Now we’re goingto share three advertising myths about Facebook that many companies believe tobe true, but which actually aren’t:

MYTH: If you build a fan page, they will come.

One of thebiggest myths that companies new to Facebook marketing believe is that oncethey get their fan page up and running, people will naturally flock to it. Onthe contrary. The real—and hard—work in Facebook marketing happens after you build a fan page. 

It’s easy to putup a fan page. You only have to fill in important details such as your company websiteaddress and contact info and upload a photo or a corporate logo. But for a fanpage to gain fans, you need people—Facebook users—to “like” your page. How doyou do that if you don’t let people know about the existence of this Facebookpage? You can gain more fans and followers by advertising your Facebook page.Link your website to your fan page and vice versa. Encourage business employeesto add a link to your Facebook page to their e-mail signatures. Linking yourFacebook page on Twitter and in your blog helps to build awareness, too. Youcan also gain more fans by posting a targeted ad or by suggesting that yourFacebook contacts “like” your fan page.

MYTH: If fans like my brand, they will start a discussion.

Fans won’t starttalking until there’s something to talk about. How can you get your fanstalking? First you have to initiate the conversation. You can do this byposting status updates, photos, videos, or anything related to your brand. Youcan also ask your fans a question to get them to answer, or you can hold acontest and offer a gift to encourage Facebook fans to be more active in yourfan page. Don’t forget that the advertising of your Facebook contest will help tobring in more participants. 

MYTH: What people say about my brand on Facebook doesn’t matter.

Manybrick-and-mortar companies, not understanding the power of social media, shrugoff the complaints that they come across on social network sites such asFacebook, dismissing these as just chatter. What these companies fail torealize is that on Facebook, everyone has a voice and that anything posted by aFacebook user will be seen by hundreds of friends. These complainers may not becelebrities and they may not matter to your brand, but their opinion of youwill be seen by hundreds of their friends. What they say will influence theirfriends’ idea about a brand, person, or entity. That in itself is a form of companyadvertising on Facebook — only negative. The lesson? Listen to what your fanshave to say, and do something about it. 

In the same waythat you need to take care of your offline relationships, it’s also importantthat as a brand, you take care of your online relationships with your fans andfollowers. Listen to them. Engage them. Get to know them better. Pick theirminds. You will find that marketing your brand on Facebook will not only expandit online, but you will also pick up ideas that can help you improve yourbusiness.

Turning your website into a hub for social interaction used to involve linking your site’s visitors to a long list of external social media websites, or adding lots of widgets and buttons to your web pages. Now there are better ways to make your website more interactive and easier to manage.

A social media toolbar consolidates your entire social media presence into your website and displays buttons that allow your visitors to interact with your content in a toolbar on the bottom of the browser screen. That way, your visitors can like, tweet, share, discuss, review and read all of your social media content without navigating away from your website.

Social media toolbars are available from several companies
, and they are easy to add to your website, even if you’re a do-it-yourselfer. I like Meebo and Wibiya, but you can find other toolbar applications to suit your needs.

To add a toolbar to your site, sign up for an account with your favorite application provider, and then follow the instructions for copying the toolbar code into your website. Once the code is in your website’s HTML code, the toolbar will display at the bottom of the screen. (You can see an example here.)

Once the toolbar is active, you can log in to the application’s
dashboard to customize it. You can add and delete buttons or chat live with site visitors. All the changes made in your dashboard are automatically sent to your toolbar so you don’t have to keep updating your website code. You can also add completely custom buttons and features if you are familiar with simple JavaScript coding, or hire a programmer who is.

This list shows you the features you should consider adding to your toolbar, along with a description of what each feature does. Make sure you choose only the features that are likely to promote awareness and immediate sales. As with any website content, less is usually more.

Feature: Facebook Interactions
What it does: Enables visitors to like, share and discuss your website content
on Facebook. Also pulls your Facebook fan page feeds into the toolbar so website visi-tors can read your wall, register for events and interact with other applications such as contests and coupons.

Feature: Twitter Feed
What it does: Allows visitors to view tweets from your Twitter page, lists and searches without the need to devote a lot of space on your website to a Twitter widget.

Feature: Content Sharing
What it does: Allows visitors to share an entire page or drag content such as a photo to share on Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, Yahoo! or via e-mail.

Feature: Blog Feed
What it does: Pulls your blog’s RSS feed into your toolbar.

Feature: Instant Messaging
What it does: Gives your visitors access to a chat room where they can have live discussions with you, your employees and others using any instant messaging ser-vice, such as Yahoo!, AOL, Facebook Chat, or Google Talk.

Feature: Bookmarking
What it does: Makes it easy for website visitors to add your website’s page to a bookmarking site like Digg or StumbleUpon.

Feature: Navigation
What it does: Puts important links in a toolbar menu that’s easy for people to see and stays on every page without taking up too much navigation space.

Feature: Commenting and Recommendations
What it does: Allows your website visitors to leave comments that others will see when they visit the same page.

Feature: Watching Video
What it does: Pulls videos from YouTube and other sites to your website.

Feature: Viewing Photos
What it does: Pulls images from Flickr or other photo sites so your website visitors can view pictures without navigating through a clumsy or space-consuming website photo gallery.

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LiteAccounting – Invoice and track payment from your customers without a bunch of extra, useless features.

Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place.

ContractPal – Take your contracts and forms paperless and have them completed, validated, signed and processed online.

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more.

Citrus – An online billing website that allows your customers to view, download and pay their invoices by credit card or direct debit.

Zapproved – Create and send proposals, manage the approval process and reach agreements without any hassle.

Mumboe – Online contract and business agreement management app.

FinanciFY – Easy to use online financial management tools for small businesses and individuals.

Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more.

Zoho Invoice – Manage invoices and payments, format invoices and quotes, set up recurring invoices, and more, with free and paid plans.

GoToBilling – An online app that manages invoices and payments, marketing, customer relationship management and more.

NetBooks – Marketing, sales, inventory and financial control in one place.

Pulse – Cash flow management app for small businesses.

Shoeboxed – Online tracking and organizing of your receipts.

FreeAgent Central – Accounting and money management app for freelancers.

CurdBee – An online billing application that integrates with payments through PayPal or Google Checkout.

Clarity Accounting – Online accounting for small businesses and professionals with multi-user support.

Calendars & Scheduling

Appointy () – An online appointment management tool.

SuperSaaS – This is online scheduling software that allows you to accept appointments booked directly on your website.

BookingPad – An online bookings system that can be integrated into any website.

clickbook – A free online booking and scheduling program.

eXpireTrack – Track and plan for the date that products are to expire.

Scheduly () – Add your business to their directory and then let your clients pick their own appointment time slots (from your available slots).

When is Good – Find out the best time for everyone to meet without the hassle.

Shiftboard – Online scheduling for businesses to coordinate worker schedules.

Robyn – Easy online scheduling for service providers.

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time.

TimeBridge – See the availability of everyone you need to meet with.

Charts, Diagrams, and Whiteboards

Exploratree – Online mind mapping software that provides ready-made thinking guides.

Wisdomap – A simple mind mapping application.

Best4C – An online charting and diagramming tool.

Scriblink – A simple, free online whiteboard.

Gliffy () – Online diagramming and charting software.

Mindomo – Free online mind mapping software.

Mapul – Online mind mapping that allows you to create organic looking mind maps.

WiseMapping – Free mind mapping software that allows you to publish and share your mind maps.

Collaboration & Workgroups

Homecourt – Homecourt is a Web-based collaboration tool.

blogtronix – An enterprise social platform that includes blogs, wikis, documents and social media so that users in large and small organizations can collaborate and build communities inside and outside their company.

WorkflowPerfect – A Web-based business process tool that facilitates collaboration.

ClientSpot – A project collaboration and time tracking software specifically for virtual assistants and other freelancers.

skrbl – Online collaboration and white board space.

Planzone – Secure and private collaborative project workspace to share files, manage tasks, and communicate with others.

Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues.

DeskAway – An online project collaboration app aimed at small businesses and teams that organizes, manages and tracks your online work.

Mentat – A free project-sharing service accessible from a browser of supported devices (including BlackBerry).

Easy Projects .NET – Project collaboration software that offers both a downloadable option and a hosted version.

Ecto Connect – An online collaboration, communication and content sharing app.

Clearspace – An online collaboration suite that includes documents, blogs, discussions, projects, and more.

Twiddla () – An online conference tool that allows you to mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or brainstorm on a blank canvas.

Sosius – Online workspace that includes a contact & group manager, custom workspace, file management, calendar, blog, discussions, chat, and more.

CollectiveX – Create free group sites for collaboration and networking.

Yammer () – A twitter-like app for getting updates from your co-workers.

BrightIdeasLab – An online home for all your brilliant ideas that also offers collaborative brainstorming space.

Ximdesk – Collaboration and social networking platform for enterprise.

Status () – A Twitter ()-like app for keeping your work group connected.

GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together.

Kindling – Idea management and collaboration tool that lets you vote on ideas.

Conferences, Presentations & Meetings

Expectnation – A conference program organizing software.

KinetiCast – Create online presentations, deliver them, and then track who’s watching.

Gretastudio – Create on-demand presentations for your company’s products, record training and e-learning materials, or other types of presentations that require audio or video content.

280Slides – A free online presentation software that allows you to import existing documents, download to PowerPoint, publish to the Web and more.

SlideRocket – Design professional quality presentations and then deliver them in person or over the Web.

vcasmo – Presentation software for business presentations, academic teaching, seminars, conferences, sales pitching, live events and more.

slideboom – Allows you to share PowerPoint presentations live online.

Empressr – A visual storytelling and presentation application.

Zoho Show – Create embeddable presentations online, present from a remote location, or share and collaborate on presentations.

slidelive – Present Microsoft PowerPoint presentations live online with this browser-based meeting solution.

Text The Mob – Collect feedback during presentations and seminars by posting polls or message boards on a large screen and having your audience send their input via their cell phones.

ReadyTalk – Online Web meeting and audio conferencing solutions.

Persony – Inexpensive Web conferencing service.

Calliflower – Conference calling tools that include Skype () integration, invitations and reminders, and more.

GoToMeeting – Online meeting and conferencing software.

buzz2biz – A free online meeting platform.

MyCommittee – Online tracking of meeting agendas and minutes.

GroupLoop – Web-based committee organizing software.

Crowdsourcing, Networking & Community

Wild Apricot – Online tools for clubs, associations, and communities that include email newsletters, blogs, discussion forums, a member database and more.

OctopusCity – Build your online business network, keep in touch with people through mini-feeds, messaging and free teleconferencing, and save time by keeping one universal address book system.

LittleEngine – A community of small businesses and their patrons that are committed to buying locally and supporting local businesses.

Advisor Garage – A social network that connects entrepreneurs who need advice with advisors on just about any business-related topic.

Xing () – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals.

Cambrian House – A free crowdsourcing app.

Socialcast – Private online communities of all sizes to help organize enterprise communication that allows employees to decide how to find and use information while reducing email clutter and unproductive communications.

CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs.

cmypitch.com – Online networking for entrepreneurs, investors and service providers that helps connect people who can help each other succeed.

Customer Relationship Management, Customer Service & Contact Management

Mojo Helpdesk – Mojo Helpdesk allows you to track customer requests, keep your customers and your staff informed about what’s happening with their accounts, and deliver better service.

TagTicket – This hosted helpdesk software is great for managing customer problems as well as in-house issues. There’s nothing to install, and it allows you to manage, track and share your emails and files with other staff.

RightNow – RightNow is an on-demand customer relationship management program that integrates sales, service, marketing, feedback and voice functions.

sfa finity – This CRM software offers all the regular features, plus account-centric, contact-centric and opportunity-centric perspectives, allowing you to view information the way you prefer.

LinkingUniverse CS – This progress-oriented CRM tool helps you work toward your customer goals. They also have a blog with tips for using the program.

Stazzle – Stazzle is a basic CRM that allows you to track information from birthdays and anniversaries to favorite ball teams and restaurants. It also allows you to track who referred which client and why.

HelpSpot – This help desk software allows support staff to easily manage requests from multiple sources in addition to providing powerful self-help functionality.

CRMdesk – This help desk software allows you to automate your online customer support.

insidesales.com – InsideSales.com provides a lead management CRM suite that incorporates an auto-dialer and allows coordination between multiple departments dealing with a single customer.

Free CRM – This is a Web-based customer relationship management software that allows for sales force automation. Track leads and manage your sales pipeline.

bConnections – This is a simple, easy to use CRM system that allows you to shorten your sales cycle, provide better customer service, make informed decisions, and increase your sales.

salesboom – This is a CRM and back office solution that’s user friendly and provides seamless integration.

SalesJunction – SalesJunction is a highly customizable but easy to use contact management system that’s very affordable.

Leadvine – LeadVine can help you increase sales by allowing you to post sales leads and have the community find you new customers.

Bizroof CRM – A free, Web-based contact management program.

Bizzvo – Bizzvo offers contact management, email marketing and invoicing solutions.

BatchBook – BatchBook is a small business CRM that manages contacts, communications, and to-do lists, and offers list and report functionality (including creating things like mailing labels and email lists).

Solomon – Solomon is a simplified Web-based CRM and contact manager.

ClairMail – ClairMail provides account management, mobile payments, customer service, and more, all on your mobile phone.

Appature CRM – A marketing-focused customer relationship management program.

Helperoo – A simple email support system geared toward small teams.

Mzinga – A full set of comprehensive social media and enterprise learning solutions that address talent development, enable support staff to communicate and collaborate with customers and partners, and helps your marketing team increase brand visibility, demand for products and services, and more.

Oprius – A contact management software designed for independent sales people.

b2b CRM – A Web-based CRM that manages contacts, activities, and your sales pipeline, and integrates with Outlook and Word.

zendesk – A branded online customer support system.

helpdeskpilot – Help desk software that includes email integration, a knowledge base and more.

Tactile CRM – A cost-effective CRM that tracks sales, deals, emails and customer contacts.

Nuebbo – Online contact and virtual business card management.

Simple Sales Tracking – An online sales tracking app that offers free and paid plans.

Soocial – A simple contact management app and address book.

Database, File Storage & Information Management

Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents.

ThinkFree Docs – Online document sharing.

.docstoc – An online repository of free documents you can download, or upload your own documents to share.

Thinkfree – Online access to files, collaboration space for your team, and the ability to edit documents and post to blogs with a Web-based editor.

SpringCM – Online contract and document management.

ProofHQ – Online management and review of designs, artwork and documents.

Xythos – Online document management and storage.

NomaDesk – Online virtual file server with offline continuity.

Middlepost Docs – An online document manager that also allows you to sign docs.

AirSet – Online document management and sharing.

Email

MailChimp – Email marketing app that includes subscriber management, advanced coding capability, tracking and reports, and more.

Ping82 – Control, manage and track your email using tools made to improve communication between people working together on a project.

eMail Manager – A Web-based email management solution for high volume email environments.

IFM Campaign Manager – A Web-based email list management and marketing tool.

Xpenser – Record your expenses with email, SMS, Twitter, IM, and more.

Synergymail – Online email marketing app that includes campaign tracking.

Mad Mimi – Email marketing utility that allows you to create branded email newsletters and promotions.

EmailBrain – Email newsletter management app.

Employee Management, Payroll & Human Resources

Taleo – Taleo is e-recruitment and talent management software.

Zapoint – Zapoint is a Web 2.0 enterprise talent management platform with integrated performance management, skills mapping, organization mapping, recruiting and succession planning.

Halogen Software – Halogen offers talent management and employee performance solutions.

SuccessFactors – An on-demand talent and performance management platform that gets everyone in your company working together by aligning goals.

Cornerstone OnDemand – This is an on-demand talent management suite.

paylocity – Online payroll, human resources, time tracking and tax services.

Litmos – Create, deliver and manage online training.

Akken – Staffing and recruiting management software that includes email, CRM, accounting, human resources, and more.

TalentMaze – A marketplace for employers to find top recruiters to find the best employees for their businesses.

Rejose – Applicant tracking system that’s simple, efficient and cost effective.

Catch the Best – Online resume and applicant tracking solution.

Feedback

Kumquat – Quickly and easily solicit feedback from clients, superiors, peers, fans, family, or anyone else on projects, plans, on-going activities, blogs, or whatever else you want.

Feefo – Feefo is an independent customer feedback system that is transparent and comprehensive (and doesn’t allow business owners to edit customer feedback).

RivalMap – An online app that helps you monitor and share market news, maintain knowledge of your industry and competitors, and discuss information.

Feedback 2.0 – Collect opinions, expectations, and suggestions from a selected audience and discover the consensus.

ConceptShare – Share media with colleagues and have them leave feedback, reply to comments, approve artwork, and markup on visuals.

Backboard – An online feedback tool that allows users to markup documents (including images, text and websites).

Marketing & Publicity

StartPR – StartPR allows you to monitor your brand on social media sites including blogs, social networks, and more.

Prospect Insight – This is a Web marketing automation suite that provides information to your sales team on where to spend its time in order to maximize your return on investment.

HubSpot – HubSpot is an Internet marketing suite that integrates with your website to track your online marketing efforts.

iKarma – A reputation management service that allows you to compare customer comments, display testimonials, get customer referrals and manage your word-of-mouth.

Survelio.com – An online survey service.

Sonar – An online polling software.

formatpixel – Create your own online magazines, catalogs, brochures and more.

Traceworks – Online marketing software that helps you set goals, plan, execute and optimize your marketing activities.

ReputationHQ – Online reputation management app that searches for your desired information across millions of websites.

WordJot – Business blog hosting platform.

IncSpring – An online marketplace for businesses to purchase brands and logos directly from designers.

Anthillz – Professional relationship and reputation management.

BrandDoozie – A DIY online marketing material creation suite that helps you create professional-looking business cards, brochures, logos, and more.

Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets.

Money Making & eCommerce Solutions

GoodBarry – An integrated system that runs your website, email marketing and online store that also automatically grows your customer database.

Scrobbld – PayPal and eBay order management app that keeps all your transactions in one place.

Office Applications

Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content.

gOffice – They offer Web Word Wizard, a true online word processor.

PDFHammer.com – An online, free PDF editor that allows you to merge/combine files, rearrange, reorder and delete pages, lock your PDFs and more.

Organization & Management

OrderMotion – An order management system for online businesses.

MagSuite – An open source marketing automation, sales force automation, accounting, service automation and inventory control system.

Process Maker – Organize your company’s work flow and eliminate paperwork.

Alfresco – Open source enterprise content management that offers collaboration, record management, knowledge management and more.

minutesinaminute – An online app for keeping track of your company meeting minutes.

SyncWizard – Synchronize your contacts, calendars, bookmarks, and more with your portable devices.

analysis-one – Online tool to help you monitor your financial and non-financial business performance.

Phone & Voicemail

Phonesheet.com – This is a Web-based phone call and contact management program that allows you to track incoming and outgoing calls on a daily basis.

Vontoo – Vontoo provides automated voice messaging on demand.

Task Lists, Planning & Project Management

Torch Project Management – Torch allows you to collaborate using messages, e-mails, files, tasks, Google Docs (), and other methods. You can bid, track your time and invoice clients directly. Offers seamless work flow (connecting bidding, project management, time tracking and invoicing).

PlanPlus Online – An online calendar, time management, project management, and contact management suite from FranklinCovey.

Wrike – Practical project management software that allows you to create tasks from emails.

Comindwork – Project management, knowledge management, and collaboration software.

No Kahuna – Project management with no unnecessary features.

Teamness – Organize project data and share it online with customers or colleagues.

Teamwork Project Manager – Online project management that includes custom views and quick access tabs.

PriorityTrack – Gather ideas, prioritize, collaborate, and keep projects on track.

ProjectPipe.com – Project management for small-to-midsized teams.

Planix – Consistently and accurately estimate resources, scheduling and costs of software development projects.

Pelotronics – Project organization and collaboration app.

Task2Gather – Free online task and project management.

ididwork – Keep track of the work you actually do, see what other members of your team are doing in real-time, and get feedback from your manager.

Gtdagenda.com – An online planner for Getting Things Done.

Undone – An online to-do list manager and project management app.

Qcron – Project management and time tracking app.

OnStage – Online project management, workspace and collaboration tool.

Joint Contact – Project collaboration and management tool.

Viewpath – Manage projects and events online.

5pm – An online project management tool with a customizable interface, an interactive timeline, time reports, email integration and more.

Flempo – An online to-do list with the ability to assign tasks and keep track of progress, collect tasks from other systems (using the Flempo API), and more.

TaskAnyone – Assign tasks to anyone via email, and TaskAnyone will follow up until they follow through.

TaskBin – Manage group tasks in a single shared to-do list.

ProjectOffice.net – Online project management that includes issue tracking, expense tracking, and knowledge management.

Lighthouse – Simple issue tracking and project management.

@task – Online time tracking, work flow and project management app.

Jumpchart – Online website planning app.

LiquidPlanner – Team management, task management and project scheduling all in one online app.

eloops – Online project management software that includes a calendar, data backup and social networking software.

XPLive – Project management app that focuses on individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Project Spaces – Project management and online workspace that includes a document library, task list, calendar, announcements and email lists.

Goplan – Simple online project management.

TargetProcess – Project management software that features real-time progress tracking, communications features, and more.

Staction – Group project management and communication app.

Collabtive – Easy to use collaborative project management software that tracks milestones, task lists, time tracking and more.

LessProjects – Project management from the people who created LessAccounting.

Jumptree – Project management that updates you by email, manages accountability and more.

Project2Manage – Free hosted project management that includes milestones, to-do lists, and more.

Mingle – Project management and team collaboration app.

Time Management & Tracking

TrackMyPeople – Track your time and your employees’ time online.

Office Timesheets – Web-based time and expense tracking that’s easy to use and available anywhere.

Tick – A time tracking app for the service industry.

TSheets – Simple online time and labor tracking for small business.

Tempo – Simple time tracking with reporting features.

myHours.com – Online time management, tracking and timesheet solution that is accessible online or via mobile phone.

LiveTimer – Online time tracking service with reporting features, iPhone/iPod Touch interface, and more.

Paymo – Time tracking that includes online invoices and expense tracking.

Time59 – Online time and expense tracking and invoicing.

Paybackable – Online expense tracking that includes mileage expense calculations and expense reporting.

motismo – Online time tracking for creative professionals.

Virtual Office Platforms

WORKetc. – A suite of online tools including employee timesheets, document management, customer support, sales management, project management, billing and invoicing, and more.

ConcourseSuite – This open source online suite of programs offers customer relationship management as well as online presence management, team collaboration, and customer service.

OpenGoo – An open source Web office with text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, task lists, email, calendars, contacts and more.

Website Tools

Outlandish – Landing page management tool for small to medium-sized advertisers.

VersoChat – An all-in-one solution for Web analytics, chatting with online visitors, live Web statistics and more.

LeadLander – Allows you to see exactly which companies are visiting your website to investigate your products.

LEADSExplorer – LeadsExplorer allows you to capture what companies your website visitors are coming from so that you can turn them into leads.

Sharedbase – An online tool to manage your members-only website and your membership database.

SmoothStart – Create online landing pages for generating, managing and tracking new leads.

Industry-Specific

Gympro – A program for personal trainers that allows you to manage your client information, assessments, workouts and schedule.

Practice Fusion – This is a free online electronic medical records software.

Buildium – An online property management program for property managers and associations.

TopSchool, Inc. – A Student Lifestyle Management system for schools.

ekklesia360 – This is a content management system designed specifically for churches to help increase new visitors and provide up-to-date information to their congregation.

Body-Quest.net – This is a business management solution for personal trainers that allows you to track your clients’ progress.

TenantWIZ – A property management program for vacation homes that works whether you own a single property or a large hotel or condo operation.

booktoeat – booktoeat allows restaurants to accept online reservations and bookings.

restaurantdiary – restaurantdiary is a restaurant booking and reservations system with no commission charges and flat monthly fee.

ClubReady – ClubReady is a fitness club management service that helps increase revenues and dramatically improve client and employee satisfaction.

ServiceBeacon – ServiceBeacon provides a Web-based car dealership marketing application for both new and used car dealerships in addition to their consumer services.

openSIS – An open source student information system that tracks student demographics, contact information, scheduling, gradebooks, report cards, transcripts, health records, attendance, cafeteria management, state reporting, and more.

RdEXpress – An online restaurant booking system for single unit restaurant operators that also includes a CRM and marketing system.

Music Arsenal – A business tool specifically for indie bands that helps you manage tasks, projects (tours, albums, etc.), concerts, records, and more, all online.

Plaid – On-demand ministry management software that organizes contact lists, tracks visitors, sends emails to targeted contacts, prints attendance sheets, and more.

Scriggle-it – An online fan management and music marketing solution for bands and musicians.

DonorDrive – Constituent, donation and event management software for non-profits. Includes reporting and exporting capability, e-mail marketing, message forums, and more.

Ministry(Starter) – A content management system geared toward Christian ministries.

RealProEdge.com – An email tool specifically for real estate agents.

fourthbook.com – An easy to use online church management software.

Massage manEdger – An online suite of tools for massage therapists that includes a website with online booking, electronic client files, streamlined daily accounting and more.

rezgo – An online booking software for travel tours and activities.

carbonmade () – A free online portfolio showcase.

Planning Center Online – A church worship services planning app.

Creative Manager Pro – Online ad agency management software.

Rentomatic – Simplified property management app that includes an online rent-payment system.

Tuggle – Online ministry management suite that includes communication and event management tools.

CollabTrak – Project management specifically for Web designers.

N2uitive – An online insurance claims interview management software.

Macrocasa – Manage your real estate website and business.

Propertyware – Online property management software that organizes property and lease information, records income and expenses, lists vacancies, and more.

RentYield – A property management tool for landlords and real estate investors that allows you to stay on top of your rental income and track performance of your properties.

Shockfolio – An online portfolio site for actors, musicians and photographers.

Weefolio – A free online portfolio creator.

Streetfolio – Property management app that manages cashflow, insurance, mortgages, and more.

Miscellaneous

GigTide () – Online creation of resumes, that also allows you to publish, manage and track your resumes, contacts and cover letters.

RB-Apps – RB-Apps provides customized, DIY business mini-applications based on the RB-Apps Platform.

lumifi – Use lumifi if you need to compile research and collaboration from multiple sources, discover information you might otherwise miss, and assemble that research into a well stated case.

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Powerful anti-spam plugin that eliminates blog comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes contact form.

Simple Tags

Simple Tags is the successor of Simple Tagging Plugin and is THE perfect tool to manage perfectly your WP 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 tags

flickrRSS

Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.

Smart YouTube

Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed.

BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress MU social networking plugins and themes.

Google Analytics for WordPress

The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.

WP-Cumulus

WP-Cumulus displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a rotating sphere.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

HeadSpace2 SEO

Controls almost every aspect of your site’s meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. The best WordPress SEO solution!

Easy AdSenser

Easy AdSenser manages all aspects of Google AdSense for your blog: insert ads into posts and sidebar, and add a Google Search box. Easy and complete!

WP e-Commerce

WP e-Commerce is a Web 2.0 application designed with usability, aesthetics, and presentation in mind.

Advanced Category Excluder

The No.1 content separator, content manager, content excluder, sidebar widget manager plugin to enable CMS like functionality.

Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Sidebar Login

Adds a sidebar widget to let users login.

WP-DB-Backup

On-demand backup of your WordPress database.

Global Translator

Automatically translates your blog in 34 different languages!

GD Star Rating

Star Rating plugin allows you to set up advanced rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog using single and multi ratings.

WP-Polls

Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page.

Featured Content Gallery

Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.

WordPress Automatic upgrade

WordPress automatic upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one.

Plugin Manager

View, download and install plugins from WordPress.org Plugin Database from an AJAX’ed interface with a single click of the mouse.

Twitter for WordPress

Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.

Get Recent Comments

Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar.

WP-PostRatings

Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.

WPtouch iPhone Theme

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects,

AdSense Manager

AdSense Manager is now [Advertising Manager](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager/).

TinyMCE Advanced

Enables most of the advanced features of TinyMCE, the WordPress WYSIWYG editor.

WP Security Scan

Scans your WordPress installation for security vulnerabilities.

Really Simple CAPTCHA

Really Simple CAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.

AddThis

The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with many popular services.

ShareThis

ShareThis plugin allows users to add your post to many social bookmarking sites, or to send your post link via email, AIM, Facebook, MySpace and more.

Page Flip Image Gallery

FlippingBook WordPress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your blog.

Lightbox 2

Used to overlay images on the current page. Lightbox JS v2.2 by Lokesh Dhakar. Mad props to Tanin for his crucial regular expression code! You rock!!

Lifestream

Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.

SI CAPTCHA for WordPress

Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, or both.

Exclude Pages

This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, uncheck this to exclude pages from the page navigation that users see on your site.

podPress

A dream plugin for Podcasters using WordPress..

Twitter Widget Pro

A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including parsing @username and URLs into links. Requires PHP5.

WP-FlashTime Widget

With WP_FlashTime Widget you can add a flash clock to your wordpress.This plugin include 25 different flash clocks.

My Page Order

My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface.

Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu

All admin links available in a neat horizontal drop down menu. Saves lots of screen real estate!

AdSense Now!

AdSense Now! gets you started with Google AdSense. No mess, no fuss.

Multi-level Navigation Plugin

Description: Adds a CSS based dropdown/flyout/slider menu to your WordPress blog. Visit the Multi-level Navigation Plugin page for more information ab

IntenseDebate Comments

IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog. Build your reader community, increase your comments, & boost pageviews.

StatPress Reloaded

This plugin shows you real time statistics about your blog. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers, OS etc.

WP-PostViews

Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.

Dynamic Headers

Dynamic Headers does just what you think it would based on the name – it allows you to create highly dynamic header space on your WordPress site.

Subscribe2

Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when new posts are published to your blog

Page Links To

Page Links To allows you to make a WordPress page or post link to a URL of your choosing, instead of its WordPress post or page.

Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

AJAXed WordPress

A highly customizable plugin to add AJAX to your blog. AWP uses AJAX to load posts inline, paginate posts, load and submit comments, and more.

WordTwit

WordTwit is a plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Twitter account as a tweet, and as of Version 2.0, c

WP-DBManager

Manages your WordPress database.

Maintenance Mode

Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance.

Events Calendar

Events-Calendar is a diverse replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events.

One Click Plugin Updater

Provides single-click plugin upgrades in WP 2.3 and up, visually marks plugins that have update notifications enabled,

MailPress

The WordPress mailing platform

Flash MP3 Player

This plugin can display a highly customizable MP3 player on your sidebar, in a single post page or any other places on your blog pages.

WP Greet Box

Display a different greeting message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from.

Pretty Link

Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Create short links suitable for Twitter using your own domain name!

WP-SimpleViewer

Add SimpleViewer Flash image galleries to your posts and pages. Easy to use and several options to make it fit your needs.

Reveal IDs for WP Admin

What this plugin does is to reveal most removed IDs on admin pages, as it was in versions prior to 2.5.

WP-Print

Displays a printable version of your WordPress blog’s post/page.

Scissors

Scissors enhances WordPress’ handling of images by introducing cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality. It does so blending in ni

Extended Comment Options

Extended Comment Options allows you to close or open comments on batches of posts. You can schedule this automatically, too.

Advertising Manager

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog.

Exec-PHP

The Exec-PHP plugin executes PHP code in posts, pages and text widgets.

Post videos and photo galleries

Post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds.

jQuery Lightbox

Used to overlay images on the current page.

Lightbox 2

Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups. From settings you can choose background-color, overlay

WordPress Mobile Edition

WordPress Mobile Edition is a plugin that shows an interface designed for a mobile device when visitors come to your site on a mobile device. Mobile

RSSImport

Import and display Feeds in your blog, use PHP or the Shortcode.

Subscribe to Comments

Subscribe to Comments allows commenters on an entry to subscribe to e-mail notifications for subsequent comments.

Google Maps Anywhere

Add Google Maps to your posts and pages.(Only for WordPress 2.5+)

Event Calendar 3

Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.

Post-Plugin Library

The shared code library for Similar posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, Popular Posts and Recent Comments.

My Category Order

My Category Order allows you to set the order in which categories will appear in the sidebar.

StatPress

StatPress is first real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors

Sidebar Widgets

Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu

WP-EMail

Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog’s post/page to a friend.

User Community

Plugin to create a users community on any WordPress Blog.

WordPress Download Monitor

Plugin with interface for uploading and managing download files, inserting download links in posts, and monitoring download hits.

Lightview Plus

Seamless integration of Lightview (similar to Lightbox, Thickbox, Floatbox, Thickbox, Fancybox) to create a nice overlay to display images and videos

WordPress Admin Bar

An upload-and-activate plugin that creates an admin bar at the top of your site like the one at WordPress.com.

Shadowbox JS

A javascript media viewer similar to Lightbox and Thickbox only better. Supports all types of media, not just images.

MapPress Easy Google Maps

Easily add Google Maps and driving directions to your blog.

G-Lock Double Opt-in Manager

This mailing list management plugin allows the visitors of your blog subscribe to your mailing list using a double opt-in method.

Tweetmeme Button

Adds the tweetmeme button into your posts and RSS feed.

FeedWordPress

FeedWordPress syndicates content from feeds you choose into your WordPress weblog.

Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.

DMSGuestbook

DMSGuestbook is an easy configurable guestbook with a lot of features.

WP-UserOnline

Enable you to display how many users are online on your WordPress blog with detailed statistics.

Platinum SEO Pack

Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your WordPress blog.Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the functionalities of All In One SEO p

Flickr Gallery

Quickly and easily add Flickr galleries, photos, and even custom search results into your WordPress pages and posts.

SidePosts Widget

Simple widget to move posts from a category to the sidebar. Posts in this category do not show on index, archives or feeds, and have its own feed.

wordTube

wordTube is your Media Center plugin for WordPress.

SyntaxHighlighter Evolved

Easily post syntax-highlighted code to your site without having to modify the code at all.

WassUp

Analyze your visitors traffic with real time statistics, chart, a lot of chronological information and a sidebar Widget.

WordPress Related Posts

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed.

Lightbox Gallery

This plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox.

Picasna

Picasa users: Just paste your Picasaweb album link in a post or page and Picasna will create a stylish fullscreen gallery. Supports unlisted albums. T

Ultimate Google Analytics

Adds Google Analytics JavaScript to each page on your weblog. Can also add tracking to outbound links, downloads from your site and mail links.

Theme Tweaker

Theme Tweaker lets you modify the colors in your theme with no CSS/PHP editing.

WP Contact Form

WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+

Register Plus

Enhance your Registration Page. Add Custom Logo, Password Field, Invitation Codes, Disclaimers, CAPTCHA Validation, Email Validation, User Moderation

Thesis OpenHook

This plugin allows you to insert arbitrary content into the many hooks that the Thesis Theme Framework provides. Never again edit a file!

Cleaner Gallery

A cleaner WordPress gallery that integrates with multiple Lightbox-type scripts.

SexyBookmarks

Adds a social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three.

SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search results and makes the tags w3c/xHTML

WordPress Video Plugin

A filter for WordPress that displays videos from myvideo.de, youtube, google video, Brightcove, Aniboom, 123video.nl, MyspaceTV, Yahoo! Video, Veoh, W

Post Teaser

Post Teaser generates excerpts of posts for the main, archive and category pages, also generate a word count, image count, and estimated reading time.

Visitor Like/Dislike Post Rating

Let your visitors tell you if they like or dislike your posts on the fly. Activate the plugin and it automatically inserts two links and does the job.

pageMash > Page Management

Manage your multitude of pages with pageMash’s slick drag-and-drop style, ajax interface. Allows for quick sorting, hiding and organising of page pare

eShop

An accessible Shopping Cart plugin.

Simple CAPTCHA

A CAPTCHA for your comment system to prevent unwanted spams. Prevent automated spams by bots and most important naughty peoples..lolz

Flash Video Player

The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup and the le

WP-o-Matic

WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.

WPML Multilingual CMS

Turns any WordPress site into a fully featured multilingual content management system (CMS).

Author Avatars List

Display lists of user avatars using widgets or shortcodes.

WP-Syntax

WP-Syntax provides clean syntax highlighting for embedding source code within pages or posts.

WP-Table Reloaded

This plugin allows you to create and manage tables in your WP’s admin-area. You can then show them in your posts

WP-SWFObject

Insert Flash Movies into WordPress.

SEO Title Tag

Search engine optimize your blog’s title tags. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages – indeed, any URL!

WP-reCAPTCHA

Integrates reCAPTCHA anti-spam methods with WordPress including comment, registration, and email spam protection. WPMU Compatible.

GoCodes

An URL redirection/shortener plugin. Great for podcasting and redirecting affiliate program URLs.

WP-Sticky

Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress’s blog.

FD Feedburner Plugin

Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed seamlessly and transparently to Feedburner.com.

WP to Twitter

Posts a Twitter status update when you update your blog or post to your blogroll, using the Cligs URL shortening service.

Theme Test Drive

Safely test drive any theme as an administrator, while visitors use the default one.

NoSpamNX

To protect your Blog from automated spambots, which fill you comments with junk, this plugin adds additional formfields to your comment template, whic

My Link Order

My Link Order allows you to set the order in which links and link categories will appear in the sidebar.

Embedded Video

Easy embedding of videos from lots of portals or local video files of many file formats with optional generation of a corresponding link.

Easy Contact

Easy Contact is a simple, highly extensible XHTML contact form featuring spam-reduction measures, GUI customization, and shortcode-based insertion.

Custom Field Template

This plugin adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page.

All in One Adsense and YPN

Automatically insert Google Adsense ads or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads in to your posts on the fly.

AnyFont

AnyFont allows you to use any truetype font to replace plain text anywhere you want in your theme design. NEW FEATURE in 0.6: PHP4 + GD support.

WordPress Navigation List Plugin NAVT

Create, organize and manage your WordPress menus and navigation lists by logically grouping your pages, categories, users via a drag’n drop interface.

ProPlayer

Display online videos from various sources (youtube, vimeo, veoh, etc) in one single player, 27 different skins, playlist system, rating system, etc.

ProPlayer

Display online videos from various sources (youtube, vimeo, veoh, etc) in one single player, 27 different skins, playlist system, rating system, etc.

Quotes Collection

Quotes Collection plugin with Ajax powered Random Quote sidebar widget helps you collect and display your favourite quotes on your WordPress blog.

WP Forum

Forum plugin for WordPress.

Google AJAX Translation

Add Google AJAX Translation to your blog. This plugin allows your readers to translate your blog posts or comments into up to 42 languages.

Popularity Contest

Which of your posts/pages are most popular?

TDO Mini Forms

This plugin allows you to add themed custom posting forms to your website that allows your readers (including non-registered) to submit posts.

Audio Player

Highly configurable single track mp3 player.

Flexi Pages Widget

A highly configurable WordPress sidebar widget to list pages and sub-pages. User friendly widget control comes with various options.

Robots Meta

This plugin makes it easy to add the appropriate meta robots tags to your pages, disable unused archives, nofollow unnecessary links as well as do som

Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slideshows.

WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and

WP Ajax Edit Comments

Allows users and admins to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.

Adminimize

At first: Visually compresses the administratrive meta-boxes so that more admin page content can be initially seen. Also moves ‘Dashboard’ onto the ma

ShareButtons

Add sharing buttons to your blog posts for: Facebook, Digg, Twitter, Email, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.

What Would Seth Godin Do

Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors and another to return visitors.

Kimili Flash Embed

Provides a WordPress interface for SWFObject, the best way to embed Flash content on any site.

Search Everything

Increases WordPress’ default search functionality through an options panel. Options include searching pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments a

qTranslate

Adds userfriendly multilingual content management and translation support into WordPress.

Customize

Customize plugin lets users easily customize themes that support the plugin.

Similar Posts

Displays a list of posts similar to the current one based on content, title and/or tags.

PhotoSmash Galleries

PhotoSmash – user contributable photo galleries for WordPress pages and posts with options. Auto-add galleries or specify.

SEO Booster Lite

Boosts all your search engine referrals that come from page two search pages!

Enhanced WP Contact Form

Easily add a contact form with spam protection to your pages, and get additional data about your visitors with each e-mail!

SlidePress

WordPress integration plugin for SlideShowPro.

Events

Create a list with events/appointments/concerts/future happenings and show them on your site. Includes optional widget and advanced page options.

Calendar

A simple but effective Calendar plugin for WordPress that allows you to manage your events and appointments and display them to the world.

FLV Embed

Standards compliant Flash video (FLV) embedding in your blog posts. Supports video sitemap generation.

WP125

Easy management of 125×125 ads on your blog. Ads can be run for a specified number of days, and will automatically be taken down. Track clicks too.

WP-Stats

Display your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

Save your wordpress blog from getting tagged as ping spammer by installing this plugin.