Today more than ever it’s important to maximize your results and stretch every dollar. Here are a some free resources that make building and promoting your online business a lot easier.

Web Site Design - page layout (Steve's free web page templates)
Steve offers free web page templates. They’re professional looking and can be used free for personal and business websites. Also, get some ideas for creating your own site from scratch.

Web Site Design - graphics (cooltext.com)
Cool Text is a wonderful free and easy tool for creating endless combinations of buttons and logos.

Web Site Performance - images (gifworks.com)
Use their free “optimization” tool to dramatically reduce the file size of your graphics without compromising the look and feel of your site. Your web pages will load faster.

Web Site Performance – code (//validator.w3.org/)
Is your website correctly coded? Use this free validator from the W3 to examine your html and report any errors to make sure your site it’s up to W3 standards.

Web Site Promotion - blogging (blogger.com)
This is a free and user friendly blogging tool by Google. It gets your site indexed by search engines faster.

Web Site Promotion – marketing (articlemarketer.com)
This free service sends articles to over 2000 people to be published in ezines and newsletters.

Free Merchant Account – (paypal.com)
Have the ability to accept payments online via check, credit card and debit cards. Customers no longer need to have a paypal account to pay.

Free Business Cards – (vistaprint.com)
Get 250 Full-Color Free Business Cards. You just pay $8.95 for Shipping & Handling.

Free Advertising – (YellowPages.com)
This is a well recognized company that has different levels of listings, but the most basic is FREE!

FREE Ebook – (seymourproducts.com/ebooks/success.pdf)
Success Tips for Home & Business. This ebook comes in pdf format and contains tips, ideas and resources from everything from saving money to promoting your home business. Over 60 pages of helpful information.

Take advantage of these tools and I wish you success in your home business!

free classified sites can give you great search engine results, like the one used in my signature.

Free classified ad sites are usually a waste of time. STuff like craiglist and backpage were good 2-3 years ago and I made a boatload of money. But now they are oversaturated with nothing but sellers or people too broke to spend money on real advertising. The BEST free advertising is learning how to Joint Venture. A true win win situation. When creating organic advertising I voice blast, as now it is dirt cheap to do and people get my message instantly.

I agree with ibuzzmentor from my experience. Posting free classified ad usually wasting time. Just try to think, how many pepole will view these free ads actually? There are all kinds of sales pitches, not information there. Few people will waste their time to view the ads picthes.

I think it depends on where you are at and how targeted the free ads are. I have found a few really good free ad sites. I think when starting out free ads are great because you can play with your ads until you find one that you really like and then use it when you pay for ads.

I've yet to see decent results from free classifieds and have to agree with ibuzzmentor. Win/Win JVs are the way to go. Of course if you are just starting out, you may not have much to offer a potential JV partner.

Best bet in that case is to start building your mailing list, either through an auto-responder or a membership site with a valuable, free, front end. Then when you have the numbers, you can begin approaching possible JV partners by asking 1 question... "what can I do for YOU" and not the other way around.

I liked all of the free sites you have listed. I have only checked out a small handful. Now sure how I feel about free classifieds. I was wondering if I could mention another free site. This one hosts your pictures for free. I have had very good success with them so far. This could work out great for novice web designers.

Site is called Photobucket.com

Yes, post the name. Every bit helps!

Thanks

I have had some success with Photobucket.com
This is a free site which will host your photos. You can upload both photos and videos. I have hosted 24 pictured there in the past, but I don't know what the full capabilities of the site. I have only just scratched the surface.

Go on and check it out.

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