13 Free Tools Every Online Publisher Should Know About Part I

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Useful Tools for the Online Publisher

To be a successful online publisher, you need some tools to help you run your publishing business. There are so many free and paid resources that can assist you. Below is a list of useful… and very FREE! tools that can make life easy for every publisher.

Some of these tools have premium or paid version . There are many other free and awesome tools around. This is just the first instalment – other tools will be mentioned in a future post.

1. Twitter – Very trendy and the search function updates even more instantly than the almighty Google. You can keep in touch with customers and prospects on the fly buy posting , tips , deals and trivia. This is a 140 character power tool you should be using already.
2. Freemind – This is a mind mapping tool that will help you plan your projects , brainstorming or just plain organise your thoughts.
3. Yugma is a no cost web conferencing facility that also offers collaboration and online sharing facilities. Though it has a paid option as well, the free version is superb and can comfortable get you started in hosting online seminars that you can record as an information product.
4. Youtube is still very hot for sharing videos and shooting your website high up in the search engines. You can create videos with your cell phone, web cam , or a screencasting software like Camtasia.
5. Ustream is the next big thing after Youtube – because you can stream live video to people all over the world in real time. You only need a video camera and internet connection and then you are set to go
6. Audacity – Want to create an audio program, podcast or increase value to your ebook by adding an audio version? Audacity is a very free and very high quality software for creating any type of audio product.
7. Jing is a screencasting facility that lets you create simple screencast videos . It is very user friendly and will help you share images and video.
8. Weebly – Move over web designers and your high charges. Weebly is a very useful tool for designing web sites and blogs. You can create a weebly site in minutes with their drag and drop functions. Even my 6 year old designed her own traffic tips site. You can also design the website on weebly, and then copy the code and host it with your own webhost.
9. Google Docs – This is a very quick way of sharing , editing and reading documents without downloading them to your computer.
10. Primopdf – Totally free pdf creation tool and also a great free alternative to adobe acrobat.
11. Firefox browser and extensions – Firefox is a browser used by serious online marketers. Apart from the fact that it is very fast in loading time, it also has so many plugins that will make life easier for you.
12. Skype – Skype is an online instant messenger that lets you communicate with people via voice, text or video in real time. It also has supporting plugins for recording conversations. This comes in very handy if you care conducting audio interviews.
13. WordPress – Super power blog publishing platform. You can either have a blog on the wordpress network, or host the blog on your own server. Whichever route you go, wordpress is still super duper in the area of publishing information.

There are many more free tools that will greatly help you in publishing your information online. However, I have started with these to get you up and running with creating your on information products with zero cost and professional results. The only thing stopping you is..you!