Linkdex SEO Task and Project Manager Tool

While I was in the midst of moving, I had the opportunity to meet with one of the guys from Linkdex and was given a private tour of their awesome SEO tool. Unfortunately, all of the moving hassle involved since then, caused me to forget much of what I intended to write about. I’d planned a nice, long, informative review of Linkdex, but that’s probably not going to happen. Sorry. I apologize... read more

Adwords Performance Grader Tool: New and Free

WordStream is offering a new free tool that grades the performance of your Google Adwords campaigns, called the AdWords Performance Grader. Essentially, it’s an instant free PPC audit, that not only evaluates how your campaigns are performing, but it also lets you know how to make improvements. I’ve admitted in the recent past that I hate running Adwords PPC campaigns. The analysis drives me... read more

Monitor Your Site’s Link Health

A while back, I signed up with a new service called LinkAider that promised to help me monitor my site’s health by finding and reporting broken links and various other alerts. Probably within about 5 minutes of signing up, I moved on to something else and forgot all about it. Today, I received what I assume is my monthly report. All I can say is WOW! Great info! Here’s a screenshot of just one... read more

Chrome Extensions For The Busy eBusiness Owner

We’re all busy. None of us have enough time in the day to get all the things accomplished that we’d like. So if we can shave a few seconds here and a few seconds there from our daily tasks, we’re happy to do so. Each of the following Chrome browser extensions helps save me a little bit of time each time I use them, and I wouldn’t want to be without them. I thought I’d share... read more

Top Recommended Tools To Manage A Money-Making Site Using WordPress

A question I often get asked is along the lines of: Donna, what would I need if I wanted to create a [fill in the blank] type of site, using WordPress to manage it? What tools would you recommend I use to make it quick, easy, and profitable, and how much will it cost me to get those tools? To be honest, it usually takes a lot of time to boil down the numerous questions into those two concise questions,... read more

Make Life Easier With Online Accounting Software

This is a guest post by James Hampton. Safety, First and Foremost Accounts can be a real problem for businesses but there is a solution on the market – online accounting software. There is a question however of how safe it is to do accounts on line? Well, the evidence suggests very safe indeed. By doing accounts online, there is less risk of things going wrong like computers crashing and losing... read more

Make The Hard Parts of Being A Solo eBusiness Owner Easier

I adore working from home. It’s the best decision I ever made in my career life. But I don’t love everything about it. What do I wish I didn’t have to do? Paperwork / Accounting / Taxes and all those things that are involved in all of that. Ugh. Ick. Blech. Those are things I put off as long as I can, and then I wish I’d kept up with it better because I end up being stuck with a... read more

Raven Tools Review

I’ve been hearing tons of great things about Raven internet marketing tools the last few months, so I finally decided to run their free trial and see why everyone was so crazy about it. So first, what do these tools do? Raven tools let you research, gather, organize, manage, track, report, and analyze most of the internet marketing tasks you probably already implement (or should implement). Some... read more

Tips To Effectively Use An Offshore Virtual Assistant

This is a guest post by Nitin Aggarwal. So you’ve hired a Virtual Assistant to make your work life more efficient by freeing you from mundane but important day-to-day tasks and leaving you with the big, important work to focus on. However, the perfect candidate for your Virtual Assistant happens to be on the other side of the world. When it is 9 AM your time, it is 12 AM in their part of the world.... read more

Free Market Research Using Google Analytics

The following is a guest post by Andy Hayes Are you using Google Analytics to monitor your website performance? It’s a goldmine of free market research data, but most businesses fall into one of two categories: They mistakenly decided they didn’t need analytics. How can you improve your website if you aren’t measuring it? They installed analytics and then never used it. If you rely on... read more