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Essential Websites for Small Businesses to Communicate, Manage, and Market Effectively

Discover key online tools and resources designed to empower small businesses. Learn how to communicate effectively with customers through email marketing, group texting, and video conferencing. Manage your finances online with free accounting services and file-sharing apps, and explore strategies to improve productivity and collaboration within your team. Leverage social media for marketing and customer engagement, ensuring your business thrives in a competitive landscape. Dive into the world of digital solutions tailored for small business success!

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Essential Websites for Small Businesses to Communicate, Manage, and Market Effectively

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  1. Websites for Small Business Steve Holt, Director of Instructional Technology Center & Web Services

  2. Communicating w/ customers • www.constantcontact.com • Emailing your customers with product promotions, tips & tricks, etc • www.tatango.com • Group text messaging • www.eyejot.com • Software-free, online video messaging service • www.webex.com • Online video conferencing

  3. Saving money • www.youconvertit.com • www.zamzar.com • Don’t buy that expensive software just to create files you need, convert it! • Office 2007 PDF plugin • Acrobat is expensive, so create PDFs for free with Office 2007 • www.yousendit.com • Send large files via email for free (100 MB) • www.tucows.com • Freeware and shareware

  4. Saving money • http://skype.com/business/ • Make calls to anywhere

  5. Traveling smart • www.jiwire.com/ • Look for free WIFI spots around the country • www.yapta.com • They monitor your flights for you • www.bing.com/travel • They predict if ticket prices are going to go up or down • http://www.atmlocator.info/ • ATM locator

  6. Get information • www.whitepages.com • www.switchboard.com • www.google.com/reader • Let Google monitor key words for you and they’ll notify you via email • http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp • Find zip codes • www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html • Find area codes • Text 46645 (googl) for anything

  7. Managing finances • http://quickbooksonline.intuit.com • Manage your business finances online. Allow multiple locations to use it. • www.mint.com • Free service to manage your finances, consolidate all your online finance accounts, track your investments, manage your bills, manage your budget

  8. Get Help • www.protonic.com • Free tech support for your technology problems • www.calculator.com • Free online calculators for just about anything • www.sprouter.com • Look for others that might be doing the same thing that you are doing

  9. Increasing productivity • www.microsoft.com/word • www.microsoft.com/excel • www.microsoft.com/powerpoint • Watch tutorials, learn something new, get help • www.gethuman.com • Don’t waste time on the phone • www.logmein.com • Connect remotely to your computers • www.google.com/docs • Collaborate together

  10. Be conscious • www.freecycle.org • Get rid of stuff you don’t want, find stuff you need… for free!

  11. Protect yourself • www.mozy.com • www.fileqube.com • http://skydrive.live.com/ • Free online file storage • www.10minutemail.com • It only works for 10 min. • www.google.com/latitude • Find out where your employees are

  12. Make money • www.google.com/adsense • Ads get placed on your website by Google and you get $ every time someone clicks on them • www.google.com/adwords • Google creates an ad for your business and places it on other websites

  13. Market with social media • www.youtube.com • www.vimeo.com • Video speaks louder than words • www.facebook.com/pages • Use the ‘fan pages’ feature to connect with your customers • www.involver.com (apps for your page) • www.twitter.com • Real-time updates for your customers and supporters. Use as a help-line.

  14. Social media inside • www.yammer.com • Allow your employees to collaborate and share • www.socialtext.com • Allow your employees to collaborate and share a little bit more

  15. QUESTIONS?Steve Holtsholt@utm.edu731-881-7609www.utm.edu/itc

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