Here are my favorite business and social bookmarks listed by Alexa Rank, Part 3
| http://www.ecademy.com/ |
7778 |
Ecademy is a membership organisation for entrepreneurs and business owners who belong to a community that connects, supports and transacts with one another. |
| http://www.sphinn.com |
7969 |
Sphinn is a curated content site for search and online marketers. Sphinn accepts news tips and discussion topics from readers and aggregates the best of those with selections made by our editors to produce an ongoing look at the most important online marketing content each day. Sphinn is best used for discovering news stories and how-to articles and/or reading and participating in discussions with industry peers. Here’s a summary of how to get started: |
| startupnation |
10520 |
StartupNation is a free service founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We created this site to be your one-stop shop for entrepreneurial success, and we’re thrilled that StartupNation has grown to be the leading online content and community resource for entrepreneurs. |
| http://www.connotea.org |
10864 |
Free online reference management for clinicians and scientists |
| http://www.focus.com/ |
12714 |
Focus makes the world’s business expertise available to everyone. At the heart of Focus is a network of thousands of leading business and technology experts who are thought leaders, veteran practitioners and upstart innovators in hundreds of different topics and markets. |
| youngentrepreneur |
13996 |
Our social network and blog properties showcase Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Online Business Strategies, Interviews, and several features, solutions and support to assist small business owners with starting, managing and growing successful business ventures. We cater to the entrepreneurial passions of our audience, giving them all the latest news, conversations, small business webinars, access to seasoned experts and of course access to the most active community of like-minded entrepreneurs. |
| http://www.blogster.com/ |
14350 |
Blogster is an online community of people who share interests and activities, and are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. People use Blogster to write about topic they like, upload photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet |
| http://www.biznik.com/ |
15874 |
It sucks growing a business alone. No one cares. But we do. Biznik is an award-winning community of entrepreneurs and small businesses dedicated to helping each other succeed. |
| smallbusinessbrief |
18240 |
Fetching the Best Small Business News |
| fastpitchnetworking |
20786 |
Fast Pitch is a Global Network of Professionals connecting online with the primary goal to add value to their business and the community as a whole. Business networking and marketing is the life blood of local and global economies. By combining sophisticated and simple tools online with a social networking platform, professionals can receive real return on their investment. |
| http://www.clipclip.org |
24889 |
Cut, Copy & Paste the Web |
| http://www.ryze.com/ |
33560 |
Ryze helps you expand your business network. Get a FREE networking-oriented homepage. Make quality business contacts. Re-connect with friends — You probably know people in here already. Help your company make deals through Ryze members. Build your network BEFORE you need it! |
Here are my favorite business and social bookmarks listed by Alexa Rank (Baker’s Dozen) – Part 4 of 4
| http://homebasedbusiness.com/ |
34757 |
The Home Based Business Network is a community of like-minded people from around the world who enjoy the freedom of working from home and for themselves |
| www.gobignetwork.com/ |
41476 |
The Go BIG Network is an on-line marketplace that connects the startup and small business community. The company allows startup companies, funding sources, advisors, and service providers to post requests for help on-line and have those requests routed to other members of the Network who can help them. |
| www.younoodle.com/ |
43179 |
Meet exceptional people. Join the startup of your dreams. Show the world your support for cool entrepreneurs. What are you noodling on today? |
| www.efactor.com/ |
51311 |
EFactor, the world’s largest entrepreneurial community, provides resources that every small business owner needs: funding, knowledge, gain revenue and save cost. At EFactor, entrepreneurs exchange ideas with experts, receive exclusive discounts on business tools, interact with potential partners or clients, and discover funding for their startups. With close to a million users in 168 countries, EFactor offers a unique mix of online and offline E.vents in the US and internationally. Members join EFactor to make relevant connections, taking their businesses to the highest level. EFactor is headquartered in San Francisco, and founded by a team of successful serial entrepreneurs. |
| www.thefunded.com/ |
59317 |
TheFunded.com is an online community of over 14,500 CEOs, Founders and entrepreneurs to discuss fundraising, rate and review investors, and discuss strategies to grow a start-up business. Enjoy! |
| www.PartnerUp.com |
60329 |
The social network for small business |
| www.ziggs.com/ |
100965 |
Ziggs is your one-stop source for creating and managing your online brand. Market yourself on the Web and simplify how you stay in touch with people important to you. People who use Ziggs enjoy comprehensive online personal branding that they control, top visibility in search engines, easy communications and a strong sense of community with people important to them. As well as networking opportunities with millions of other professionals. |
| http://sta.rtup.biz/ |
106144 |
The Small Business Social Network |
| http://mybbwo.com/ |
184121 |
A Social Network for Women in Business, Women Entrepreneurs, and Bloggers |
| www.perfectbusiness.com/ |
194699 |
Our website is a network of entrepreneurs, investors and business experts. Everyone on our site is here to encourage entrepreneurship and mutual success. PerfectBusiness will introduce you to new business contacts and answer your toughest questions. You will not be alone in launching and growing your business. We are YOUR network. We are behind YOU. Whenever you need answers or help, think PerfectBusiness. |
| www.talkbiznow.com/ |
207273 |
Talkbiznow is a web-based business community that provides business services for small businesses and professionals. Our mission is to simplify the essential business services and seamlessly integrate and deliver them through the internet forFree. Our members can network, collaborate with each other, promote and do business online at Talkbiznow. |
| http://cofoundr.com/ |
224540 |
Cofoundr is the fastest growing online network for Entrepreneurs! Join the private community of startups founders — developers, investors, CEOs, advisors, programmers, and designers — to find co-founders, build teams, and get advice. Make your new venture a success by joining Cofoundr now! |
| http://unstructure.org/ |
228522 |
Unstructure is an open discussion platform for business professionals, bloggers and contemporary thought leaders to discuss and debate action ideas that would aid the evolution of business. Unstructure consists of an online discussion forum (where you are currently), an annual physical event and a book of insight and action ideas for businesses of the future. |
| www.upspring.com/ |
298348 |
The easy way to connect, communicate and manage your business and professional community networks. |
| networkingforprofessionals |
349830 |
“We put you in touch with serious and successful professionals online and face-to-face, expanding your business opportunities and accelerating the way you network. And nothing is more important to your business than networking! “ |
| www.raisecapital.com/ |
515503 |
RaiseCapital.com is an online community, where entrepreneurs can display their business ideas and capital needs to investors. Whether your venture is a start-up or existing business, RaiseCapital.com is the perfect vehicle for entrepreneurs seeking capital. |
| www.fledgewing.com/ |
563676 |
FledgeWing provides aspiring student entrepreneurs with the framework they need to develop, build and launch innovative new companies. |
| www.jasezone.com/ |
766209 |
We are an online neighborhood gathering spot for friends around the world. |
| www.addyx.com |
1412159 |
Addyx is a Web 2.0 social news portal about people and sports powered by You |
An intro to one of my favorite Internet tools
In the Internet industry, IP addresses are very much like postal addresses. They identify your location and your neighborhood. Internet tools that query IP addresses can produce a ton of information about who you are and who you’re associated with. For instance, Internet tools can tell if you’re blacklisted, display WHOIS information showing administrative and technical contacts, show upstream providers, and if you have a website, when that domain was created and when it’s due to expire.
One of my favorite Internet tools is Robtex.
Robtex is known as the Swiss army knife Internet tool because its so versatile. When you open Robtex, the first thing you’ll notice is that it displays your IP address with tons of information related to it like:
RBL and DNS checks
DNS reverse and forwards
Your entire c-network
WHOIS lookup information for a domain
Route checks
AS numbers
BGP announcements
AS macros
RFC documents
DMOZ
And it will display the same information for any IP or domain, so if you want to query backbone connections for any provider, you can simply enter that providers domain name and instantly see their upstream. Across the top navigation bar, you’ll see tabs for Summary, Records, Graph, Shared, Whois, Blacklists, Analysis and Contact. Want to know host names sharing an IP with A records – it’s there. Or domains using this as name server under another name – there again. Is your IP blacklisted? Check and keep your fingers crossed the links are all green (a good thing).
Social networking should be an integral part of your marketing strategy. It seems like a lot of social bookmarks vanish over time, so I’ve compiled a short list here of active social bookmarking sites, ranked in order from highest to lowest in PageRank. Note that some sites ranked low in PageRank still rank high in SERPS.
I did double check each of these sites today and found that some that I had bookmarked had disappeared, so they’re no longer on this list. If you have other favorites, please post them on a comment and I’ll add them to the list.
Press releases should be – an integral part of your marketing strategy. They increase brand name recognition, as well as get the word out about what you do and what you have to offer.
Are press releases expensive – not if you use the services I’ve listed below. In addition to the links, I’ve added their current Alexa rank and verbage from their site.
| http://pr-gb.com
Alexa Rank 24692
PR-GB.com is a free press release distribution service.
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| http://www.seenation.com
Alexa Rank 10773
This site is a free, simple, easy, express and very effective way to distribute (over the web) your company press releases.
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| http://www.indiaprwire.com/
Alexa Rank 17175
India PRwire is India’s only FREE Online Press Release Distribution Service to over 6000+ media contacts
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| http://pressrelease.made-from-india.com/
Alexa Rank 20942
Free press release submission service for business world
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| http://www.pressabout.com/
Alexa Rank 16537
Free Press Release Distribution
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| http://www.prwindow.com
Alexa Rank 28377
PRWindow is a new window of Press Release Distribution. We distribute press releases by email, RSS and posting to search engines, newswires and websites.
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| http://www.prurgent.com
Alexa Rank 17190
A Free Press Release Service
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| http://www.i-newswire.com
Alexa Rank 8735
The fastest and easiest press release distribution service and free press release submission online.
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| http://pr-usa.net/
Alexa Rank 15560
After your PR is submitted, it will be checked if it contains any forbidden data – adult, violence, racist content, aggressive religious content, etc. If no such problems, it will be published (up to 24 hours).
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| http://www.pr-canada.net/
Alexa Rank 84082
Submit Your PR for Free
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| http://www.onlineprnews.com/
Alexa Rank 8802
Free Press Release
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| http://www.mediasyndicate.com/
Alexa Rank 24771
MediaSyndicate is a free press release and newswire posting website that enables small and medium sized businesses to get information out to the general public in a fast and efficient manner.
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| http://www.free-press-release-center.info
Alexa Rank 18972
Free Press Release Center
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| http://www.pressbooth.org
Alexa Rank 103779
Free Press Release Distribution for Technology IT Media Companies
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| http://www.pressmethod.com
Alexa Rank 15266
Pict Pict Send your press release directly to over 19732 Public Media in the industry via PressMethod.com, price as low as FREE.
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| http://www.clickpress.com
Alexa Rank 13400
All submissions are free and news releases will remain in our searchable archives indefinitely.
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| http://www.pressbox.co.uk
Alexa Rank 13141
Since its launch in 1999, pressbox has become one of the pre-eminent online media resource portals acting as an online hub between opt in journalists and PR organisation and business. PR professionals are able to post unlimited press releases to the pressbox newswire and directory. Opt in journalists are then able to browse the directory in their own time and make contact about stories they are interested in.
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| http://www.ukprwire.com
Alexa Rank 25577
All submissions are free and news releases will remain in our searchable archives indefinitely.
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| http://www.publicitywires.com
Alexa Rank 61140
Without Contribution – 14 days listing
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| http://www.freepressindex.com/
Alexa Rank 9389
Online Press Release Distirbution Service
http://pr.prlog.org
Alexa Rank 844
All of our services are free, many of them unmatched by anyone else.
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