Internet Business Resources For Fun and Profit

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Free Internet Business Tools And Resources Rolodex and Guide

The Resources and tools found on this page are designed to help you run your internet business. I’ve listed them in alphabetical order to make it easy fro you to find helpful topics.

Most of the resources are free. We all like free products and just because they are free doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheap or aren’t better than paid products. (Cheap will usually cost you in the long run) Some of my favorite resources are the low cost or free ones. Many of the Free reports require an email address.

Programs such as Firefox, Ubuntu, Google Analytics and Wordpress beat any paid solution you can find. So check each item out and decide for yourself if it’s worth what it costs .

I use many of the programs but not all of them. I do recommend them, that is why I’ve listed them on this “”Recommended Resources” page.

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Recommended Internet Business Products:

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OptinPop - This FREE WordPress plug-in doubles the value of your traffic and builds you a red red hot subscriber list through an unblockable popup window that shows your blog visitor a “micro” squeeze page when they go to leave… I’m using it on this site and my optin rates have quadrupled.

PPC Web Spy- Free Firefox add on that enables you to browse Google in real time and see anyone’s keywords Free

Frequently Asked Questions- On my webpage called FAQ I include a giant list of links to more resources. These Frequently Asked Questions along with their answers should prove to be very helpful in your internet marketing journey.

Million Dollar Internet Business Rolodex

Internet Business Tools and Resources

The following tools listed on this page are designed to keep your internet business running smoothly:

Recommended Resources

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Adwords

Learn How to use Google Adwords- Perry Marshall’s Definitive Guide to Google Adwords Get a Free E-course “5 Days to Success with Google Adwords”

Affiliate Program Solutions (Shopping Carts)

Clickbank- ClickBank is the online retail outlet for over 10,000 digital product vendors. sell your ebooks here and others will promote them.

Easy Clickmate- This script adds an extra layer of features to Clickbank to manage your affiliates with, including email
notifications, private logins and multiple destination pages.

Net office Toolbox- Affordable and Powerful. Click Here to try the World’s Smartest Shopping Cart system.

1Shopping Cart- Same as Net office Toolbox

ShareaSale – Find a sponsor for your website, get PAID for your content

E-junkie- E-junkie Shopping Cart and Digital Delivery

IdevDirect.com- Check out this very good affiliate tracking software. For as little as $99.99, you can offer an affiliate program on your website and it takes just minutes to install/

Article Submission Software

Article Marketing software- Build a list of publishers and then use this software to submit unique articles to each one. It’s a little tough to install, but a very good program and it’s also free.

Article Dashboard- You can run your own free article directory using this software. Let other submit their articles and content to your site. It’s free although you do have to sign up for their list.

Audio Tools

Audacity Record a song being played on an Internet radio station or clip a tune down to 20 seconds to make it your cell phone’s ringtone. Free free open source software that records, edits, and converts digital audio.

Answer Sites

http://answers.yahoo.com

Answers.com

Answerbag.com

Yedda.com

Antivirus and Spyware Protection

ESET NOD- 25% off on ESET NOD32 Antivirus, 2008 Consumer Digest “Best Buy” I like it because it doesn’t put a heavy load on my system and you hardly notice it in the background

AVG- Free Basic anti virus protection

Ad-Aware the name says it all-Free

Autoresponderrs

aWeber – This is the very best follow-up e-mail service available- AWeber’s automated unlimited autoresponder follow up increases sales, lowers costs, builds lasting customer relationships, and increases your profits! I use it on this website.

Icontact- I use this service for my Missions website since it is so user friendly and easy to use. It also allows you to import contact lists with no hassle.

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Blogs- Blogging Resources and Tools

Highly Recommended Blogging Course- My Blogging Mastery- This series by Terry Dean gave me the foundation I needed to easily Set-up, Generate Traffic, and Profit From a Blog- Watch 2 Free Videos and Read about Blogging Made Easy

“If You Can Write a Simple Email…Then You Too Can Profit From Your Own Blog…On a Subject You Love…In Just 3 Easy Hours!”

Blog Commenting Software

commentkahuna.com

Blog Comment Demon “Find an Unlimited Supply Of High PR Backlinks From Quality Blogs…All Done In Minutes!”

Comment Hut- Your new “Comment Hut Lite” software, gives spiderbots exactly what they want… Incoming Links Pointing at YOUR sites – And the best part is – It’s YOURS… 100% FREE!

Blog Networks

MyBlogLog.com

BlogCatalog.com

Blogging Software

See my list of Free and Low Cost Web Pages, Blogs, FTP’s and Html Editors

Blinkweb-This service is great for web marketing . Everything’s all laid out and ready for you to customize. The tutorials are great for beginners. It’s free but extended options are fee based.

Blogger.com- Google’s Free Solution for a blog. Very easy to use. The downside – it’s not on your server, so you don’t get the benefit of links or search engine listings.

Wodpress.org- The best free software for running a blog. I am using it on this website and highly recommend that you use it too. You will need you own hosting to set it up. I recommend Bluehost. If you purchase Bluehost using links from my website I’ll set up a wordpress blog for you for free. See this post for more information on free blog installations.

Wordpress.com- Let wordpress host your blog for free. You lose some of the flexibility of Wordpress.org but it’s a good alternative if you are just starting out our if you don’t want to spend any money (some optional services are available for a fee)

Blogs Tools

Artisteer #1 Automated Web Design Software for Blogs, CMS and Portals. Generate templates for Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal.Free Trial

Windows Live Writer- The Best Desktop blogging client to date for windows users. You can do a lot with images using it.Free

Blogging Resources

31 Days to a Better Blog- In a months time I increased traffic to this website by 17.7% I also received the highest number of comments on my blog ever because of the increased traffic. I highly recommend this lost cost material By Darren Rowse of Problogger.net.

The Authority Black Book - This is a must have and very well put together book that you can download in for Free in pdf format. I really like this book and even wrote this article on Jack Humphrey.The Authority Black Book was ranked number 1 e-book by mashable and includes tips on SEO, social marketing, traffic and even video. Click Here To Get The Authority Black Book For Free

Blog Profits Blueprints- Free Report by Yaro Starak recommended by Problogger.net, copyblogger.com and others

Become a Blogger Roadmap- FREE: Discover The Time Tested And Proven Roadmap To Blogging Success by Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick

Blogging Wealth Gap– Discover the Simple Ingredient the World’s Most Successful Bloggers Use Everyday To Make A Full Time Income Online- Free Report by David Risley

6 Figure Bloggers Blueprint- Free Report From Blog Masters Club Helps You Learn How Your Blog WILL Get More Traffic And Make The Money You Deserve!

Blogging Plug-Ins

15 Best SEO Plugins for Wordpress Blogs- Read my popular article on the best plugins for search engine optimization. It also includes links to other popular articles on plugins.

Action Comments- Low cost wordpress plug-in that funnels Blog Commenters Into Your Autoresponder Lists by adding an opt-in option to your blog’s comment form

Blogging Videos/ Tutorials

Become a Blogger 10 Free Videos- 1o Easy videos showing you how to start your blog from scratch

Ithemes Tutorials-These Free Tutorials in video format will teach you how to set up your blog, customize it, write posts and pages and even optimize your wordpress theme in 7 steps.

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Copywriting

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Domain Names

Real Domain Success- Low Cost Domain Names- .Com’s are on sale now for $7.49. This is my personal Gdaddy reseller site. I set it up as a service to my readers.

Buid a Niche Store- I looked in a lot of places to finally find this low cost solution for parking my domain names. You can set up fully customized e-bay pages with this program

Domain Lookup Sites

instantdomainsearch.com

nameboy.com

Download Manager

The Free Download Manager will allow you to make multiple downloads and organize your files on your computer, speed up your download process, resume broken downloads and even allow easy file sharing. It’s open source software so that means it’s absolutely free.

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Email Tools

I use Gmail This has been the very best solution for helping me to get organized on the web. It even offers the ability to organize multiple accounts. Free

Thunderbird Lets you manage email offline, spell-check inline as-you-type, and respond personally to hundreds of repetitive messages with a couple of clicks. Free

Free Email Encryption Services- Do you need to send secure information via email? See this article for 2 secure online email services plus 2 Gmail/ Firefox alternative to encrypt your own messages

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Family Entertainment

Nest Family Entertainment- See my articles on deep discount prices for sets of 12,24, 36 DVD’s for Teaching Children Biblical Values.Get the absolute BEST Price on the New & Old Testament Complete Learning System™Compare the prices to Nest Entertainment here.

File Sharing (Online)

Box.net- This is one of my favorite choices for Simple Online Collaboration: Online File Storage, FTP Replacement, Team Workspaces ~ Free Version

Dropbox- – Secure Backup, sync, sharing across computers as easy as a drop in the bucket Free – I’m currently using this excellent file sharing tool.

Mediafire- upload, shave and share large files, it’s Free

PixelPipe can be used as a primary tool for updating social networks. It supports Ping.fm and custom triggers. Use it publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed all over the place. It’s Free

RapidShare- Host and Share your Files for Free. This is a great resource for sharing large files including software, tools and programs with friends and family

Scribd- Upload your documents and ebooks to the Scribd Store and even sell them from there. Share the url for others to download free. Automatically tweet or share your download links.

Scribd iPaper- View your documents on the web using the most popular formats and even publish to Scribd

Finding Your Niche/ Market Research

NicheBot

Finances- Software/ personal/ online

Quicken- My personal favorite software organizer. I’ve used it for years.

Mint.com- The Best Free Online Personal Fiance Software

Forums

http://www.omgili.com- Online Forum Search and Real Time Discussions

Free Fonts

DaFont- Find and Download Free Fonts from this website

FTP Clients (For Uploading Files To Your Server or webhost like BlueHost)

Filezilla- I use this Free program often see this related article for more info- Free and Low Cost Web Pages, Blogs, FTP’s and Html Editors

Fireftp- A Great plugin for Firefox to upload files to your server and its also Free. It’s mentioned on the article above.

Transmit 3 FTP client for Mac includes column view,. search., zooming. tabs and many more features.

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Free Google Resources

Google Search-Based Keyword Tool: http://www.google.com/sktool/

Google Keyword Tool: http://www.reallifepurpose.com/googlekeywordtool

Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends

Google Trends for Websites: http://trends.google.com/websites

Google Hot Trends: http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Google Zeitgeist: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/archives.html

Google Insights: http://www.google.com/insights/search/

Google Traffic Estimator: https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox

Google Gmail: http://mail.google.com

Google Alerts: http://www.google.com/alerts

Generate Traffic to Your Site

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Help Desk Solutions

Trouble Ticket Express Set-up your own help desk using this free open source software.

Hesk – a Free PHP Help Desk Software that runs with a MySQL database. It allows you to setup a web based ticket support system (helpdesk) for your website. Get it now at http://www.phpjunkyard.com/free-helpdesk-software.php I use it for Customer Support.

Contact Me via my Helpdesk

HTML Editors

Note Tab Light Replace your notepad with this free text and html editor

Nvu - WYSIWYG Web design software This is a Free html program similar to Frontpage and Dreamweaver

Kompozer- A more up-to-date version of the open source web design software Nvu. Create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. I’m using it on my ubuntu/linux computer. It’s free.

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Macs

LifeHacker has a great list of essential downloads for Mac users. This essential list is free.

Media

Media Browser-If you use Windows Media Center to manage your movies, TV shows, and music, then you need Media Browser, This free open-source plug-in displays your downloaded media and all its associated metadata and artwork in one slick layout. See This Post at LifeHacker for More Info.

Membership Sites

Membership Site Mastermind -Yaro Starok Reveals The Membership Site Formula he Used To Earn High Six Figures Last Yearin this Free Report

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Notetaking

Evernote- Take Notes from virtually anywhere on almost any computer install the free Firefox extension Free

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Operating Systems

Ubuntu is a Free Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. I’m using it and loving it.

Outsourcing

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Password Organizers

Lastpass -a Free online password manager and form filler that makes web browsing easier and more secure. See this post for a review

Password Safe - a Free password database utility. Users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination unlocks them all.

Payment Processors

PayPal Account- This online bank is essential for anyone who does business on the internet. You can even accept credit card payments with PayPal. Free for purchasers

PC Optimization Tools

CCleaner Optimize your computer with this freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. Just avoid installing the Yahoo Toolbar when they prompt you to do it.

Ping Tools

Pingler- Blog and Ping Tool – Use Pingler.com to Drive Traffic your Blogs and Websites

PDFs- Creating , Viewing and Branding

Open Office- Yes you can create online documents with it Free

Adobe Reader- Google the term “click here to download” this program will be your first result Free

FoxIt PDF Reader Faster than Adobe Acrobat Reader Free

CutePDF Writer- Create PDF documents on the fly for Free (Uses the print function)

PDF Converter- Converts Online and is Free . Converts MS Office, Images, Web Pages, Vector Graphic Formats files to PDF

Primo PDF- Uses the print function to convert to PDF’s Free

Adobe Create PDF online- 5 Free documents, then $9.95 a month

Photo Editor and Organizers/ Images/ Graphic Tools

8 + Royalty Free Stock Photo Websites-This article is an excellent resource for finding free stock images for your website

Picasa The First program I install for family members when they get their first digital camera or computer. It works together with Google photos. Free

PicApp- Jazz up your blog, for free, with lots of premium, relevant, fresh and legal images to choose from. There’s even a wordpress plugin

FlickR Upload, organize and share your photos with this Free program from Yahoo.

Picnik- PC World’s Top pick for image editing online. Free

FotoFlexer- provides even more options for online photo editing. Free

Gimp Edit graphics, photos, and more for Free. This is another Free resource program that often beats the paid solutions available. Fore Free materials on how to use the program, go to: http://www.gimp-savvy.com

Gimpshop This is a Free add-on to make Gimp operate more like Photoshop. Many of the menus and other elements are very similar to Photoshop, so this becomes a nice alternative.

Infranview- Free Graphic viewer for Windows

Press Release Resources

Press Release Creation Services:

http://www.pressequalizer.com

http://www.pressedge.com/

Press Release Writers:

http://www.custompressrelease.com

http://www.prnine.com

http://www.Press-Release-Writing.com

http://www.contentdone.com

http://www.contentcustoms.com

Press Release Distribution Channels:

http://www.PRWeb.com

http://www.URLWire.com

http://www.PRNewsWire.com

http://www.Free-Press-Release.com

http://www.marketwire.com

http://www.wiredprnews.com/

http://www.livepresswire.com/

http://www.PressReleaseNetwork.com

http://www.WebWire.com

http://eWorldWire.com

http://www.BusinessWire.com

http://www.PRLeads.com

Presentation Software

PowerBullet Simple to use and Free. Create sideshows, auto-running presentations, and more. It’s great for a finished flash presentation and also good for tutorials and software documentation.

Product Duplication

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Recommended Resources (See Training)

Recommended Study

Screen Capture Tools

Snagit- This low cost tool is by TechSmith, The Same Company as Camtasia StudioT. You can take a “snapshot” of anything on your PC screen. Send it, store it, turn it into a detailed graphic, find it later.

Jing- By TechSmith Also- Yes it’ll take great screenshots and it’s free.

FiresHot- a Free Firefox Extension with lots of options for taking screenshots and editing them

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Site Design Tools and Templates

Open Source Website Design- Are you looking for Free Web Design Templates? The idea behind the website is to provide a place for you to download your own HTML web design templates or, if you have one of your own template, you can share it with others.

Site Management

Social Networks- See the Complete Listing of Social Networks Tools and Resources

Software Tools and Utilities

WinZip Popular Zip File Utility for Windows. Free

SyncBack Protect your data with SyncBack, supports backup and synchronization across local disks, network drives and FTP servers. Free

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Telephone Services

Skype - I replaced my regular phone with this excellent service, 2 cents a minute long distance and Free to other Skype users. I use skype for my primary telephone number.

Pamela for Skype- enhances Skype with following functions: Call/Chat and Video Recording, Email-Forwarding & Notification, Blogging & Podcasting, Personalisation of the contact list and much much more.

Try Pamela for Skype for free.

Powergramo- Makes it easy to record Skype calls securely- Free Trial Version

Text and Word Processing

OpenOffice – Free Office Suite This is similar to Microsoft Office, and it’s 100% free. It contains a word processor, database program, spreadsheet, presentation program, and drawing software.

Note Tab Light – Replaces Notepad. Free but paid versions offer more options.

Fontcapture- Create a font from your own handwriting. All you need is a printer and a scanner.Simply fill in the font template, scan and upload it to our website, and download your completed font. It’s free and there’s no software or optin required.

Tracking , Testing and Analytics of Website Traffic

Training Resources for Internet Marketing and Affiliates (Low Cost)

Rosalind Gardner’s SUPER Affiliate Handbook-The number 1 resource for affiliate marketing. I especially recommend this for beginners.

Dynamic Web Marketing Secrets- I purchased this program quite a while back and still refer to it,What can i say,.. It left a good taste in my mouth.

Ewin Chias Super Affiliate Club- Chock Full of Videos, Tools, Systems, and great advice for affilate marketing. This is a monthly membership

Honest Riches- Holly Mann is the Author of this material. Her website is called Honest Riches and she has some great material for Internet businesses

The Clickbank Code Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably seen that the Clickbank Code has set the marketing world on fire… Check this out to discover how a first time ever as a Clickbank affiliate made $48,506.66 in his first 4 weeks. I purchased it and love the detailed videos which may be a little over a complete beginners head.

Twitter-

@GregNemer and @PurposeMission

See the complete listing of Twitter tools at my Social Networks Resources Page

The Twitter Method- No Cost Videos Show You How to Make Real Money Using Twitter, even if you have zero followers.

URL Shorteners/Affiliate Link Cloaking

Go Try This- New- Watch the video and you’ll see what you been missing on affiliate link cloaking and url shortening.

Pretty Link- Why pay for a link cloaking when you can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website for Free. I use this wordpress plugin on this website.

Affiliate Ninja- Take control of the affiliate links on your blog

Bud URL -Shrink it- spread it – watch it grow. Free

Tiny URL- Drag Tiny onto it onto your Firefox or Safari Bookmarks Toolbar to use it. Free

Adjix- Short links, tiny ads, big payoffs. Free

Useful Marketing Sites

Video Tools

Flip Ultra HD Video Camera- Why pay for a bulky, expensive, video recorder? This video HD camera works really well and It costs less than $170. It will record 2 hours of video.

CamStudio – Free Screen Recorder- Record Audio and Video directly to Flash. A Great alternative to paid similar programs if your on a low budget.

Camtasia Studio- I bit the bullet and purchased this program to record onscreen activity and then edit my videos. There’s a free trial to get you started (no affiliate program)

Jing- Techsmith, the same company that provides Camtasia Studio and Snagit has released a FREE Version that combines both of the tools into one. There are some limitations but this is a great alternative to the previous tools that I’ve mentioned. I love the little hovering icon on my desktop. It expands when I click on it.

Animoto- Create a free account and then upload your photos and text. Then add your own music or use the music provided on their website. It’s totally free to create a short 30 second video. Full length videos cost $3 per video or $30 a year for unlimited videos. Share your videos on Youtube, Myspace, Facebook and Twitter.

Powerbullet Presentation Software – Create slideshows, auto-running presentations, and more. You can output the finished presentation as Flash or executable. This smalll, simple to use software is free, no ads and no catch. Simply type, click, and drag.

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Web Hosting

Bluehost Monthly Plans Start at just $6.95 CLICK HERE TO SIGNUP FOR BLUEHOST.COM NOW.

This is my preffered Web Host. I’ll set your blog up for free when you purchase Bluehost for 1 year or more.

HostGator- Only 1 cent for the First Month Click here to get our HostGator Special coupon code. This is a great way to try out a webhost at very little risk.

Wordpress

Wordpress Themes

The Thesis Theme – I use the Thesis Theme on this website. It is the VERY Best and most complete Wordpress Theme available on the Internet Today. I Highly Recommend it.

ThemeWars.com -This Wordpress Theme Site offers readers the opportunity to vote on their favorite themes. It’s a great way to view the very best themes on the web. What a cool idea!

This page can be considered my Million Dollar Internet Business Rolodex and you can find it easily entering the following URLs into your web browser:

Special Thanks to Terry Dean for his list of Free Software


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