Microsoft Office Live Basics
(Free professional web site)

Create a professional looking web site using a variety of tools to help meet all of your business needs.  Microsoft Office Live Basics include a free domain name; easy-to-use web site development tools; up to 500 MB (Megabytes) of web site storage; 25 company e-mail accounts with storage up to 25 GB (Gigabytes); web site generated reports and much more.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Create spreadsheets and word processing documents that can be viewed and shared with ease.  Software is compatible with popular file formats such as DOC (MS Word), XLS (MS Excel Spreadsheet), RTF (Rich Text File), etc.

OpenOffice.org

This is a complete office suite that offers various software applications such as Writer, a word processing software; Calc, a spreadsheet software; Impress, a multimedia presentation software; Draw, a drawing software that creates 3D images; Base, a database software that creates queries, reports, tables and forms; and Math, a software that allows the user to create mathematical equations using a graphical user interface.  All products with the exception of Draw are compatible to the MS Office Suite.

EMS Manager 2005 Lite for MySQL

A database management tool that allows the user to create reports, tables and queries using SQL (Stored Query Language) to manipulate and manage data.

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AgoraCart

Set up your online virtual e-commerce "store"! This is a "free" shopping cart software application with a range of templates for on-line virtual "stores".  Features include customization & design integration, merchandise inventory management, order processing & management and shipping & store management.  Also AgoraCart contains Cascading Style Sheets, template systems, customized layouts, and custom individual product category layouts as well as templates.  Finally, AgoraCart can be used by beginners at home or by experienced web designers or programmers.

CIT Small Business Lending

One of the nation's largest small business lending corporations allows users to access tools to prepare financially for Real Estate, Business Acquisitions, Franchise Financing, and Practice Financing.  The online business tools such as Loan Qualifier, and EZscreen allow users to access helpful tools to complete the process efficiently. The site also includes planning and financial tools such as Business Plan, Profit Loss, Balance Sheet, Conducting a Market Analysis, Preparing a Cash Budget, Creating a Strategic Plan, Payment Calculator, SBA Links, and Product Brochures. Compatible with most computer software.

Business Plan Software

Provides professional planning tools for small business start-ups featuring Strategic, Marketing and Online software, shareware and free ware. This site also provides Excel based cash-flow and financial forecasting templates, as well as a comprehensive guide to preparing and drafting a Business Plan, complete with sample graphs, examples, wizards and on-line help. Included are facilities for exporting to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as to the PDF format and the Internet.

WordPress

Publish your own blog with this personal publishing software that allows users to create/publish their own web blog.

Highrise

Highrise is a tracking system that allows the user to create and share contacts, assign tasks, and store a history of communications that can be shared across the company.  It interfaces without software file formats. It can include images or links to movies or audio; attach e-mails, photos, and PDF files.  The free sign up has the capacity for 250 contacts (if more is needed, then other plans are available.

Business Marketing Templates & Images

Survey Templates

EditPadLite

Edit Pad Lite is a free text editor that allows the user to create various text documents.

Notepad++

A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) free source code editor that runs under a MS Window platform.  Notepad++ is very similar to Notepad but with a few extra features such as multi-view, drag-n-drop, auto-completion, etc.