create a personal image (Avatar) that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums.
Social Media
www.ping.fm – Ping.fm is a free service that allows users to connect each social network to the Ping.fm application and post company updates, information, articles, videos and more – all from one site.
www.gizapage.com – Free service that aggregates all of your social media profiles into one easy to access page.
www.twellow.com – A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter.
www.socialoomph.com - Social Oomph is a free service that offers a great way to set up alerts, schedule tweets, send thank you DMs, and much more.
www.wefollow.com – Find Twitter celebrities, actors, TV personalities, or new Twitter friends in your area. WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users organized by interests.
www.tweetdeck.com – Tweetdeck is a desktop and mobile application that enables users to manage multiple social network interactions in one place.
www.ning.com – create your own micro-social networking site.
http://bit.ly – Bit.ly is a free URL shortener that is used primarily with Twitter. The user is able input longer URLs into the bit.ly application and create shorter, unique, URLs that do not take up as many valuable characters in the Twitter post. Registering for a free bit.ly account allows users to track clicks on bit.ly short URLs.
www.hostgator.com – HostGator has been a world-leading provider of web hosting service allowing you to easily build your own websites giving you everything you could possibly need. Over the last 7+ years they’ve one over 28 awards for their services. Very affordable and comes with a 45 day money back guarantee
www.weebly.com – Create a free website or blog in minutes by using a simple drag and drop interface. No ads. One of Time's 50 best websites of 2009.
www.favicongenerator.com - Favicon Generator
www.wufoo.com – Free custom contact forms for your website.
http://n2.nabble.com – Create your own free forum and add it to your website.
www.xml-sitemaps.com - Create a Free XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google, Yahoo and other search engines to help them crawl your website better.
www.PeekStats.com – Type in your domain and the site will give you a number of valuable statistics about your site including the estimated value, all for free.
Legal
http://www.digicontracts.com - Very Important. Your website must be legally compliant. This site gives you the needed legal documents for your website so that you are protected. A very affordable and beneficial site.
Auto Responders and Email
www.aweber.com – AWeber is an email marketing service that allows users to set up website auto responders, send and manage email campaigns. They have an option for you to get your first month for $1 and a 30 day money back guarantee.
www.constantcontact.com – Constant Contact is email marketing software that makes it easy to create professional HTML email campaigns with little to no technical skills. They have a free 60 day trial available.
www.icontact.com – iContact is another option for email marketing software that makes it easy to create professional HTML email campaigns with little to no technical skills. They have a free 15 day trial.
www.streamsend.com – Streamsend provides a powerful email marketing suite to marketers, entrepreneurs and online retailers around the world. Free 30 day trial.
Communications
http://faxzero.com - This free service allows you to send a fax for free using your computer.
www.grasshopper.com – Grasshopper (formerly GotVMail) is a paid telephone service that allows business owners to deploy a low cost virtual phone system. 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
www.eVoice.com - is a paid telephone service that allows business owners to deploy a low cost virtual phone system including Toll Free & Local Phone Numbers * Enhanced Call Forwarding * Voicemail-to-Text * Auto Attendant * Customized Menus & Greetings * Multiple Extensions * Hold Music, etc. 6 month Free trial.
www.freeconferencecall.com – Freeconference is a free (for the basic service) teleconferencing platform that allows users to set up and manage professional teleconferences.
http://connect.microsoft.com/site94 – Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of people; anytime, anywhere all for FREE.
File Management
www.transferbigfiles.com – Free large file upload site.
www.sendspace.com – Free large file upload site.
Multi-Media
www.tubemogul.com – Tubemogul is a single point website that enables users to upload your video’s to all the video sites you belong to and includes powerful analytics.
www.slideshare.net – Slideshare is a free service that allows users to upload and share PowerPoint presentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios with your audience as well as the Slideshare community.
www.flickr.com – Flickr is a free service that allows users to upload and share photos with your audience as well as the Flickr community.
www.photobucket.com - Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. The service allows users to upload photos, host videos, and shar them with friends and family.
Blogging
www.wisestamp.com/ie-other - Free service that allows you to add dynamic email signatures to webmail (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.)
http://en.gravatar.com - Gravatar is a free service that allows you to create a personal image (Avatar) that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums.
Social Media
www.ping.fm – Ping.fm is a free service that allows users to connect each social network to the Ping.fm application and post company updates, information, articles, videos and more – all from one site.
www.gizapage.com – Free service that aggregates all of your social media profiles into one easy to access page.
www.twellow.com – A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter.
www.socialoomph.com - Social Oomph is a free service that offers a great way to set up alerts, schedule tweets, send thank you DMs, and much more.
www.wefollow.com – Find Twitter celebrities, actors, TV personalities, or new Twitter friends in your area. WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users organized by interests.
www.tweetdeck.com – Tweetdeck is a desktop and mobile application that enables users to manage multiple social network interactions in one place.
www.ning.com – create your own micro-social networking site.
http://bit.ly – Bit.ly is a free URL shortener that is used primarily with Twitter. The user is able input longer URLs into the bit.ly application and create shorter, unique, URLs that do not take up as many valuable characters in the Twitter post. Registering for a free bit.ly account allows users to track clicks on bit.ly short URLs.