Top 10 Tools For Your Online Business
by Erik Hopkins
Copyright 2005 Listmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved.
http://www.listmedia.com
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When you spend 6-12 hours every day on the Internet like I do,
you may not consider that the tools and resources which you
use - and take for granted - can also help people who don't
already know they exist.
Whether they help save you money or your valuable time, the
following tools and resources come highly recommended.
** E-FILTRATE **
E-Filtrate offers a set of online tools to help you optimize emails
against anti-spam email filters, blacklists and mail server filters to
give your emails every chance of reaching your subscribers.
http://www.e-filtrate.net
** AUTORESPONSE PLUS **
AutoResponse Plus has become one of the most respected
permission-based email marketing solutions available.
Used by professionals and beginners alike, AutoResponse Plus
gives you all the tools you need to run effective, permission-
based email marketing campaigns, right from your own web site.
AutoResponse Plus accepts subscriptions and manages all your
email marketing campaigns. It can easily handle thousands of
simultaneous follow-up campaigns with plain text, HTML or multi-
part messages that are personalized to each subscriber. And
because it runs on your web site or server, you have full control
and there are no monthly fees.
And without affecting those follow-up campaigns, you can
contact your subscribers whenever you want with your
newsletter, e-zine or time-sensitive offers.
http://www.autoresponseplus.com
** GETRESPONSE **
The new GetResponse 2005 Pro offers unlimited autoresponders
to promote all of your products, services and campaigns without
ever having to spend more money!
Our state-of-the-art email delivery system successfully delivers
your mail to your customers' mailboxes, while our competitors
get blocked by anti-spam software, blacklists, and filters. Email
deliverability is critical to your business - we deliver 68% more mail
than our competitors!
http://www.getrepsonse.com
** CHATANGO **
Chatango is a new way to make contact with people online. It's
the first tool for real-time, private, disposable, one-on-one in-
page communication. The best thing about Chatango is that it
can be added to any web page, like an eBay auction, or Xanga,
or any web page. Your visitors can chat with you without leaving
your page.
http://www.chatango.com
** AD-AWARE **
Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from
known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware,
selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers,
and tracking components. With the release of Ad-Aware SE
Personal edition, Lavasoft takes the fight against Spyware to the
next level.
Ad-aware has been awarded Best Software Product by PC World
Magazine.
"...it has become an indispensable tool in the fight for online
privacy."
http://www.lavasoft.de
** MAILWASHER PRO **
Is spam driving you crazy? Junk email is set to increase
exponentially over the next few years and has already become a
worldwide problem. According to "Jupiter Research", unwanted
email or spam now forms around 50% of email sent.
You are just a few minutes away from learning the easiest and
most powerful way to stop unwanted email from getting to your
computer. Forget about other ways to stop spam, we are going
to show you the ONLY way to deal to senders of junk email so
you receive only the email you want!
MailWasher Pro is the answer to your time wasting junk mail
problems, as well as letting you preview and delete your email
before it gets to your computer, MailWasher Pro also enables you
to interact with the FirstAlert! spam database. Using the global
reach of over 5 million MailWasher Pro users, spam fighters like
you report spam to the FirstAlert! Operations Centre where
unique spam signatures and rules are created. And, don't forget
your first year's subscription to FirstAlert! is included in the
purchase price of MailWasher Pro!
MailWasher Pro learns and adapts to your personal preferences by
letting you teach it the kind of email you want to receive. These
intelligent filters use Firetrust's advanced learning filters (Bayesian
statistics) to deliver a robust and efficient approach to solving
your spam problem!
http://www.mailwasherpro.com/products/pro
** TEXTPAD **
When just getting the job done is work enough, the last thing
you need is to waste time having to learn yet another computer
application. Your experience with other tools should be relevant
to each new application, making it possible to sit down and use
that new application right away.
That's why TextPad is so popular. Whether you simply need a
powerful replacement for Notepad, a tool for editing your web
pages, or a programming IDE, TextPad does what you want, the
way you would expect.
http://www.textpad.com
** AVANT BROWSER **
Have you ever tried surfing with a tabbed web browser?
Try Avant Browser, an upgrade to Internet Explorer. Avant
Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window
browser. Now, Avant Browser is available in 34 languages.
Avant Browser is freeware. That's right. 100% Free! No cost to
you ever. No limitations. No Adware. No Spyware.
http://www.avantbrowser.com
** ROBOFORM **
RoboForm is a free password manager and one-click web form
filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence.
* autosave passwords in browser
* autofill passwords to login form
* click login button for you
* fill personal info into online forms
* save offline passwords & notes
* generate secure random passwords
* encrypt passwords and personal data using 3-des
* all personal info is stored on your computer only
* take roboform with you on usb disk for ultimate portability
* sync your passwords and notes to Palm or Pocket PC
* backup & restore, print your passwords
http://www.roboform.com
** TRILLIAN **
And perhaps my favorite tool of all...
Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that
supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides
capabilities not possible with original network clients, while
supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers,
group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous
connections to the same network, server-side contact importing,
typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support,
encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy
settings.
Without stealing your home page and with no other included
software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique
functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning
language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all
networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia
integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to
trigger events based on anything happening in the client,
docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions
for file transfers, and systray notifications.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/learn/
Okay, there you have it... the "Top 10 Tools For Your Online
Business" which will most certainly help you to achieve your
online business success.
"A Few Extras Tools and Resources to Consider..."
But you know, I can't overlook the handful of other tools and
resources which have also helped me along the way. These tools
and resources are certainly worthy of mention, and I also highly
recommended them:
** EXPERTS EXCHANGE **
Members can get help with computing woes here, from over
three million IT experts and the more than one million solutions
listed. The site also provides tons of other info, including useful
links and a Careers page. Sign-up is not free ($9.95/monthly,
$49.75/6 months, $99.50/year) but this remains an invaluable
aid, for both IT professionals and those who require tech
support.
http://www.experts-exchange.com
** WINZIP **
WinZip is most popular compression utility for Windows, with
more than 135 million downloads.
* Quickly and easily zip and unzip files and folders
* Save storage space, dramatically reduce e-mail transmission
time, and efficiently archive documents
* Easy-to-use AES encryption to protect your sensitive data
* Flexible user interface: the intuitive WinZip Wizard for first-time
users and the award-winning WinZip Classic interface for power
users
http://www.winzip.com
** CUTEFTP PRO **
Cute FTP 6.0 Home edition offers the perfect blend of
performance, security, power and ease-of-use for the home
user. Whether publishing a Web page, downloading the latest
digital images, music and software or transferring large files
between your home and office, Cute FTP Home will get the job
done quickly and easily, even if you are a beginner.
* A step-by-step connection wizard guides you through the
process of establishing your first FTP connection.
* 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) sessions protect your login
and data from prying eyes.
* Transfer files and folders from your system to a remote FTP
server with the ease of drag-and-drop.
* Maintain your remote Web pages. Schedule batch transfers.
Change remote file permissions and much more.
http://www.globalscape.com/cuteftp
So there you are... 13 amazing tools and resourses which have
helped me, and many leading Internet marketers, small business
owners, and entrepreneurs just like you, achieve online business
success.
Send this article to your business associates and colleagues...
chances are they too could benefit from one or more of the
tools and resourses outlined above.
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Erik Hopkins is the President of Listmedia Network Inc. which
owns and operates the WorldWideLists.com web site and its
flagship product, LIST BUILDER Pro(tm). LIST BUILDER Pro(tm),
founded in 1998, is the premier lead generation company used
by many leading Internet marketers, small business owners, and
entrepreneurs. With more than 30 pages of success stories from
thousands of repeat customers, LIST BUILDER Pro(tm) benefits
publishers by generating targeted and responsive opt-in
subscribers for their online newsletters, ecourses, tips-of-the-day,
special reports, autoresponder messages or email lists of any kind.
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