A Few Free Tools That Might Help Your Small Business
In this economy no matter how strong your small business may be it never hurts to save money with tools that are free or of very low cost. Here is a small list of some of the tools we like to use on a regular basis. Would love to here your comments on the tools you use for business online.
Google Analytics
A tool we use regularly that is free, easy to use and has shown sustainable endurance in web analytics. This tool allows you to look into your web traffic for your site, and verify marketing effectiveness. When using it to analyze your traffic data and where your visitors are coming from, entering and exiting your site, it can aid in making the correct changes to your site, marketing campaigns etc. It’s better to know, than not know, and wonder.
Google Webmaster Tools
A tool we have a love hate relationship with as the data it provides are usually snippets of the full amount it finds, though it is extremely informative on any issues Google might be having while viewing our site. One of the easiest ways of being informed and receiving data from Google about how they see our site. A must have in your arsenal of tools.
Mikogo
A tool we just began using recently which we LOVE. Mikogo gives you the ability to opportunity to share any screen content or application over the Internet. Perfect for online meetings, web conferences, product demonstrations, web presentations, remote support, and the list goes on. This tool allows you to have 10 participants online at a time all while never leaving your desk. As for usability, it cannot get much easier than this. Another must have. Recommended!
Free Conference Call
This site is a money saver. Instead of paying for numerous attendees to a toll free conference call, this site will set you up with a FreeConferenceCall.com account. Then give you a regular standard number to call (not 800 number) where close to 100 callers can join in for up to 6 hours in conversations. Callers will get charged whatever there normal long distance rates are to call in, but most everyone these days use cell phones with free long distance and long distance fee’s are minimal compared to toll free charges with 800 numbers. We love it.
Log Me In
This tool we have used for quite some time, as it allows you to work remotely on another computers desktop just by logging in. Has been great thus far though no file transfers are included with the free version, the payed version does allow file transfers. This tol has been very dependable though we see ourselves using Mikogo much more in the future. Good tool.
Fax Zero
This tool allows you to upload and send a 3 page fax twice a day for free. Now that is pretty good, though they do include a small ad on the cover page it still is great in a bind. For a very small fee you can be rid of the ad and faxing many more pages…We thought it was worth the mention. Another tool we like for free.
Just a few of the many
Well we could go on, and on with many other tools we use and have used that are free or very low cost, but we would be writing for a very long time. We will definitely provide more tools we like in the near future, we hope you find some of these as useful as we do!
We would love to hear about any tools that you use on a regular basis that are free or of very low cost, so please send us your comments…
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