Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all. It’s Christmas. I’m not Santa, but I do have a bag of toys for your consideration. They are almost all free and all have helped me grow my business over the last year. I gave them all a try and give them a thumbs up. OK, lets tear off the ribbon, rip off the paper, and see what’s inside.
The BlogCatalog Community Blog is a place to highlight great blogs and bloogers. Use it to find and model bloggers you like. It is a fun and interesting place to get ideas and connect with people like you who are blogging too.
Search engine tools, news, and reviews for the informed search engine marketing experts and novices alike.
Drop dead simple blogging. This may be the simplest blogging platform to date. Your parents could do this.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
Email Marketing Software for Windows
- Supports HTML and text email formats
- No per email message sending fees
- Keep your contacts private and secure locally
- Free HTML email templates to get you started
- Easy installation and setup
They have a free version for small groups and paid versions for bigger ones. Use the free one to see if you like it.
Here’s another Image editor. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
http://sixrevisions.com/wordpress/
15-useful-tools-for-wordpress-bloggers/ If you use WordPress as your publishing platform, you’ll find a ton of useful tools you can grab off the web that’ll help you improve your productivity and make sure your WordPress site is running smoothly.
In this collection, you’ll find a few convenient applications, plugins, and browser extensions that will help you accomplish a variety of blogging tasks that range from easier screen captures to making sure your WordPress site is secure.
This one is not free, but if you wany to run ads in newpapers, this is a great resource.
There you go. I hope you like the sites. Use them to grow you business and prosper in 2010.
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