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Top five Internet tools for your business
If you're starting or growing a business, the Internet provides you with a number of websites, tools and applications that can be a great help at a low price - or better still, for free. Here we list some of the best resources on the web today.
Back in the 20th century, companies would pay for a "Media Monitoring Service" so that they were kept informed of any mentions of their company. The modern equivalent of this is Google Alerts. Enter your company name and Google will email you whenever a new mention of it appears on the web. Because it's free you can afford to monitor other terms as well. Use it to keep an eye on your competition or news about your industry.
Business Link is a website packed full of useful advice from sales and marketing tips to employing people to trading abroad. Because its government funded it doesn't carry any adverts and is free from commercial bias so you can expect the advice to be reasonably independent.
Sick of keeping track of your businesses finances? Here's the cure. This simple to use application will look after all of your company accounts - from invoices to profit reports. It has been designed specifically for smaller business with little or no in-house accounting knowledge. KashFlow has been voted by small business owners as the best UK Accounting Software and has won a number of awards. It's totally free to try for two months - after which you can choose to carry on using it for a small monthly fee. As a Pipex customer you're entitled to a special monthly price of just £12.99 ex VAT (£14.94 inc VAT).
Using a blog is a great way to promote your business online. You can show more of your own personality and be more informal when writing a blog than you would when writing content for your website. You search for other blogs and post relevant comments on them, linking back to your own blog, and you’ll soon become part of the "blogosphere". As your blog gets more followers it will feed traffic, and new customers, through to your business.
This is a popular and friendly community of thousands of small business owners all over the UK. Register and introduce yourself. Ask any business related question and get a ton of responses. You'll quickly become part of the community and wonder how you ever did without it.
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