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Source: www.ecommerce-guide.com
              Start 2008 with Five E-Commerce Freebies
              By Vangie Beal 

Summary:

            There are ways to start your business or even continue your business with just a little cost or even for free by knowing many useful e-commerce solutions. You can make your web sites as professional like any other site in web. In her article, five different types of tools that you can use to help organize and promote your online businesses and products are outlined.

 1.    E-Junkie: Free Shopping Cart – This tool can be embedded directly into your web site. It’s a very simple but professional shopping cart. Together with PayPal standard, PayPal Pro, Google checkout and Authorized.Net, you can sell digital downloads and tangible items. Some features mentioned are automated shipping, handling calculations, sales tax calculations, inventory management, product promotion and many more. This tool is for free for non-profit organizations.
2.    Microsoft Office Accounting Express: Free Accounting – This Microsoft tool is for free and fully functional. It will provide you to access most used accounting functions such as invoicing, bill payment, online banking, a general ledger, add-on services for payroll, credit card processing, and eBay. This tool is also connected with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook. You can also send invoices in an e-mail message and include a direct link to PayPal. Your customers can open the message to view the invoice and click the link to make a payment.
3.    Campaigner: Free E-Mail Marketing – It will help you send campaigns to your customers. This can also help you with automate the process of sending professional, permission-based e-mail marketing. It has a step-by-step creation wizard, HTML templates, easy-to-change form fields for personalization, preview and test function used before sending the mailing and a dashboard that you can analyze and track e-mail marketing campaign results.
4.    myImager.com: Free Image Editing – you can freely upload images and edit files with the provided tools of this site. This whole thing is for free but with some restrictions such as image cannot be larger than 500kb, since this site deletes file every day, you should save your work to your own hard drive.
5.    Widgetbox: Free Web Widgets – It is an online Web directory that you can use to search for widgets and can add it to your site. It is easy to use because searching is by category. This Widgetbox can provide you with code that you can paste and can be used to your blog services.

 Conclusions:

           It’s really great to read such articles that can provide us some of the Web tools we can use for our online businesses with not spending too much money. You can already customize your sites by just using some of these free available tools. It’s easy for you to make your sites professional enough that can compete to your other competitors. We should always be resourceful because it can make a way to success. But of course to be knowledgeable enough in the things you are doing also matters.