Are you a woman running your own business who is...

  • looking for practical advice on building a successful business?
  • wanting to cut through the overwhelm and get real answers on how best to promote your business?
  • looking for a friendly place to connect with other self-employed women?
  • or a marketing / business success expert wanting to share your expertise with fellow women business owners?

Then this site is for you!

Cool tools

I'm often asked to make recommendations of products and services that you can use to grow your business, automate your marketing, set up an email newsletter, sell products online, get a website up and running...and more.

So here is my list of the tools I recommend to help you market your business more effectively. Some are time-savers, some will simply help you get the job done. Some are more appropriate for technophobes, others for techies, and many of the tools are free to use.

I'll be adding more and more cool tools as I come across them, and if you have any suggestions that you think should be included, please feel free to email us on hello@WomensMarketingForum.com

How to use this section
You can either browse through the full list and explore the tools that might be useful to you (simply click on the header or image to view), or you can filter the tools by category.
To view tools for a specific category, simply select the category from the drop down box at the top of the list, and click Apply.

Enjoy! Louisa (WMF Founder)

1ShoppingCart / Total Business Cart

1ShoppingCart is the 'shopping cart of choice' of a large number of well-known internet marketers because of the large range of features it includes.

1ShoppingCart is the US version, and...

Aweber - Industry-standard autoresponder system

If you want to send out a series of emails to a mailing list - whether that's your newsletter, an ecourse, or anything else - you will need an autoresponder to do the job.

The one that I've...

BlogTalkRadio - get your own radio show for free!

BlogTalkRadio is a free service enabling you to create a radio show, or audio blog, for your business. The free version enables you to do quite a lot, and there are two paid packages with extra...

Constant Contact - Email marketing / ezine software

Constant Contact includes:

Customizable website visitor sign up form; Over 100 professional HTML email templates (newsletters, promos, invites and more); List management and hosting (...

Copyscape - find out if your copy has been restributed online without permission

This is a great free utility that allows you to check if your content has been copied by someone else and used without permission, infringing your copyright.

E-Junkie - Shopping cart and digital product delivery system

This is a great shopping cart for selling downloadable and physical products, which our esteemed WMF web designer uses for his own projects.

Here's the info from the E-Junkie website:

Ecademy

Popular online networking site, especially with small businesses. Ecademy has a membership of millions around the world, and the basic level of membership is free. (Spookily enough, the site's...

Facebook page for your business

Did you know that Facebook will allow you to create a 'fan page' specifically for your business?

Free Conference Call - for holding your own teleseminars/teleclasses

If you want to run your own teleseminars, then you'll need a teleconference supplier you can rely on.

There is a number of free services that you can use - we've always used this one, which...

Get Response - email marketing software with autoresponder

Email marketing software for creating HTML newsletters and mailings. Let’s you email customers, prospects, leads, referrals; anyone you need to communicate with to tell your product story....