Do-It-Yourself Marketing Tools
Affordable Web Hosting
WebStorefront.net is a full-featured web hosting starting at only $6.50 per month. FREE with any hosting plan: domain name, email, free applications (blogs, shopping carts and more), SiteStudio do-it-yourself website builder with templates plus marketing tools. Login to your control panel and manage all aspects of your hosting account and access 24/7 tech support.
Email Marketing
Email marketing is one tool you could have working for you right now and Constant Contact® is the industry leader. I recommend Constant Contact for all of my clients because it is easy to use to create great looking emails, manage contact lists and track data. Constant Contact even has a 60-day Free trial period.
Search Engine Registration & Search Engine Optimization
Having your website appear on the first page of search engines in organic searches is very important if you want eyeballs to your web site. Here is a do-it-yourself service that saves you money and gets big results for search engine optimization, or SEO. Submitnet.net walks you through every step with automated tools to optimize your site and provide critical analysis (optimal keywords, META tag generators and META tag analysis, compare your keywords to competitors, meet search engine guidelines and more). Then, it automatically registers your site with all major search engines, saving you from registering one search engine at a time. As of this writing, Submitnet.net still offers a 90-day free trial.
Digital Printing
Don't be afraid of the cost of full color printing, go digital. Print Place is great and incredibly affordable. Simply upload a PDF file and proof your job online. The best part is Print Place has a simple online job quote calculator and you can price your project instantly.
Accept Payments Online or by Email
Accept credit card payments online and e-mail payments without the hassle and the high cost. Paypal is perfect for small business and web storefront shopping carts. It is even better for community organizations, clubs, churches and non-profits. Accept registration payments, membership dues, and donations. Your customers will thank you. And, you will ask yourself "Why did I wait so long?" PayPal has all the tools and templates you need to get started right now. Most of the services you'll need are FREE. A small fee (below industry average) is deducted only for payments received, no monthly servive fees or statement fees.
Custom Designed Websites Under $500
You know what you want but you don’t have the time to get it started yourself. Lickity Clicks from WebStorefront.net is the affordable website development solution because WebStorefront.net does all the set up work for you. All you need to do is select one of their professionally designed website templates, provide them with your logo, pictures and page text. This is a great solution for many small businesses, club websites and personal blogs. The content management system (CMS) lets you update and edit your web site without any prior experience.
Professional Website Templates for Joomla
Discover why professionals in-the-know love Joomla Templatesfrom JoomlaShack. Delight in our low a-la-carte pricing and our great looking, bloat-free, easy to customize, SEO templates. Please browse our library of Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.6 Templates and remember, there's always something new at Joomlashack. Also, templates for Wordpress and Drupal