We are listing TheRoboForm.com first because it truly is the one tool we cannot live without.

Imagine a tool that remembers all of your login usernames and passwords for you.

Go to a site, click a button and then next thing you know, it types your login and password for you and you’re all set.

It also allows you to go to any site that asks to fill out a form and with one click; it fills every single line on the page for you.

This is one tool every marketer MUST have. It is free for 30 days and trust us, if you do not have it, you will be thanking us for sharing this with you for years and years to come.

Click here to try it free www.TheRoboForm.com

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If there’s beauty in simplicity, then TinyURL is drop-dead gorgeous. It’s a FREE service that performs a singular function: converting those agonizingly long URLs common among websites into short Web addresses (URL) that are almost memorable.

It will, for example, turn something that looks like this
(not a real link)... http://maps.google.com/maps? f=g#hl=ent?=Parliament+Hill=Ottawa+Canada&ie=UTF8&z=10&ll=75.897654,-65.653428spn=0.89876=kklp?=!!76.89=+mkm?54.7878765,89870=+fg,kl=0.89876=kqlp?

...into something that looks like this (not a real link): http://tinyurl.com/2zw9t.

Use it whenever you want to cut, paste and send a long Web address by email without it breaking into unusable segments on the recipient’s end, or making your otherwise clean email message look like a brainteaser at a cryptographer’s convention.

Get it at www.TinyURL.com

As far as rightsizing absurdly long URLs goes, TinyURL is our tool of choice (we started to use it a long time before we read that article in Profit Magazine). However, it’s not the only tool of that nature out there. Here are three more we have NOT used personally, but about which we have read excellent recommendations from other successful internet marketers and home based business builders.

They are:

• www.SnipURL.com
• www.Digbig.com
• www.Doiop.com

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Still scribbling to-do lists on scraps of paper at home, at work and in the car? Toss them all and try Ta-da List, a FREE online to-do list that’s simpler to use than its rivals.

You can create as many lists as you want, from "Phone Calls to Return" to "Bills to Pay". And your main "My Lists" page offers a summary of all your lists, showing the number of items left to do in each.

Looking to delegate? You can share your lists with employees, associates, or anyone else of your choosing.

Get it at www.tadalist.com

When it comes to to-do lists, Ta-da List is our tool of choice (though we’ve only been using it since we read that article in Profit Magazine). However, it’s not the only tool of that nature out there. Here are two more we have NOT used personally, but about which we have read excellent recommendations from other successful internet marketers and home based business builders.

They are:

• www.Voo2do.com
• www.RememberTheMilk.com

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Online calendars have two big advantages over those in email programs such as Outlook: they’re easier to view from any place or device, and easier to share with business contacts, friends and family.

You can get started quickly on the FREE Google Calendar service by importing events from programs such as Outlook—though you’ll need third-party software such as CompanionLink to keep both calendars synchronized.

As you’d expect from Google, you can search your entries at warp speed. It can turn informal notes such as "Lunch with VP sales at The Keg 1 p.m. Monday" into entries. You can email invitations and receive replies even from non-users. And integration from Google Maps shows you where you’re going, not just when.

Get it at www.Google.com/calendar

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We’ve all entered the right keywords into a search engine, only to get the wrong results. Having to refine your search can be frustrating and time consuming—and Web 2.0 firms such as Digg, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon know it.

Enter the era of social bookmarking, a much more civilized way to find what you’re seeking. That’s because humans, not software, do the aggregating—first by bookmarking sites or articles they like, then by "tagging" the relevant keywords that ultimately make your search more accurate.

Since people govern social bookmarking sites, it pays to use a popular one. With 20 million users a month, the FREE Digg service is the current leader.

Once you sign up, you can "digg"—that is, show your approval of—your favorite blogs, sites, and articles. Better yet, use it for marketing by adding a "dig it" widget to your blog or site, which makes it more convenient for visitors to bookmark. The more hits you get, the higher you’ll appear in a search.

Get it at www.digg.com

Popular alternatives (that we do not use and have not tested or heard from our contacts):

• Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us
• StumbleUpon: www.stumbleupon.com
• Doggdot.us: http://doggdot.us

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Information overload is closer to being solved with "personalized news aggregators" such as Feeds 2.0. Also known as "feed readers", news aggregators gather syndicated Web content from disparate sources into a single consolidated view that spares you the bother of constantly checking your favorite blogs and podcasts.

Feeds 2.0 takes this idea a step further. Using sophisticated algorithms, this FREE service figures out your preferences and prioritizes feeds to suit your interests. It even recommends sites you’ve likely never heard of. You help it get smarter by marking pages you find interesting—and uninteresting. The more you use it, the smarter it gets.

Subscribe to Feed 2.0 at www.feeds2.com

A popular alternative (that we do not use and have not tested or heard about from our contacts) is Findory: http://findory.com

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