100+ Tools & Tutorials to Optimize Your Email Marketing Campaigns

Virtual Hosting Blog: "100+ Tools & Tutorials to Optimize Your Email Marketing Campaigns
Email marketing isn’t an easy communication method to master. You have to worry about spam, strategic timing, and finding the perfect pitch to resonate with readers. Fortunately, there’s a plethora of advice and tools specifically designed for email marketers, and we’ve compiled some of the best here. From design to deliverability, these resources have got you covered."

Attract more clients, with this simple copywriting model

Ecademy: "AIDCA can be used within virtually any area of your promotional mix. For example, your website homepage, a direct mail letter or an invitation to an event.
Here is the sequence:
Attention = The headline
Interest = Your product or service
Desire = A compelling offer
Conviction = Proof
Action = A call to action!"

10 Places to Get a Free Business Education Online

Education-Portal.com: "
1. MIT OpenCourseWare - Sloan School of Management (mit.edu)
* Undergraduate Business Courses
* Graduate Business Courses
MIT OpenCourseWare is not an MIT education, but it might be the next best thing. This free online publication offers downloadable undergraduate and graduate business courses from the MIT Sloan School of Management. The downloadable curriculum includes lecture notes, videos, demonstrations, labs and more. Registration is free and there are more than 50 courses available."

101 Essential Freelancing Resources

The Freelance Blog: "Business Tools
Resources to help with the business of freelancing…
1.HighRise - Track communication and conversations with leads, employees, clients, colleagues, vendors
2. Campfire - Real-time group chat and file sharing
3. Central Desktop - Shared workspaces and web conferencing
4. Relenta - Manage your email, contacts, documents and activities
5. Google Apps - Communication and collaboration tools from Google
6. Zoho - Free office tools
7. Campaign Monitor - Email newsletter software
8. MailBuild - More newsletter software
9. Breeze - Email campaign and newsletter software
10. Business-Paper - Easy business cards
11. GoToMeeting - Easy online meetings
12. Wufoo - Make forms to survey your clients
13. AIGA Spec Letter - Sample letter to communicate with clients who want spec work or free pitching
14. CPA Directory - Find an accountant (in the US)
15. SBA - Small Business Administration, help and advice
16. Paypal - Online payment system
17. Moneybookers - Online payment system
18. Escrow - Online payment system that protects the buyer and seller, useful for those bigger jobs with anonymous clients.
19. Resources for the Design Entrepeneur - Free sample forms and agreements"

Top 25 Apps to Grow your Business

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Web 2.0: "In this guide we cover the 25 best web2.0 applications for entrepreneurs who are looking for simple, cheap, and effective solutions to solving some of the tasks facing their small business or startup. The 25 applications selected were chosen both on the basis of their usefulness for the individual small business manager as well as their effectiveness in providing community support and networking opportunities for users."

ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLBOX: 230+ Tools for Running a Business Online

Business Online: "Forget useless desktop apps and piles of paperwork: there are now thousands of small and medium-sized businesses managing all their affairs with online applications. After an exhaustive hunt this week, we’ve rounded up more than 230 of the leading online applications for super-productive companies."

eCommerce and shopping cart application. Freeware

KonaKart 2.2.2.0 is an eCommerce and shopping cart application that provides everything that store owners need to sell their products over the Internet. KonaKart includes an extensive set of online shopping cart features to satisfy the needs of both online shoppers and store owners alike. It is an affordable enterprise quality eCommerce solution designed with technologies that will perform and scale. KonaKart is database-compatible with osCommerce, providing a seamless upgrade path. KonaKart has an easy-to-use Java API and a SOAP Web Service interface.

About Google Base

Google Base Help Center: "What is Google Base? Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, which we'll make searchable on Google (if your content isn't online yet, we'll put it there). You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they do related searches. In fact, based on your items' relevance, users may find them in their results for searches on Google Product Search and even our main Google web search."

5 Tips For Increased Website Traffic

Traffic-Building: " 1. Build a second content-rich website.Because content is king on the internet many have adopted the idea of building a content-rich site in addition to their original sales site. If you set up your title, description and keyword tags carefully and find a good balance for your keyword saturation, you may be better able to achieve high search engine rankings with a site that contains only good content and information. Once you have built your content-rich site you can then use the content to point your viewers to your sales site."

Free landing page optimization tool

Website Optimizer (beta) - AdWords - Google: "
Website Optimizer, Google's free multivariate testing application, helps online marketers increase visitor conversion rates and overall visitor satisfaction by continually testing different combinations of site content (text and images)."

Google Base

Google Base: "Post it on Base. Find it on Google.
Simply describe your items on Base to make them as easy as possible for people to find when they search. You don't even need a website to put your stuff online."

12 Ways to Force Your RSS Feeds to Earn Money

adClustr: "Everyone wants to show off their RSS feed numbers now that Feedburner allows those numbers to be shown through their API or chicklet interface. There are numerous in-depth articles out there that show how to increase RSS readership, but do you know what those RSS readers actually see? It might be naive to think that some don’t, but just as an overview - If a person is reading your posts though a third-party reader, they are missing out of all that on-site advertising that you have worked so hard at blending and positioning correctly. All those readers see is the text of your post. Nothing else.
Don’t despair! adClustr has put together 12 surefire ways that you can earn money from your RSS readership community"

How to get massive free traffic from YouTube.com

Does it ever feel like it is getting harder and harder to get new, qualified buyers to your websites to buy your products and services?
Does it seem like search engine optimization actually is rocket science and other traffic generation methods like pay-per-click or banner advertising are always costing you more money? http://www.topsafelistbiz.com/tubetraffic/ Well, I have found this great little guide which will explain [...]

Methods on making big money on eBay. Freeware

Simtel.net: "The eBay guide to riches 1.0
Will you be the next person to join the eBay millionaires club? Find out the methods on making big money on eBay."

If you want to get clients, you'll have to talk to them

Here are the five things that work best for most professionals to get clients: "
1. Meeting people in person -- at events or by appointment
2. Talking to people on the phone
3. Sending personal letters and emails
4. Following up personally over time
5. Speaking to groups at meetings and conferences"

How to get referrals

Getting clients and contractors without big investments: "

How to get referrals
Give your best customers something of real value to offer to their friends (a secret menu, a significant gift certificate). Once you do that, not giving that gift to a friend feels selfish. Paying me to refer you rarely works, ..."

How to get clients online

Getting clients and contractors without big investments: "7 Steps to Creating Your Own Podcast
Online Business Resource Queen ™ and Business Coach Donna Gunter helps self-employed service professionals learn how to get more clients online. To sign up for more FREE tips like these and claim your FREE gift, TurboCharge Your Online ..."

Adsense Alternatives

Quickregister.net Website Promotion Tips Blog: "
AllFeeds (http://www.allfeeds.com/?action=publishers) has a great pool of online advertisers to choose from. It also features many display formats that you can choose from."

5 Second Test

Getting clients, contractors: "Does Your Marketing Pass the 5 Second Test?
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How to Acquire Free Web Site Promotion

Ogłoszenia, anonse, reklamy.: "
How to Acquire Free Web Site Promotion
How to Acquire Free Web Site Promotion You have finished making your own website. You have introduced your company and presented your products and..."
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