50 free online tools for small businesses

50 Free Online ToolsEureka Springs Downtown Network

Bubble.us

Brainstorming & Mind Maps

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Wridea.com

Organizing, improving and collaborating ideas

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Slideshare.net

Online resource for sharing and exploring presentations

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Toodledo.com

An easy to use, online to-do list.

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Mint.com

Free money management & budgeting.

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Faxzero.com

Free fax sending from your computer.

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Webnote - http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/

Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer.

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Readbag.com

readbag is a nifty tool to store links you find, but want to read later.

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Stock.xchng - http://www.sxc.hu/

Free stock photography for your blog or site.

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YouSendIt.com

Send, receive and track large and important files.

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Copyright.gov

Everything you need to know about copyright.

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Flystats.com

Track delayed flights – fly smarter.

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Sitekreator.com

Create a website just by adding content – low cost and easy to use.

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Icebrrg.com

Build online forms instantly.

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Spotrunner.com

Create, buy and manage advertising.

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Monkeyon.com

A to-do list for things that you want other people to do.

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Freelanceswitch.com

Calculate your hourly rate – for freelancers.

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10 Online Digital Photo Tools

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Picnik - Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.

Splashup– A ppowerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time, and allows you to edit many images at once.

FotoFlexer - FotoFlexer bills itself as "the world's most advanced online image editor.” Pixlr -- "Pixlr is a free online photo editor; jump in and start: edit, adjust, filter. It's just

what you imagine!” flauntR-- flauntR is a suite that includes the ability to edit images, add effects, add

text, and print the results on everything from mugs to posters. Photoshop Express-- Adobe's Photoshop was really the first image editor of its kind to

herald in the age of digital photography, though it was designed for professionals and its endless options could be daunting (and bank- breakingly expensive) for the layman.

PiZap - PiZap's tagline is "fun with photos made easy." It's another flavor of photo editor/storage center that, like flauntR, allows you to print the results to mugs, bags, and t-shirts.

Aviary- Aviary lets you: "edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more. All you need is a Web browser.”

DrPic - DrPic says it's "the easiest free online picture editor” Cameroid -- Cameroid lets you "take crazy (or not) snaps with your webcam straight

from your browser.

Blogger

Blogger users can create and customize their own blogs using a drag-and-drop editor, and have them hosted for free on Google's massive server arrays.

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Linkedin

Business to Business Networking

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twitter

Share about your business in 140 characters.

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flickr

Flickr is a popular photo-sharing and hosting service owned by Yahoo.

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Google Docs

Work together without the hassles of attachments – Coworkers can share the same online copy of each doc, spreadsheet or presentation. All revisions are saved and recoverable.

Similar in format to Word & Excel.

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Google Calendar

Why businesses manage their time with Google Calendar Get people together easily – Just pick a time (based on when

people are free) and enter meeting details. Google Calendar will send invitations and keep track of RSVPs.

Schedule a meeting Share project calendars – Share whole calendars company-

wide or with specific people. Coworkers can have editing rights and see shared events alongside their own schedules.

Share a calendar Show event information in context – Embed an internal

calendar in Google Sites or publicly on your website, no programming required

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Chartle.net

Create charts online to add to your site or next presentation – graph your data.

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TinyChat

With TinyChat you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, myspace, personal site and many other portals.

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TaskFive

To Do’s with a Twist

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Google Reader

An elegant and easy to use RSS reader for your blogs – share, star, and save your favorite pieces.

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whspr

Need to receive a message by email, but can't (or don't want to) give out your email address? whspr! gives you a URL to share instead.

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wobzip

WobZip is an online tool which lets you uncompress compressed files online. It supports many formats including the major ones as Zip, RAR, 7Z, Gzip, TAR, ISO etc…

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anyvite

Create an invitation in seconds, add entries from mobile, twitter, email, iCal, gCal or Outlooks. And of course, send them with ease from within the app.

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Sigpad

Create Email Signatures that POP!

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SurveyMonkey

Enables anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.

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Google Local Maps

Add your business to Google Local

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RemembertheMilk

Remember the Milk beta makes your to-do items and reminders available in Gmail, via SMS, the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, Skype, and popular IM clients.

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CafePress

Print products for events and your business – or sell online!

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TripAdvisor

Do you know what they are saying about your business?

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Yelp

Real Review – Real People: Invite your customers to Yelp about you.

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Score

Use these cool entrepreneurial tools to set the foundation for business success.

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BizToolKit – www.hillsource.org/members/

A free gateway to business information tools, databases, and research resources to help your business succeed.

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DuctTapeMarketing

Simple, effective and affordable small business marketing

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