150 Business Tools
This is a list of on-line tools that will help you run your business and life more effectively. These are not affiliates, I have tried them all and have listed them as a resource to other entrepreneurs because I have found them useful.
- 1and1: web hosting, linux + windows
- 1time: track project costs
- 37signals Gig Board: freelance jobs for geeks
- adGooroo: SEO marketing
- AIGA: standard business forms + templates
- askCHARITY: database of key media contacts
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition: anti-virus gratis
- Backpack: projects management on steroids without side effects
- Basecamp: project communication
- Beanstalk: subversion control and tracking
- Big Cartel: set up an online store to sell your products using
- Blankspaces: open workspace on the go
- Blinksale: online invoices
- blist: publish info online
- Box: online file-sharing location
- Breeze: send out email campaigns
- BrokenArrow: t shirt printing
- CafePress: on-demand printing
- CalendarHub: web-based calendar
- Campfire: web-based online meetings
- CamStudio: capture, edit, share (pc download software)
- Carbonite - online, off-site backup (for mac and pc)
- Central Desktop: collaborate, communicate and share files
- channelFlip: uk online video channel
- Cloudmark Desktop: anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-viruses
- ConceptShare: online design collaboration
- ConstantContact: email marketing
- Coroflot: create and online portfolio and find design jobs
- Craigslist: free and instant classifieds
- CrazyEgg: track your website visitors with visual statistics
- Creative Commons: protecting your work
- Creative Public: forms, contracts, pricing guides
- Delicious: bookmarking with social connect
- Designers Toolbox: legal form templates
- DeskAway: project management + collaboration
- DiscMakers: make cds and dvd
- Dimewise: manage your business transactions
- DivShare: email files or store them in a folder
- Dotsub: video subtitles, make them yourself
- Dropbox: sync files online
- eBuddy: online messengers for your mobile device
- Elance: freelance projects, outsourced hiring
- Escrow: manage payment fraud
- Evernote: online notes, clips, snapshots
- ExpressionEngine: build website with lots of features
- ExpenseWatch: expense control and compliance
- Facebook: network and find old friends
- FaxZERO: send a fax anywhere in the US or Canada for free
- Feedburner: deliver your content rss style
- FlashDen: build great-looking websites
- Flickr: upload your photos to Flickr
- Flowchart: flowcharts online
- FreshBooks: online invoicing and light accounting
- FriendFeed - for real-time communications and feedback
- Godaddy: domains and webspace
- GoToMeeting: online meetings
- Google 411: info about local businesses
- Google AdWords: advertise your business
- Google Broswer Sync: sync your browser on multiple comps
- Google Calendar: web-based calendar
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets: MS Office alternative
- Google Voice: online phone number + transcripts
- Guruza: find answers to your business questions
- Harvest: web-based time tracking software
- Help Me Work: taxes, client billing, paychecks, benefits
- Highrise: online contact management system
- Hootsuite: twitter admin for multiple accounts
- Hulu: tv, movies online, take a break
- HyperOffice: online office suite
- Inblogit: blog about your business or work
- Intervals: time tracking and task management
- Icebrrg: create web forms
- IconBuffet: trade stock icons for your web designs
- InstaCalc: web based calculator
- iOrganize: notes, ideas and bookmarks
- iPodmeister: digitize your cds and get a free ipod
- iStock: online photos, audio, video
- iTouchMap: mobile and desktop maps
- Jewelboxing: customized, professional-grade DVD and CD
- Job Pile: freelance jobs
- Joost: videos online
- K7: receive fax and voicemail messages
- LessAccounting: online accounting
- LinkedIn: online networking, a virtual business card
- LogMeIn: access to your computer’s desktop anywhere
- LongTailvideo: online flexible media player
- Lulu: self publishing, write a book and set it free
- MailBuild: templates for email campaigns
- Matt: administer multople twitter accounts, easy interface
- MediaTemple: stores files online safely
- Meebo: instant messaging tool
- Mind42: mind mapping
- MindMeister: mind mapping (i like this one)
- MorgueFile: high resolution photos
- Moneybookers: secure worldwide payment and acceptance
- Moo: prints note cards and mini cards from your photos
- MyFonts: for free fonts
- MyNewCompany: get legal and tax protection
- Neptune: web-based calendar with a to do list tool
- Netvibes: web portal and social update tool
- Ning: create your own Ning social network
- Nolo: legal advice for contractors and consultants
- nuconomy: website metrics
- Myfax.com: eFax to world
- openID: one password for most everything online
- openonmy: offers storage for files up to 1GB
- opera: web browser, fast and slick
- only2click: jump to links, store your bookmarks
- osCommerce: open source shopping cart
- Passpack: online password manager
- PayPal: pavements
- PayPerPost: have a blogger write about your product
- Pandora: fully customizable internet radio
- Pepwave: wireless and data services
- Ping: update multiple social networks
- Producteev: online collaboration
- ProfessionalOnTheWeb: directory of portfolios
- ProjectStat.us: track status of a project
- Planzo: web-based calendar
- Pulse: cash flow management simple to use
- Prosper: people-to-people lending website
- Qoop: qoop prints everything
- Radiotime: listen to talk radio online
- Relenta CRM: track of customer, email, auto responders
- Remember The Milk: smart to do list
- Retailmenot: discount codes for software install and subscriptions
- RingCentral: online 800 number + message service
- Rudder: track your bank accounts
- ScratchnScribble: handwritten or printed greeting cards
- Scribd: publish original writings pdf style
- Search Twitter: just like it says, search for words on twitter
- Side Job Track: track and manage project information
- Skype: online communication (get ride of your home phone)
- Spamato: secure your email
- SpamSieve: fighting spam
- Speedtest: test your internet connection
- Splitweet: online twitter admin for multople accounts
- Spongecell: web-based calendar
- Spot Runner: TV advertising campaigns customized for you
- Spybot Search & Destroy: scanning for spyware
- Streetfolio: property management
- stock.xchng: more photos many of them royalty-free
- Stikkit: online smart yellow post it notes
- SugarSync: sync + store + share
- SurveyMonkey: online surveys free
- Ta-da List: ta-da lists with project management
- TeachStreet: lean stuff
- Text Link Ads: text link ads
- T-Hub: quickbooks + ecommerce integration
- Tinyurl: shirk url to a few charactors
- TransferBigFiles.com - send up to 1G Free
- Tr.im: shortern urls, track stats
- Tweetburner: shirk links and track
- Twitter – for real-time communications and feedback
- Userplane: interactive website
- Viapoint: store emails and files by client or project
- Vello: conference calling
- VerticalResponse: email marketing
- vhstodvd: vhs to dvd service, $10 per tape
- Vistprint: online design of biz cards + postcards
- Vitalist: getting thing done
- Webnote: online post-its
- WebProJobs: freelance jobs
- Wesabe: keep tabs on your money
- Webnote: web browser based note-taking
- WiseStamp: online signature
- WordPress: blog about your business or work
- Wordtracker: key words and seo
- Wufoo: make forms, surveys and invitations
- Xdrive: Xdrive offers 5GB of online storage
- XE: currency converter
- XHTMLized: build a web page
- XHTMLiT: converting design into HTML
- Yammer: workplace communication tool (twitter for work)
- YouSendIt: use for sending files up to 100, more pay
- YouTube: for viral video
- Zoho : complete onlinr office business suite