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How do you get people to open your envelope (or by extension, to click on your banner ad) and see what you have to offer? On this site you will find a chapter excerpted from “Write On Target: The Direct Marketer’s Copywriting Handbook” on that very topic. Entitled “The Envelope Please,” the chapter is a great, free copywriting resource. Click through the site and you … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Baier Stein Direct | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales | Industry: Direct Marketing

How would you like to have a free, virtual conference room? Register at this site and you and 29 of your closest friends, family or colleagues can conduct free teleconferences (each conferee pays the normal long distance or local rate to call the service). After you sign up, you will receive your own personal conference number. This is good for any conference calling throughout … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: EasyConference.com | Subject: Free Stuff / Tools

Strong Numbers analyzes the sales that occur every day at 250 online auction sites and 2,000 retailers to compute an average selling price for more than 1 million products. The site’s “Blue Book Price Guide” is an excellent way for consumers to see what other people are actually paying for items before bidding on them.

StrongNumbers also has a beta program called Marketview that provides updated … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Strong Numbers | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, IT / Technology / E-Business

Here is a tool to manage the ever-expanding sea of information on the Internet. Using TrackEngine you can visit any webpage and with a couple of clicks get email alerts when the page is updated. Track any change or just specific event changes (using keyword filters or content summaries). Useful for competitive intelligence or personal interest. And there’s no software or downloads … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: NexLabs Pte Ltd | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Free Stuff / Tools

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Use this site to perform free (or enhanced fee-based) trademark searches and/or monitor your (or your competitors) domain names for things such as domain expirations, similar names that are available, conflicting trademarks, domains for sale, and site popularity.

Content: Online Resource | Source: NameProtect.com | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Free Stuff / Tools

Axie is a free service which automatically seeks out newly listed websites that match your defined areas of interest. It does this by comparing the content of the Open Directory Project with the content of the prior week. Once new websites are discerned, they are matched to search criteria you specify in your account and the links are sent to you via email.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Axie.com | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Free Stuff / Tools

This site is sort of like an online project manager, where you can create, save and use over 1,500 MarCom plans. These plans include estimated time required to complete, start and due date, task-specific guides, email alerts to keep you on track, price guides, question lists to ask potential suppliers, checklists, a list of documents that should result from the process, the ability to share … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: MarketitRight.com | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

This site offers a wide variety of MS Excel add-ins and programs for download. Most of shareware, some are free. There is an evaluation feature but few seem to have qualified yet (minimum 5 ratings). Also, very few had detailed descriptions. If you download and use any of these, please let us know what you think. Also check out the … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: WinSite | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Productivity / Work Tips

This resource from Columbia University presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources. The unique element approach used makes this a useful reference book for citing electronic sources regardless of the specific bibliographic style you may be required to use.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Columbia University Press | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

This meta-site for deep Web content (content hidden from search engines because it is stored in dynamic database form) from BrightPlanet, “is the front door to search engines and databases on the Web…By tracing through CompletePlanet’s subject structure or searching the site you can find rich content sites not accessible using conventional search engines.”

Content: Online Resource | Source: BrightPlanet | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

CompanyClique offers a unique way of researching public companies by presenting the relationships that exist between companies. The relationships are classified as competitors and partners. These relationships are shown graphically, with companies growing in size as function of the strength of the relationship and gravitating toward the company in question as a function of the bi-directional nature of the relationship.

Competitors are companies that … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: WSRN.com | Subjects: Competitive Intelligence, Free Stuff / Tools

TSCentral provides a comprehensive resource for participants in all business and professional events. Our visitors are attendees, exhibitors, event organizers, sponsors, convention & visitors bureaus, venues/facilities, and services providers, any of whom may be interested in achieving greater success in trade shows, trade exhibitions, seminars, conferences, conventions, or company-sponsored meetings.

In addition to free, comprehensive event data, detailed venue information, and an event industry suppliers database, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: TSCentral | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

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AskASalesPro.com is a site that provides free, emailed responses to anyone who submits a sales-related question. The site is manned by a group of veteran sales professionals who enjoy sharing their experience, knowledge and success stories with others. It may take up to 48 hours to get a response, since the advice givers are all working professionals. Sample topics cover issues like getting through … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: AskASalesPro.com | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Marketing / Sales

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Ever spent hours or days trying to find a domain name that isn’t taken? Nameboy.com will do it for you. Enter the primary and secondary keywords that describe your site, select your category, (e-commerce, portal, news, etc.), and click “go nameboy, go.” The results are offered in three columns. The first column gives you available names to consider. The second column lists names … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Nameboy.com | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Free Stuff / Tools

Home of the popular personality test (Temperament Sorter – 70 questions and Character Sorter – 36 questions). Results will indicate your core strengths, and help determine what type of work is most likely to make you happy. Results tend to correlate with those of the Myers-Briggs test.

Content: Online Resource | Author: David Keirsey | Subjects: Free Stuff / Tools, Personal Development

The site is a vehicle to promote the author’s books and software, but it’s filled with free spreadsheet tips, files, links, and related material. There are sections on each of the big three desktop spreadsheet applications, a tips section, and history. The software add-ons are worth taking a look at, especially the PUP 2000 application, a collection of 50 general-purpose Excel utilities, 40 worksheet functions, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: J. Walk & Associates | Subject: Free Stuff / Tools