Managing a Business
See also Running a Business
Books/websites: The 4-Hour Workweek (has many useful tools, suggestions and gadgets for running a business)
Competitive Intelligence : Compete (useful search analytics where you can search a competitor and retrieve useful information like what key words they are using to drive business to their site) Spyfu (spy on your online competitors such as by downloading their keywords and adwords)
Insurance: IPIS PIPERSLinks health insurance (NYC)
Investor Guidance: Finance/Yahoo msn Morningstar Bonds ETF Risk Grades kiplinger Street
Automated Equipement: Intermec Technologies
Faxing: Faxing by email email applications
Hiring: Elance (can hire just about any expert to do anything)
Office Applications: Open Office (a free of charge office productivity suite that does much of what Microsoft Office does. Thus can save you hundreds of dollars) Cute PDF (creates PDFs for free. Alternative to Adobe Acrobat) Everynote (saves everything you want onto your computer from notes, to documents, to business cards)
Remote PC Access : Go to My PC Log me In
Payroll: Powerpayroll
Phone Services and Email: Google Voice (use a single number that rings anywhere, get transcribed messages delivered to your inbox, cheap calls to anywhere in the world). Youmail (like having a secretary handle your incoming calls)
Surveys: SurveyMonkey
Teleconferance: NoCostConference (free telephone conference)
