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Daily Advice Link -  How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases http://getunreal.com/ Three years ago, when Nicky Bronner was 13, his father took away half his stash of Halloween candy. "He said it was bad for me, so I looked it up. Turns out it is just loads of junk that you don't want in your body. I told my dad he was right," he says. "It's the only time I've ever said that to him." Nicky asked his father, serial entrepreneur and investor Michael Bronner, if it would be possible to start a business that would remake, or "unjunk," his favorite candies, without corn syrup, hydrogenated fats or artificial ingredients. He also wanted to make sure the products wouldn't be shuttled off to the health-foods sections of specialty markets; his idea was to offer candy fans better options in the same stores that stock Snickers and M&M's--and at comparable prices. Intrigued by the potential of the $30 billion U.S. candy industry, the Bron...

1. Bitrix24.com - Free CRM, planner, project manager, document sharing (limited to 12 employees) 2. PickyDomains.com - Pay per result naming service, $50 for domain/name/product line, slogan. 3. Reddit/Freebies - Community moderated daily updated freebies list. 4. AppSumo.com - Groupon clone for buying enterprise software. 5. JetRadar.com - Low airfare meta searchengine (searches through 700+ airlines to find best deals normally available through direct purchase on airline sites only). 6. SideJobTrack.com - Free invoicing. 7. MoneyBookers.Com (Skrill) - PayPal alternative, cheap way to accept online payments/credit cards (25 cents + 3%, please refer to site for exact details) 8. Kodesk.com - Office sharing. You can both buy and sell extra office space, including by the hour. 9. PRLog.com - Free press-release distribution. 10. InternMatch.com - Own slaves legally. 11. RetailMeNot.Com - Discount coupons, business section available. 12. OpenOffice.Org...

You’ve heard the news – Salesforce is killing Do.Com. They do promise an export tool, but the question remains – where do we go after Do.com shuts down? As you know, there’s no shortage of project management tools or task managers or CRMs, paid or free. But there are very few services that combine functionality of Do.Com and, dare I say, follow the spirit of the diseased. There are best Do.com alternatives:   Best - Bitrix24.com Do.Com migration app – announced. Project management features – tasks, workgroups, projects, tasks, checklists, Gannt chart, time tracking, work reports, extranet users. Contact management – contacts, contact import, CRM, mobile CRM, lead management, deals, sales funnel, e-mail, click to call, workflow integration, access rights and roles. Doc management – file sharing, online editing, mulitiuser editing, version history, Google Docs, MS Office, Office 365 integrations. Apps – Bitrix24.Drive (works just like Dropbox or Google Drive), iOS, Androi...

http://icontact.com Icontact.com is a website that was made to facilitate the needs of people wishing to get into email marketing. Icontact simply provides the tools that are necessary to initiate an email marketing campaign, track its effectiveness as the emails are sent out to customers and last but not least improve on your campaign so as to attain better results. The degree of ease that you will experience when using icontact may make you believe it is a tool for beginners. However icontact is more than that and will provide more than enough to satisfy even the needs of the more experienced email marketers. First and foremost icontact simplifies the process of designing your marketing campaign. It's step by step process allows you to utilize plain text, HTML, templates or a web page in the creation of your campaign. Icontact also allows you to create an email that matches your website. This is especially useful if you would like to maintain a ce...

Daily Advice Link -   How I Increased Sales 350% With Press-Releases So you came up with an idea for an online business and started thinking of a great domain name for it, only to realize that all the good domain names are already taken. Then you tried automatic domain name generation tools, but most of the name they generated didn’t make any sense. What to do now? Well, just crowdsource your domain name idea generation to PickyDomains . PickyDomains   is a cool service that offers 100% risk free domain name and business slogan or tag line generation service. It has a proven track record of generating great domain names, and business slogans such as SEOBook for Aaron Wall, eMomsAtHome Wendy Piersall, and SurefireMarketing for Yanik Silver. How Does it Work? To get started, you have to deposit amount depending upon the service you need. For domain name suggestions, the fee is $50. For business slogan suggestions, its $75. You can use credit card, paypal or wire transfer to dep...

Crazy Startup Of The Day - PickyDomains.com http://notabenepaper.com/ In 2007, Pittsburgh stay-at-home mom Evvy Diamond found herself getting itchy. With two of her three sons getting ready for college, she felt it was time for her to earn an income. Meanwhile, her friend Amy Bass, a VP at a money-management firm, was hitting a midlife crisis: "As I approached 50, I decided I could no longer work for someone else. I needed to own something."  In time, the two friends' goals would align. As Diamond pondered what to do, she recalled her love of notepaper. "Even as a child, I would save the last piece of stationery of every set because I didn't want to part with it," she says. Inspired, she bought a letterpress and tried her hand at designing cards. Buoyed by the response from friends, Diamond rented a booth at the 2007 Stationery Show in New York, which landed her several small orders. Then she thought she got her big break: 5,000 cards for a prestigious New Y...

Crazy Startup Of The Day - PickyDomains.com http://zombietools.net/ Call it an artisanal arsenal. In Montana, a crew of 10 blacksmiths are forging handmade edged weapons to fight the walking dead. The folks at Zombie Tools offer a selection of customized blades, including the Traumahawk for $235, and the Mack Daddy-O (a word play on the dan dao, a Chinese broad sword), which goes for $450. They make about 150 swords a month, many of which are exported to Europe and Asia. "There are a lot of underemployed guys in the service industry who hate what they do and dream of making something with their hands," says Zombie Tools co-founder Chris Lombardi. "We're the guys who made that dream real." http://www.hornady.com/store/Z-MAX-Bullets Ammunition maker Hornady conveniently has a Zombie Max brand of ammo that's "specifically designed to vaporize zombie varmints," according to its website. There's even a Zombie brand ammo box. Hornady's websit...

Few products are as crappy as Google Sites . Google bought JotSpot in 2006 and (Google Sites is based on JotSpot) there haven’t really been any significant improvements for the service since. The good news is that there are a ton of Google Sites alternatives you can use and they are free. Let’s take a close look at them. 1. Bitrix24 . Bitrix24 is probably the best/most known Google Sites alternative, at least among free ones, if you planned to use GoogleSites for collaboration or as intranet. It has all GS features (wikis, etc.) but it’s more social (Bitrix24 is a free private social network) and comes packed with collaboration tools as well as business tools (HR and CRM). I’ve been using Bitrix24 for almost two years, so I can give you a very detailed description for this one. Here’s what you get with Bitrix24: Documents : doc management, file sharing (private and public, multi-user online editing, version history tracking records management, Bitrix24.Drive (Dropbox clone) 5 GB free. ...

Any way you slice it – SugarCRM is one of the best CRM solutions out there. I have only two objections with SugarCRM. Thirty five bucks per user per month to start with is a bit steep. Second, free open source sounds good, unless you have no programming skills. That's when you realize that when paying $150-$250/hr for even minor modifications or integrating SugarCRM with other tools quickly ends up with a huge bill. The good news is there are many SugarCRM alternatives, including free ones. And I don't mean other forks like vTiger or other free open source initiatives, like FatFreeCRM , which come with the same type of disadvatages as Sugar. Rather, these are alternatives that come close to SugarCRM in terms of features and functions, but are either free (or better priced) or are easier to work with for a non-techie type. Bitrix24 Free – 12 users. $99/mo – unlimited users, 50 GB. Online or self-hosted. Source code available. API avilable for cloud and self-hosted. Features: co...

Crazy Startup Of The Day - PickyDomains.com http://www.contextmediainc.com/ Shradha Agarwal and Rishi Shah were writing an article on out-of-home media for their university's business magazine in 2006 when it dawned on them: This would make a great business. TV screens had become de rigueur in taxicabs, shopping malls and high-rise elevators. But the Northwestern University undergrads saw an untapped opportunity to bring multimedia content to a more targeted audience: patients in waiting rooms. "My grandmother passed away young from diabetes complications," Agarwal says. "Rishi's father is a diabetes specialist. We saw how small bits of information at the right time and place can make a huge impact." Their idea was to sell doctors' offices prepackaged video segments containing tips on diet, exercise and other lifestyle tweaks patients could make to improve their health. A TV screen in the reception area would broadcast this programming, modeled after seg...