Blurb - The self-publishing site that allows you to create a nice looking print-on-demand portfolio or book online. You can also sell your books at the Blurb store online.
My Brochure Maker is a good description of what this site does…Just choose a theme and then customize with photos and text. It’s a great way to create brochures and flyers that work. You can make tri-folds with or without mailing label area - plus some professional looking 8.5″ x 11″ flyers.
Auctomatic is a tool for managing your eBay business. Use Auctomatic to track your inventory, pictures, and auction templates, and track the traffic on your auctions so you can optimize your listing strategy.
This site is FREE while in Beta (no word on pricing afterwards)…
Features include:
Auctions –
* Import templates from Selling Manager and Turbolister
* Free scheduled listing capability for your auctions
* Auction statistics to see which are your popular items
* WYSIWYG text editor and HTML template functionality
* Use an unlimited number of eBay ID’s to list from
Inventory Management –
* Import from Selling Manager, Vendio, Marketworks, Channeladvisor and Inkfrog with one click.
* Upload inventory from CSV files.
* Organize and edit products
Pictures —
* Unlimited free picture uploads and storage
* Bulk upload zip archives
In my search for an easy to use web-based employee time & expense tracking system, I ended going with Zed Office. Originally I was looking for something more on the “Free” side - but QuickBooks integration was mandatory and so I settled for a very reasonable price of $5 per user per month. But the great thing is that the first 5 employees are free - and I have 5! How lucky…until my business expands — still worth the cost.
If you want to know the other potential choices I investigated for time & expense management (all worthy choices) - here they are:
SantexQ - nice interface and full featured; Free; very project oriented. Includes task management as well as time tracking. No expense tracking that I saw…
Time59 - very good choice at only $20 per year and includes invoicing as well. I probably would have went with this service but did not see QuickBooks integration as a feature.
PayMo - very simple and easy to use, free and commercial versions available.
BitNami takes the dreary job of compiling or tweaking installs of open source applications and turns it in to a plug-and-play operation. Bitnami Stacks are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Bitnami Stacks are self-containted and won’t interfere with any software already installed on your system. “All Bitnami Stacks are free to download and use under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.” Some of the pre-packaged applications include: Wordpress, Subversion, Drupal, RedRoller, moodle, Joomla, and KTDMS. I recently used the KnowledgeTree stack for my corporate document system. There was a slight tweak required for Ubuntu-flavor Linux - but got it running in about 15 minutes.
Jumpbox focuses their pre-packaged server application offerings using virtual machines (i.e. “ready-to-run virtual machines”). The virtual machine choices include VMware, Xen, MS Virtual Server, and more. They have a decent list of growing applications already available. Some include: Joomla, Cacti, Wordpress, Alfresco, Drupal, vTiger CRM, MediaWiki, SugarCRM, Mantis, etc.