To run a small online business requires a lot of energy and attention on every details. It have been a good practice for me to use some of the free services to help operate my business.
Google Calendar is a wonderful tools for me and my partners to share the events and remember what have been done. Most importantly, when the stuff were done. So I can come back to search the even few months later. We will know how we are doing.
Google Analytics is a great web tools to analyze the web site traffic. It allows a company to see how their web site is doing for their business. It has nice charting report showing the performance of the web pages. It also provides the marketing view of the reports.
AIMPhoneLine provides a free local phone number that I can use as my business contact number. Since I am doing online business, I pretty always online with AIM running on my desk. I can pickup the phone at any time. With reasonal montly fee, I can make calls to 35 countries with no extra charges. This is wonderful. I also get a good voicemail services which will notify me through email and text message on cell phone, when I am on the road. I can just dial the local number on my cell phone to listen to the voicemail.
AOL Pictures is another wonderful Free service from AOL. It provides unlimited photo storage space, I can easier to share my photos with friend. The most important part is that every pictures has their own URL. In other words, I can user the picture link for blog.


