July 4, 2008
- How Fast Does Your Website Load?
This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com This is show #46
Premiumcast - Selling Via RSS, Digital Products, and Membership Sites All in One.
Today I talk about Premiumcast.com a site that allows you to sell items via RSS, as well as sell digital products, and create membership sites. Depending on the features you need the price ranges from [...]
June 20, 2008
- Charge What You Deserve
Charge What You Deserve Ebook
I found a cool ebook that is very useful if you are trying to figure out what to charge for your service. You can find it at www.chargewhatyouydeserve.com and it walks you through the whole process. For me it was getting over the mental block. But it helps you determine the value, [...]
June 13, 2008
- A Review of Dim Dim Open Source Desktop Sharing
This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com LISTEN TO THE SHOW
In a previous episde we talked about using “Meeting Software” to allow the customer to see you create their website. ( http://www.weeklywebtools.com/2007/09/01/build-the-website-while-the-client-watches/ )
Dimdim.com Reviewed
I found a free tool that allows you to do this. It’s a www.dimdim.com
Dim Dim is interesting. I allows you to share your desktop, white [...]
June 9, 2008
- Another Affordable Scheduling Tool
Affordable Scheduling Tool
Today I talk about another scheduling tool that I missed in a previous episode. Its Acuity Scheduling and its a great mix of versatility with ease of use. You can easily customize the look of the scheduling interface, have multi schedules, block time, set your business time, make custom forms for each type [...]
May 30, 2008
- You Will Flip for Uniflip
This show originates at www.weeklywebtools.com In today’s show we have a cool tool to convert pdfs to flash, a color scheme tools, some SEO software, some affiliate planning software, and a free tool to allow you to sync your Google Calendar and Outlook calendar.
LISTEN TO SHOW
We’ve all seen those “ad peels” where the corner of [...]
May 22, 2008
- Xsitepro Total Site Management
Nickel Sale Script
I finally got to play with the Nickel Sale Script. I found some very cool things. First off, you can set the starting price to any price you want. Then you can have in go up .05 every sale OR you can have it go up any increment you want (so you could [...]
May 16, 2008
- Free Smart Digital Delivery
SmartDD is a awesome looking tool that allows merchants to sell digital products without people sending the download link to all their friends (or worse, posting it at digg.com ). What it does it when someone purchases the product, it emails them a dynamic link. When the download is done, the link is inactivated. The following [...]
May 9, 2008
- Click2Sell Making ClickBank Go Uh-Oh
Today I just found about a new site that reminds me alot of paydotcom.com which reminds me of clickbank.com(I like paydotcom.com better) only this one has no waiting for checks (like clickbank), no waiting to have things listed (like clickbank), and no “per product fees (like paydotcom.com) and its called click2sell.eu
No sign up fees - [...]
May 4, 2008
- Add A Site Drop Box To Your Site
Today I just have one tool (as we switch advertisers on the site). Its
yousendit.com.
. Not only can you use this tool via email, but if you sign up for a business account you can have a drop box right on your site. No more teaching customers how to use ftp, burn cds, etc. Just [...]
April 28, 2008
- Online Scheduling Tools
As a podcast consultant, I needed a way for my potential customers to see my schedule and book an appointment. This would eliminate the “what day is good for you” and then the whole confirmation, etc. I wanted to streamline things a bit. So I went looking for an online tool. My goal was to [...]
April 18, 2008
- No Show This Week
Sorry folks, Schedule will not permit. I’ll get one out next week for sure.
Dave
April 11, 2008
- The Return of Free Web Tools
CSS Addict Web 2.0 Tools
I came across CSS addict and thought, “Oh here we go again, but when I started playing with their “Web 2.0 tools” I thought, “Wow, I might actually use these!” as there is some very cool stuff. The tools include: badger designers, stripe makers, loader generators, favicon editor, tab genertor, button [...]
April 4, 2008
- Fun Firefox Plugins and a Widget Tool
Some Cool Tools From SEOBOOK.
Rank Check (shows you ranking over time over a couple of search engines)
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
Website Health Check Tool
http://tools.seobook.com/website-health-check/
FireShot - Cool Screen Capture tool for Firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648/
Traackr - Watch your media across multiple sites
http://www.traackr.com/
Adam from www.seydoggy.com sent us http://www.widgetbox.com/ a fun tool to allow you to create facebook applications, import google gadgets and more.
March 28, 2008
- Expert Copywriting Software
Today we have a few tools for you to play with. You can check out a free version of photoshop at www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html
The next tool I heard about at www.454n5.comits called Crawltrack at www.crawltrack.fr which allows you to track search engine spiders and their visits along with other interesting details. It also blocks hackers. Its free.
Scribe [...]
March 21, 2008
- Tree Menu Making Software
In last week’s show we talked about how drop down and fly out menus suck because it takes such a steady hand to get through the navigation. I currently use a program from Xara. It turns out they have software, and a ton of online tools you can use (but no expandable/tree menu software )So [...]
March 14, 2008
- Make Your Own Search Engine
Today I start off with a book review (which I did in a previous post).
Website SEO Score
http://www.websitegrader.com/Default.aspx
Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on [...]
March 7, 2008
- Share Your Desktop For Free
The Email Obsfuscator writes email into a javascript that is less likely to be spammed. (thanks to Adam from www.seydoggy.com for this one and the next one).
I have mentioned inthe past how you can really speed up you production (espcially with things like choosing colors, fonts, etc) when you let the customer look over your [...]
February 29, 2008
- IBP Vs Web Ceo Website Submission Software
Microsoft Skydrive is now open. Think of this as a free alternative to box.net. You get 5 gigs of space to keep protected or share. Any files you upload you need to do one at a time.
From our friends at http://www.seydoggy.com/ css typset tool. It allows you to see the font characteristics on one side, and [...]
February 21, 2008
- Live SEO Training Community
Now that your site is up, the next question seems to be “how do I get more traffic?” This usually leads to a discussion about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Creating my Weekly Web Tools podcast, I often ran across many free tools for SEO at the Seo Book website. There is plenty of free information [...]
February 14, 2008
- Paypal’s Virtual Terminal
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In today’s show I talk about a free button creating software, as well as my surprise to Paypal’s Virtual Terminal (I missed the fine print about the $30 charge per month), and I found another great tool for handling [...]
