Friday, 6 May 2016

Useful Web Tools and Software for Online Businesses!

 

Cloud Storage

Sync your documents across multiple computers and easily access them through a folder on your computer. Dropbox makes collaboration easy by supporting shared folders and files.

Google Drive offers cloud storage and syncing. Drive also offers an online office suite so that you can create word documents, spreadsheets, and presentations and easily edit and share them from anywhere. You can also share documents so that multiple users can view or edit them.

Calendar and Scheduling

Part of Google Drive, Calendar is great for keeping track of appointments and meetings. You can also share calendars with others.

Easy-to-use online time tracking and invoicing tool.

Organize an online meeting, video conference or webinar with GoToMeeting.

a simple scheduling tool that is great for coordinating many people's schedule and finding the best time for meetings or events.

Business and Productivity

Collaborate and manage projects from one place. Basecamp allows team members to discuss projects, create to-do lists, and upload documents.

Evernote is a wonderful organization tool that allows you to save notes into notebooks and sync across all your devices. Clip URLs, photos, or entire web pages to a notebook with the web clipper. Sort your notes with tags, create to-do lists, and schedule reminders. You can also share your notebooks with others.

Create surveys and analyze results.

Cheap printing services. Great for business cards. Be sure to search for coupon codes prior to purchasing because Vistaprint usually offers huge discounts.

Social Media

A URL shortening service. Shortened urls are useful for many purposes, but especially for shortening links for use in Twitter updates.

An easy-to-use social media scheduling and management tool that supports multiple accounts. Free and paid versions.

Manage multiple social media accounts from a single dashboard. Schedule social media posts and track user engagement. Free and paid versions.

A chat client that puts all your instant messaging accounts in one place.

Image Editors

Don't want to dish out the cash for Photoshop? Buy Photoshop Elements for $80 and get access to Photoshop's powerful and essential features. You can also purchase Premiere Elements for video editing.

Google's photo editing and organization solution.

Pixlr is an online photo editor. An account isn't required to start editing photos with Pixlr's great tools.

IrfanView is a free program used for image viewing and simple image manipulation tasks (you can download IrfanView here). Two common tasks that IrfanView is good for are cropping and resizing. You crop an image when you want to isolate one part of it. You resize an image when you want to make it smaller.


Stock Images

Offers stock images, both free and paid.

Pixabay features high quality stock images that are free for commercial use without attribution.

Software Training

Training videos that cover online tools in topics such as business, social media, and productivity.

In-depth training on hundreds of topics. Lynda covers most software imaginable in its online video courses.

Email Marketing





PDF Viewers and Creators


Create PDF files from any Windows program.

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