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| Free Financial Calculators |
Free calculators for managing mortgages, loans, budgets, retirement and more. |
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Mint
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Free Online Money Management Tool Budgeting so easy, you'll actually budget. |
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Billster is a totally free online application developed to organize your personal and shared expenses. |
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Open Office
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OpenOffice provides an easy, flexible alternative to programs like Google Docs
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Google Analytics |
Using this program, you can track activity on your website (traffic, conversions, visitor behavior) easily and in real-time. The best part is that the information is presented in an easy-to-understand format (think simple graphs and visual aids). You can also use it to track e-commerce website sales, marketing campaign efficacy (even if you don’t use a Google advertising program, like AdWords) and just about any other valuable statistic.
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Firefox
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Free, downloadable browser. Add-ons allow you to do everything from shortening URLs to speeding up browsing to managing alerts and news feeds. Still need convincing? Programs like Xmarks allow you to access bookmarks, unread sites, and other “marked” pages from any mobile device. |
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Resource Nation
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Finding an accounting service, a phone system, a background check service, or any other highly
specialized business service vendor can be tough. For example, asking Google for the “top payroll processing providers” can return literally thousands of results to sift through. Resource Nation screens these vendors for you, and returns results based on your specifications (local companies, those that serve smaller businesses, etc.). While you’re looking for a vendor, check out the free guides on everything from setting up a payroll company account to forming a business entity. |
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Fresh Books |
This invoicing, time-tracking and expense-monitoring program is available for smaller businesses (those with three or fewer clients) for free, offering an upgraded version for companies with lengthier client lists or more advanced billing requirements. FreshBooks software allows you to manage client billing easily without an accountant or bookkeeper, and send professional-looking invoices to clients. The program can also be integrated with PayPal, Microsoft and Mac time tracker programs, and other commonly used programs. |
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| Drop Box |
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!
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Box.net
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With Box.net you can store and share your content with confidence. 99.9% up-time guarantee, SSL encryption, redundant storage, configurable permissions, and more. |
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Flickr |
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world |
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Pay Pal |
Shop and Pay online quickly and securely. Send Money - Fast and Easy Get Paid - Accept Online Payments |
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Free Conference Call
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Free conference calls are simple and easy to use, requiring only a name and an e-mail address to receive an instant account. Once you enter your name and e-mail address, you will be instantaneously provided with a dial-in number and access code for immediate phone conferencing.
Your teleconferencing line is available to you 24/7 and there is no need to schedule or make reservations. Each conference call account accommodates 96 callers on an unlimited number of 6 hour free conference calls. |
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Google Alerts
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Set up alerts for keyword or brand name mentions across the web. |
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Google Reader
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If you're an agency, or just represent multiple clients, it's real easy to aggregate a bunch of RSSsearches for one client into unique folders. |
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Curate
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Share screen clips for any site. Create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts, email, forums, and websites. |
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Social Mention |
Social Media Alerts - Like Google Alerts but for social media. Receive free daily email alerts of your brand, company, CEO, marketing campaign, or on a developing news story, a competitor, or the latest on a celebrity.
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Tweetbeat |
This simple yet powerful utility automatically brings you recent tweets from whoever (or whatever) is mentioned in the web pages you're looking at. Just mouse-over the little blue icons inserted next to names to see firsthand updates.
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