Web Business Tools

• Expensify: Get a handle on all of your business expenses and invoices so you can concentrate on more important things.
• Freshbooks:  Create online invoices, time tracking and expense services in seconds
• QuickBooks: Online accounting platform suitable for small business
• Wave Accounting: Made specifically for entrepreneurs, freelancers, consultants and small businesses with 9 employees or less. And it’s 100% free.

• Zendesk: Streamline your customer service interface, create support boards and streamline your response time.
• GetSatisfaction: A great customer community platform for interacting with your users, getting feedback and providing technical support.
• SurveyMonkey: Build free surveys to conduct market research, and keep a pulse on customer desires and satisfaction.

• Recurly: For any business that offers subscription or recurring billing, Recurly provides a simple solution for getting this done.
• Shopify:  Set up a fully hosted and customizable online shopping cart that accepts all global currencies.
• Vendio:A platform for selling your goods on multiple e-Commerce channels, including Amazon, eBay,Facebook and more.
• Presta Shop: free e-commerce solution provides everything you need to open, operate and maintain a successful online shop
• Magento: Grow your online business with Magento!
• WooCommerce: Popular WordPress eCommerce plugin and free
• WP e-Commerce: WP eCommerce is a free, powerful plugin that empowers you to sell anything online, quickly and easily
• Square: Simple pricing, fast deposits, and a free card reader at signup. Start accepting credit cards today
• Stripe: Checkout. A beautiful, optimized, cross-device payment form, with support for single click payments
• Chasepaymentech – preferable rates with Partners (Meridian Credit Union, CFIB, Restaurants Canada, Restaurant Council, Scotiabank
• Moneris – Join venture between RBC Royal Bank and BMO Bank of Montreal
• TD Merchant Services – preferable rates for Chamber of Commerce and Boards of Trade members

• Zendesk: Find better talent with cross-job-board posting, resume screening and a point-based score chart to find the best candidates.
• Intelius: Run a background check on prospective employees, browse criminal records and other information.
• AnyPerk: Reward employees with one of the most comprehensive perks programs out there, which provides discounts in countless services.
• HR Downloads - HR Advice, Support, Training, Surveys, and Documentation all in one place

• Online Image Editor
• Remove Background Image
• picmonkey.com
• ipiccy
• Inkscape
• Gimp
• SnapSeed
• Canva - design templates for social posts, print ads, and more
• Vengage - The Do’s And Don’ts of Infographic Colour Selection

• Legal Zoom Business Attorney Plan: Plan specifically tailored to small businesses, reviews of contracts and other legal documents
• Docusign: The most prominent service for eSignatures that is both legal and secure.
• Trademarkia: Search over 6 million registered logos, names and slogans to make sure your name or idea isn’t taken.

• Mailchimp, MailerLite, MadMimi & Constant Contact:  Email marketing made simple
• Vertical Response - Email Marketing
• Spyfu: A keyword tool for comparing the SEM tactics of your competitors, measure success in your online advertising and SEO campaigns.
• HubSpot: This all-in-one inbound marketing software facilitates SEO blogging tips, lead nurturing, marketing automation and more.
• Buffer – A better way to share on social media
• Hootsuite – Social Media Management Dashboard
• Reeder – Blog reader for IOS/Mac
• Feedly – Blog reader for Android and IOS

• Yammer:  Create a private social network for your contacts to collaborate virtually, share files and spread knowledge.
• Carbonite, Dropbox, Box: Excellent and affordable cloud storage and online backup for any business.
• Trello: An efficient collaboration tool that allows you to organize your projects (completed, pending and in-progress) into simplified boards.
• Evernote – Remember everything
• LibreOffice
• OpenOffice
• Google Docs
• WPS Office

• Highrise: Organize notes, tasks and email conversations for up to 30,000 customers, leads, partners and contacts.
• Velocify:  sales management solution specifically tailored to turn leads into conversion, and track your performance so you can easily improve your sales.
• Bidsketch: Create professional and clean client proposals in just minutes, and get a certified client signature when they approve.
• Proposify - create templates where you can easily plug in different information for different proposals. Templates also available.

• UserTesting: Get in-depth and immediate feedback on your website experience from real users, including a video of their experience as well as written answers to your questions.
• Jira: A simple and clean bug tracking and reporting system that helps you prioritize and assign issues and work through them quickly.
• MixPanel: A premiere analytics service for mobile and the web, focused on measuring very specific user actions and activity.

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• Balsamiq: For your next business presentation, Balsamiq allows you to mockup and design your ideas on a virtual whiteboard so they’re easier to share, modify, and get feedback on.
• 99Designs: Run a graphic, logo, or web design contest, and walk away with multiple ideas and access to hundreds of designers.
• Amazon Web Services: An amazing service that allows you to run your entire business from the cloud, from business applications to mobile apps
• Crowdsite:
• Crowdspring
• Freelancer:
• GreenGeeks: Domain Registration and Hosting Services
• Website Builder Report Canadian Comparison list of the top website builders