Free Stuff for Your Business

I am sure you have heard people say: You get what you pay for. This is the reason many of us are afraid to take advantage of free stuff. However, the internet changed all that. Excellent free stuff is offered by millions of companies. The reason being that they believe that once you try their products and services, you will sign up for other paid products and services they offer. It ends up being a win/win situation for both you and the company.

However, with so much free stuff out there it is easy to get overwhelmed. That is why I have taken the time to visit every website below and make sure it is something that could be useful for your business. Of course, I do not know exactly what tools you need, so you will need to select the free tools that benefit your particular business. Regardless, this is a great list to begin your search for good free stuff.

Suggestion for Use

Because many of the links below are for new technology, you may visit the website and have no idea how it would benefit you and your business. Therefore, I suggest you take the time and tour the website. Look for links or videos that show you how to use the free tool provided on the website. Most of them have an introductory video on the front page. Not only will you get an excellent free education in the latest technologies, but the door will be opened for you to learn new ways to market your business. Either way, you will be a step ahead of 90% of planet earth by taking the time to read, understand and learn about all the new business technologies provided below.

Communication and Email

http://www.dimdim.com
Web conferencing; view and share your computer screen with others

http://jott.com/
Voice to text service for creating notes, lists, emails and text messages

http://www.oovoo.com/
Talk face to face and send video messages

http://www.paltalk.com/
Instant message a group of people, chat and video call application

http://www.yousendit.com/
Send files to anyone with advanced options like password protection and certified delivery

Online Computer Storage

http://www.adrive.com/
Free 50 gig of online storage and backup for all file types

http://jzip.com/
Data compression utility. Create, open and extract Zip, TAR, GZip and 7-Zip. Open and extract from RAR and ISO.

Media and Video

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Open source software for cross platform audio recording and editing

http://blip.tv/
Video blogging, podcasting and video sharing

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
Radio network for you to host your own online talk show

http://dropshots.com/
The next generation photo and video sharing

http://www.feedburner.com/
Media distribution services for blogs and RSS feeds

http://www.fixmymovie.com/
Automatically cleans your movies with advanced video technology. It makes movies from your mobile phone or digital camera look great.

http://www.getpaint.net/
Free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows

http://seesmic.com/
Free video conversion platform

http://www.slideshare.net/
Share and embed slideshow or turn PowerPoint slides and PDFs into web pages

http://videospin.com/
Video editing and video sharing that you can directly burn to a DVD

Marketing and Networking

https://www.blogger.com/start
Blog publishing tool

http://www.collectivex.com/
Free social collaboration and networking for groups

http://econnect.entrepreneur.com/
Entrepreneur magazines social networking site

http://www.pligg.com/
Open source content management system for discovering, rating and sharing content

http://www.policymap.com/
An easy way to explore geographic data through maps, tables and reports

http://younoodle.com/
A place to discover and support the hottest early stage companies and university innovation

http://yourpitchsucks.com/
An excellent place to learn how to market to your audience effectively through reviews and advising

Office and Productivity

http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword/
A new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there’s no installation required

http://cutepdf.com/
Create professional quality PDF files from almost any printable document

http://dabbledb.com/
Create online databases on the web and share them

http://www.freshbooks.com/
Online invoicing and time tracking service

http://calendar.google.com
Shareable calendar and schedule organizer

http://docs.google.com
Collaborative word processor and spreadsheet applications

http://www.openoffice.org/
Open source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets and more

http://www.surveymonkey.com/
A simple way to create and publish custom online surveys

http://www.thinkfree.com/
Freedom to access all your documents and update them in real time from a variety of sources

http://wufoo.com/
Web form builder for creating interactive forms

http://zoho.com/
A wide variety of office productivity tools including word processor, spreadsheet, online presentation, note taker, project management and much more

Project Management Tools

http://secure.logmein.com
Remotely support and access digital information

http://projectstat.us/
Easily manage your customers’ project info and allow your customers to see up-to-date project information at any time

http://project2manage.com/
Helps to keep projects organized, create milestones to stay on task and much more

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
The complete way to manage your tasks and never forget anything else again

http://www.socialtext.com/
Social networking, wiki workspaces, weblogs, social messaging and spreadsheets

http://teamtask.com/
Build and host community oriented websites. Start a group today and enjoy the benefits of online collaboration tools such as discussion forums, calendar, wiki and blogs.

http://yugma.com/
Free web conferencing tool that allows anyone, anywhere to instantly share their desktop and ideas online with others

Security

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/
Open source laptop tracking and recovery software

http://www.avg.com/
Anti virus protection for your computer; much better than consumer software such as Norton. This software is used by 713Training.Com and is highly recommended

http://www.adware-2009.com/v2/
Remove harmful adware, spyware, trojans, dialers and worms. This software is used by 713Training.Com and is highly recommended

Web Tools

http://www.google.com/alerts
Set up an alert for your name as well as your company and monitor your marketing progress

http://www.kickapps.com/
A platform of applications to integrate social features into a website

http://www.bummerhosting.com/demo_web_site_builder.php
Free web site builder software

http://www.widgetbox.com/
The worlds largest widget directory and gallery

http://www.woopra.com/
The world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application

http://www.teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx
Establishes connections to any PC all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner’s PC as if you were sitting right in front of it

http://earth.google.com/
Lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the sky

http://www.google.com/apps/
A wide variety of cool Google applications for business

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Firefox web browser. Much more secure that Internet Explorer. This software is used by 713Training.Com and is highly recommended

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Thunderbird email application. Much better than Outlook. This software is used by 713Training.Com and is highly recommended

Have a great 2009 and enjoy the new experiences you will encounter by discovering all these links. However, if you should have any problem with them, please do not email me for support. I only researched and found these links for you to explore. They are not my websites and I have no knowledge of how they operate. Have fun exploring and expanding your brain at the same time.