In December 2009, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced his new company, Square, will allow merchants and individuals to accept secure payment from credit (and other) cards using a mobile phone. The idea is to accept payment through your cell phone in 10 seconds. Basically, it’s a little square dongle that plugs into your smartphone and allows you to swipe credit cards. Square may be exactly what you need for your growing business.  Not only is it convenient and portable, but the startup costs are much lower than traditional setups.

So if you’ve got an iPhone or Android OS smartphone, you can get Square, and swipe a client’s credit card anywhere, any time. Sad thing is, for all the good, there is a caveat: it’s not available yet. Square was originally scheduled to be released “early 2010,” but that obviously hasn’t happened. As of last week, CEO Jack Dorsey says “square is in the home stretch,” and we say “hurry it up Jack.” Keep an eye out, this could be your best free biz find of the year.

In today’s world, so much business is done online. You may store database or vital company information using online services.  Using the Internet to store this kind of information can be very beneficial but it can also be risky. To ensure that a virus doesn’t attack your company or computer, you can download AVG, a free anti-virus.  AVG provides “powerful, easy-to-use protection that works efficiently and invisibly in the background so you can focus on using your computer, not worrying about security.”

With this free business tool, you can spend more time enjoying your computer and less time worrying about viruses your computer could catch.

Click here to download AVG free anti-virus for your computer today.

Are you interested in learning more about a particular software program, website design, or marketing? What if you could learn these things for FREE? Check out the HP Learning Center.

HP offers online courses that are available on-demand or on a weekly basis. Here are a list of some of their most popular classes.

• Professional digital photography made simple
• Facebook and Twitter: getting started
• Windows Vista: tune up your PC
• Intermediate website design
  

These courses are great for entrepreneurs on the go who don’t have time to sit in a physical classroom or dig through shelves in a bookstore.

Happy learning!

Get Clicky is a web analytics tool that gathers and analyzes traffic data for your website. This free SEO tool provides real time information to track your website’s performance.

If you post a new article or a new feature in your website, you can see how the visitors are responding to the new feature or if it is making any differences at all. The real time results lets you react to changes as they occur. Results are shown on a “dashboard” that contains various information such as traffic sources (what drives people to visit your site), visitor segmentation (who visits your websites and where they are coming from), and Twitter analytics. You can further enhance the report by using the filter feature to narrows down results.

There is no cost to sign-up with Clicky. The free version gives members the opportunity to track one website with a customizable dashboard that contains reports on content/searches/referrers, individual visitors and actions, data history for the last 30 days, and 10 name and filter visitors. Members can upgrade their reports that include ad-free analytics, visitor hostnames and organizations, email reports, data tracking, and more for a fee.

To begin monitoring your sites traffic, visit Get Clicky.

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Are you ready to open an online store and are in need of a free shopping cart software program? 1FreeCart.com provides the hosting and a robust free shopping cart system with a full range of powerful features.

It’s easy to get started and the website provides access to ecommerce tools. You can create a GoogleBase datafeed and get your items listed for Free on Google Products. Also 1FreeCart can create and upload your Windows Live Product Feeds for your offers to be easily searchable on Live Product Search. The icing on the cake is the PayPal Ready Shopping Cart Checkout, which makes transactions seamless.

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The only time you pay for anything is if you upgrade or add additional services.

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Are you ready to open an online store and are in need of a free shopping cart software program? 1FreeCart.com provides the hosting and a robust free shopping cart system with a full range of powerful features.

It’s easy to get started and the website provides access to ecommerce tools. You can create a GoogleBase datafeed and get your items listed for Free on Google Products. Also 1FreeCart can create and upload your Windows Live Product Feeds for your offers to be easily searchable on Live Product Search. The icing on the cake is the PayPal Ready Shopping Cart Checkout, which makes transactions seamless.

This is Not A Limited Trial But An Actual Hosted Free Shopping Cart Web Store.
The only time you pay for anything is if you upgrade or add additional services.