Business Tools (FREE)

Some of these are free, others are low cost and worth the investment.

Running a profitable business means keeping things simple and automating everything you can. Don't wait until later. Automate everything possible to focus the majority of your time on clients, on sales and on product creation.

More than 230 business tools - many free

That link takes you to a list of many tools that you can use. Here are the kinds of thing you are going to need to think about. (Where available we have used our affiliate links)

Proposals and Contracts - 1,000's of free examples - DocStoc.com
Shopping Cart with Affiliate Program - 1ShoppingCart.com
Bookkeeping - We use quickbooks online
Billing and Invoicing - We use Billingorchard - Freshbooks is popular
eNewsletter - We use aWeber
Website and blog hosting - We use Bluehost and Outstanda Hosting
Business Planning - We use PlanHQ
CRM (Sales Software) - We use Zoho CRM
Online Databases - We use Zoho Creator
Charge Card processing - We use FastCharge (but Authorize.net has some advantages)
Domain Registrar - We use Outstanda Hosting
Website Analytics - We use Google Analytics
Contact Management - We use Plaxo and Highrise
Online Documents - We use Google Docs

You should look at other solutions before going with any of these. We simply list them so that you can see what kinds of things we use and for what.