80 Productivity and Marketing Tools – Part Four

Continued…Part Three

 

31. Name: Open Source Web Design

[Link: No Download Necessary]

Description: At the time of writing this, the OSWD platform has 2080 free web designs templates that Marketing Tools you can use either by downloading them online or by logging into your account.

If you are bored with WordPress and Blogger templates, its time to check OSWD; you can find templates for both personal and commercial use. Also, there are premium templates too for purchase.

Use: If you want to build your blog or a commercial website, take a look at these templates. Or, you can choose few of them and hand it over to the web designer to build the blog/website on them.

 

32. Name: GIMP

[Download]

Description: If you needed a software for image authoring, image composition, photo retouching and others, the GNU Image Manipulation Program is the best suited.

This free licensing program is the alternative to Photoshop. You can use it as a simple paint program, for online batch processing system, mass image production, as an image format converter and other tasks.

You can add extensions and plug-ins to enhance its performance. You can run GIMP on Mac OS X and MS Windows.

Use: For webmasters, website developers, graphic designers, this tool will be very handy.

 

33. Name: Niche Bots Classic

[Link: No Download Necessary]

Description: This is your alternative to Google Keyword Research tool. With the Niche Bots free account, you can do 20 keyword searches daily. With the paid account of $1, the keyword research is unlimited.

I think this tool is good for comparative purposes. We know that Google can also be wrong sometimes. So select any keyword, look it up on both Niche Bots and the Google Keyword Tool, and optimize your site accordingly.

Use: Its good for bloggers, webmasters, and marketers who need a handy keyword research tool to write their content and do online targeted marketing.

 

34. Name: Marketing Mentors Workshops

[Register: No Download Necessary]

Description: If you are in need of really ‘sound’ marketing advice and solutions, I need you to register for this workshop with your full name and email id.

Every Tuesday, the webinar organizer holds a marketing workshop with an industry expert and it is great to experience it live. In case you have to miss it, you can download the entire webinar from the same link given above.

Use: This live marketing workshop is must for every online and offline marketer.

 

35. Name: Libre Office – The Document Foundation

[Download]

Description: It’s the alternative to Open Office. It’s a free tool where you can do everything you are doing on Microsoft Office. It works with GNU/Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. It’s an open source platform so if you are a developer, feel free to join the existing community of developers.

With Libre Office, you can create documents (Writer tool), do numerical analysis (Calc tool), create multimedia presentations (Impress tool), create images (Draw tool), database integration (Base tool) and do mathematical calculations. (Math tool)

These 6 tools make up Libre Office.

Use: Any Internet user can use this for personal, professional and business reasons.

 

36. Name: Text Pad

[Download]

Description: The Text Pad software is the product of Helios Software Solutions. It is a powerful replacement to Notepad. You can use it to edit HTML files and satisfy the most demanding text editing requirements.

The software works with Windows 7, XP, 2000,Vista, Server 2003 and 2008. The software can be used by both new and experienced users. Apart from the usual cut and paste capability, you can correct typo errors, change commands, transpose words, use commands to split/join lines and various other functions.

You can also place visual bookmarks!

Use: Anyone who needs a hassle free hype-less text processor, Text Pad is for you.

 

37. Name: Thumb Shots

[Link: No Download Necessary]

Description: Use the Thumb Shots application to turn your website / blog into thumbnails. The feedback on the site shows that this way you can increase traffic and its conversion rate of the site.

There will be better search accuracy and better average time spent on the site. You don’t need to install any hardware or software on the system. Just sign up and submit your site.

This strategy depends on the image appeal of a site and as we know, humans are more captivated by images.

Use: Anyone with a website or blog can use this service.

 

38. Name: Tin Eye

[Link: No Download Necessary]

Description: Tin Eye is an image reverse lookup directory. In this free tool, you can either upload an image file or the URL of the page you want to check reverse image, and the tool will show you the list of those websites/blogs where the same images have been published.

This is a great too to check copyright violations. If you have created an image for non commercial or restricted use, you can use this tool to check if anyone has used it for commercial purpose or not.

You can download the results; otherwise the result will expire in 72 hours.

Use: You can use Tin Eye tool for protecting copyrights.

 

39. Name: Virus Total

[Link: No Download Necessary]

Description: If your PC or laptop does not have a security system or if you want to check viruses and malware of any given link, use the Virus Total software.

In this, you can upload a file for checking or you can copy paste the URL. The report will display Trojan, malware, viruses and other components.

If you want to download files from the net, this tool is useful to protect your system. Similarly, if you want to upload files online, use this tool again.

Use: Anyone who uploads and downloads files on and from the Internet needs to use this tool.

 

30. Name: Soovle

[Link: No Download Necessary]

Description: This is a search engine that shows results only from 7 websites – Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube and Answers.com. It’s like getting customized search results.

Use: Online search.

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