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PRODUCT CREATION TOOLS
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office suite application, (Save, edit and create office
documents for your business for free)
www.openoffice.org/
image editing
software, (And instructions for manipulating and
making promotional images like a professional graphic designer).
http://www.gimp.org/
video
editing software, (Leave the outtakes, on the cutting room
floor to make videos your competition envies)
http://www.videospin.com/Redesign/
audio
recording and editing software, (Create audio
products and advertising audio right on your own
computer)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
video screen
capture software, (Great for advertising. Shows people
exactly how you did it - by capturing every step you took in free
editable video format.)
http://www.virtualdub.org/
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FONTS
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http://www.1001freefonts.com/
http://www.fontspace.com/
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WEBMASTER TOOLS
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FTP software, (And instructions for placing and changing
pages on the web anytime you want!)
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php
Schema.org
is a webmasters tool for the collection of 'schemas', (schema
are html tags, etc.) you can use this to help search
engines recognize the information on your websites better.
http://schema.org
Free to
Digital Point Members
http://tools.digitalpoint.com/
Put a
marquee
on your website to scroll the latest news or feature of your site.
http://www.htmlbasix.com/marquee.shtml
(Annoying
pop-up warning)
Zen cart
...is free and has a lot of free add-ons
http://www.zen-cart.com
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PHOTOSHOP EXTRAS
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Great
templates
for business card etc
http://www.48hourprint.com/photoshop-templates.html
Free
brushes
for photoshop
http://www.brushking.eu/Category/Vectors-Brushes.html
Okay, This is the best set of
Photoshop
Tutorials that you can laugh at, ever!
Check this out (but maybe not when the young ones are in the room...)
http://www.youtube.com/show/yousuckatphotoshop
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SEO RESEARCH
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Wiki Summarizer
Similar to Google's old Wonder Wheel. It is an application that
summarizes Wikipedia articles. It identifies the most important
keywords and ranks them by relevancy.You can use this tool to help
identify keywords for your pages.
http://www.wikisummarizer.com
Forum Board Search engines
When looking for forums to comment- in your niche- for SEO link
building this search engine is great
http://boardreader.com/
Clicktale
Real time analytics that are free for limited amounts but worth it to
track where a person is looking on your page ..check out the free
package benefits.
• Limited plan $0
• 400 recorded pageviews / month
• Limited playback
•
Generate Heatmaps of your
most popular page
http://www.clicktale.com/pricing/plans_e
(Link to free package on
bottom of the page.)
WOOPRA
Downloadable desktop client that tracks
visitors to your site using heat maps and real time visuals
http://www.woopra.com/
(A
free basic plan for non-commercial, personal sites)
http://www.woopra.com/plans/
(Go here for price plans-It is hard to find prices on the
site without signing up.)
popuri
A
tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its
ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social
bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!
http://popuri.us/
Web2.0
directory
http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0/short
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TASKS & MAINTENANCE
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anti-virus/firewall,
(Because when your computer is making money downtime is unacceptable!)
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/
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COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE
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InnerPass
…Turns Skype Into a Virtual Business Collaboration Tool
InnerPass is a Skype Extra that adds Persistence to Web Meetings to
help organize and coordinate ongoing collaborative projects.
Free $0.00 Forever
Meeting Rooms: 5 Rooms
Screen Sharing: 30 Minutes
Guests : 5 Participants
Storage: 1 GB Total Storage
https://www.innerpass.com/?
SynchroEdit
…is
a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time,
different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single
web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes
all changes so that users always have the same version.
http://www.synchroedit.com/
WatchMe
…is
a simple timer program that can be used to time a number of different
tasks or events together or indepenedently of each other. You can
easily name each timer and track information about what you are timing
- a great solution for those who need to track their time for billing,
timesheets and more.
http://flamebrain.com/
Last update for these links was 9-15-2011
If they are broken, please let us know.
To your success,
Michael
& Corena
GolliverMedia.com