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7 Essentinal Resources for Small Business

So you want to start a business but you don'tthe  site  owner  will
have  a  lot  of
send his/her ads with your messages. This is
money? Start your business online, and itvaluable  message
won't be a problem.There are some pretty
terrific  resources  you  can  use.  Some  ofreal estate. It's better to pay for your
autoresponders,  if
them you have to pay for, but they are
inexpensive  and  can  getpossible, so that you can place your own ads
in  the  headers  and
you started quickly and easily.1. A domain
and web hosting. If you want others to seefooters of all your messages.5. Online
you  as  aTools.There is a whole host of online tools
you  can  use  to  help  you
professional and take you seriously, then
you  need  to  invest  inwith your business including email
formatters,  newsletter
your own domain and web hosting.Purchased
separately, the cost can add up very quickly.formatters, sales letter and press release
Here  areformatters,  as  well
some very low cost solutions to help you putas wizards to help you build your web
your  name  on  thesite.Below are some of the best:Pertinent
Inc.  - -  Offers  a  free  press
map.Dot Easy - - For only $25 per year, you
release creator, as well as a sales letter
can purchase your own domain. The webgenerator.Free  Online  Wizards  -
hosting  is  completely
-  This  site
free. Although this hosting account is
stripped  of  all  the  bellsoffers everything from a wizard to help you
syndicate  your
and whistles like CGI, you still get 15MB of
bannerless  hostingcontent to form creators and drop down menu
creators.  Lots  of
for free, and if you build minisites, this
is  a  really  cheap  waytips and articles too.Email Formatter - -
Tired  of  getting
for you to get started. Buy a domain a
month,  and  before  youemails with a ton of >>>>> in them? You can
use  this  site  to
know it, you have your own empire of
products  set  up  for  a  lotstrip those tags out, as well as reformat
your  emails  to  any
less than if you had bought all of this
separately.Go Daddy - - Although as far as Iwidth. Great for formatting articles too.6.
knowBusiness Software.You can find thousands of
dollars  in  free  software  to  help  you
they offer domain names for the cheapest
price  on  the  Internetbuild your business by searching through
software sites online.My favorite is Freeware
at $6.95, their service is pretty good. IHome:
buy  all  of  my  domains
You'll find over 7,000 applications at last
here, and I've never had any problems.Freecount  here,  and
Web  Space  - -  If  money
they're all free, full sized versions of the
is a real problem right now, but you stillprogram.Two applications you won't want to be
want  to  make  a  goodwithout are:Open Office - - Formerly Star
Office,
impression, then this site can help you find
the  most  affordablethis open source application is the best
rival  to  Microsoft
web hosting or even bannerless hosting
that's free.Remember, you get what you payOffice. You can use it to do everything from
for,  so  eventually,  when  you  canconvert  your
afford it, upgrade. There are some gooddocuments to PDF, to word processing,
budget  web  hosts  outspreadsheets,  and
there like Dot Easy, but for the most part,presentations. There's also a version for
you  get  what  you  payMAC,  making  this  a
for.2. Web Site Creation Tools.There aremust see application when you can't afford
some fantastic tools on the Internet you canother  expensive
use  to
applications.Banana  Cash  Books  -
build your web site, and they're all
free.Considered to be the best HTML editor-  Although
online,  Front  Page  2000
this single entry accounting program accepts
will give you hundreds of scripts, as welljust  about  any
as  a  free  FTP  client
currency, if you want to use the accounting
you can unzip into the directory and uploadmethod  the  IRS
your  files  directly
recommends for small business, this nice
from the HTML editor.There are fourlittle  free  program
different modes, including beginner and
expert,will definitely do the trick.7. Business
Education.Once you have your business up and
so no matter what level at creating HTML yourunning,  it's  a  good  idea  to
are,  this  free
stay up to date with your business and
editor will definitely help you.You'll findmarketing knowledge.There are a lot of great
it here: you're there, make sure you checkways  to  do  this  including  forums,
out  the  free  metatag
article directories, mailing lists, and
creator, as well as some of the other greatnewsletters.There are also some great
free  online  toolsresource  heavy  sites  out  there  you  can
you'll find there.3. Scripts.If you want tobenefit from. Below are three of my
get the most from your web site, scripts willfavorites:My  1st  Business  - -  Run by Ben
help you do this. You don't have to be anBotes, you'll find plenty of ecourses,
expert  in  installationseminars  and  more
either. You can quickly and easily learn howcovering small business, ecommerce,
to  install  them.  Imarketing,  and  other  topics.
taught myself from reading some of theYou need to sign up for an account, but it's
webmaster sites online.You have two choicesfree,  and
when  it  comes to installing scripts on your
definitely worth a look.Free Marketing
site:You can install them yourself, or youResources  - -  Run  by
can  use  remotely  hosted
Jimmy D. Brown, one of my all time favorite
scripts. Remotely hosted scripts are greatmarketers,  and  quite
when  you  don't  have  a
frankly, one of the best, you'll find audio,
CGI bin on your site.This site is offeringecourses,  and  other
scripts  for  free:
resources in plain English that can teach
-  Scripts  include:you  how  to  market
Autoresponder Script, Fly-In Ads Script,online. Jimmy doesn't just teach you what to
Paid  To  Read  Emailsdo;  he  shows  you
Script, Safelist Script, Rotator Script,how to do it, and he spells it out. It
Homepage  Trafficdoesn't  matter  if  you  are
Script. Definitely worth a look.Twoa complete newbie, or if you have been
resources that offer a wide variety ofmarketing  for  some  time.
scripts  in  different
You'll benefit from Jimmy's excellent
formats are: you want remotely hostedteaching.Ebook  Directory  - -  Run  by Noel
scripts,  the  best  sites  I  have  found
Hynes, this is the most comprehensive
are: Autoresponders. Autoresponders willcollection  of  small
help  you  in  two  ways:  you
business and Internet marketing ebooks on
can use them for your opt in lists andthe  Internet,  and
ezines,  and  you  can  also
they're absolutely free. You'll also find
use them to follow up with yourplenty  of  other  ebooks
customers.With opt in lists and ezines, an
autoresponder  will  save  you  thehere including motivational, writing, and a
whole lot more.There are plenty of free
trouble of handling subscribe andresources  on  the  Internet  to  help  you
unsubscribe  requests,  which
build your business. The trick is learning
can become very tedious after awhile. Thiswhen  you  should  buy
will  allow  you  to
products and services for your business and
automate the mundane part of building awhen  you  can  get  a
relationship  with  your
freebie that will do the job just as well
customers and newsletter subscribers,and sometimes better.A quick search of Alexa,
providing  you  with  thewill  help  you
credibility you need online to make thefind some of the best.Jinger Jarrett is a
sale.Two sites that offer free autorespondersformer military journalist and newspaper
that  are  very  reliablereporter
are: note: when using free autoresponders,who teaches and consults on article writing.



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