One of the best and oldest networking tools is a 3.5” x 2” piece of cardstock aka “the business card.” Whether you are just starting out and money is tight or you want to change your business card, businesscardland.com is the place for you.

Business Card Land provides you with templates and print design options. All you have to purchase is business card paper. Once you have the business card paper, follow these steps:

1. Select the design template you like best
2. Decide if you want full bleed or no bleed printing
3. Choose the size of your business card
4. Fill in the information you want to appear on your business card
5. PRINT your free business card

It’s easy and free and you’re sure to see results using one of the oldest yet most efficient networking tools in the book.

To start designing your business card, visit Business Card Land today.

Freebinar is a free webinar service whose goal is “to provide a free, world class webinar service that competes with the best paid services available.” Freebinar allows you to host as many webinars as desired, with no time limit and no installations, downloads or set-up. It is the only free webinar service that allows up to 150 attendees, which truly makes Freebinar Skype on steroids.

To learn more and sign up, visit Freebinar today.

Recently, my boss and I needed to schedule a conference call with several employees at our client’s firm. I discovered a great resource called FreeConferenceCall.

It is free to set up an account at FreeConferenceCall.com. After creating the account, the service provides you with a dial-in number that is yours to use forever. You can have as many as 250 people on each call. The service even provides useful resources like the ability to record the call for future playback.

Freeconferencecall.com has over 1 million registrants and is used by nearly 100 Fortune 500 companies. To set up an account and start your free conference calls, visit Free Conference Call today.

Tungle.me is scheduling made easy
Are you tired of trying to coordinate multiple peoples’ schedules to schedule meetings?  Try Tungle, a free online scheduling tool that enhances communication and productivity. Scheduling meetings will become easy and hassle-free because you can send invitations and propose multiple meeting times to different participants. Your Tungle calendar automatically syncs with your e-calendar (Outlook, Google, Apple iCal, Entourage for Mac and Lotus notes) and updates new meetings. Tungle also automatically adjusts the meeting time to your time zone so you don’t miss it.

Non-members do not need to sign up to reply to invites.

Here’s how to use Tungle.me.

• To schedule a meeting, click on your Tungle Me link.
• Your calendar with availability will appear.
• Non-members will need to confirm their identity first by verifying their email.
• Enter the meeting details.
• Choose multiple meeting time options according to your availability.
• Next, send the invitation.
• Confirm a meeting time.
• Tungle will send a reply to the other participants with the meeting details!

Tungle me is a useful tool for business professionals because it puts you are control of your schedule. You decide what days and times you are available. You also have the final word on what time and day the meeting will be held.

Tungle is available as an iPhone application, and Tungle Me buttons can be placed on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. To sign up or learn more, visit: Tungle.me.

www.linoit.com

Lino It is Online Stickies. Face it; using sticky notes is simply more fun than writing on a boring legal pad. This is a Web 2.0 take on those old-fashioned, canary-yellow sticky notes. Using drag and drop features, you can organize ideas, plot your story, arrange talking points, even post pictures and videos, all on a virtual board. You could also manage to-do lists, or remind yourself of future appointments, all made simple by the calendar structure of the site. You can share this board with colleagues, friends, family, or choose to keep it private. Others can even subscribe to an RSS feed of your virtual stickies. The site has user-friendly, intuitive use, and yes, you can even choose the color stickies you want to use.

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz Review: This isn’t for people who thrive on organization. It’s for those of us surrounded by notes on scrap paper and distracted by shiny objects. And hey, we like it that way. Thumbs up for LinoIt for making organization less dull.

www.switchpod.com

Tired of writing? Try talking. Do a podcast. Switchpod makes podcasting easy, doing for podcasts what platforms like Blogger and WordPress have done for blogging. Podcasts are audio media files distributed through the Internet. Since people often listen to podcasts on their digital music players, you can create a form of “portable media.” An innovative way of getting your ideas out there, you could record a weekly address, a music program, a lecture, or just tell jokes. Users can visit your Switchpod page to download and listen to your content. Switchpod hosts up to 450mb for free, with options of buying more space for a monthly fee.

Cost: FREE

Oddpodz Review: People like fresh and interesting ways of consuming media, and a podcast is another opportunity to reach your customers or get your brand out there.

Your Free Conference Tools The internet is, of course, one of our most powerful communication tools. Everyday, people are innovating new ways to connect and sync our lives via the web. Not so many years ago, many of us were first introduced to the internet through a thing called email. Today, the Internet offers many ways to connect–not only through traditional text methods, but through voice and video as well. We’ve got four FREE ways you can use the internet to communicate and conference with your clients, customers, colleagues, or family.

1) Free Conference Calls – Free Telephone Conferencing http://www.freeconferencecall.com/

Free Conference Call is great when you need to reach out to a large group or audience. The site provides a phone number that you and up to 96 others can call into for free. You are the organizer and a phone number is reserved for you on the day and time you request. There are no charges for this service, although long distance charges may apply. Conferences can last for up to 6 hours, and you can even record it with no additional charges. Then, you are free to download distribute the recording. No catches, no surprises, not even ads during the call.

Cost: FREE

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YouNoodle – Free Networking and Tools for Startups

http://younoodle.com/

YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.  YouNoodle has a variety of tools for startups–including a predictor that predicts what your startup will be worth in 3 years, and a ranking system that scores your startup.  YouNoodle also provides a social space where you can discover new startups, add your own, and build your network in the startup industry.

Cost: FREE

contact page: http://younoodle.com/static/about

www.coswap.com

This site is an online exchange service where you can access details about unwanted or surplus items and view requests for wanted goods. Its main aim is to help you to get rid of your unwanted items or enable you to find goods that others no longer need at no cost.

This site is a complete swap site that allows you to swap items with, or sell items to, other Internet users. It allows you to search or browse for specific items offered for swap or sale. You can swap any unwanted items from your home or business to others who may have use for them. You can also post for items you wish.

Search/browse through the extensive list of categories, find items that may be useful for you, make offers, wait for the other party to respond by accepting or rejecting your offer, add comments, swap and enjoy!

Cost: FREE

Backtype – Find, Follow, and Share Comments on the Web

http://www.backtype.com/
Backtype is a “conversational search engine”. It allows you to claim the comments you write on the web. Set up an account and invite others to follow when you are participating in conversations, anywhere on the web. You can also subscribe to search terms and follow when people are talking about your topic on blogs, social networks, and other social media. Other useful tools include viewing all of the conversations pertaining to a specific article or post.

Cost: FREE

contact page: http://www.backtype.com/about