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Assessments
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- Assessment Generator – Great resource for easily generating your own customized on-line quizzes, response 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.
- Free Quiz Maker for your website, blog, Facebook, etc.
Legal
Market Research
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- Survey Monkey – Quickly and easily create polls and surveys for free.
- ProProfs.com – Online polls, quizzes, surveys, live chat, flash cards for your website – monthly plans, depending on product
Newsletter Resources
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- SendFree.com – Free autoresponder (includes ads).
- Aweber.com – Autoresponder System for opt in, subscription management, and broadcasting your newsletter or e-program. Multiple integrations with other apps.
- Reachmail.net is affordable autoresponder system and has a generous free option, but we haven’t actually tried them.
- Early To Rise – Favorite daily newsletter.
Public Relations
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- Fullcalendar.com – Low cost live event promotion
- Helpareporter.com – Free daily PR leads
- Free release distribution:
- Publicityhound.com – PR info and strategies:
- Getslightlyfamous.com – Get Famous! Work with Get Slightly Famous author Steven Van Yoder and his marketing firm. Affordable individual and group programs available.
- Google.com/alerts – Set alerts for Google to notify you when your name, brand, niche, key words, or anything else you want to track shows up on the internet.
- Whostalkinginseo.com – A social media and web presence publicity company.
- Amarketingnetwork.com – Best blog and source of leading-edge PR info for authors
Publishing
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- CastingWords.com transcribes audio for 75 cents per minute.
- Cabbagetreesolutions.com transcribes audio for $0.70 per minute.
- Blog.ezinearticles.com – 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 – Manual Submission Article Directories
- Free Graphic Tools:
- Instant Banner Creator Very cool!
- Paint.net – Free photo and graphics editing software- very good
- EZThumbnails – great for resizing photos and graphics
- Gimp.org – Powerful graphic design program available for most operating systems.
- Convertpdftoword.com – Convert PDF to Word (free trial)
- FreePDFConvert.com (works with most file formats, excel, images, web pages, etc)
- PrimoPDF.com – Free PDF Converter
- SodaPDF.com – Create PDF documents for e-books, etc, affordably. Inexpnsive alternative to Adobe Acrobat.
- ClickBook – Easily create a booklet, poster, flyer, business card, banners, bookmarks, etc.
- 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.
- Bookcoverexpress.com – Book cover design, interior layout, e-book formatting and author websites
- Coverfactory.com – 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!
- Ebookcompiler.com – do-it-yourself e-books
- Killercovers.com – covers for e-books
- NWU.org – Find and hire a writer from the National Writers Union.
Research
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- Find people, reverse directory, find e-mail addresses and telephone numbers, public records, links to many other “find” resources.
- NetTrace.com
- SkipEase.com
- Lookup.icann.org = Find the owner of a website or domain name.
- AnyWho.com – 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
- WhosTalkingSEO.com – online visibility agency.
Writing
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- Writers.net – Find publisher, editor, agent, and other resources for your book project.
- Reference sites:
- Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Quotes Sites
- Encyclopedia
- Library Reference
- Wikipedia.org – a more casual popular research site edited by users.
- Upwork.com – hire writing help.
- CastingWords.com – transcribes audio for $1.00 per minute.
- Cabbagetreesolutions.com – transcribes audio for $0.70 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.
