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While working and traveling through Cyberspace, I have discovered many excellent websites that provide amazing value, usually for FREE. Below I have grouped the links into the following categories
I can't legally endorse everything on these sites, but I think you'll find the information useful and very helpful. So Enjoy and remember, “The more that you learn, the more that you earn”.
If you have a great website and are interested in a reciprocal link please click here to complete our request form.
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Advertising
www.visit4info.com
Collection of excellent commercials
http://advertising.about.com/
A massive resource for everything advertising
www.adage.com
World wide advertising news and information
www.google.com.au/adsense
Boost your business profitability with Google Advertising Programmes.
www.doubleclick.com
Professional help for small businesses to start serving banner ads. This company is owned by Google, and like most Google products it is free. If your banner ads are shown less than 90 million times per month then this service is completely free. Crazy but true.
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Animation
www.LiquidInteractive.com.au
Specialising in Interactive animated websites, online tools and games. They can develop and implement your strategy and concept.
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Audio
www.echovibes.com
Free sounds - Royalty-free WAV’s and MP3's for your web design projects.
www.AudioGenerator.com
Create audio files to stream from your website
www.talkingspeaker.com
Add a customisable audio player to your website. You can use your photo, logo or a talking speaker to be displayed while your audio plays.
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Content Management
www.joomla.org
Free open source website content management software. Very popular.
www.CMSreview.com
Lists, comparisons and resources to help you select the right C.M. System
www.powerfront.com
Content Management System
www.YouSendIt.com
Allows you to send and receive large files or many files electronically. No FTP software required. They provide a free 14 day trial.
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Discussion Board
www.infopop.com
Excellent Discussion/Bulletin Board on your website (download and trial for free)
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eCommerce - Suppliers
www.paypal.com
Send and Receive money from anywhere in the world.
Makes selling selling online easy - you do not require a merchant account.
www.ClickBank.com
The easiest way to start selling selling your digital products (eBooks, special reports and audio files). You don't need a merchant account.
www.PayMate.com.au
Makes selling selling online easy - you do not require a merchant account.
www.awp.com.au
One stop option to E-commerce
www.ibill.com
Credit Card processing
www.EziMerchant.com.au (based in Australia)
A total eCommerce solution that you can update yourself
www.securenetshop.com (based in USA)
A total eCommerce solution that you can update yourself, including Merchant Account
www.goemerchant.com (based in USA)
A total eCommerce solution that you can update yourself, including Merchant Account
www.miva.com
A comprehensive, full featured off-the-shelf shopping cart
www.quikstore.com
A good off-the-shelf shopping cart with a low price tag
www.gate13.com.au
One stop option to E-commerce
www.EziMerchant.com.au
One stop option to E-commerce
www.Bigstep.com
Incredibly cheap and easy way to get a website and start selling online
www.2checkout.com
Start selling online immediately.
www.SecurePay.com
Simple one stop option to help you start selling online.
www.MultiCards.com
An online cashier for your website. You don’t need a merchant account
http://au.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
Everything that you need to start and run an eCommerce website
http://stores.ebay.com/
You can open your open website (store) with eBay. They promote it within their huge market and process the sales transactions for you.
www.StraightSell.com.au
MYOB Product - Total eCommerce solution that you can update yourself.
www.Escrow.com
If you are selling expensive items ($400 or above) you can get your client to make an upfront payment to this escrow company before you send the goods.
www.ashop.com.au (based in Sydney Australia)
A total eCommerce solution that you can update yourself
www.visa-asia.com/verified
“Verified by Visa” adds a password to credit cards which is safer for buyers and sellers.
www.visa-asia.com/verified
“Verified by Visa” adds a password to credit cards which is safer for buyers and sellers.
Credit Card Payment Security
Merchants accepting credit cards must comply with these standards. Use these guidelines and tips to evaluate and improve your security and internal systems, business processes and website.
Visa’s eCommerce Merchant’s Guide
Tools and best practices for building a secure Internet busines
www.eway.com.au
Australia's biggest payment gateway
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eMail Marketing - Resources
http://everythingemail.net/index.html
Everything that you could ever want to know about Email
www.emailabuse.org
Fight back against Email spammers
www.adma.com.au
Australian Direct Marketing Association
www.emaildoctor.info
Free advice for healthy, successful E-mail marketing.
www.truste.org
TRUSTe has a strict set of privacy principles that you should comply with. If you do, then you can get the TRUSTe Email Privacy Seal to display on your website or anywhere that you collect Email addresses. This gives people confidence that they can trust you with their Email address and other personal information.
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Free Content
www.ideamarketers.com
Free articles and content for your Website or Ezine
http://www.lukehayes.com.au/articles.htm
Website marketing related articles
www.ezinearticles.com
Free articles and content for your Website or Ezin
www.articlecity.com
Free articles and content for your Website or Ezine
www.constant-content.com
Free articles and content for your Website or Ezine, also writers for hire.
www.freesticky.com
Free articles and content for your Website or Ezine
www.Articlemarketer.com
Submit your articles for other websites to use.
www.Isnare.com
Free articles and content for your Website or Ezine
www.ThePhantomWriters.com
Free articles and content for your Website or Ezine
Email Diary-
This is a Calendar of special events so that you can capitalise and use these annual occasions as an opportunity to contact your valued customers and suppliers by Email. Good communication is good business.
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Plan2dotcom-
A successful website needs strong foundations, and that means planning is critical. This is a comprehensive planning system to help you develop a plan that will meet your marketing objectives and provide a clear logical brief for your web design team.
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E-books-
A selection of free E-books for you to download and enjoy.
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Programs / Applications-
A selection of free programs that you can download and enjoy.
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Free Email and Instant Massaging Services-
Get a free Email address and service OR download an Instant massaging application and chat with friends.
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Free Web Hosting-
Get your personal website hosted here free.
This service is not recommended for Business websites.
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Gr8 Stuff-
Miscellaneous freebies available on the Internet.
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Free E-zines
Sign up for some of the free E-zines (Electronic magazines) that I have found to be excellent resources.
Web Articles
Excellent Website marketing & Internet articles, that have been written by Luke Hayes .
You can find specific articles on your eBusiness area of interest. Re-print permission is available.
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Public Relations
www.prweb.com
A service for distributing press releases.
www.aapMediaNet.com.au
Australian service for distributing press releases.
www.Digg.com
This site allow you to share press releses and articles on the Internet. The digg community vote on the best content and it receives exposure.
www.publicityinsider.com
Publicity articles and resource
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Software
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Mozilla - Web Browser
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp
Netscape Navigator - Web Browser
www.winzip.com/ddchomea.htm
WinZip - trial-version
http://fetchsoftworks.com/
Fetch (trial version) - FTP software
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Adobe Acrobat Reader
www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?
Macomedia Flash Player
http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi
Macromedia Shockwave Player
www.tucows.com
The most comprehensive list of internet programs available on the net
www.zdnet.com
Everything on technology plus helpful software “How-to’s”
www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
IrfanView - Easy to use software.
It is used to quickly resize and rename photos
www.primopdf.com
Free PDF maker. You simply install the free software. It sets itself up as a printer driver. You can convert any document into a PDF simply by clicking ‘print’ and selecting the printer called PrimoPDF. There are no advertising footers or watermarks like some of the other free PDF converters.
http://openoffice.org
A completely free suite of Office software. It’s almost identical to Microsoft’s Office Suite.
http://getpaint.net
This is free graphics software that you can use instead of paying for the all mighty Adobe Photoshop.
http://gimp.org
This is free graphics software that you can use instead of paying for the all mighty Adobe Photoshop.
http://picasa.google.com
If your graphics needs are more modest and focus mainly on working with digital photos, then Picasa is designed to help you find, organise, edit and share your photos. Picasa's strengths are most noticeable in editing, organising your snaps into albums and sharing images as screensavers or slide shows that you present on a CD - or uploading them to free online galleries called Web Albums
http://freeserifsoftware.com
PagePlus SE is software Similar to Microsoft’s Desktop Publisher you can be your own graphic designer and create all sorts of advertisements. It also includes more than 500 preset templates, document layouts and designs
www.12ghosts.com
This collection of 12 handy Windows extensions, or "Ghosts", will save you time and effort. One program powers off your computer with just one click, automatically starting your backup program before shutdown. Another washes all evidence you left when browsing the Internet like cookies, caches and history files. One will even automatically synchronize your clock with an atomic clock over the Internet so it is always perfectly accurate.
www.Software602.com
If you're sick of the Microsoft Office monolith, consider this product; a freeware word-processing, spreadsheet and graphic editor program that does a surprisingly good job of giving Office a run for its money. It doesn't need tons of memory or hard drive space to run (it's only 13MB), and can even be used as a quick-and-dirty HTML editor as well.
www.IrfanView.com
A fast, simple and free image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats. This program also features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion and modifications such as colour depth, crop, blur and sharpen. It has Status Bar entry, language and video bug fixes, and comes in English and German editions.
www.WindowBlinds.net
If you're fed up with the standard Windows look and feel, do something about it. Install this product and you have the power to "skin" everything in Windows, from the look and feel of the windows themselves to backgrounds in windows to the appearances of buttons and bars. There's so much to play with, you may wind up just spending a whole day trying on different skins. Not that this is a bad thing.
www.copernic.com/products/copernic/basic/index.html
A great search engine? This is probably as close as you're going to get. It aggregates searches from multiple search engines to create the most thorough, exhaustive and powerful search engine you can get without paying. The deluxe version of the program (US$29.95) contains a great many advanced features, such as newsgroup searches and support for languages other than English, but the basic version is powerful enough for almost anyone.
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Web Promotion
www.google.com.au/adsense/
Google finds relevant paying advertisers for your website.
www.google.com.au/ads/
Advertise with Google the leading search engine
www.linksmanager.com
Manage your reciprocal Links and automates the link exchange process.
www.linkpartners.com
Find relevant Link Exchange partners
www.linkshare.com
Help creating and managing affiliate marketing programs
www.PureProfile.com
They have a massive database of Australian Internet users which provides them with a targeted network for you to market too. You can buy perfectly targeted visitors to your website.
www.primeq.com
They have a massive data base of Internet users which provides them with a network for you to market too. You can buy targetted visitors to your website
www.TheBlindNetwork.com
They have a massive data base of Internet users which provides them with a network for you to market too. You can buy targetted visitors to your website
www.dgm-au.com
They have a massive data base of Internet users which provides them with a network for you to market too. You can buy targetted visitors to your website. Based in Syd.
www.clash-media.com
They control the content on hundreds of websites which provides them with a network for you to market too. You can buy targetted visitors to your website
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Webinars
www.webex.com.au
Host an online meeting, online training (webinar) or deliver a sales presentation. You can allow anybody to connect to you over the Internet and see exactly what you are doing on your computer.
www.GoToMeeting.com
Host an online meeting, online training (webinar) or deliver a sales presentation. You can allow anybody to connect to you over the Internet and see exactly what you are doing on your computer.
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Please feel free to suggest any web sites that would benefit Small Business owners and managers of Australia.
If you encounter any of our recommended links that are not working, please let us know by email luke@LukeHayes.com.au
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