MARKETING
Adding your business to Google+ Local is one of the best ways to get found by local customers searching for your services, and it happens to be free and easy.
Another great (and free) way to get more local customers is adding your business to Yelp, the web’s leading local business review site.
Facebook has over 500 million users, and is a great place to advertise your business and take advantage of social networking.
Use Pagemodo to easily develop an eye catching Facebook fan page. With Pagemodo you can stand out from your competitors. Free templates are available.
LivingSocial is a deal-of-the-day company that specializes in localized daily deals across more than 550 markets in 21 countries. It has over 40 million members.
BUSINESS SERVICES
Vistaprint has over 5,000 card designs for all industries and styles. They also provide stock logo designs.
Affordable, custom-made logo design. Host your very own “design contest” where thousands of talented designers compete to create a logo design you love, or your money back!
MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It’s like your own personal publishing platform.
With the convenience of 24/7 online scheduling and a BookNow button that’s simple to place on your Website, email newsletters, Facebook page, your blog, and just about anywhere you’d like, Genbook turns your web traffic into confirmed appointments.
WEBSITE BUILDERS
For those that want to do it themselves
The Webs site builder provides everything you need to get your business online: a wide variety of customizable templates, and engaging features like blogs, photos, videos, forums and more.
Weebly provides a drag & drop website builder to make a simple website. They enable over 7 million people to easily create personal sites or establish web presences for businesses, weddings, classrooms, churches, artistic portfolios, and more.
Shopify is a hosted application that allows you to set up an online store to sell your goods. It lets you organize your products, customize your storefront, accept credit card payments through payment gateways, track and respond to orders — all without the hassle of running a physical store.
PHOTO AND VIDEO SOURCES
Fotolia offers the largest image bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print.
iStockphoto has millions of royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, video, and audio.
At PhotoDune you can buy royalty-free images starting at just $1. Items are priced on the size/megapixels of each file.