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We can't forget customer acqusition. Without customers, all the rest is for naught. Here are a variety of resources useful for generating and managing customer relationships.
  • Customer Relationship
    • ACT Contact Manager - The gold standard for customer contact management software.
    • SalesForce - a leading online customer contact service
    • Franklin Covey - electronic and paper personal organizational products for personal and organizational effectiveness.
  • Online Advertising
    • Overture - purchase targeted traffic from major search engines... pay by the click... Overture is the original premier site for purchasing search engine traffic by search term.
    • LookSmart - purchase targeted traffic from major search engines... pay by the click
    • Ah-Ha - online advertising company
    • IndexTools - a service that tracks the sites and web pages that are directing traffic to your web site... critical information if you want to generate more customer traffic to your site
  • Promotional
    • GoPromos - a promotional ideas and products store
    • iPrint - custom imprinted signs, gifts, apparel and other customized business related materials.
    • Gifts: Coffee Gift Baskets; Sharper Image Best Sellers
    • CorporateEvents - they do everything you need for live corporate events. From meeting logistics to creative production to technical staging, delivering your message with greater impact. In addition to their custom services, they have predefined events and concepts.
  • Advertising and Marketing Books
    • Marketing Kit for Dummies - By Alexander Hiam. A hands-on toolkit for creating and implementing marketing campaigns. Goes from basic principles to sophisticated strategies. Addresses pricing, positioning, product placement, budgeting, brand equity, POP displays and packaging. Includes a CD-ROM with fill-in-the blanks marketing forms and documents as well as software tools.
    • Marketing For Dummies - By Alexander Hiam. The Marketing 101 of how-to books... it's a good overview of the marketing.
  • Advertising and Marketing Software
    • Advertising Plan Pro - By Palo Alto. Amazingly complete. Develops integrated marketing communications campaigns, analyzes promotional opportunities, outlines objectives, creates ads, evaluates target markets and procedures, develops brand, corporate, and positioning strategies... it even estimates your communications budget. You couldn't ask for more. While it is a bit pricy... its still a bargain for all you get! Download
    • Marketing Plan Pro - By Palo Alto.Uses the same engine as Business Plan Pro., and has the same strengths and weaknesses. It helps you build an outline.. and generates really professional looking 3D charts. It will export the result of your work to PDF and Word .doc files. The editor is a bit weak, so you'll probably want to export the last draft to word and finish touching it up there. This program is worth it just for the great 3D colored charts it automatically generates... and it even helps you generate the power point presentation in which to place them. Download
    • Marketing Builder Interactive - By Jian Inc. Best for small or medium-sized businesses. Simplifies the process of creating a marketing program Tools for everyday marketing tasks. Plan, create, and measure your marketing projects and programs. Analyzes marketing options.

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