If you’re selling online you probably are familiar with PayPal - and the gouge they take out of your incoming income. With the PayPal Fee Calculator you can avoid the aftershock by knowing what your fees will be in advance. That way, you can adjust your price to have the buyer absorb some of the cost. Cool.
This is a free tool - so enjoy freely.
Decent web directories that you can submit your sites to are getting pretty rare. Either they want a couple hundred dollars for each submission or what they have to offer for free is worthless. Sometimes listing your links at these sites can actually be harmful to your rankings instead of helpful. If you’re looking for a free web directory, you should look at Dirmania.
DirMania is a business web directory that provides free website advertising. The site has a PR 3, if you care about that kind of stuff and offers a direct link to your small or medium sized business/website. The directory is organized by categories and is very search engine friendly. Your listing can go live in less than 24 hours if you meet the listing requirements. (Not hard to do if you don’t try keyword stuffing or other lame 2002 tricks.) Be sure and provide a good, human friendly description of your site with appropriate keywords and a catchy title and you’re in.
The submission form has all the instructions and advice you need to determine if your submission is quality or not. Think common sense. Make sure you are submitting your link in the most relevant category to its content and make sure that the content is offering something useful to the visitor. It is, isn’t it? Then you’re good - otherwise, anything that is submitted to a blatantly wrong category or is nothing but spam will be removed from the directory.
Play by the rules and scoop up some link love. We all need it.
Need to up the position of your sites? Why do I ask these questions? Of course you do. Hop on the backlink bandwagon and boost yourself up, baby.
Simply use this Backlink Tools page, which has “links to the best Backlink Tools on the internet and these tools will help you to optimize your website and move your search engine position higher. The following Backlink Tools links are selected from the top SEO tool web sites. These Backlink Tools links are the best of the best.”
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I love a good marketing promotion and Charter High-Speed has whipped up a great one. A marketing genius or two at Charter decided to set up an auction where visitors can bid on high-speed Internet access for the rest of their lives. As in forever, as far as the winner is concerned.
The bidding starts at a mere $10.00 and the auction goes live March 12. The company says they have no idea how much the no-reserve, lifetime access auction will actually go for - but that’s the fun of an auction. And to add even more fun, Charter High-Speed is also running a sweepstakes for a free Nintendo Wii.
The catch is you have to belong to an area where Charter offers service, but you can check your zip code to see if you qualify. To enter and/or start the bidding, just go to the Charter High-Speed Internet for Life registration page and follow the steps.
The system includes: the Nintendo Wii Console, Wii Stand, 5 Sports games (Boxing, Baseball, Tennis, Golf and bowling), 1 Remote Controller, 1 Nunchuk Controller, 1 Sensor Bar, 1 Wii AC Adapter, 1 Wii AV Cable.
The auction will go like this: Starting Bid: $10.00. Minimum bid increment: $1.00. Maximum bid increment: $25.00. After the bidding closes at 12:00 p.m. CST on March 26, the highest bid will be declared the winner. The winner will be contacted by telephone and email on or before April 2. Pre-registration is going on now so get on it quick!
Good luck - and even if you don’t win, you could learn a lot about running a successful promotion from this one. Read more about the auction for access rules and the sweepstakes rules.
Want to see yourself as others see you? Or at least how search engines see your pages? SEOmoz’s crawl test tool is open to the public.
This tool is used to test how accessible your site is to search engines and can help you quickly diagnose potential crawling issues and give you an overview of your site’s search friendliness.
To run the crawl test tool you just need to register for a free SEOmoz account. Basic members are limited to one report per 24 hour period and the tool will only test 5 pages at a time. Premium Members can run as many reports as they like and the crawl test will test 50 pages at a time.
Knock yerself out.
Providing your staff with an easy, one-button click to submit their time or store a timesheet layout for future use, Senomix Timesheets’ simple structure enables a user to log on and register their work hours within a minute of effort. Project status, timesheet, billing and invoice reports allow you to keep on top of your team’s current work in progress, with archived timesheet information available for reference when constructing schedules and effort estimates. As Senomix Timesheets may be used with any Java-compatible PC, your office can coordinate the work of employees running Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems without the administrative headache of managing multiple applications on multiple platforms.
Billing codes may be added or removed by an administrator at any time to refine the detail at which effort is logged, with estimates for effort hours or completion dates recorded at the precision which suits your project.
Able to adjust task information as a project matures, managers may temporarily remove billing codes which do not currently apply to a project, or add details to project work which has grown in complexity over time.
With Work in Progress reports, database exports, invoice generation and QuickBooks / Peachtree import capability, Senomix provides a timesheet solution ready for integration with your office payroll and billing system.
Download the fully functional Evaluation Version - provided free of charge for 2 users and up to 10 timesheets.
So grab it you biz types.
Are you a business looking for a way to get your employees hooked up to computer based training? For all the Web based training tools you’ll ever need, look to eLearning Solutions. They can customize training to match your specific needs and train your people to your standards.
With CBT, you can be assured that your employees will be equally knowledgeable after training. From new hires learning the ropes to experienced workers gaining new skills, eLearning can focus knowledge and deliver it directly to your place of business through custom courses and performance evaluations you create. Visit the site to learn how to begin the easy process of setting the standards for business training in your business.
Everybody wants to be a published author, but there are only so many Book Publishers out there. If you’re having a hard time getting their attention, take a look at AuthorHouse, the leading self-publishing company in the world. Since 1997, they’ve been helping authors get published without the time-consuming hassles of the other publishers.
But just because AuthorHouse makes it easy doesn’t mean you won’t get help publishing, promoting and selling your book. In fact, they offer much more than most standard publishers.
Give them a try. You can see your name in print before you know it!
When you make a living through direct mailing campaigns, you know you need only the best mailing lists with consumers who have the most “active, responsive, and impulsive buying history.” You can find your lists at Martin Worldwide.
Martin Worldwide’s unique ResponseCom ™ is a proprietary compilation of databases from U.S. Response and U.S Consumer information. ResponseCom generates versatile lists from more than 100 demographic and psychographic selects.
Whether you need insurance lists or any other type of consumer contacts, you need to have a handle on Martin Worldwide’s database of 290 million consumers and 14 million U.S. businesses. And they just so happen to guarantee their lists in writing. Do you know of any other mailing list companies that offer that?
Are you one to get away during the holidays instead of spending all that time with the relatives? If so DialAFlight has some great holiday offers including flights to Auckland and other New Zealand flights.
It’s not hard at all to get lined with DialAFlight’s cheap flights - in fact a phone call is all you need. Simply speak with a UK travel consultant and they will make sure your holiday is exactly as you want it. And it’s not just flights. DialAFlight can also hook you up with hotels and rental cars and have options like beach or spa holidays, short weekend breaks, and more.
Enjoy your trip.
