Looking for a great way to sell your products online for free? Who isn’t?! FatFreeCart is a spiffy little system that works with your current PayPal or Google Checkout setup. It has a slick interface and provides a seamless shopping experience. If you need more features and are willing to pay a small fee, check out their Pro version: FatFreeCartPro. Give it a shot and let me know what you think of it.

FatFreeCart is the free version of E-junkie shopping cart. Get Google CheckoutIt works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything. It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax.

If you are already using PayPal shopping cart, you will find the button code is similar. On top of being certified by PayPal and Google, it has been successfully tested on humans and they absolutely love it (which means higher conversion rates for you). FatFreeCart is also the only serious cart with a somewhat funny name.

Looking for a way to create custom hang tags using your home printer? If so, Creative Label Concepts has the label stock for you! You can download a template to design your own labels and print away. They are made of quality cardstock and the edges are smooth for a professional look. If you have used their hang tags, leave a comment including a link to your products - it’s always fun to see what people come up with for their tags!

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At a loss for words? You know what you want to say, but aren’t sure how to put it all together in a powerful way. That’s where Outstanding Ink comes in! As a small or medium sized business, standing out in the crowd plays an important role in your success. Make sure you stand out for the right reasons, such as, “outstanding” business writing. Have a website that needs wording? How about a product brochure that needs to impress your customers? Confused about what to put in a newsletter? Outstanding Ink can do all that and more! Give yourself a break from struggling to put together your own wording and check them out.

Outstanding Ink specializes in copywriting for small and medium-sized businesses. The primary types of writing services we offer include Press Releases to Company Profiles , Cover Letters and Vision & Mission Statements, with supplemental business services to be launched in the near future.

As a small business just starting out, it can be frustrating trying to find buyers for your products or as a reseller, hard to find quality items to sell. This is where MyWares.com comes in. They provide an online product showcase of items made by women - bringing the two sides together. Check them out and see if they can help you land that wholesale account you’ve been wanting!

Showcasing top products by women, MyWares is anything but ordinary. We connect creative “small business” owners with qualified wholesale buyers en masse…

Built for women, by women, MyWares is an opportunity to expand your audience and join a dynamic group who knows what it takes to design, sell & succeed…

Products by women are more popular than ever. MyWares addresses the pent-up demand for unique, quality products. www.mywares.com

 

Email marketing is an important tool for your small business. It is also essential that the marketing application that you choose, is simple to use and feature packed. MailerMailer offers a great way to start up and maintain a newsletter system. They have a great free package that allows you to send to 200 people. Once you out grow the free setup, packages start at $29.95 a month. Definitely worth your time to check them out and see if they can help you reach your customers.

We can all come up with a million reasons why we haven’t backed up our computers….but when the day comes that your beloved computer crashes on you, no excuse will bring your data back. Save yourself the headache of losing digital photos, customer information, account files, etc. Mozy offers 2 GB of 100% free file storage - a great way to start backing up your important data! If you need more room than that personal storage is $4.95 per month and business/pro starts at $3.95 per month.

Alternatives to MozyHome

• Burn a new CD or DVD every Sunday night and store it at your brother-in-law’s office.
• Pay $200/year for an online backup service that uses old, mediocre software.
• Buy a $200 external hard drive and hope your office doesn’t burn down.
• Do nothing and don’t worry about backup. (We suggest closing your eyes, plugging your ears and repeating “I’m in my happy place, I’m in my happy place.”)
• Run a cron job of rsync, gzip and mcrypt piped over ssh to your friend’s server over his DSL line. https://mozy.com/home

As a WAHM, quality print products are an important part of your business plan. Jakprints offers a wide selection of products: Apparel printing, business cards, catalogs, hang tags, stickers, etc. Not only do they price match, they also print using recycled paper and soy/vegetable based inks - how neat is that!

Jakprints specializes in custom full-color offset printing, apparel printing and sticker production. Our state-of-the-art equipment and an expert staff with over 25 years of collective experience in the printing industry allows us to offer the highest quality products and best service anywhere while still offering the industry’s most competitive prices…We believe in being a pioneering environmental force. We address that responsibility in all aspects of our daily production. Through technology and creative innovation we have improved our efficiency to produce top-of-the-line products using recycled paper and soy and vegetable-based inks. quote from http://www.jakprints.com/about/

If you’ve used Jakprints for your printing needs, I’d love to hear about your experience. Please leave a comment and share the pros and cons of using Jakprints.

Who doesn’t have tons of outgrown child related items laying around! It’s time to get everything together and sell them at Mommy Auctions! Ebay can be great, but Mommy Auctions is a specialized auction site designed just for moms. Here your items will be available to your target market - MOMS! You can also open up a shop to sell your boutique items. Mommy Auctions is also a wonderful place to buy great items for you and your little one(s). Be sure to check it out!

“Momprenuer Samantha Stack recently launched a niche auction site for moms and moms to be. MommyAuctions.com offers an alternative to EBAY for maternity, baby, and children’s items. It is a community for moms and a dedicated place for them to buy and sell…Mommy Auctions was launched in May 2007 to provide a clutter-free place to buy and sell maternity, baby, & children’s items galore! It is a community for moms, not just an auction site. It was started by a mom for moms, so they could have a dedicated marketplace of their own!”  www.mommyauctions.com

Good photos are key to selling online. Pikifx is a great free program that allows you to upload a photo and edit it in several ways. You can resize/crop, add image effects, borders and even text! I found this site very easy to use and I think it would be a great tool for any WAHM. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

This is a great tool for converting word documents (and the like) into PDF format. Here’s your shot to convert your pattern instructions, e-books, resumes and whatever else, into the widely supported PDF file format. Enjoy!

https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp

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