Campaigner: Free E-Mail Marketing
Campaigner is an online hosted solution for delivering e-mail marketing campaigns to your site subscribers. Using Campaigner, you can automate the process of sending professional, permission-based e-mail marketing. The software has a step-by-step creation wizard, HTML templates, easy-to-change form fields for personalization, a preview and test function used before sending the mailing and a dashboard from which you can analyze and track e-mail marketing campaign results.
For those new to e-mail campaigns, the Campaigner service lets you sign up for a free trial account that will let you send your marketing news mail to 12 or less contacts. The free trial offers full access and is not based on a time limit. Another plus: you don't have to provide any credit card information upfront to use the trial offer. If you do like Campaigner, you can choose a monthly pricing plan that starts at $25 per month for a monthly volume of 2,500 e-mails.
myImager.com: Free Image Editing
Offered by Cool Archive, myImager.com lets you freely upload images and use the Web-based application to edit the files with their tools and image filters provided by the Web site.
The service is free but does come with a couple restrictions. The image cannot be larger than 500kb, and since myImager.com deletes files every day, you do need to save the images back on to your own hard drive after editing them online.
Under the "File" option you can choose to work with a new image, create a new button or texture. Here you also find the open and save options. To work with an existing image you use the "Browse" feature to upload it from your hard drive, or enter in a Web location. When editing your image, you can choose options such as resize, rotate or flip. The Adjust menu has controls for changing brightness, hue, saturation, gamma and also lets you change to a black & white image and other options. Under "Effects" you can choose a variety of effects including blur, soften, charcoal, oil and more. Lastly, you can optimize the image in GIF or JPG format.
Widgetbox: Free Web Widgets
WidgetBox is a free online directory of Web widgets that lets you search for widgets, and, once you customize the mini-application, you can add it to your own Web site or online publishing spaces.
The site makes it easy to search for widgets by category; Communication, Fun & Games, Interests, Information, Media, MixIts, Money makers, News and more.
Once you find a widget that makes for a good match with your own site and content, you customize the Web widget by changing colors, text and any affiliate user IDs where applicable. Widgetbox will provide you with code you copy and paste onto your own site, or customized code for use on specific blog services.
Vangie Beal is a seasoned eBay seller, long-time online bargain hunter, frequent contributor to ECommerce-Guide.com and managing editor of Webopedia.com.
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