Internet Tools for Success
Below is a list of utilities, software, and programs that have proven useful for others and will hopefully prove useful to you as well. If you would like to suggest a utility, please contact us. Please include the web address of the product and a short list of its features.
Affiliate Programs and Software
- Affiliate tracking software that integrates with nearly every merchant account, shopping cart, and content/member management systems.
www.idevaffiliate.com
- Integrate your affiliate programs with your PayPal account.
www.paydotcom.com
Search Engines and Optimization
- Finds targeted keywords with high search volume and little competition.
www.adwordanalyzer.com
- Survey search engine to help you create new products and services from scratch.
www.askdatabase.com
- Follow-up on your website's visitors along with sending newsletters.
www.aweber.com
- This clustering search engine sorts through the confusing welter of web results and clusters them by topic.
www.clusty.com
- Find out just how effective your keywords are and select new and related ones.
www.nichebot.com
- Distribute your press releases online and get upwards of 100s of backlinks.
www.pressequalizer.com
Search Engine Relationship Chart
- Shows how search engines provide data to partner engines and directories.
www.bruceclay.com
- Spiders any website, finding the page rank of each page in seconds.
www.seospider.com
- Finds the best keywords to drive traffic to your site with this keyword research tool.
www.wordtracker.com
Video/Audio Communication Products
- VoIP video conferencing software with unlimited seats, built-in text chat, browser, whiteboard and many other features. This is the program that we use to conduct the Meet the Pros interview program and Banyan Online Supervision Meetings with graduates around the world.
www.hotconference.com
Web Hosting and Site Creation
- Complete, affordable web services featuring hosting as low as $3.95 USD per month, website creation software, and e-commerce solutions.
www.banyaninternetservices.com
- Offering managed hosting solutions starting at $7.95/mo. for 20Gb space, 1Tb bandwidth, 1 free domain with purchase, unlimited domains hosted, 600 mailboxes.
www.dreamhost.com
- Website creation utility with over 180 templates, e-commerce, unlimited space, affiliate programs, and is compatible with Windows XP, Macs, and Linux.
www.websitewizard.com
Website Products
- Build online surveys, assessments, and quizzes for your website.
www.assessmentgenerator.com
- Accept credit cards online over PayPal's secure network.
www.paypal.com
Submit Articles
Here is a starter submit list, which will also be a content resource for your website:
Public Domain Works
Another "Content" idea: there are 17,000 free books in the Project Gutenburg Online Book Catalog, most of which you are free to use in any way you wish (Public Domain). http://www.gutenberg.org Also visit http://creativecommons.org for more Public Domain works.
Other Resources
- This is the most informative source of information on how to be successful using telephone directories to promote your business! At least one third of all of our clients at our center come from Yellow Pages advertising and this is the book that taught me how to do it. Click on the link and learn more about it. It is guaranteed to work for you, it did for me.
Using Yellow Pages Advertising to Ethically "Steal" From Your Competition
