Category: Business, Investing & Finance

• Media Planning and Buying Calculators
• SRDS Media Buyers info – advertising rates and data

• Screenflow– screen recording and editing
• Snagit – screen capture
• Camtasia – screen recording and video editing
• Jing – screenshots and screencasts
• Screen-o-Matic – cloud recording
• SnapzProX – mac screen capture software
• ScreenFlow – mac screen capture and effects
• Parleys.com – Synch video + slide

• VideoScribe – create awesome animated videos
• DunkTank – create product demo videos
• MyBrainshark – online and mobile videos
• Apptamin – App videos and websites
• Switch Video – produce an animated video
• Grumo Media – product demo videos
• Loose Keys – product videos as stories
• Piehole.tv – product demo videos
• Explainify – product explaining videos
• Thinkmojo – animated product videos
• Epipheo Studios – animated product videos
• How to roll you own – Grumomedia
• Amazon Elastic Transcoder – video transcoding in the cloud

• LaunchRock – Create a viral “coming soon” landing page
• LaunchSoon – create a coming soon landing page
• Prefinery– Beta and Launch Mgmt software
• LaunchEffect – WordPress Landing pages for viral launches
• Ooomf – iPhone app store build/push/launch
• Unbounce – create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages
• Instapage – create a free landing page
• KickoffLabs -product landing pages
• LaunchGator – create a viral landing page
• Atmio – mobile landing pages
• Lander – create a landing page in minutes
• Ion – create landing pages that convert

• Google Consumer Surveys
• SurveyAnyPlace
• Qualtrics – cloud-based survey, free account a complete game changer – incredibly well built and powerful
  • Qualtrics Wiki – Joseph Williams
• Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers
  • Using Mechanical Turk for Customer Discovery – Joseph Williams
• Qualaroo – target surveys, boost signups, increase usage
• KissInsights – survey visitors while they surf your site
• Wufoo – create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations
• AYTM – Ask Your Target Market
• Ethnio – Recruit real people from your website for user research
• Poplytics – online surveys and analytics
• AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys
• SurveyMonkey–  granddaddy of on-line surveys
• SurveyMoz – free on-line surveys
• QuestionPro – on surveys, plus templates
• SnapSurveys – online and mobile surveys
• PickFu – Instant Market feedback A/B testing, polls
• SurveyGizmo – free version, survey creation and data integration tools
• SmartSurvey – UK’s leading survey tool, complies with the Data Protection Act
• FormAssembly – Create order forms, service requests or registration forms and collect payment securely
• FluidSurvey – web/mobile/tablet surveys
• PollDaddy – from the makers of WordPress, powerful reporting & filtering

• LinkedIn Alumni – awesome way to contact school alumni
• Data.Com – find business connections
• Rapportive – find contacts inside of Gmail
• Hoovers – phone and email contacts for sale
• Harrisinfo – sales leads for sale
• InfoUSA – email lists for sale
• ThomasNet – find any company

• Google Trends – what are the search trends for key items
• Google Insights – breaks down the search data by location
• Facebook ads – check out the total available market
• Google Keyword Tool – how many searches done per month on any keyword phrase

• FounderDating – premiere site for founders/co-founders
• CoFoundersLab – find a co-founder in any city
• Stanford Business School Interns – hire a Stanford  Bus School intern cheap
• YouNoodle – founder matching
• FoundersHookUp – Invite-only find a co-founder
• Foundrs – co-founder equity calculator
• How to hire developers – mike greenfield
• Startup Weekend – Launch a Startup and meet a co-founder
• Meetup – go to a Meetup!
• PartnerUp– small business site to find partners, business opportunities, real estate, etc.
• Angel List – Angel List jobs board

• Startup Weekend– Launch a Startup in 54 hours
  • Startup Weekend Next – 5 weeks to build a startup for <$300
• Startup America Partnership – access to Relationships, Opportunities and Knowledge
• The Lean Startup Machine – Launch a Startup in 48 hours
• Startup Monthly – Launch a Startup in a month
• Startup Grind – community looking to be educated, and network with the smartest startup minds

When it comes to search engine optimization and internet marketing, getting inbound links from high quality websites (those that have a high Google page rank) is very important. One way to do this is by writing articles related to your website and including links from it to your site. Finding quality sites to submit articles to and managing your submissions can be a lot of work.

Following is a list of article submission sites with their Google Page Rank

1. Facebook
2. http://www.ehow.com/(7)
3. http://www.newsvine.com/ (7)
4. http://www.examiner.com (7)
5. www.squidoo.com (7)
6. www.gather.com (PR = 6)
7. www.hubbpages.com (PR = 6)
8. www.ezinearticles.com (PR = 6)
9. www.articlesbase.com/(5)
10. http://www.isnare.com/(5)
11. http://trcb.com/(3) Continue reading Article Submission Directories to Increase Inbound Links