MemberGate Subscription Web Site Manager What if you took wordpress, an affiliate program, a membership script, a shopping cart, forum software, a banner add rotation script, a download script, the ability to podcast, and rolled it up into one package? You would have Membergate. It’s the Cadillac of membership site software coming it at a starting [...]

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Affiliate Meter - Track All Your Affiliate Stats in One Place If you are into affiliate marketing this may be something that can give you more hours in the day. This tool is a software that is run from your computer (not web based) where you load all your login information into affiliate networks in one [...]

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Today I have a video to show off a software that I am really excited about. I’ve wanted a software like this for years, and I’m so glad this exists. It’s called Artisteer, and it allows you to create a wordpress theme from scratch in minutes. You can customize every aspect of your worpdress theme. Choose [...]

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This show originates at www.weeklywebtools.com Today’s sponsor is www.godaddy.com where you can get a domain name for $7.49 using the coupon code cooler3 Tweet Later Auto Responder Tool For Twitter This tool will tweet someone who decides to follow you automatically. So when they follow you they get a tweet that says “Hey come ______” etc. Find [...]

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This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com Privacy Policy Generator http://www.dmaresponsibility.org/PPG/ On this page, Webmasters and administrators can complete a questionnaire (basing their answers on their site information policies) and create a privacy policy statement to be posted on their own Web page. This tool has been developed to help marketers create policies that are consistent with The DMA’s Privacy [...]

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Virtual Smart Agent I thought I would never purchase a script that had my first impression for my visitor be a robot. As an ex-customer service rep this just seemed wrong. When I looked into them and saw that some scripts had a monthly fee, or in some cases they took a commission every time they [...]

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Ebook Cover Generators Nick from http://www.nicksjourney.com/ was looking for a cool ebook cover software that didn’t require photoshop. He had looked at: http://www.virtual-cover-creator.net/   $90     create http://www.adolix.com/ecover-engineer    $38    plain http://www.3d-ebook-shot.com    $97     makes videos http://www.3d-pack.com/#swf     free http://www.absolutecovers.com  - subscription service? http://www.ebooktemplatesource.com/ebook-cover-software.html — 3 free photoshop templates He wanted to know what I use. I’ve use a software package called True Box Shot for $45 Nick said “I [...]

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Stompernet Sells 10,00 Units in a day. Every now and then there comes a product on the Internet that is just a ?No brainer.? Stompernet launched a little while back and made a name for themselves with ?Stomping the search engines 1.? Now they are back with Stomping the search engines 2. The great thing is [...]

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Post Affiliate Pro I know we’ve kind of been beating the affiliate program horse to death, but here is another script I ran into. Post Affiliate Pro is very powerful affiliate tracking software. Easily set up and manage your own affiliate program for your business. This fully automated and flexible system allows you to attract, motivate, [...]

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Promoting Your Website With Your Car I’ve been thinking about inexpensive ways to promote my website. One day I took out an old t-shirt from cafepress.com that I had made for one of my websites. I noticed how conscious I was of people reading my shirt. This is an inexpensive way to get the word out. Then [...]

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DROP IO www.drop.io Drop.io is an interesting tool that is one of those, “here is what it does and you can use it for about 100 different things.” You can share audio, photos, you could have your website clients upload their images, or you could share your images for them. The best part its free. Free Time Tracking Tool It [...]

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Trellis Desk Free Help Desk Software I’ve talked about different help desk packages in the past. Today I ran across a site that was using Trellis Desk. It seems pretty powerful, and its free.  You can find it at http://www.accord5.com/trellis  Google Analytics Classess If you go to http://www.roirevolution.com/index.htm you will see where they have classes for those looking to [...]

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This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com This is show #47 Doc Metrics Blends Flash and PDFs to Provide Analytics for PDFS. You can put flash forms into your PDF and get information about how each reader is using your pdf (how long, what they’ve read, if they’ve printed it, and much more). It can be as low as [...]

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This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com This is show #46 Premiumcast - Selling Via RSS, Digital Products, and Membership Sites All in One. Today I talk about Premiumcast.com a site that allows you to sell items via RSS, as well as sell digital products, and create membership sites. Depending on the features you need the price ranges from [...]

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 Charge What You Deserve Ebook I found a cool ebook that is very useful if you are trying to figure out what to charge for your service. You can find it at www.chargewhatyouydeserve.com and it walks you through the whole process. For me it was getting over the mental block. But it helps you determine the value, [...]

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This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com LISTEN TO THE SHOW In a previous episde we talked about using “Meeting Software” to allow the customer to see you create their website. ( http://www.weeklywebtools.com/2007/09/01/build-the-website-while-the-client-watches/ ) Dimdim.com Reviewed I found a free tool that allows you to do this. It’s a www.dimdim.com Dim Dim is interesting. I allows you to share your desktop, white [...]

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Affordable Scheduling Tool Today I talk about another scheduling tool that I missed in a previous episode. Its Acuity Scheduling and its a great mix of versatility with ease of use. You can easily customize the look of the scheduling interface, have multi schedules, block time, set your business time, make custom forms for each type [...]

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This show originates at www.weeklywebtools.com In today’s show we have a cool tool to convert pdfs to flash, a color scheme tools, some SEO software, some affiliate planning software, and a free tool to allow you to sync your Google Calendar and Outlook calendar. LISTEN TO SHOW We’ve all seen those “ad peels” where the corner of [...]

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 Nickel Sale Script I finally got to play with the Nickel Sale Script. I found some very cool things. First off, you can set the starting price to any price you want. Then you can have in go up .05 every sale OR you can have it go up any increment you want (so you could [...]

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 SmartDD is a awesome looking tool that allows merchants to sell digital products without people sending the download link to all their friends (or worse, posting it at digg.com ). What it does it when someone purchases the product, it emails them a dynamic link. When the download is done, the link is inactivated. The following [...]

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Today I just found about a new site that reminds me alot of paydotcom.com which  reminds me of clickbank.com(I like paydotcom.com better) only this one has no waiting for checks (like clickbank), no waiting to have things listed (like clickbank), and no “per product fees (like paydotcom.com) and its called click2sell.eu No sign up fees - [...]

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CSS Addict Web 2.0 Tools I came across CSS addict and thought, “Oh here we go again, but when I started playing with their “Web 2.0 tools” I thought, “Wow, I might actually use these!” as there is some very cool stuff. The tools include: badger designers, stripe makers, loader generators, favicon editor, tab genertor, button [...]

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Some Cool Tools From SEOBOOK. Rank Check (shows you ranking over time over a couple of search engines) http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/  Website Health Check Tool http://tools.seobook.com/website-health-check/ FireShot - Cool Screen Capture tool for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648/ Traackr - Watch your media across multiple sites http://www.traackr.com/ Adam from www.seydoggy.com sent us http://www.widgetbox.com/ a fun tool to allow you to create facebook applications, import google gadgets and more.

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Today we have a few tools for you to play with. You can check out a free version of photoshop at www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html The next tool I heard about at www.454n5.comits called Crawltrack at www.crawltrack.fr which allows you to track search engine spiders and their visits along with other interesting details. It also blocks hackers. Its free. Scribe [...]

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In last week’s show we talked about how drop down and fly out menus suck because it takes such a steady hand to get through the navigation. I currently use a program from Xara. It turns out they have software, and a ton of online tools you can use (but no expandable/tree menu software )So [...]

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Today I start off with a book review (which I did in a previous post). Website SEO Score http://www.websitegrader.com/Default.aspx Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on [...]

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The Email Obsfuscator writes email into a javascript that is less likely to be spammed. (thanks to Adam from www.seydoggy.com for this one and the next one).   I have mentioned inthe past how you can really speed up you production (espcially with things like choosing colors, fonts, etc) when you let the customer look over your [...]

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Microsoft Skydrive is now open. Think of this as a free alternative to box.net. You get 5 gigs of space to keep protected or share. Any files you upload you need to do one at a time. From our friends at http://www.seydoggy.com/ css typset tool. It allows you to see the font characteristics on one side, and [...]

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Now that your site is up, the next question seems to be “how do I get more traffic?” This usually leads to a discussion about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Creating my Weekly Web Tools podcast, I often ran across many free tools for SEO at the Seo Book website. There is plenty of free information [...]

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Need a cheap domain? Use the Godaddy.com Promotional Code cooler3 to get your domain for $6.95 a year. In today’s show I talk about a free button creating software, as well as my surprise to Paypal’s Virtual Terminal (I missed the fine print about the $30 charge per month), and I found another great tool for handling [...]

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In this show we talk about keeping your files safe with Carbonite.com for $5 bucks a month (free trial available). We also have SNIP IT PRO - Great tool for coders POP BOX - Java tool for zooming in on screen shots. TickerMyFeed.com which makes scrolling tickers from an RSS or XML file. http://www.surveypopups.com/ a free polling software. A new book from Wiley. [...]

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Action Announcer script alerts your visitor that they are about to leave your page. You can customize the screen that appears and try to convince them not to leave. If they purchase your product they never see this page. Snap.com is a bit of a bust. A cool “link preview” tool, but I was not happy [...]

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Starting Your Own Affiliate Program There are sites that will help you through this like Paydotcom.com and Shareasale.com but if you want avoid any monthly fees, and have all the data on your server there are scripts out there. The two I see the most are: iDevaffiliate  $99 I’ve used this tool before and it was easy to [...]

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We have boosted our links section by installing Link Up Gold from Phpwebscripts.com so now our listeners and community can let us know what cool web tools they find. We have also created a Weekly Web Tools Google Group. These two tools combined with our forums makes Weekly Web Tools a great place to share information about Web Design, Getting [...]

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Adam from www.seydoggy.com (Graphics and Web Design) says this free tool at http://www.kimai.org to track yor time on projects. He plans on having multiple users login to track time on projects. Ad Peels has been update to have ever corner have a “peel” as well as add scrolling text. Loking to Track the ROI from www.passiveincomemachine.com/max_cpc.html Want to have a [...]

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Today’s show has three web tools, all free. Adflint from from Engine Ready is a great little tool that will help you write google ad words without the guesswork.   Fotolia is a Royalty Free Stock Photos site where you can get images as low as a buck. Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock [...]

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When I went looking for some web tools I didn’t expect to gind such a large amount in one place. You name it they have it at iwebtool.com Want to know if your website has been banned? Want to know how much to pay for a link? Domain checkers, Reverse IP lookups, Clean up your HTML. The [...]

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Episode #21 originating from www.weeklywebtools.com   Thanks to Adam from www.seydesign.com and www.seydoggy.com tipped us about www.templatr.cc and talk the numerous scripts that I am using from phpwebscripts.com I use Link Up Gold (which allows you to add links, allow visitors to add links, and allow people to rate and review the links) at the School of Podcasting. I use [...]

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Welcome to episode 20 of Weekly Web Tools (origination from www.weeklywebtools.com ) Today we received a question from Laura at www.mbaworkinggirl.com  I am helping a family member with a website that sells product through PayPal.  We’d like to capture the name and email address of customers as they purchase product.  This would enable us to contact them in the future when [...]

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While you may not need templates for design, they can be used to spark creativity, or to help your customer decide how they want their website to look. I’ve visted sites like Pixelmill.com and Template Monster in the past to get some ideas (and it usually works). If you have a customer who is in a [...]

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LISTEN TO SHOW In this week’s show we talk about managing and obtaining links, we have a great SEO A Great Add On For Firefox courtesy of Marcus Couch of http://www.thescenezine.com/ SEOBOOK SEO Add On FOR FIREFOX This add on performs the following: Pulls useful market research data right into Google’s and Yahoo!’s search results, including the following data near [...]

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You can cut down the phone calls and email from your visitors with a well organized FAQ page. I did some quick searcing and found a couple of scripts. These scripts have the ability to be customized to match your website. Soft Biz Scripts version was 23 dollars, and the Kbase was 99. I purchased the [...]

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Episode #16 Has us looking at Live Help solutions for your website and Time Tracking software for those of us who need to track billable time for clients. LIVE HELP MESSENGER  It gives you the abilitiy to add Live Help to your website without a monthly fee. I’ve looked around and finally found . Live Help Messenger [...]

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Jay Jennings has some great software. I recently stumbled up his cloak and tracker Link tracking software. (See Jays Video about where he explains cloacking ). This software runs on your desktop (so no need to set up a SQL database, and can be used on multiple websites (so need to remember 15 different logins and [...]

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I think we all understand split testing (or A/B testing) where you build two versions of your landing page, and then a script rotates the two (this is often used with an adsense program). Well what if you want to test your landing page and test multiple variables. After all with an A/B test you may [...]

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Mals - Ecommerce I saw this in action at www.historyaccordingtobob.com where he is selling physical and digital products in what appears to be a versatile shopping cart. When Ilooked at the site, you can use it for free. If you want the advanced features its 8 bucks a month. Mals E-commerce Constant Contact I had a musician friend [...]

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This week I talk about the www.wordpresstool.com that allows you to cutstomize the theme and its layout pretty easily. Here are the pros and cons. LISTEN TO THE SHOW PROS Lots of built in SEO tools into the system Changing your blogs layout is a piece of cake. All the plugins work together and have been tested. Lots of built [...]

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If you get a chance lets get to know each other by filling out our survey at www.weeklywebtools.com/survey Forms and Surveys If you want to know something about your visitors - ASK. Here are some tools I’ve used in the past. Poll Daddy A free service (so you’ll have some poll daddy logos on the poll). Survey Monkey GREAT service [...]

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This week we take a look at some email solutions for those clients that are looking to remind people to come to their website via email You can always host a free email solution through sites like Yahoo.com but the disadvantage is you now force your reader to sign up for a yahoo account (and the [...]

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