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// Free Online Tools to Promote your Business
 Free online tools make it easier (and less expensive) than ever before to connect with your target audience and/or encourage them to pass the word about you and your business.
The timing could not be better to start using them, because the more exposure you have online, the greater your chances are for success.
In the era where 'reach out and touch' (the new business mantra) meets WIIFM (the customer's position of 'What's in it for me?'), virtually everything you do to encourage interaction with your niche is a plus.
Here's a small sampling of free online tools you might find handy:
AddThis Follow – Now here's a cool widget whose time has come – a button you can create to let your site visitors follow your social profiles, blogs, feeds or other services where your business is represented online. Can you say connect?
Freetellafriend – Just need a simple add on for your website so visitors can tell a friend about it? Freetellafriend offers a new twist – they can choose how to share your site by using their address book, manually adding emails, selecting social bookmark sites or adding to favorites.
Lijit – Here's a tool for maximum exposure – a search engine that searches your blog, bookmarks, pictures and blogroll so visitors can learn about all things YOU – your personality, expertise, network and interests. And then gives you stats on all that content so you'll know what appeals to your audience. Yum.
Ning – Got people? Well now you can pull them all together in your own social network and then add more. Give it a name (my social network), pick a web address (mysocialnetwork.ning.com), choose your features and bam – your network is born.
Powwownow – Ever need to talk with up to 50 people at a time on your single line phone? Solve the problem with powwownow, a new entry in the voice conferencing arena. Just make up your pin, have your group call a designated number and you're good to go.
Reallinkfinder – Are you commenting on blogs and leaving TrackBacks to your site? Would it help if you had a tool to help you find blogs specifically related to your niche or the topic of your choice? And to further refine your search to return the most popular ones? Imagine …
Showtime – Brought to you by the makers of powwownow, showtime is a web conferencing service that lets you chat, present documents and share your desktop with a small group of callers (up to 5) on the line. It promises to work with sales presentations, private discussions with customers, training classes and more.
Wibiya Toolbar - Want your website visitors to share your content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or other social media sites? Or perhaps let them translate your pages into their native language? Well, as they say, now there's an app for that. Just sign up, choose your tools, insert the code and viola - instant self promotion. Sweet.
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