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(Note: More links and tools reviews will be added shortly.)

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Note: Some links are connected as affiliate. I will soon add a paragraph explaining fully what that's all about.
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Email Marketing

Constant Contact Free 60 days trial
Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing: html templates, handles all CAN-SPAM issues for you, Track delivery, open rate etc. All in all, a very good offering. Using a hosted service to send your business newsletter makes your life easier. They take care of spam black lists, monitor their relationship with major ISPs, handle the automated unsubscribe required by the CAN SPAM act and other services that would otherwise require more time, effort and understanding than the small-medium business owner has to ensure the delivery of their precious newsletter.
Free for up to 50 email addresses, $15/mo for up to 500, $30/mo for up to 2500
Email Marketing Gets Results
Constant Contact
Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing
Vertical Response Very versatile reliable and economical email marketing provider. Pricing starts at $15 for the first 1000 email sent. Vertical Response
Vertical Response


Domain Registrar

Go Daddy! Cool name, low prices, great value. Some of the goodies: Managing multiple domains, Domain forwarding, Domain Parking, free Ownership transfer. Transferring from an existing registrar is only $7.75 and they add a year to your existing domain registration for free. Domain Registration for $8.95. Great value. Go Daddy domain registrar
Go Daddy Domain Registration
Dotster domain registrar offers a good value for your money. Some of the goodies: Managing multiple domains, Domain forwarding, SPAM guard for your whois record info, Domain Parking, Control your DNS records ($10/year), free Ownership transfer. Transferring from an existing registrar is only $8.95 and they add a year to your existing domain registration for free. Domain Registration for $14.95. Great value. Dotster domain registrar
Dotster Domain Registration


ISP

Dreamhost is a low cost and yet flexible and efficient ISP. They throw in many perks with their accounts, the service is good (24 response on support emails). They have a powerful control panel to setup all aspects of your account and they allow telnet access to your account which will satisfy even the power user wanting maximum flexibility! Their plans start at $7.95/month which should satisfy most needs.
Note:They now have a 91 days money back guarantee.

Dreamhost ISP
Dreamhost ISP


Credit Card Processing

2checkout.com is a 3rd party credit card processing service. This means you don't need: a merchant account, shopping cart, secure server, SSL certificate, advanced programming skills ... they do it all for you! Also important: No monthly fees, no lease, no multiple parties to pay up or coordinate to make things work. They also support subscription services and recurring billing. They take 5.5% + $0.45 processing fee of each transaction.
$50 setup fee and about 15 minutes... THAT'S IT!. Great deal to get started!

Accept credit cards TODAY!


Merchant Account

Merchant Account Express is an old fashion GREAT service type of merchant account. I was VERY impressed at how accurately, rapidly, politely and diligently (even late at night) those people answered all the detailed questions I threw at them. Truly, they are all about satisfied customer. And they have great rates too. The setup fees might be a little higher but they don't have annual fees nor do they hide fees elsewhere. They offer a low discount rate (2.28%-2.39%) and provide an Authorize.net payment authorization gateway which guarantees a maximum shopping cart compatibility. Click here to see a list of Certified Authorize.net compatible shopping carts. (Note that many carts are compliant but not certified and work just fine!). The total monthly fees add up to about $25, the initial setup fee is around $129 (summer special of $99). Note that you can request that your monthly minimum discount be lowered to $10 (just make note of it on your application). I give them a very high recommendation.

I give them a very high recommendation.

Apply for a merchant account!
PayQuake.com is another different type of merchant account. They offer a unique 3 tier type of merchant account where you can dynamically switch form a user control panel from one plan to another. Payquake provides its users with the Authorize.net payment authorization gateway which guarantees a maximum shopping cart compatibility. Click here to see a list of Certified Authorize.net compatible shopping carts. Payquake's programs As Echo-inc, Payquake does not have a cancellation policy. All 3 programs have an annual fee of $49. The basic program has no setup fee, no monthly minimum, FREE authorization gateway and FREE online statements with a discount rate of 3.75 + 0.50/transact.
The next plan is $99/setup fee, Annual $49, no monthly minimum, Costs $10/mo of service charge, discount rate 2.75, $0.40.
And finally the third program at $99/setup, $49/yearly, no monthly minimum, discount rater: %2.35, + $0.30/transact.

This new approach make is easy to adjust what program you want to be on when traffic starts picking up.

Apply for your merchant account!


Hosted Shopping Carts

1shopping cart / Marketers Choice is a hosted shopping cart and all inclusive marketer's tool. It goes from the simple hosted shopping cart (you don't have to deal with having a secure https server (https), or SSL certificate or purchase/install/maintain a shopping cart on your website).

This is a perfect solution for an existing website with a catalog containing either a small number of items (< 100) or a list of items that doesn't change in price or description very much.

You simply enter a short description of each item (as will be displayed on the receipt line item), price, shipping costs, tax info etc... then hit a button to generate a line of html that you cut/paste into your existing website/catalog for that particular item.

You can customize the look/colors of the cart to match your site.
They have 3 levels of subscription (monthly cost): $19/$39/$69 where the basic level gets you a cart with all the bells and whistles including secure recurring billing!; the $39 adds support for auto-responder (automated follow-up emails at set intervals) and the $69 package adds support for a built-in affiliate system and digital delivery (ebooks / software download etc...)

This is a great cart to get going quickly with a mimimun amount of hassle. They offer a 30 days trial for Free through the link below.

1shopping cart / Marketers Choice.


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Finding the right keywords for your site!

"Target the wrong keywords and all your efforts will be in vain.".
Word Tracker is the defacto standard tool for finding what keywords your potential site visitors will be using to search for your product and services in Search Engines. Word Tracker will help you find related keywords which you may not have thought about. It will rank those keywords in terms of search popularity and competition Word tracker is a must if you want targeted visitors on your website. Prices start at $30 for a week.

Find your keywords today!


Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools

WebPosition Gold2 is a best in class tool to assist you in optimizing your website for top search engine placement. WP2 does not only dish out good advice, it customizes its advice by analyzing your existing page and the top contenders for the targeted keyword/search engine. Another invaluable feature is the report generation on your position (and progress) in the search engines results position for each key phrase/search engine combination. It also has an html page generator, search engine submitter and such. They have a 45 days money back guarantee. The regular edition is $149. Well worth the money.
Download your free evaluation copy!

Search Engine Optimizer will analyze your web page based on your desired search keywords and give you all the tips and warnings on optimizing your site and avoid accidental search engines spamming (which could get your site banned). The knowledge base of guidelines is updated monthly by Search Engines optimization professionals to keep you up to date with the ever changing Search Engines "unwritten rules". This is well worth the value and comes with a 30 days money back guarantee. Cost $149.


SEO!
Zeus: reciprocal link manager
Zeus is one of the most comprehensive tools to manage your linking campaign. It will find relevant new links for you, will manage the email contacts with the other webmasters and will even maintain your own out-going links (or reciprocal links) page on your web site. You can try their free (limited) version or purchase their full version for maximum benefit. It has a full 45 Day, 100% Money-Back Guarantee. Price is: $195.

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OptiLink Page Reputation Analyzer is a very powerful tool to analyze your competitors' linking strategy and find new in-coming links for your own site. It will also review the qualities of your existing links and suggest ways to improve them (not all incoming links give you the same payback from search engines!). This is one of the most powerful linking analysis tools out there (experts will love it!). Take a tour of Optilink and see for yourself. Risk-free 90 day money-back guarantee Price is: $149
Get Optilink!
Ranking Manager.
Once you have optimized your site and have started your on-going linking campaign, you need to monitor the success of your strategies as reflected by the positioning of each keyword in various search engines and their monthly trend (going up/down).
The simplest and the best tool for the job is Ranking Manager. You can download the trial version and see for yourself. It comes with a 30 day Money Back Guarantee. Price: $179.95
Ranking Software and Web Reporting Software
Get Ranking Manager!
Web Ceo.
All inclusive Search Engines Optimization (SEO) tool.

  • research your keywords (like wordtracker)
  • optimize your site for high rankings in search engines (like Search Engine Optimizer),
  • find broken links, slow page load, and practices that could be interpreted as SPAM and get your site blacklisted (like "Search Engine Optimizer")
  • submit your URLs to search engines (like WebPosition Gold),
  • check your rankings with search engines (like Ranking Manager),
  • analyze your visitors with live traffic analysis
  • edit your Web pages in the WYSIWYG mode
  • upload HTML and other files to your server
  • monitor your website to know if it is up or down
You can download the trial version and see for yourself.
They also have two free tools: basic SE ranking tool and another tool to help you find your keywords.
It comes with a 30 day Money Back Guarantee. Price: $295 - $495
Web Ceo
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