Resource Bank for Private Practice Professionals
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Categories:
- Assessments
- Audio
- Computers
- E-commerce
- Legal
- Market Research
- Misc.
- Newsletter
- Passive Income
- Practice Management
- Public Relations
- Publishing
- Research
- Shopping
- Telephone
- Time
- Weather
- Website Construction
- Writing
Assessments
- Assessment Generator Great resource for easily generating your own customized on-line quizzes, reponse forms, intake forms, surveys, etc, or use their templates. Hosted on their site, easily linked to your website and autoresponder. Provide value, attract prospects, build mailing list, collect data, increase traffic.
- Self Assessment Center Resource for on-line assessments of many types, some free.
- Free Quiz Maker for your website, blog, Facebook, etc.
Audio
- Free audio recording and editing software:
- CastingWords.com transcribes audio for 75 cents per minute.
- Cabbagetreesolutions.com transcribes audio for 50 cents per minute.
- Record your conference calls and tele-seminars:
- FreeConferencePro, up to 200 callers, recording, telephone access replay, custom audio message for callers, online control panel, lots of other cool features- free!
- Basement Ventures.
- Easily add audio to your website:
- SwiffRecorder -Free software for creating flash player for putting audio and video on your website.
- Free music clips for your website, powerpoint presentations, etc. – Flashkit.com
Computers
- Will your business survive a PC Disaster? Carbonite Online Backup protects your important files. -Easy hard drive backup for your valuable files. If you’ve ever had a hard drive crash and lost your important files forever, you know how important it is to back up. Few backup their computer regularly because of the hassle factor. This works great- I use it!
If you’re reading this and do not have a way to backup your hard drive, it’s only a matter of time. ACT NOW! while you’re thinking of it. (You can’t say we didn’t warn you!)
- Best collection of free software – Need a software program of any kind? Look here first!
- OpenOffice – Free office suite. Contains a word processor, database program, spreadsheet, presentation program and drawing software. Handles creation of PDFs and reads MS Office file formats.
- Computer troubleshooting, reference, resources:
- Free downloads, shareware, etc, for just about any need or want for your computer:
- SPAM Solutions:
- Spam Arrest -Radical solution, 100% effective!
- K9 -Best free version.
- MailWasher -Free for one POP account.
- McAfee’s Spam Killer -Best retail software solution.
- Research Unrecognized Startup Applications – A useful tool for troubleshooting and selecting your needed startup applications and eliminating undesired ones. In Windows, you can review and choose your startup applications by selecting Start > Run > msconfig > Startup.
- Annoyances.org- Great site for problem-solving Windows OS questions and problems .
E-commerce
- Accept credit cards in just minutes with PayPal.
- PayDot.Com allows you to sell digital and physical products as well as services online. Free to set up, includes affiliate tracking. Works with Paypal.
- 2Checkout.com is another resource for selling digital and physical products as well as services online.
- ClickBank to immediately accept credit cards online for your digital products.
- Download Defender works with ClickBank and Paypal to prevent unauthorized downloads of digital products from your website.
- Acteva provides quick, easy and secure online registration and payment processing from your website. There’s no risk and no up-front cost and you can start collecting event or class fees immediately. Increase sales and attendance for your event or class while decreasing administrative headaches.
Legal
- Professional Liability Insurance for Coaches-www.lifecoachinsurance.com
- On-line ISBN application for ISBN number for your book.
- The ASK Database Highly recommended! Easily generate surveys, questionnaires, exit surveys, ASK campaigns, etc. We use it!
- Compete.com analyze the effectiveness of your website, compare and track your competition.
- MajikWidget.com create polls and other interactive “widgets” for your web site or blog.
- Quickly and easily create polls and surveys for free at Survey Monkey.
- WhosTalking.com is a a social media search engine. Enter your name, brand, or key words to find current mentions on Web sites, blogs, social media posts, basically anything online.
Miscellaneous
- National Association for the Self-Employed; Great source for access to health/life insurance, business/tax info, etc.
- Healthcare Providers Service Organization; Great source professional liability insurance, health/life insurance, etc.
- HowStuffWorks.com; informative, entertaining, you never know when you need it!
Newsletter
- PhpList is a free software for managing your newsletter list.
- SendFree.com – Free autoresponder (includes ads).
- Aweber Autoresponder System for opt in, subscription management, and broadcasting your newsletter or e-program.
- Customized Newsletter Services for custom-designed newsletter with your professional or company name in the masthead, your photo, logo, and professional bio/marketing message on the front page.
- Favorite daily newsletter: Early To Rise
- ***Got a website? Check out this free, easy way to generate passive income from EACH and EVERY visitor! Pay per Play
- Google Ads On Your Website: Google’s Adsense Program
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Amazon.com: Join the Amazon.com Affiliate Program
- Group Coaching Manager Great tool for implementing and automating a high quality group program. Check it out!
- MindBloom helps you, help your coaching clients track their progress, stay motivated, etc. Free 14 day trial!
- The Coaches Console- Save time and money by automating your practice- highly recommended!
Finding Affordable Help?
- VirtualAssistant.org recruits, trains, supervises, provides security measures, etc for as low as $6.67 per hour.
- Elance Find a virtual assistant from India, brochure/logo/web design, editor, just about any help you need for your business projects.
- TaskUs.com Virtual assistance, $10.00-$15.00 per hour, they assign your tasks to providers all over the world and guarantee the results.
- Odesk.com similar to elance,post your job and find providers from all over the world. Good source for web design and technical work, providers all over the world work very affordably (I hired someone from India based upon referral to put together a Wordpress website for $6.67 per hour).
- Craigslist has international websites in English speaking countries of people looking for work and you can post your jobs. This link is for Manila in the Philippines, a top source for affordable, English speaking outsource help averaging $150.00 per month part time, $350.00 per month full time.
- Online Jobs affordable, English speaking outsource help from the Philippines averaging $150.00 per month part time, $350.00 per month full time.
- Free voicemail and fax-to-e-mail You get your own voicemail and fax number and receive messages and faxes to your e-mail as attachments or on the web- FREE!
- Online Scheduling System – No more telephone tag!
- Appointment Scheduling System Automatically syncs with Outlook and Google Calendar, makes scheduling and tracking appointments easy! Free 30 day trial, nominal yearly cost ($29.95 per year as of this writing).
- To see how I use this system, visit: www.meetwithdavid.com.
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Free resources for sending files too large for e-mail attachments:
- www.yousendit.com 100 MB files, 100 downloads per file.
- www.sendthisfile.com no limit on file size, three downloads per file.
- Client Compass Complete business management software for private practice professionals. The Best!
Public Relations
- Free daily PR leads: www.helpareporter.com
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Free release distribution:
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PR info and strategies:
- Trash Proof Press Releases (free PDF).
- Designing Press Releases:
- Get Famous! Work with Get Slightly Famous author Steven Van Yoder and his marketing firm. Affordable individual and group programs available.
- Clip & Copy Free licensing rights to reprint news articles, track industry trends in your niche, get notified when your name (or competitors) appear in the news, etc.
- Google Alerts Get notified when your name, brand, niche, key words, or anything else you want to track shows up on the internet.
- WhosTalking.com is a a social media search engine. Enter your name, brand, or key words to find current mentions on Web sites, blogs, social media posts, basically anything online. The results are shown in chronological order. Like Google Alerts on steroids.
- Best PR newsletter and source of leading-edge PR info- Subscribe here! Highly recommended!
- CastingWords.com transcribes audio for 75 cents per minute.
- Cabbagetreesolutions.com transcribes audio for 50 cents per minute.
- FREE article writing templates make writing articles easy.
- iDictate.com will transcribe your audio programs for 1.25 cents per word and up.
- Article Submission Sites:
- Automated Article Submission: Submityourarticle.com automatically submits to thousands of publishers, saving you tremendous time and effort at a very low price.
- Highly recommended! I use service and it is well worth it.
***Here’s a FREE cool and unique content marketing service for articles, audio and video: FreeIQ.com
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Manual Submission Article Directories:
- FreeCoachingArticles.com
- Phantomwriters.com
- Ezinearticles.com
- Webpronews.com
- Webnewswire.com
- Webwire.com
- Ezineplug.com
- Pressbox.co.uk
- Przoom.com
- Prweb.com
- Prleap.com
- Prfree.com
- I-newswire.com
- Certificate.net
- Freezinesite.com
- Contentdesk.com
- Clickpress.com
- Businesstoolchest.com
- Articleblast.com
- ArticleMarketer.com
- Articlewarehouse.com
- Articlealley.com
- Articleshaven.com
- Articlecity.com
- Articlefinders.com
- Articleworld.net
- Articletyphoon.com
- Articledepot.co.uk
- Ideamarketers.com
- Httparticles.com
- Goarticles.com
- Constant-content.com
- Valuablecontent.com
- Theezine.net
- Article-content-king.com
- Freezinesite.com
- Expertarticles.com
- Ezadsuccess.com
- Goarticles.com
- Ideamarketers.com
- Makingprofit.com
- Marketing-seek.com
- Mediapeak.com
- Netterweb.com
- Opportunityupdate.com
- Salesvault.com
- Selfgrowth.com
- Zinos.com
- ArticlesOn.com
- AllWomenCentral.com
- Free-Journal-Articles.com – This article directory is the only one that gives you. half of the revenue from Google AdSense on your article pages. A nice stream of passive income for you.
- Other paying article directories :
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Free Graphic Tools:
- Instant Banner Creator Very cool!
- Gimp – Powerful graphic design program available for most operating systems.
- Gimpshop – Open source substitute for Photoshop.
- Photoplus – More free graphic software.
- Pixia – Another free graphic design program.
- WebResizer – Free online resource for modifying photos and graphics for the web.
- DeskPDF: Create PDF documents for e-books, etc, affordably. Inexpnsive alternative to Adobe Acrobat.
- FormatIt Formatting Utility; Automatically format your text before pasting into newsletter or autoresponder to prevent line wrapping control characters per line.
- ClickBook: Easily create a booklet, poster, flyer, business card, banners, bookmarks, etc.
- Spam Check Check your e-mail broadcasts for “spamminess” prior to sending and avoid getting caught in spam filters.
- URLcut.com: Free resource for converting long affiliate URLs to shorter versions that won’t get broken in your text e-mail broadcasts and e-zines. Great feature- you can choose your own URL!
- Writers.net – Find publisher, editor, agent for your book project.
- National Writers Union: Find a ghostwriter, co-author, collaborator for your book project, web site, marketing materials, etc.
- Free Doodlelab Online Publishing Applications:
- My Brochure Maker- Create and print a brochure or flyer in minutes.
- My Newsletter Maker- Create customized newsletters with graphics and photos.
- My Card Maker – For customized greeting cards with or without your own photos.
- My Album Maker – For photo albums in two sizes with lots of designs.
- My Postcard Maker – Create postcards that you can email or print.
- Book Cover Express Highly recommended!
- Cover Factory software free to download and try for do-it-yourself e-book covers, graphic representations of your newsletter, audio program, etc. Converts to 3D images as well!
- Killer Covers for e-books Highly recommended!
- NetTrace and SkipEase: Find people, reverse directory, find e-mail addresses and telephone numbers, public records, links to many other “find” resources.
- BetterWhoIs: Find the owner of a website or domain name.
- AnyWho: On-line white pages, yellow pages, reverse directory.
- Google.com: Favorite search engine TIP: use quotation marks to search for exact term to narrow results
- Googlism: Find out what the web is saying about you
- WhosTalking.com: Googlism on steroids.
- FindYourSpot.com: Take their quiz to discover where best to live and work.
Shopping
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How To Get Just About Anything At The Lowest Cost: EBay.com
BIDDING TIPS:
- Identify the auction items that you want that are about to expire and bid at the last minute. If you bid earlier, you risk driving up the price.
- Bid the maximum you are willing to spend for that item. The system will incrementally up your bid against other bidders to that price.
- Read the seller feedback before bidding and avoid sellers with no feedback (new and unknown) or negative feedback. I’ve used ebay a lot and recommend it!
Telephone
- Easy Seminar is our top bridge line for conference calls and tele-seminars. In addition to large capacity, web-based control panel, high quality recording, this service includes many features the free services don’t have, including hand-raising, local calling numbers, backup host number if the main number goes down, dial out from bridge, web simulcast, web pages for each event (no html knowledge necessary), download page and links for MP3 replay, and much more.. FREE 30 day trial!
- Skype makes it easy to conduct video chats, VoIP telephone calls from your computer, free international calling, etc. Free Skype-Skype calls and low rates for Skype-Landline calls.
- Chatter Bug- Unlimited long distance for $9.95 per month.
- Pingo- best international calling service we’ve found to date.
- Magic Jack Easy, affordable VoIP solution. $99.00 for 5 years, great international calling rates that also work like a calling card allowing international calls from your landline or cell phone.
- DimDimfree web conferencing for live presentations, whiteboards and web pages, voice and video over the Internet – with no download required.
- Free voicemail and fax-to-e-mail You get your own voicemail and fax number and receive messages and faxes to your e-mail as attachments or on the web- FREE.
- Looking up telephone area and country codes:
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Free conference calling services:
Note about free conference calling services-
Our motto here at BYIP is “Free First,” meaning don’t spend money if you don’t have to, especially when you’re getting started. Free conference calling services are great, however prone to problems such as “All circuits busy,” dropped calls, unreliable and low quality recordings, provide no customer support, etc. When you’re ready for a high-quality, reliable, feature-rich, professional conference calling service, sign up for the 30 Day Free Trial at Easy Seminar.
Check out Easy Seminar’s FREE Quick Start Program, a comprehensive 6-week program that teaches exactly how to grow your business with conference calls and tele-seminars.
- List your teleclasses and tele-seminars with Conference Call University.
Time
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Time zone information and resources:
- Atomic Clock Sync; free program for synchronizing your computer’s clock with the correct time.
- Fixed Time Calculator for your conference calls.
Twitter deserves a category by itself. A free service you can use in many ways to market, build your list, provide value by sharing your expertise, etc. You can create multiple accounts- for each niche, personal use, etc. Sign up free here.
Here are some Twitter resources we’ve found useful. Almost all are free:
- TweetLater for scheduling your tweets
- TwitterDMer for sending new followers a thank you message.
- List of Twitter Apps:
- Twollow to automatically follow folks who follow you.
- SplitTweet for managing multiple twitter accounts.
- TweetDeck desktop Twitter application.
- Birdhouse for drafting and storing your tweets until ready to send (iPhone).
- Tweetie- iPhone app for managing multiple twitter accounts
Weather
Look up weather in your area then bookmark to easily check forecast:
- Learn how to easily create your own website:Wordpress Academy (highly recommended, I’m a big fan!)
- Free alerts when your website is down: Free Site Monitor
- Free alert when your website is infected with malware: Dasient
- Free, easy contact form for your website or blog: Kontactr.com
- Free Tell-a-Friend widget here Free Share/Bookmark button for your website, blog, ezine, etc www.addthis.com
- Free service to add powerpoint presentation to your website: www.slideboom.com
- Free service to use your photos to easily add cool, jazzy video slideshow with music to your website (or send link by email): www.animoto.com
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Free services to add video to your website:
- Easily add audio to your website:
- Add calendar to your website. Free Google Calendar.
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Free button creator www.onlinebuttonsecrets.com.
- Instant Banner Creator for free website graphics- banners, buttons, headers, footers, animation, etc.
- Free exit survey www.exitsurveygenerator.com.
- Free, easy websites at Google – Google Sites.
- Elance- Freelance Project Database Find a virtual assistant from India, brochure/logo/web design, editor, just about any help you need for your business projects.
- Nvu Free HTML editor / web page creator.
- Easy Web Page Creator also optimizes web pages for search engines.
- SwiffRecorder Free software for creating flash player for putting audio and video on your website.
- GotLogos.com professionally designed logos starting at only $25.
- Web-Inspect.com a great site for getting your pages ready for the internet and the search engines.
- Compete.com Analyze the effectiveness of your website, compare and track your competition. Good tool for search engine optimization.
- Web Site Templates(Most well under $100.00).
- Website Templates (most are $5.00).
- Lockedarea.com Free software for creating a password protected area of your website for members or clients.
- Add a free search feature for your website www.Atomz.com.
- HTML code reference list- www.htmlcodetutorial.com.
- HTML Validator; HTML is easy, but unforgiving. This tool helps find mistakes when you do it yourself – www.htmlvalidator.com.
- Royalty-free photos for your website, brochures, etc.
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Free music clips for your website, powerpoint presentations, etc. –
Flashkit.com
- Royalty-free music ($7.00 per song) – Stock20.com.
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LinkPopularityCheck.com:
assess popularity of your website pages.
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Do-It-Yourself Web Forms (Surveys, response forms, registration forms, order forms, etc):
- Free Quiz and Poll Maker for your website, blog, Facebook, etc.
- Good KeyWords is a free utility for identifying effective key words for good search engine placement. Includes meta-tag generator, link popularity meter, and more.
- Nichebot is another good resource for researching key words.
- Aweber Autoresponder System for your website opt-in system, subscription management, and broadcasting your newsletter or e-program.
- Instant Niche E-mails creates 52 unique followup autoresponder messages to build relationship and increase sales.
- Article Dashboard free program for creating your own article bank.
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Free blog hosting:
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Free membership website hosting:
- Membership Website Hosting using Wordpress- Wishlist Member Highly recommended! (I use it) Video tutorial here.
- PhpBB Free program for creating your own online community forum or discussion board.
- WebResizer – Free online resource for modifying photos and graphics for the web.
Writing
- Bartleby.com; On-line Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotes, Encyclopedia, Reference, and more.
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