Week 1
Google Trends
Category: Marketing Research
Site: www.google.com/trends
How it Works (Info): http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html
Cost: Free
Description: With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most. You can also see if there are times of the year where there is a greater or lesser demand for a topic or product.
Elance
Category: Outsourcing
Site: www.elance.com
Cost: Free to post a project and get quotes
Description: Elance is an online workplace where businesses connect with qualified professionals to get work done. With the largest network of certified technology and creative talent, Elance helps businesses succeed by connecting them with the people they need to get work done. Elance facilitates the entire work process from hiring to collaboration to payment.
99designs
Category: Graphic Design & Website Design
Site: www.99designs.com
Cost: Varies
Description: 99designs is a disruptive startup which connects passionate designers from around the globe with savvy clients who need design projects completed in a timely fashion without the usual risk or cost associated with professional design. At 99designs you post a design competition and designers compete for a monetary prize. Great for website layouts, graphic designs, logos, and much more.
Clickbank
Category: Affiliate Sales
Site: www.clickbank.com
Cost: Free
Description: ClickBank is the online retail outlet for 10,000+ digital product publishers and their 100,000 active affiliates. Great place to find products to sell or to find affiliates to sell your products.
Delicious
Category: Tools
Site: www.delicious.com
Delicious Website Bookmarking Tool:
Description: Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
Jing Project
Category: Tools
Site: www.jingproject.com
Cost: Free
Description: Think of Jing as a supplement to all your chat discussions, email threads, forum posts and blog entries. It sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment’s notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content which you can paste into any of your conversations.
Tube Mogul
Category: Tools
Site: www.tubemogul.com
Cost: Free
Description: TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed.
Google Analytics
Category: Analytics
Site: www.google.com/analytics
Cost: Free
Description: Learn more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site. You’ll get the information you need to write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting websites. Learn more about the benefits. Google Analytics is free to everyone, whether you are an advertiser, publisher, or site owner.
Aweber
Category: Autoresponder
Site: www.aweber.com
Cost: $19/month
Description: As you know, the most important aspect of your online business is your customer list. Aweber helps you manage this list and then some. Use sequential autoresponders to welcome new subscribers, educate them about your products, and drive them back to your website, without having to manually re-send the emails to each and every one!
BLVD Status
Category: Analytics
Site: www.blvdstatus.com
Cost: FREE
Description: BLVD Status is a fresh and easy analytics tool that allows you to track your website more easily and effectively. Here are a couple reasons why you will love BLVD: Quick and painless setup, LIVE stats, RSS conversion tracking, Form conversion tracking, Outgoing link conversions, “Digg This” and Social Media button referral info.
