Elizabeth Potts Weinstein: Live Your Truth - Latest Comments in Top 5 Websites I Use in My Small Business

Re: Top 5 Websites I Use in My Small Business

Laura — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:56:09 -0000

It's a very helpful list of sites. Thank-you!

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Deborah Robinson — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:59:48 -0000

Wow. You are very good at what you do and I think it's great that you are so willing to share what you've learned with others. I'm so impressed I'm going to subscribe to your feed and put on My Yahoo. I've been using computers for 20 years and I've been internet savvy since 1998. I discuss similar issues to yourself on my new blog and even I didn't know some of the information you have written about here. Well done and keep it up.

Re: Top 5 Websites I Use in My Small Business

Leslie — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:33:41 -0000

Thank you for the useful tips!

Re: Top 5 Websites I Use in My Small Business

Meg H. — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:01:46 -0000

I just started using http://officezilla.com for contacts/calendar management. I'll definitely take a look at appointments plus.

Thanks for the list!

Re: Top 5 Websites I Use in My Small Business

Michael Valiant — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:15:20 -0000

Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for the mention. I love hearing what people think about our system.

Thought I would mention too that 1ShoppingCart implemented an HTML editor to the autoresponder and broadcasting sections a few weeks ago (we've had in other areas for a lot longer).

If you ever find our software is missing something or needs something to help run your business more efficiently, please let us know! I can't guarantee we can implement everything of course, but we're always listening and evolve our software based heavily on the comments of our merchants!

cheers!

Michael Valiant
http://blog.1shoppingcart.com

Re: Top 5 Websites I Use in My Small Business

Bee — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:32:37 -0000

I use google alerts and analytics too and aweber for mailing lists/newsletters.

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ElizabethPW — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:15:03 -0000

I use aweber because it is a better autoresponder. It has more sophisticated reporting and tracking, and an html editor inside the application. The sign up is easier because aweber will give you scripts to put on your websites, instead of having to write html every time you want to add a signup box to a new webpage. It's also compatible with wordpress plugins and a bunch of other applications, since aweber is one of the industry standards.

Since it is only $20/month, the cost is not too much to make it prohibitive.

Re: Top 5 Websites I Use in My Small Business

Shannon Cherry — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:59:01 -0000

I use a lot of google applications, including alerts and analytics.

I also use google calendar for my appointments. My assistant and clients can set up their own appointments, and it syncs with my outlook and PDA.

Plus...it's free.

I also use a free wiki (PB wiki) as an online operations manual for my interns and staff, as well as smartsheet (paid $20 a month) for project management.

Quick ? though: why use aweber & 1 shopping cart when the latter has the same services?