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You’ll find social media and website tools and other resources that may be helpful to you and your new, small and/or growing business. The list is added to regularly.

Drop us a line by clicking here if there is a particular product or service that you have found helpful and think may be helpful to others.

Wesite Tool - Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools is a free service that provides you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on Google. To get started, simply add and verify your site. Click here to visit resource website

Website Tools - Pingdom

Pingdom tests the load time of a web page for free. Great detail and helpful tips are also provided with the analysis. Pingdom also offers a paid service with more bells and whistles. To keep the results private rather than public you need to click on the settings bar immediately below where you enter your URL (info fro, Jan 2013) and untick 'save test and make it public'. Click here to visit resource website

Website Tool - HubSpot's Marketing Grader

This is a free resource provided by HubSpot. It provides you with an analysis of your website from an online marketing perspective. Click here to visit resource website

Website Tool - Google Analytics

Once set up Google Analytics tracks activity, demographics, page views, etc. on your website, and much more. Click here to visit resource website

Twitter Management Tool - Tweepi

Tweepi is a tool that allows you to manage your Twitter account to easily see who you are following and whether they are following you, who is following you that you may not be following, who is active and who is not. You can easily follow and unfollow users with this service. There is a free and a paid service. Click here to visit resource website

Social Media Management Tool - Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media dashboard to manage and measure your social networks. Offers a free and a paid option. Allows you to manage multiple social profiles, schedule messages and tweets, track brand mentions and analyze social media traffic. Click here to visit resource website

Social Media Management Tool - Buffer

Buffer is a social media management tool that allows you to add posts to one or multiple social networks for sending out at scheduled times throughout the day/week. There is a free and a paid option available. Allows you to manage multiple social profiles and analyze social media traffic. Click here to visit resource website

Photo Editor - iPiccy

This is what this service has to say for itself : "iPiccy makes your photo awesome with many easy to use photo tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and even paint! Enjoy free photo editing online ..." Click here to visit resource website

Email Marketing Tool - MailChimp

MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. Click here to visit resource website

Email Marketing Tool - Constant Contact

Constant Contact provides small businesses with a way to send out email to permission-based lists. They also offer services that help with event promotion, social media campaigns and more. (911SmallBiz is an affiliate of Constant Contact) Click here to visit resource website

Design Tool - Big Brand System (Pamela Wilson)

Pamela Wilson is Big Brand Systems. She is an award winning graphic designer and marketing consultant, and shares "how you can grow your business using strategic marketing and great design". An excellent resource for new and small business owners. Click here to visit resource website

Blogging Tool - Disqus

Disqus is a website discussion platform. With a few quick steps, you can upgrade your old comment system with a new way to engage your visitors. It helps drive real engagement and traffic on websites, filter out the spam comments and make it easy for readers to both leave comments and to follow up on the discussion. Click here to visit resource website

Blogging Resource - Ezine Articles

For those new to blogging, Ezine is an article directory that you can submit high-quality, original articles for more exposure, credibility and traffic back to your website. They also provide helpful tips and resources useful to those just getting started with blogging. Click here to visit resource website

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