You forgot to mention SalesNexus.com, an online contact management system that's perfect for current ACT! users, competes well with Salesforce.com feature-wise and is about 40% less expensive.
AK
· 1 year ago
Can anybody recommend a FREE email verifier software (besides SugarCrm)? I have around 2000 emails to verify.
Awsome post btw.
Yalcin
· 1 year ago
Great list. some real gems.
Scott Carpenter
· 1 year ago
Thank you for listing Invoiceplace!
giles palmer
· 1 year ago
omg what an incredible list - 90% of these are new to me and just go to show the amazing invention going on online right now
Ryan Sutherland
· 1 year ago
Wow what a great list of online business resources.
BJ
· 1 year ago
what about SuggestionBox.com (interactive feedback tool for businesses)
Why in the world would you give us 270 websites to look at ?
How in the world are we going to evaluate them all ?
How about give us a list of 5 or 10 at a time. :(
Nick Desbarats
· 1 year ago
I think it's great that Mashable has put together such an exhaustive list, but Marcel does have a bit of a point in that it would take hours of research to choose even within a single category. To address the challenge of allowing readers to quickly decide which is the best project management, invoicing, etc. app for them, I'd invite any reader (or anyone at Mashable for that matter) who has a particular interest in any of these categories to create an interactive product recommender on MyChoiceBot.com to help readers decide which app is the best offering for them within a particular category, based on their own particular needs. The recommender can then be posted here as an interactive widget.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I work for ChoiceBot, the makers of MyChoiceBot.com, but I honestly think it would help readers weed through the incredibly complete lists of apps here.
shorespeak
· 1 year ago
Perhaps he is kidding but just in case - IGNORE THE POST FROM MARCEL - what a tool. All the work involved in assembling these and he wants to bitch about too many...please.
Congrats and thanks for a great list - it's going to take me a while to scout these and I am glad I have them!
Conrado
· 1 year ago
Look Ma! We are on Mashable!
:-P
Seriously now, thanks Cameron for putting up this great resource.
Saxoji
· 1 year ago
I think that the most important thing is productivity and compatibility with other suites. From that point view, ThinkFree.com is the most useful in this hybrid web environment that support On-Line, Offline, mobile.
Candice
· 1 year ago
Well done on an very useful and impressive list of business resources. When you find a favorite in a category you often don't realize how many alternatives there are for just about any business function. With such a choice available there is now a lot of work involved in wading through them all to find the one that will work for you!
Diditz.com
· 1 year ago
Thanks for putting this all together...was searching for some of these tools last night..and today, here you come:)
Jim Whatley
· 1 year ago
Great source of info on business sites.
John
· 1 year ago
Great list! It's amazing how many tools there are for every different niche a business may need. For time tracking & task management needs, check out Intervals.
Nunzio
· 1 year ago
Wow what a great list of online business resources.
Chris
· 1 year ago
You might consider this the definitive list of online business tools.
JP
· 1 year ago
Lists like these are always helpful for navigating the sea of online tools out there. Good job. Also, since new ones are being created every year, how do you guys find them?
Daria
· 1 year ago
Cameron, Thanks for adding Wrike to your list. We did have some major improvements, like releasing task dependencies and adding wiki capabilities. Now Wrike is a full-fledged project management tool, that has some unique killer features, like email integration, flexible structures and interactive Gantt chart. Everybody is welcome to check them out.
Zohair
· 1 year ago
Wow, that's a helluva list! Multiple whiteboards mentioned, but you missed out Dabbleboard.
filip
· 1 year ago
Hi Cameron,
Impressive! Thanks for mentioning NomaDesk. I would really appreciate your more detailed review - in due time ;-)
Thanks!
Ray
· 1 year ago
You guys rock. This is an excellent list of applications. Thank you for taking the time to put it together as its alot of work.
nick broom
· 1 year ago
This is a fantastic list. Whilst I've heard of a smattering of these, others answer questions and requests that I've had recently. Now all i need to do is sit and evaluate them..
Here's a challenge - is there anyone out there running a business of reasonable structure (ie more than a couple of people), using online apps / tools only?
AND, an idea for a future blog post - what are the business models behind these? As I think that is the challenge going forward.
Great post - thanks!
Jan
· 1 year ago
Thanks for adding our Paymo time tracker to the list. Awesome collection of apps, gona try out a couple of them today :)
Jan
· 1 year ago
Hi Cameron, thanks for mentioning SuperSaaS. We get so much feedback from people who used other online scheduling tools and wished they found us earlier, so this will help get the word out!
wizdomheard
· 1 year ago
I definetely can use some of these Tools to help with my online business. You have given us a great selection to choose from when it comes to helping in any online business. Will have to thoroughly investigate them to see which ones will be effective in what I do online.
Help Desk Software
· 1 year ago
BRILLIANT LIST! For when all of this wonderful technology has a "challenge", our biz uses the Web Help Desk Software for customer service. Didn't notice much on the list for affordable help desk software.
Hope this helps and again, brill list!!!
PaulR
Sahil
· 1 year ago
Thank you for this comprehensive list and including DeskAway. We are excited about out growth and the powerful features we have in store in the coming months. Stay tuned...
Sandor
· 1 year ago
Hi Cameron,
My hat off to you, what a fantastic collection.:-) I can imagine, how much of your work may be in it.
Thank you for your sharing, and keep up the great work.
Sandor
Eric
· 1 year ago
This is a good list! As far as online scheduling websites go, have you taken a look at ScheduleTown.com as well?
kiran
· 1 year ago
Its a great collection very helpful for small and medium Businesses.
This is an excellent list of online business tools, having this many listed in one area goes to show the strength of this market. Organizations of all sizes can really manage their entire business using online or web based applications. For example, the mentioned Salesboom CRM could replace traditional on site software and could be integrated with some of the other useful online business tools listed on this page.
Kate Dickman
· 1 year ago
This is an AWESOME resource. I'm definitely putting this in my favorites. :)
Cameron, Thanks for putting Task2Gather in the list at Mashable. Great job, so many new sites to learn about.
Julien
· 1 year ago
Thanks for talking about Planzone. Planzone proposes an easy-to-use set of tools: planning, to-do lists, documents, wiki. Besides this, the really good point I think is that it provides a project templates database: you can create a new project from an existing one, get benefits from templates published by other Planzone users, and contribution to enrich the database by publishing your own project templates.
C.H. Low
· 1 year ago
We would like add Orbius.com to the great list. We provide a social marketing platform for small-medium businesses, marketers and organizations to create a new or supplement existing website with social tools to better engage with members/customers. No IT skills required. We'll even do a free prototype for qualified businesses.
kalivd
· 1 year ago
well! i must say its a very good resourceful list of applications of all kinds like accounting, documentation, etc., when i was googling for such applications i found one site which i have started using and very happy that it integrates your accounting, documentation, email, calendar and much more.. the site is called eDeskOnline-Free Online office suite a really cool one.
dgugnani
· 1 year ago
great list. i passed it along to several ceos + venture investors. i'm going to try a handful of these myself!
Nicole Fougere
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the Litmos mention in your Mashable list of online business tools! What a fantastic range of resources you have put together. We're working towards making Litmos (www.litmos.com) the one-stop shop for all training needs. Thanks again Cameron!!
Thanks for putting this all together! Sometimes,even use google or baidu can not find out them! Thanks again~
Will Flavell
· 1 year ago
Great Post Cameron. This must have taken a long time to compile. I didn't see DocLanding under the document and storage tools section. They are pretty new. They just launched at demofall08 a week or two ago. They have some really cool security and annotation tools. They are also HIPPA and financial standard compliant. Check them out for free at www.doclanding.com.
Misty Cryer-Davidson
· 1 year ago
Definitely a page to bookmark!
Aditya Gholap
· 1 year ago
That too many tools!! My picks are DeskAway and Zoho Project DeskAway i would rate slightly higher for a better UI.
I kind of like Google Apps as well!
btw - did you manage to go through all the tools before doing this? Quite a 'task' in itself!
Josh
· 1 year ago
Cameron-Many thanks for adding zapoint to the list!
Jessica
· 1 year ago
Thank you for listing massage manedger!
Jessica
· 1 year ago
Thank you for listing massage manEdger.
James
· 1 year ago
Excellent list!
I would add BPOVIA, http://www.bpovia.com/. BPOVIA is the pioneering virtual assistant service provider. They provide small and growing companies with an on-demand and one-stop solution of essential business services varies from data entry, word processing to the tasks require more advanced skills like website design, graphic design, internet research, etc.
They can provide a full time employee working for you 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for just $900 per month.
Mike Price
· 1 year ago
Great resources, I never hear some of them but maybe I will need sometime.
Kyle Keller
· 1 year ago
What a great list! Also check out ProjectSpaces for easy project management and file sharing with your project/team.
The Geared Investor
· 1 year ago
This list is amazing. I now know which email marketing site I will be using for my forex newsletter. Thanks
Roy Zimmerhansl
· 1 year ago
Excellent list. I am just about to start a consulting business next week. This list is invaluable and I have already signed up for a couple of sites. Thanks
Wow Thats good what a great list of online business resources.
Fuzz
· 1 year ago
good list
Stephen Joyce
· 1 year ago
Thanks for including Rezgo.com to the list. We often get overlooked because we are specific to the tourism industry. It's nice to get included in a list like this. It makes our developers very happy!
Ashwaria
· 1 year ago
I think that the most important thing is productivity and compatibility with other suites.
Rizwan
· 1 year ago
hi,
amazing list.....and true to the subject....online business.....we are definitely going to try out a few. The nature of our business requires us to collaborate online so the list of white boards is really useful. Adding this to my bookmarks...
DJ
· 12 months ago
My masseuse gets a lot of new business from online appointment scheduling and promotion http://www.lattiss.com
i am using it for my tutor business.
Harrisburg Websites
· 9 months ago
Hey Cameron, Thanks for this list. I've only just started going through it, but it does have many tools that may be useful for streamlining my business.
Great Work!
Jon
Justin
· 9 months ago
I appreciate all the great resources, but can't you guys rate them and give us the best of the litter? There is just WAY too much information here. I can get this from google, I follow to get your opinions of what is worth investigating.
King
· 9 months ago
This list is really awesome. Will definitely help in some way or the other in online business!
Iany
· 9 months ago
The most useful list i have ever seen in my natch!
bloggista
· 8 months ago
Wow - awesome list dude. Will check all of them - hehe. Thanks for sharing this one. By the way, thanks for visiting my blog. More power!
Adrian
· 8 months ago
It´s a great list.
Thanks
Jason
· 8 months ago
Too much to take in. How about taking twenty applications and comparing their features?
This is a fantastic list for small business owners and anyone who manages information. One tool I did not see listed was Toodledo.com - a free task management site that I have just found and am loving so far!
Thanks for this wonderful list of resources!
SEO Tampa
· 8 months ago
Yes, Now a days the Use of Online Business has been increased and there's much ,ore Competition for SEO.
Chris
· 7 months ago
Trying to plug company
These days, "who you know is more important than what you know". I am part of. Ntroduction.com where Professionals exchange Sales and Job introductions for cash reward. In other words, Professionals can request introductions to hiring managers or decision Makers for Jobs and Sales. Professionals can also provide introductions to hiring managers and decision makers for cash rewards. Our current members are Sales Professionals, Startups, Job seekers, Recruiters, Hiring Managers & Executives.
This is truly an amazing, highly impressive and extremely useful list! I have been looking for some programs and open source tools for email and list/data management and now I have a dozen great options to look through!
One service you did not mention is Eloqua. Eloqua provides full-service marketing automation, CRM solutions for businesses that are looking for highly measurable, repeatable, and scalable lead generation and nurturing tracks for various campaigns that generate results and can be calculated and calibrated.
Eloqua has been shown to increase campaign results by up to 345% and delivers program building and managing services that can coordinate all your email, form, landing page, website, product, service, telemarketing, sales, event and other marketing campaigns into one manageable suite that keeps tracks of all leads and contacts, can dedupe, and organize large contact lists and data.
I'm still learning about all of Eloqua's capabilities myself, but so far I am highly impressed with its bandwidth, quality and versatility.
Rubicon Marketing Group offers a variety of marketing services to get companies set up using and integrating Eloqua, Marketo, Market2Lead, and Salesforce solutions quickly.
To find out more about Eloqua, as well as other marketing automation and lead generation solutions, feel free to visit our website at http://www.rubiconmarketing.com.
Thanks Cameron!
sdb
· 7 months ago
try www.xero.com it's an online accounting package, i've used it for about a year now and it is fantastic
Money Making Business
· 7 months ago
this is a great list. even seen all these tool in a single page.
Hans-Peter Manzenreiter
· 7 months ago
I am really missing Prezi.com for presentations in this list. Other than that: Awesome list.
andykiteman
· 7 months ago
Elevensoft have just released Orchestrate - a planning and scheduling web app. It's easy to use, has a beautiful interface, and allows you to quickly schedule people to any location based on their qualifications.
Orchestrate's location-specific task scheduling makes it ideal for operations managers at service companies that frequently have to schedule qualified staff to multiple sites at recurring intervals.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I own this company
Derek Organ
· 7 months ago
Hi guys,
Add 1time to the list of really easy to use online time tracking software.
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Brian
· 6 months ago
Fantastic list. Awesome resource! Thank you so much for gathering this for everyone's benefit.
marcus
· 5 months ago
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An incredible list. Thanks for mentioning Mumboe. With new features like Auto Extraction and Agreement Milestones Mumboe is a great online contract management app.
affordable website design
· 5 months ago
Great work.These are good online business resource.I will try to take advantages from it.
Aaron Sperling
· 4 months ago
Excellent. Please consider reviewing the vFlyer Online Marketing Service for your next list. vFlyer provides marketing tools for classified and social media marketing. http://www.vflyer.com. vFlyer has become popular in the real estate, property management, autos, and with small service providers.
E Commerce Website Design
· 3 months ago
I am totally against the use of tool for running online business.Just use the tool for help and support.Manually working is more than best.Thanks
E Commerce Website Design
· 3 months ago
I am totally against the use of tool for running online business.Just use the tool for help and support.Manually working is more than best.Thanks
Joshanderson
· 3 months ago
Those are very good tools, however, in many cases those platforms are used just to allow the team to review the same document together in real-time and "be on the same page". The recently launched free site http://www.showdocument.com does exactly that, quickly show documents to friends and colleagues. It allows co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live All the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.
Josh
Joshanderson
· 3 months ago
Those are very good tools, however, in many cases those platforms are used just to allow the team to review the same document together in real-time and "be on the same page". The recently launched free site http://www.showdocument.com does exactly that, quickly show documents to friends and colleagues. It allows co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live All the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.
Josh
Fergal, Business Advice Forum
· 3 months ago
Thanks for sharing that huge list with us. With all those time management and project management tools I've no excuse for being disorganised again. I particularly like Scheduly.
Chris
· 3 months ago
Some excellent resources there, many thanks.
alisonjuli23
· 2 months ago
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Awsome post btw.
How in the world are we going to evaluate them all ?
How about give us a list of 5 or 10 at a time. :(
FULL DISCLOSURE: I work for ChoiceBot, the makers of MyChoiceBot.com, but I honestly think it would help readers weed through the incredibly complete lists of apps here.
Congrats and thanks for a great list - it's going to take me a while to scout these and I am glad I have them!
:-P
Seriously now, thanks Cameron for putting up this great resource.
From that point view, ThinkFree.com is the most useful in this hybrid web environment that support On-Line, Offline, mobile.
Thanks for adding Wrike to your list. We did have some major improvements, like releasing task dependencies and adding wiki capabilities. Now Wrike is a full-fledged project management tool, that has some unique killer features, like email integration, flexible structures and interactive Gantt chart. Everybody is welcome to check them out.
Impressive! Thanks for mentioning NomaDesk. I would really appreciate your more detailed review - in due time ;-)
Thanks!
Here's a challenge - is there anyone out there running a business of reasonable structure (ie more than a couple of people), using online apps / tools only?
AND, an idea for a future blog post - what are the business models behind these? As I think that is the challenge going forward.
Great post - thanks!
Hope this helps and again, brill list!!!
PaulR
My hat off to you, what a fantastic collection.:-) I can imagine, how much of your work may be in it.
Thank you for your sharing, and keep up the great work.
Sandor
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Thanks for putting Task2Gather in the list at Mashable.
Great job, so many new sites to learn about.
Thanks again Cameron!!
Sometimes,even use google or baidu can not find out them! Thanks again~
My picks are DeskAway and Zoho Project
DeskAway i would rate slightly higher for a better UI.
I kind of like Google Apps as well!
btw - did you manage to go through all the tools before doing this? Quite a 'task' in itself!
I would add BPOVIA, http://www.bpovia.com/. BPOVIA is the pioneering virtual assistant service provider.
They provide small and growing companies with an on-demand and one-stop solution of essential business services varies from data entry, word processing to the tasks require more advanced skills like website design, graphic design, internet research, etc.
They can provide a full time employee working for you 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for just $900 per month.
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amazing list.....and true to the subject....online business.....we are definitely going to try out a few. The nature of our business requires us to collaborate online so the list of white boards is really useful. Adding this to my bookmarks...
i am using it for my tutor business.
Great Work!
Jon
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Thanks for this wonderful list of resources!
These days, "who you know is more important than what you know". I am part of. Ntroduction.com where Professionals exchange Sales and Job introductions for cash reward. In other words, Professionals can request introductions to hiring managers or decision Makers for Jobs and Sales. Professionals can also provide introductions to hiring managers and decision makers for cash rewards. Our current members are Sales Professionals, Startups, Job seekers, Recruiters, Hiring Managers & Executives.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PelgpRnabWA
One service you did not mention is Eloqua. Eloqua provides full-service marketing automation, CRM solutions for businesses that are looking for highly measurable, repeatable, and scalable lead generation and nurturing tracks for various campaigns that generate results and can be calculated and calibrated.
Eloqua has been shown to increase campaign results by up to 345% and delivers program building and managing services that can coordinate all your email, form, landing page, website, product, service, telemarketing, sales, event and other marketing campaigns into one manageable suite that keeps tracks of all leads and contacts, can dedupe, and organize large contact lists and data.
I'm still learning about all of Eloqua's capabilities myself, but so far I am highly impressed with its bandwidth, quality and versatility.
Rubicon Marketing Group offers a variety of marketing services to get companies set up using and integrating Eloqua, Marketo, Market2Lead, and Salesforce solutions quickly.
To find out more about Eloqua, as well as other marketing automation and lead generation solutions, feel free to visit our website at http://www.rubiconmarketing.com.
Thanks Cameron!
Orchestrate's location-specific task scheduling makes it ideal for operations managers at service companies that frequently have to schedule qualified staff to multiple sites at recurring intervals.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I own this company
Add 1time to the list of really easy to use online time tracking software.
http://1timetracking.com
Allows you to integrate with Basecamp, Add time from your mobile, send clients time reports for projects and much more.
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The recently launched free site http://www.showdocument.com does exactly that, quickly show documents to friends and colleagues.
It allows co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live
All the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.
Josh
The recently launched free site http://www.showdocument.com does exactly that, quickly show documents to friends and colleagues.
It allows co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live
All the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.
Josh
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