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Top 10 Tools For Your Online BusinessTop 10 Tools For Your Online Businessby Erik Hopkins Copyright 2005 Listmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.listmedia.com .......................................................................................... 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. .......................................................................................... 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. LIST BUILDER Pro(tm). Often copied. Never duplicated. "Discover How To Build Your Opt-In Email List With Targeted And Responsive, Double And Triple Opt-In Subscribers... Plus Eliminate Bounces And Undeliverables, And Quadruple The Opt-In Rate Of Your List In 5 Minutes With This Proven, Easy To Use System." To discover the breakthrough secrets that other list owners don't want you to find out about, send a blank email to listbuilder@listmedia.com or click: mailto:listbuilder@listmedia.com .......................................................................................... ------------------------------------ Article END ------------------------------------
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