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For those of you who are always tweeting, the following management tools may make your life seem easier and will aid in growing your community and channel significance:

1.     TweetDeck is a free desktop widget that allows a business to tweet with the ability to sort tweets into direct messages, topics and keywords. TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that lets users send and receive tweets and view account profiles. You can also set up a specific column to view mentions of your company or industry, and another column for all of your competitors. This application is also capable of integrating your Facebook, Linkedin, Google Buzz, Foursquare and Myspace accounts.

2.      Hootsuite is a free fast-growing web service and is designed for businesses needing to manage more than one Twitter profile with multiple users. It allows a business to easily schedule tweets and easily switch back and forth between different accounts. Hootsuite also includes a URL-shortening service that lets you see how many times your links are clicked.

3.      CoTweet is a free tool that allows multiple individuals from the same company communicate through a single Twitter account. People maintain their own profile and the account activity is recorded as the program focuses on a two-way communication that engages other accounts.

The next blog post will discuss different contact management tools.

If your business is having a hard time getting customers through the door, check out Google Places, Yahoo Listings and, if you are in Florida, WOMbeat. These may be the answers you need to help grow your business.

Previously known as the Local Business Center, Google Places is a way to better connect Internet search users to local businesses and to give them more informed decisions about where to go and what business or product they should be using. Google Place Pages allows people to connect to information from the best sources across the Internet, giving reviews and essential facts, as well as real-time updates and offers from business owners. These Places also allow businesses to share their information such as hours of operation, phone number, links, description, tag line and much more. This provides business owners with effective, yet easy to use, tools.

Yahoo! Local Listings is an online Advertising tool for business owners. It gives owners the ability to provide details about their business to potential and existing customers. Yahoo! Local allows owners to upload any information about their business from their computer and is very easy to manage. When setting up your listing, you won’t have to worry about using specific key words for your business nor will you have to manage bids.

WOMbeat! is a simple way to collect all of your biggest customers in one place online. WOMbeat! uses word of month effectively and efficiently by using customer incentives and metrics. It is an easy way for your customers to recommend you to their friends and allows you to build more customer loyalty. Click here to get started with your free business listing.

Download my PDF outline for step-by-step instructions on how to set up your Google Places and Yahoo Listings.

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http://www.moneytrackin.com/

moneytrackin’ is a free online webapp that allows you to track all your expenses and income easily and without effort, thus allowing you to have a clear view of your financial situation. It intends to be a simple yet powerful online budget management tool.

Main features

• Control as many accounts/projects as you want
• Log all your transactions (expenses/income) and tag them to organize them better
• Keep informed of your financial situation at a glance, viewing at any time where your money goes
• Share tips with other users and take advantage of the community knowledge to save money
• Anonymity, we respect your privacy
• Sharing budgets and collaborative working of many people together on the same account
• Public API to allow the integration with third party applications

www.cashboard.com

Time tracking, expenses, invoicing, estimates, and online payments done your way. Cashboard does it all, and does it for free.

• Send PDF invoices, estimates, and receipts.
• Accept payments online – no more waiting for checks.
• Track expenses and re-bill them to your clients.
• Track billable and non-billable hours for yourself, your employees, and contractors.
• Kee p your clients in the loop and let them know where their money is being spent.
• Fully customize Cashboard’s appearance to look like your own project management and billing solution.
• Integrate smoothly with 37signals’ Basecamp
• No software to install, no money down,
• no long-term contracts to sign – ever.
• Free version
• $0 for life
• 1 Active Employee
• 1 Active Client per month
• 2 Active Projects
• Unlimited Estimates
• Brandable interface
• Bank-grade 128 bit SSL encryption

www.thebudket.com

Are you planning on growing your business? Are you tired of the spreadsheet chaos? Did you know that lack of cash flow analysis is often the reason for business ventures to fail?

Budket is an easy and affordable web-based financial planning and cash flow analysis tool. You can try it for free and start working in minutes.

Lookup Page is a handy website that allows you to setup a webpage that will make your business webpage more visible.  With Lookup Page, you can create your business’ webpage, track who is viewing your website and appear on search engine’s first page. You can also control the content of your page, choose from different packages available and most importantly watch your business benefit from all the features Lookup Page has to offer.

Lookup Page is the ultimate hook up for your business website. To set up your page, visit Lookup Page today.

MyBizHomepage, is a site started by entrepreneurs to help other entrepreneurs financially. It’s your FREE accountant that has been reviewed by notable publications like Wall Street Journal, INC., MSNBC, CNNMoney.com and Forbes.com.  MyBizHomepage offers you with all the tools you need to better understand your business’ financial standing. They offer the MyBizDashboard that computes the data and puts it into easy-to-understand charts, alerts, notifications, tools and resources, security, profiles, private messaging, news and RSS feeds, and a calendar. All of these tools were created to work together to help maximize your business’ financial performance.

To sign up now, visit MyBizHomepage.

One of our amazing interns on the Oddpodz team, Jenn, discovered this resource. Upon her graduation, she decided to put together an online resume and portfolio for herself.  This was a big venture for her as she had no experience in building websites or writing html code. But instead of panicking, Jenn put on her thinking cap and realized that there had to be a simple solution on the web.  There had to be other entrepreneurs out there who were also inexperienced website builders like herself.

She quickly found a website called SnapPages, a FREE, simple website builder. Instantly, Jenn was able to upload pictures, create a blog, manage multiple calendars and build a clean, functional personal website.

SnapPages offers a tutorial video that shows you how to use each of the functions in the website builder.  This includes how to find the right template, add pictures, edit copy and more.

This is a great tool for entrepreneurs to help maximize their business in the online world.

To start creating your own website now, visit SnapPages.

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