Knock Out Technologies for Business Owners and Sales Teams These are the best and most current free internet business technologies available. If you need help with implementation or strategic planning on how to use them the most productive way in your business contact Denny Andrews Consulting at denny@dennya.com or www.dennyandrewsconsulting.com
Communications Freeconferencecall.com Host conference calls for up to 96 people and for up to 6 hours for free.
Skype.com Video conference with your clients, your team and around the world for free.
ProvideSupport.com This web service supplies a button for your web site and emails that will ring up to 5 computers and open up an instant chat with whoever clicked on it.
SlyDial.com This site provides a service that allows you to leave voice mails on any cell phone efficiently by dropping you straight into the voice mail and not ringing the phone.
Jott.com This site uses advanced voice recognition software to covert your cell phone call to text and email and text it to individuals or entire groups.
Voiceshot.com This site allows you to make a voice recording and blast it out to 1,000 voice mails or phone numbers at once.
Voipbuster.com Free program that uses the latest technology to bring free and high-quality voice communications to people all over the world.
Presenting Dimdim Hold web conferences for up to 20 people at a time.
Screencast-o-matic.com This free site will record voice and on screen movements to create a video that can be used for marketing, demonstrations or training.
Animoto.com With the technology on this site you can pick from your photographs and choose from their stock music and they will create a beautiful video instantly.
Customer Appreciation Gutenberg This project has more than 25,000 free books, and over 100,000 titles in its network that you can download and email as a gift.
Send out cards You can send cards, gift cards and gifts to anyone in the U.S.all from your computer.
Kidsaudiobooks.co.uk Allows kids to listen to audio books for free.
Magickeys.com/books This site offers illustrated children’s stories for free.
Hulu.com This is a great site to let people know about as it has thousands of movies and TV shows for viewing free.
Research Ipl.org The internet public library is a full-service library online.
Scroogle.org This is the most efficient search engine on the net. It does a google search but strips out all of the advertising and pay per click links.
Ezinearticles.com This site has tens of thousands of recent articles and papers written on a variety of searchable topics.
Infoplease.com Infoplease combines an encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, and a lot more, all in one place.
Howstuffworks.com Your students can find easy to understand information about how anything and everything works.
eHow.com eHow explains in simple language how you can do just about anything.
Turbo10.com This search engine looks on more than 800 deep web search engines at once, so you’ll be able to save time and find great information you can’t find anywhere else.
Try adding the word “whitepaper” to the end of your search parameters for more specific information and reports.
Contact Management Feelbreeze.com Send out email campaigns to your clients with Breeze’s easy tool.
Constantcontact.com This site will manage your newsletter database and provide hundreds of templates to help you create original content.
Wufoo.com Use Woofoo to make forms, surveys and invitations for your customers with ease.
Relenta.com Keep track of customer relationships using email, contact, document and activity management.
Blist.com Manage contacts, lists and projects.
Bigcontacts.com Web Based Contact Manager for 2 to 2000 People.
Batchblue.com Easy-to-use contact management system.
Simplecustomer.com Contacts and Customer relationship manager.
Vtiger.com Contacts + CRM — Free.
Task and List Management Evernote.com Ideal idea storage, store lists, pictures, any information completely organized
Backpackit.com Get your projects organized by using Backpack. Create to-do lists, notes, files, images and a calendar with reminders that can be sent via email or to your mobile device.
Centraldesktop.com Collaborate, communicate and share files with clients and coworkers using Central Desktop.
Rememberthemilk.com Remember The Milk reminds you to take care of important tasks, so you’ll never forget when a project is due.
Spongecell.com Spongecell is an online calendar made for freelancers with lots of meetings and engagements. Plan events, spread the word and allow guests to add content to your calendar.
Neptunehq.com Neptune’s web based to do list tool helps you keep track of the things you need to take care of every day. It lets you email yourself new tasks, get an email report every morning and upload files to store with your projects.
Tadalist.com When you’re busy with lots of projects, it can be hard to keep track of what you’ve accomplished. Make web-based ta-da lists for yourself or other people, then share them and check items off as you go.
Lifetick.com This site helps you set goals based on your values, then tracks them and reminds you until they are achieved.
Pad.helicoid.net Write and share notes online.
Deadlineapp.com This is a great site to store and monitor deadlines with email and text reminders.
Project Management and Collaboration Gliffy.com Create and collaborate on flow charts, diagrams, and more.
Dotproject.com Project Management — Free!
Manymoon.com Manage your private and shared tasks, find out what other people are working on, simple tracking and completion of projects, collaborate with co-workers, customers and partners, turn emails into tasks attach Google Docs to tasks and projects.
Blist.com Short for web list, collaborate with clients or teams.
Lucidchart.com Share your flow charts as a web page, PDF, or image, Publish an always-updated image of your work.
Planhq.com Create and manage entire projects or events using planhq.
Goplan.com Online project management application.
Copperproject.com High end start to finish project management software.
Networking / Online Promotion Facebook.com Free online network with the ability to promote and over 100 million members.
Biznik.com Business networking site for promotion and creating connections, a must !
LinkedIn.com The face book of business, free but worth paying for.
NIng Create your own social network for your staff or your entire customer base.
Partnerup.com Partner Up is an online community that helps you, Find business partners, co-founders, executives, and board members, Network with other entrepreneurs and small businesses, Ask for and offer up advice.
Ryze.com Business Networking.
Upspring.com Business networking, Develop new contacts through business-to-business social networking.
Outsourcing Elance.com Have the best talent in the world bidding to do any job you need.
Guru.com Hire a personal assistant to help you exactly the way you require.
Smarterwork.com Top small business services marketplace.
Contractedwork.com Work Jobs Freelance Search.
Odesk.com Hire, Manage, and Pay remote contractors as if they were in your office. Global service marketplace for small and medium sized businesses.
Getafreelancer.com Freelance programmers and web designers.
Craigslist.com Online classified ads that receive over 9 billion hits per month.
Office Tools Docstoc.com Thousands of free legal documents covering any business purpose.
Logmein.com Don’t let your business suffer because you can’t take your computer on the road. Use LogMeIn to get access to your computer’s desktop anywhere.
Freshbooks.com FreshBooks offers a program for “painless billing,” so you’ll never have to spend hours sending client invoices out. Designed with service-based businesses in mind, this software provides a method to manage and send invoices, handle work orders and generate reports with ease.
Openomy.com Openonmy’s website offers storage for files up to 1GB. These files are made to be accessible from any computer, so you can open them up even when on-site with a client.
Xdrive.com Xdrive offers 5GB of online storage. Use their service to share files with your clients and coworkers.
Yousendit.com Have you ever had to clean out your inbox just so you’d have room to send out an email? YouSendIt puts and end to that trouble by sending files up to 2GB to your clients.
Earthclassmail.com Collects your mail, scans it, and emails it to you or sets up a secure website that you can log into to view it. They will discard all of your junk mail and deposit your checks.
Myfax.com This site will manage all of your faxes both sending and receiving through your email address.
Efls.com Live telephone answering service.
Godaddy.com Register domain names for under 10 dollars a year.
Xobni Free email management system that optimizes outlook.
Senduit.com Use this service to send oversize files without clogging up your receivers inbox.
Members.freewebs.com Create and have hosted free websites.
Arkiva.com Back and store your data online.
Marketing Craigslist.com Craigslist is an invaluable tool for any freelancer. Find clients, sell your work, buy supplies, network and more using Craigslist.
Elance.com Use elance to get connected with clients that need your services on a project.
Youtube.com Create your own video and use YouTube’s viral video to get the word out about your creativity.
Spotrunner.com Use Spot Runner to build a TV advertising campaign.
Helpareporter.com Get daily emails consolidating inquiries from reporters around the United States looking for interviews and quotes.
Business Functions Googledocs.com Document software and sharing, like having Microsoft Office online, Free !
Zoho.com Similar to Google Docs, provides the same suite as Office online.
Bambooinvoice.org Invoicing free.
Filezilla-project.org File Sharing for free.
Knowledgetree.com Free document management.
Photoshop.com/express Can be used for photo manipulation and editing.
Bigcartel.com Set up an online store to sell your products using Big Cartel’s service.
Yourorganiser.com Your personal online assistant.
Creativity / Wordsmithing Rhymezone.com In the RhymeZone, you can type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.
Lulu.com Lulu gives fledgling writers an easy way to get published. Each product is printed as it’s ordered, so you don’t have to build an expensive inventory.
Docs.google.com Don’t bother spending hard-earned money for the latest version of MS Word. Create, upload, share and edit word and spreadsheet documents online using Google Docs & Spreadsheets .
Morguefile.com Morguefile’s high resolution, copyright free photos will do a great job spicing up your work.
Contact Denny Andrews Consulting for help deciding which applications are best for you and your business. Denny Andrews is also available for speaking engagements, half day and full day workshops, book signings and webinars. Go to Dennyandrewsconsulting.com for more details and sample presentations.
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