Google Trends

Tool:
Google Trends: Trend-discovery and Trend-Tracking Tool

URL:
google.com/trends

Key benefit:
Being able to discover new trends and opportunities and stay ahead of the game.

Tip:
Discover how popular certain products, product categories, people or events are. You can also use the tool to compare interest for up to five products or concepts. The underlying assumption here is that the trends can [...]

Google’s Keyword Popularity Estimator

Tool:
Keyword Popularity Estimator by Google

URL:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal?defaultView=2

Key benefit:
Just like Yahoo! tool described earlier on this blog, this keyword tool helps you identify the most popular keywords. This is extremely useful when designing your website, naming your website pages, doing SEO (search engine optimization) or when buying keyword ads. Even more importantly, the tool can help you estimate the online demand for your [...]

Online Collaboration – Google Documents

Tool:
Google Documents

URL:
http://docs.google.com

Key benefit:
Great tool to help you upload, edit and share your documents online

Tip:
Use this tool to upload your important documents and take them along “with you” wherever you go.  No need for memory stick any longer. You can access your documents anytime, anywhere… (no wonder this is called “cloud computing” : the documents go [...]

Zoho Online CRM

Tool:
Zoho  CRM

URL:
http://www.crm.zoho.com

Key benefit:
Online CRM (Customer Relationship System) helping you manage your sales tasks, contacts, leads, e-mails…

Tip:
Check out many other Zoho’s productivity and business applications, such as Zoho projects, Zoho meetings, etc. : http://www.zoho.com/

Price:
Free up to 3 users ($12 – $25 per user per month if more than three users)

Cyri:
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