Andrew Lock knows a great free Web resource when he finds one or, in this case, four. Over at SmallBusinessComputing.com, our marketing guru recommends a printable coupon resource, a domain typo generator, a digital clipping service and a way to stay up-to-date on your industry’s trends.

FiltrBox

FiltrBox.com (Click for larger image).

If you currently use Google alerts as a research tool or to be notified whenever your business is mentioned online, then you’ll love FiltrBox.com. It’s kind of like Google Alerts on steroids. Now the downside to Google Alerts is that it only gives you results from the Web. FiltrBox on the other hand, searches offline publications including major newspapers and magazines, as well as blogs and even Twitter.

So if the keywords that you specify appear in any of those sources, you’ll know about it. Now what’s interesting is that this kind of clipping service used to cost many thousands of dollars a month, but it’s now completely free. FiltrBox is very easy to set up, they’ll send you a daily briefing e-mail, which is very nicely laid out and easy to read. There’s also a premium paid version of the system available that gives you unlimited search terms and other benefits, but frankly I have everything I need in the free version

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