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A2B
A is for Aweber B is for Bitly

AWeber is a industry leading autoresponder, a Where would we be without Bitly? Bitly is a
professional email signup form & direct marketing simple URL shortener that helps you collect,
service that makes it easy for you to build your organize and share long ugly links. It’s ideal if you
email list and stay in touch with customers and are a regular user of twitter where you are only
prospects. allowed 140 characters or want to track clicks from
your Youtube videos.
Aweber gives you the ability to send or schedule bitly is accessible via website, browser extensions
bulk emails, newsletters, create an autoresponder and mobile web. All links shared via bitly allow
series, manage unlimited email marketing the user to track and view complete, real-time
campaigns, publish an optin box on your website traffic and analytics data.
or blog and a whole lot more. Aweber also gives
you the ability to track everything with analytics Web publishers and brands can take advantage of
like open rates, your subscribers and unsubscribes. bitly’s enterprise analytics service to help grow
their social media traffic.
Aweber has over 150 email templates that allow Discover more about Bitly here.
you to easily create great looking emails and even
RSS to email tools that turn your latest blog post
into an email newsletter so you can really leverage
your content.

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C2D
C is for ContactMe D is for Dropbox
ContactMe is an easy-to-use contact and task Dropbox simplifies the way you can create and
management tool that will help you run your share you documents and media files and always
business more efficiently. have your stuff available, wherever you may be.
Dropbox lets you take all your photographs,
ContactMe helps you work more effectively and documents and even large media files like videos
helps you grow your business. Of course being anywhere and share them easily with who ever you
organized has major benefits, you save time and choose – friends, colleagues or your whole team.
effort and run a more professional and profitable
You no longer have to email files to your self to
business and have more free time to share with
work off more than one computer. Everything you
your friends and family.
save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all
ContactMe allows you to keep you on top of your your synced computers, smartphones and even the
deadlines, tasks, correspondences and Dropbox website.
appointments and it’s very easy to set up and
manage from your desktop or smartphone. If you accidentally knock a cup of tea over your
You can create free buttons and web forms and laptop or even if it was stolen, Dropbox has you
then add them to your websites and blogs or just covered and none of your files will be lost.
about anywhere on the web. There is also a great
Facebook App and much more so you can capture Dropbox is also available on iPhone, iPad, Android
more leads and sync them up to your and Blackberry.
autoresponder.
Discover more about ContactMe here Also, for every friend you invite and who
consequently joins and installs Dropbox, they will
give you both 250 MB of bonus storage space up
to a limit of 8 GB.

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E2F
E is for Easy Video Player 2 F is for Fiver
Marketed as the Most Powerful Video Marketing Fiverr is one of those ideas that you say to
Software On The Planet! And we have to agree yourself ‘I wish I thought of that!’ Basically it is an
Easy Video Player 2 is pretty special. It finally online marketplace that allows you to find people
breaks down all the barriers to video marketing so who will provide a service for $5.
you can start to make money today!
Here are just a few things the Easy Video Player 2 If you are looking for someone to make a logo,
can do… You can embed your “buy now” buttons perform a social media or SEO task, make a
and “opt in” forms right inside the video. Add unique gift, proof read, write or even make a video
“overlays” to grab viewers attention and make ad for your business, you’ll find them on Fiverr.
buttons and content appear at designated times
which adds an interactive element to your web It’s very customer friendly and strangely addictive.
pages. We use it a lot for making website headers,
banners, logos, video title clips and even cartoon
The Easy Video Players 2 allows you to split test characters of our friends and ourselves.
your videos so your can get the maximum ROI for
each and every video and of course there are Discover more about Fiverr here
detailed analytics that are stored automatically to
your dashboard so you can track your Internet
marketing campaigns.
Available as a Wordpress plugin.
If you are serious about marketing your business,
products and services online you should be using
video. If you are using video, you really should be
using the Easy Video Player 2.
Discover more about Easy Video Player here.



G2H
G is for Groupon H is for HelloTXT
Groupon negotiates discounts,usually 50-90% Hellotxt is an online and smartphone
offwith popular local businesses. They send the communication tool that allows you to syndicate
deals to thousands of subscribers in a free daily and digest of all your social bookmarks and
email, and send the businesses registered with information from one easy to use dashboard.
Groupon and running promotions a ton of new
customers. It’s easy to post text and rich media content across
all your social media channels like Twitter,
As a business it’s easy to register and start a Linkedin and Facebook (up to 50 networks) with
promotion to attract new customers with an one click saving you valuable time while
attractive promotion. Savvy local consumers check effectively communicating and marketing on
their email, Facebook or Twitter feeds for daily multiple channels.
deals on cool local businesses and can easily
discover you. By posting your status updates about your business
on all your web services from the same application
Groupons are often shared with friends and are you can easily keep everyone in your networks up
passed along by email or broadcast on social to date and build backlinks with social bookmarks
networks. That’s viral marketing at it’s best! to your website at the same time.
Customers can print out the voucher or bring it up
on their Groupon mobile App, then present it at Hellotxt also allows you to post your messages
your business to get the offered deal. from email and your smartphone (Get the App)
iPhone, iPad and Android device and include
91% of Groupon customers report getting more photos and video embeds.
customers as part of their promotion.
9 out of 10 Groupon customers spend more than Discover more about Hellotxt here.
the face value of the Groupon
87% of business owner say their Groupon
promotion increased their awareness in the
community.
Discover more about Groupon here



I2J
I is for Involver J is for Jing
Involver Apps integrate robust and powerful Jing is a free and easy way to create images and
audience engagement tools to your social media videos of what you see on your computer screen
channels such as Facebook Business Pages. With then share them instantly online!
over two-dozen applications tailored to Facebook,
Twitter and the iPhone, they offer a huge range of Simply capture an image (screenshot) of what you
options for continuous two-way communication see on your computer screen and use mark-up tools
between your business and it’s customers. to enhance your image, like arrows, text and boxes.
Alternatively you can record what you see and do
These Involver Apps are proven to multiply your on your monitor (screencast) in a 5 minute
fan base and ensure that your brand makes the recording and share with your audience via their
most of the incredible opportunities on the social free hosting Screencast website.
web.
Of all the cool tools and resources I’ve found and
Basic Involver Apps such as Twitter, Youtube and share with friends a collegues, Jing is always the
Flickr are free. However users are allowed only 2 most popular. It’s easy to add notated screenshots
basic applications per Facebook Business or Fan to all your online conversations, or create a quick
Page. To use more than two applications and tutorial video you can share with the staff, sales
access additional functionality an upgrade to the team or customers. It gets everyone on the same
Professional account is required page fast and is fun to use.

Discover more about Involver here. In fact I couldn’t have made this book without it or
communicate with my team and clients across the
world as effectively as I do without it! Jing rocks!!

Discover more about the Jing here



K2L
K is for Klout L is for Local Search
Klout is a web-based tool that set the standard for The Local Search SEO Contact Page Plugin is
measuring your influence on the web. designed for websites and blogs built on the
Throughout history people have always had the WordPress CMS (Content Management System).
power to influence others, and that power is being It’s a simple solution to quickly create a local
democratized with the power of social media. search engine optimized contact page for your site.

Klout provides insights into everyone's influence This handy plugin will take all your business
online by measuring their activity across the 5 information from the settings page and populate
major social networks – Facebook, Twitter, your entire contact us page or just parts of it. This
Linkedin, Foursquare and now Google+. More are includes your business name, full address and
being added. telephone number in hCard/vCard formats. You
can also include your hours of operation, preferred
Your influence is measured on your ability to drive payment methods, social media buttons, links, QR
action in social media networks. code, Google Places and more. All of these are
· Twitter: Retweets and Mentions highly customizable for your business needs.
· Facebook: Comments, Wall-Posts & Likes Discover more about Local Search SEO Contact
· LinkedIn: Comments & Likes Page here.
· Foursquare: Tips, To-Do's & Done
· Google+: Comments, Reshares & +1’s

Klout process this data on a daily basis and gives
you an updated Klout Score. It’s a good
representation of your ongoing social standing
online.
Discover more about Klout here



M2N
M is for Mailchimp N is for Namecheap
Even in these days of social media, email Namecheap are a leading ICANN accredited
marketing is still one of the most powerful direct domain name registrar and web hosting company
marketing strategies available. As a business owner from the USA that’s been around for over a
you need an email–marketing service that takes decade. Namecheap currently has over 500,000
care of all the complicated stuff so you can focus clients and over 2 million domains under its
on running your business. management.
MailChimp makes it easy for you to design great Namecheap offers some of the most affordable
email campaigns, share them on your social sites, domain names in the industry with free email/
integrate with web services you already use, URL forwarding, in addition to full-featured web
manage subscribers and track your results. It’s like hosting packages, secure SSL certificates,
having your own personal newsletter-publishing WhoisGuard domain name privacy protection, and
platform. a whole lot more.
Setting up an autoresponder is relatively straight- There customer service is unparalleled in the
forward while maintaining optins and unsubscribes industry, and their products are simple and of
is a breeze with Mailchimp. excellent value.
You will need to have an optin box on your Look out for their ‘coupon codes’ and special
website or custom Facebook page and link it to offers on their social media sites for even greater
yourautoresponder. If you need a good entry level value.
autoresponder that can grow with your business Discover more about Namecheap here
and your list, your really can’t go wrong with
MailChimp.
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O2P
O is for Optimized Press P is for Ping.fm
Many of the World’s leading Internet Marketers, Ping.fm is a simple online and mobile service that
Experts, Speakers and Coaches choose the makes updating your social networks like Twitter,
OptimizePress platform to build their sales pages, Facebook and Myspace quick and easy.
launch funnels, membership sites or squeeze pages
on Wordpress. There are also thousands of To really benefit from using Ping.fm you first need
businesses owners using this incredibly system on to register with as many of their social network
a daily basis. partners. Then when you want to send a message
or social bookmark, you can simply blast it to 20+
OptimizePress has been designed to make building networks from Ping.fm with one click. This can be
a website or sale page really easy. This includes done through email, SMS, GTalk, AIM, Yahoo!
integrating it with an autoresponder, adding ‘add to Live Messenger, Smartphones, Jabber and over 50
cart buttons’, split level private membership areas 3rd party Apps using the Ping.fm API.
and Facebook comments.
Social bookmarking with Ping.fm not only alerts
It has a excellent video training library, so even if your friends, fans and followers to your new
you are a complete newbie to building a website, marketing messages, videos and blog posts but
you can follow these step by step instructions and also drives more traffic to your website with
have a great looking site up in minutes. additional SEO benefits.

If you are selling products online or want a secure Social is the new SEO, so get your bookmarking
membership site than I would highly recommend on steroids with Ping.fm.
OptimizePress.
Discover more about Ping.fm here.
Discover more about OptimizePress here



Q2R
Q is for Qype R is for Roost
Qype is a free App available for iPhone, Facebook Places has now been added to the Qype
Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia App so you can Check-in directly to Facebook
that puts over a million local business reviews and Places and much more.
recommendations right in the palm of your hand.
Discover more about Qype Mobile App here
As a business owner you need to register your
business on Qype so more prospects have the Roost were recently acquired by Vertical
chance to find you online and on their mobile Response. They are a self-service social media
phones. So, when they are searching for local marketing platform is designed to offer tools that
businesses like yours, be it a restaurant, bar, hotel, save small businesses time, increase engagement
retail outlet, gym, orthodontist or any other service rates with their customers, increase the impact of
they’ll always be able to find, review and share it social campaigns through Twitter, Facebook and
with others in their networks. Linkedin while managing it all from one place.

All the information your potential customers need Vertical Response also provides a full suite of self-
to discover your business is at their fingertips, service marketing solutions including email
including addresses, directions, phone numbers, marketing, event marketing, direct mail marketing
photos and vouchers. To really make Qype work (check out their postcards) and online surveys.
for you, drive customers to your business with Their aim is to empower small businesses to easily
special offers and coupons. and affordably create, manage and analyze their
own marketing campaigns. Additional social
The Qype App also lets you find and connect with networks are currently been added for you to
your fans on Facebook, Twitter and Gmail so you publish too and they have also introduced an App
can share your latest or daily Special Offers with that is available from the Apple Store.
them too.
Discover more about Virtical Response here



S2T
S is for SEOQuake T is for Tweet Adder
SEOquake is the free but essential toolbar for Tweet Adder is a very powerful tool for growing
Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari It’s a your network and profits on autopilot.
very popular and extremely handy analytics tool.
It’s ideal for a local business as you can set your
SEOquake helps you easily obtain valuable search terms by keywords, location, recency and
information about any website for a wide range of language spoken. This way you can build up a
parameters such as page rank, Google index, Alexa targeted twitter following relevant to your
and many others. business. You can even do this over multiple
accounts.
The Keyword Density tool serves to demonstrate
the number of times a keyword or keyword phrase Tweet Adder also allows you to follow a pacific
appears on any web page. SEOquake has a Twitter follows or followers of a user. It posts your
parameter that highlights no-follow links. automated tweets throughout the day and also
takes control of your Retweets, RSS tweets,
It’s a great tool to start reverse engineering your Mentions and shortens your URL links and a
competitors websites to discover where they’re whole lot more.
getting their links from and finding high PR blogs
to leave juicy comments on yourself to boost your Now the search engines take into account your
own SEO. social media score it worth remembering to add
your website links into your tweets for good
Discover more about the SEO Quake here practice SEO. This will improve your website
rankings and get more traffic visiting it.

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U2V
U is for USB Mic V is for Vocalyze
If you are recording audio for your online videos Vocalyze is web-text-to-speech technology that
or vblog you may have noticed that the sound isn’t creates a real-time audio stream of your blog.
too great when recorded straight into your
computer or flipvideo. To get a deeper, richer tone It can be easily installed on a Wordpress blog as a
and all together more professional sounding plugin and is also available for Blogger and
recording you need a USB microphone. Tumblr. Visitors to your blog can click on the
Vocalyze button and listen to your posts. This is an
The AT2020 USB condenser microphone offers ideal solution when you’re multi-tasking, have
studio-quality results and a fraction of the price. Itvision-impaired visitors to your site or have just
plugs right into your computer's USB port, and very tired eyes!
functions seamlessly with your favourite recording
software. Equipped with a USB digital output, the Vocalyze gets really interesting when it on your
AT2020 is perfect for home studio recording, field smart phone. It’s available as an App so you can
recording and voiceover video and vblog use. listen to any website directly from your smart
The AT2020 USB is based on the design of Audio- phone - iPhone and Android.
Technica's critically acclaimed AT2020 cardioid
condenser microphone. Like the AT2020, it This wonderful App allows you to listen to all your
features a low-mass diaphragm, custom-engineered favorite websites and blogs while you are driving,
for extended frequency response and superior washing the car or when you are running up a
transient response. sweat at the gym. There is also a Twitter
integration feature in Vocalyze so you can add your
This is a robust microphone that allows you to favorite comedians and followers to your list for a
record quality sound directly into your PC or mac few laughs.
and I would recommend it highly.

Discover more about the Audio Technica AT2020 Discover more about Vocalyze here.
USB Cardioid Condenser Microphone here.



W2X
W is for Wisestamp X is for Xomba
WiseStamp enable you to bring a social • Blog: 300+ words
functionality in to every email you send. • Bookmark: 100+ words

They have over a dozen Apps you can choose from
• List: 50+ word intro, additional text
in their gallery including social Facebook Page, required for each list item
Google+, Linkedin and Twitter. There are also • Recipe: 50+ word intro, additional text
Music, Charity and Quote Apps available to spice required for ingredients, directions
up your emails. • Review: 300+ words

WiseStamp is very easy to set up and is compatible You can also generate a revenue stream by posting
with gmail, hotmail, AOl and Yahoo mail. They are articles on Xomba as it uses Google AdSense on
light weight, clean and a must have addition to most of its pages on the site. Any posts made by
your email that can help grow your Facebook page the user will display targeted ads on his or her
‘Like’ and twitter followers. Article or Bookmark. Xomba automatically rotates
ownership of the ads between users and the
Discover more about WiseStamp here. website. Sixty percent of the impressions will
show your AdSense code, and 40 percent will
show Xomba's. You are paid by Google when
Xomba is a free social networking site for people someone clicks on these ads if you have a adSense
who like to write, comment and share ideas. You account.
provide the content in the form of unique articles
and Xomba provides an audience. Discover more about Xomba here.
Xomba gives you the ability to post 5 types of
Articles: blog posts, bookmarks, lists, recipes and
reviews. There is no upper length to the articles
you write but the minimum number of words for
each of the five categories is:



Y2Z
Y is for YouLikeHits Z is for Zoomerang
You Like Hits is a community site where you are Zoomerang helps you get the information you
awarded points to like, follow or view other need simply and easily with online surveys and
community member’s social pages. polls.

Once you have some points you can add your own What ever kind of poll or survey suits your needs,
Facebook pages, Youtube Video Channel, Twitter, Zoomerang have a template for it including
Google+, Stumbleupon, Digg, Myspace and Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Event Planning
website to You Like Hits. surveys, Employee Satisfaction Surveys, Non
Profit Surveys, Market Research Surveys and
Next you need to set a ‘payout’ amount. EG. The Educational Surveys.
number of points you want to give away to
someone to visit your Facebook page and like it. You can use Zoomerang to conduct mobile surveys
The higher your payout is, the faster you will get and even Facebook surveys, yes there’s an App for
more likes. that! Why not add photos and videos to your
surveys for extra power!
It’s a great way to get some likes and views to a
new Facebook page so you can quickly claim your There basic level is Free and offers unlimited
vanity URL, get more video views or people to surveys and polls, and real-time online results.
visit your website. Zoomerang’s website also has a wealth of
information about the questions you should be
Discover more about You Like Hits here asking and how to get the most from your surveys.

How do you make important decisions that affect Discover more about Zoomarang here
your business and your bottom line, consult a
clairvoyant, read tea leaves or maybe play best of
three paper-rock-scissors?


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