Handy Link Infor­ma­tion & Referrals

Here are some great resources for improv­ing your busi­ness. They are really worth check­ing out. I use them all the time.

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Affil­i­ate Marketing

Earn money by becom­ing an affil­i­ate mar­keter. Link­Share is a great place to start, with hun­dreds of adver­tis­ers to choose from.

Apple

Mac­World The lat­est news, reviews and tips on Mac.

Bar­code  and QR Code Generators

A sim­ple and free bar code gen­er­a­tor. Check it out.

Bar­codes Inc. A free ser­vice to gen­er­ate a print­able and scan­able bar­code in Inter­leaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 128 A, B, or C symbologies.

UPC/EAN Bar­code Gen­er­a­tor Also from Bar­codes Inc.

QR Code Gen­er­a­tor Embed text in a QR Code. Again, free from Bar­codes Inc. Read all about the new QR Code, made pop­u­lar in Japan and sweep­ing the US mar­ket­ing industries.

Online Bar­code Gen­er­a­tor “The world’s most sophis­ti­cated free web-based online bar­code gen­er­a­tor,” claims this site.

Morovia’s Online Bar­code Gen­er­a­tor Yet another bar­code gen­er­at­ing option.

Morovia’s QR Code Gen­er­a­tor QR Code sym­bols made easy. Add one to your web­site, or ad.

Blog­ging

All­top Find blogs in any niche. Great research tool.

Quick Blog­cast Get your voice on the Inter­net! Blog­ging lets you post your thoughts and pho­tos on the ‘Net and inter­act with your web site’s vis­i­tors. Whether you’re writ­ing your own per­sonal jour­nal or look­ing to influ­ence audi­ences, Quick Blog­cast is the must-have blog­ging tool for you.

Word­Press Free and easy to use. It’s what we at the “Juice Fac­tory” use.

WP Candy They’re the fresh­est, minti­est Word­Press com­mu­nity site online. Keep informed on Word­Press happenings.

Busi­ness Loans

Busi­ness Loans AR Get detailed infor­ma­tion about busi­ness loans in the state of Arkansas and the rest of the country.

Busi­ness Marketing

Busi­ness to Business

ClickZ News and expert advice for the dig­i­tal marketer.

Mar­ket­ing­Profs Help­ful infor­ma­tion on social media mar­ket­ing for small businesses.

Small Busi­ness Brief

Small Busi­ness Mavericks

Credit Card Processing

Let MSG help you with your credit card pro­cess­ing and enjoy using the industry’s best equip­ment and software.

Direc­to­ries

Cal­i­for­nia Busi­ness Directory

Edu­ca­tion

lynda.com

Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com.
• Stay cur­rent and keep skills sharp
• Learn inno­v­a­tive and pro­duc­tive tech­niques
• Access over 740 online courses, 24/7
• Learn from expe­ri­enced instruc­tors
• Gain con­fi­dence and mar­ketabil­ity
• Learn at your own pace: Stop, rewind, replay

E-mail Mar­ket­ing

Con­stant Contact

Con­stant Con­tact helps you to con­nect with your cus­tomers and build your busi­ness. Try their no risk FREE 60-Day Trial. I use Con­stant Con­tact reg­u­larly to keep my clients up to date and to give infor­ma­tive mar­ket­ing tips.

Express E-mail Mar­ket­ing Shows you how to use email to your advan­tage and stay in-touch with your cus­tomer base. Best of all, it offers all the tools you need to com­ply 100% with anti-spam laws.

E-mail Tem­plates

Free HTML E-mail Tem­plates Here’s a bunch of free tem­plates to use for your e-mail blasts. Every tem­plate has been thor­oughly tested in more than 20 of the most pop­u­lar email clients like Out­look 2010, Gmail, Lotus Notes, Apple Mail, the iPhone, and more. They’re ready to roll and are com­pletely free.

Fonts / Typefaces

When using free fonts make sure you read the licens­ing agree­ments. Mostly you can use these fonts for per­sonal, not com­mer­cial use.

Daily Free Fonts The free font archive (TTF fonts for free and cool fonts)!

Famous Fonts Lot of famous fonts from TV, Movies, Music, Pub­li­ca­tions, Games, Com­pa­nies, Auto­mo­biles, Sports and more.

Fontspace Free fonts from design­ers around the world.

Mad­Tuts Fonts and inspi­ra­tion for designers.

Search­Free­Fonts The name says it all.

Themed Fonts From movies, tele­vi­sion shows, bands, and more.

Urban Fonts Lots of free fonts for your use.

dafonts A great col­lec­tion of free fonts cov­er­ing many themes.

1001 Free Fonts You’ll never run out of fonts at this site.

Every­body loves Doris Day. The 1950s was a great time. Busi­ness was boom­ing, as were babies. I was born in that era. Relive the nos­tal­gia of the 1950s with a perky script font that says Doris Day.

The very pop­u­lar Doris Day font

Down­load the Free Doris Day font here (for both Mac and PC)

Jobs

Three Great Job Boards for Blog­ger and Free­lance Writ­ing Jobs from ZacJohnson.com

Mar­ket­ing

Copy­blog­ger Copy­writ­ing and Con­tent Mar­ket­ing plus other help­ful SEO information.

Ref­er­ence

National Atlas Maps of the United States. Can come in handy on a project.

Search Engine Optimization

Traf­fic Blazer Most Web site traf­fic and online pur­chases come from search engines like Google®, Yahoo!® and MSN®. Get your share of Inter­net busi­ness with Traf­fic Blazer®. Pro­mote your busi­ness online, increase your online vis­i­bil­ity and make money on the internet…in a few sim­ple steps! NO tech­ni­cal exper­tise is nec­es­sary. If you can type and click, you can use Traf­fic Blazer!

Search Engine Guide The small busi­ness guide to search marketing.

SEO­moz Learn lots about search engine opti­miza­tion and be informed.

TheSiteWizard.com Quite a lot of use­ful infor­ma­tion on web­site design, pro­mo­tion, pro­gram­ming and rev­enue making.

Social Book­mark­ing Sites

Deli­cious A great way to get your site noticed, espe­cially if you reg­u­larly pub­lish how-to arti­cles and instructions.

Digg It’s not easy, but get­ting an arti­cle pub­lished here can greatly increase your website’s visibility.

Niche Sites 83 Social News Sites cat­e­go­rized by niche.

Red­dit Smaller than Digg and more easy going. It’s a place to sub­mit your con­tent and get noticed. They spe­cial­ize in pol­i­tics, tech­nol­ogy and humor.

Stum­ble Upon A great way to find arti­cles you like and for oth­ers to find your article.

Social Net­work­ing

Hoot­Suite I love using Hoot­Suite to post all my news and links. You can pro­gram it to send the same mes­sage to all your social net­work­ing sites, such as Twit­ter, Face­book, Linked In and more. Plus you can sched­ule your mes­sages to appear in the future.

Face­book Become a fan of Cre­ative Juices. Add a Face­book “Like” but­ton to your web­site. Just embed the code on your site so all your vis­i­tors can share your con­tent with their friends.

Knowem LLC This site allows you to check for the use of your brand, prod­uct, per­sonal name or user­name instantly on over 525 pop­u­lar and emerg­ing social media web­sites. Grab your name and secure your brand before some­one else does.

LinkedIn Great for busi­ness networking.

Mer­chant Cir­cle For your local busi­ness advertising.

MySpace Not as pop­u­lar as Face­book, but still a good place to have a pres­ence for peo­ple under 35.

Ning Ning is the social plat­form for the world’s inter­ests and pas­sions online. Mil­lions of peo­ple every day are com­ing together across Ning to explore and express their inter­ests, dis­cover new pas­sions, and meet new peo­ple around shared pursuits.

Plaxo Your address book for life.

Social Ter­rain This is the new land­scape of busi­ness net­work­ing. Check it out.

Twit­ter A great way to pro­mote your busi­ness and meet oth­ers. Fol­low me @cjuices

Tweet Adder This soft­ware gets you more fol­low­ers instantly. A great way to build your rep­u­ta­tion and make money.

Xing Global net­work­ing for pro­fes­sion­als. Over 8 mil­lion mem­bers already use XING to man­age their busi­ness contacts.

Stock Pho­tog­ra­phy

VIVOZOOM — Images you can Trust VIVOZOOM is the World’s FIRST Micro­s­tock Image Busi­ness to GUARANTEE its images are legally safe to use.

iStock­Photo The internet’s orig­i­nal member-generated image and design community.

Web­site Analytics

Site Ana­lyt­ics Not every visit to your site results in a pos­i­tive action or sale. But that doesn’t mean you can’t profit any­way! How? By learn­ing about your vis­i­tors. That’s why Cre­ative Juices pro­vides Web site sta­tis­tics absolutely FREE with every Host­ing and Web­Site Tonight® account. But what if you want more detailed data that can help you tar­get spe­cific cus­tomers or cre­ate more effec­tive offers? Then you need the power of Traf­fic Facts!

Get to know—really know—your cus­tomers. With the vital data you get from Traf­fic Facts, every visit to your site tells a story!

Google Busi­ness Solutions

Web­site Grader Web­site Grader is a free SEO tool that mea­sures the mar­ket­ing effec­tive­ness of your website.

GetListed.org Just type in a busi­ness name and zip code and GetListed.org quickly returns you a set of results that detail the sta­tus of your local busi­ness list­ing in Google, Yahoo, BOTW and MSN.

Web­site Design Tools

Col­or­Com­bos Color com­bi­na­tions test­ing tool and color schemes library.

Fav­i­con Cre­ate a sim­ple “fav­i­con” for your website’s title bar.

Kuler Adobe Sys­tems color themes for Dreamweaver and web designs.

Page Speed Online From Google. Get sug­ges­tions to speed up your site.

Script Junkie For seri­ous web devel­op­ment. It’s from Microsoft, which says “Script Junkie aims to help web devel­op­ers gain the knowl­edge to apply these tech­nolo­gies and tech­niques in build­ing cross-browser com­pat­i­ble websites.”

Smash­ing Mag­a­zine Lots of web­site and graphic design infor­ma­tion that will make your life easier.

Terms and Con­di­tions Pri­vacy Pol­icy / Terms Of Ser­vice Gen­er­a­tor. An easy way to add this tech­ni­cal pro­tec­tion to your web­site. Just drop in your name com­pany name and state and get the code. And it’s FREE.

Web­site Hosting

Cre­ative Juices Domains Check out our host­ing ser­vices. We have it all, from domain names to host­ing, web traf­fic, e-mail, blog­ging, shop­ping carts and more. Give us a call and we’ll set it all up for you at no extra charge. Fast, friendly ser­vice, always.

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