Last week I meet a prospect selling herbs online. He claim his website is the top search engine ranking with majority of the keyword in herbal and also the No.1 biggest herbs online store in Malaysia.

He not ask me a question majority ask, “How to drive traffics to my sites?”. However he ask me why my website visitors don’t buy from me? He just don’t understand why his website doesn’t convert the visitor into sales. After 10 minutes review his website, I finally found that was some problem with his website in terms of the content arrange, newsletter subscription box with total 7 mistake of his website.

Here’s a big problem with web design: If you want to make your website better at turning visitors into customers (or subscribers), you need to understand why most of your visitors are leaving!

But those people come and go without trace! How do you know what they wanted? How do you know what would have persuaded them to take action?

If you owned a real-life bricks-and-mortar store, this would be easy: You’d hear their objections. You’d be able to ask questions. You’d hear what they muttered as they headed for the door.

Capturing the voice-of-the-customer is more difficult with the web, but it can be done. Here are 14 free tools to get you started.

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What make the company profitable? This will be one of the common question I ask myself while building up the business. There are business old folk said:”If you are the top man to find or generate sales you still not a top sales, the only person who are able to collect back the money is the really top sales”.

One company that able to survive is not the number of sales he able to generate, is all about how much he can collect back make company survive and grow. I come across Howard Mann interesting life experience teaching 5 way to get paid faster from your vendor.

We have been here before. Economic downturns are not new, or, for this one, even that old. And while what we now face may be more severe, the reactions and behaviors of businesses feel all too familiar. One of the most insidious by-products of times like these, after the waves of belt tightening and budget/staff cutting, are the long and painful late payments. When business slows, payments to vendors get stretched. If this has not started happening to you yet, it soon will if you do not make it part of your focus to avoid it. Your clients/customers are under financial pressure. They are at their limits with their banks. Less money is coming in but the bills are still there to be paid. You could be in danger of becoming your clients’ bank. This is a big topic and is impacted by many areas of The Business Brickyard concepts (building relationships, saying no to clients, etc.). You can do everything else right but get this wrong and your business will grind to a halt. So, let’s focus on getting you paid faster. (As a primer, you may want to read this post
Your Business Brickyard: Getting back to the basics to make your business more fun to run.
his book).

Let’s change that. Here are 5 ways to get paid faster:

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In a recent stand-up routine, comedian George Carlin suggests that maybe man’s reason for existence is because the Earth wants plastic.

The comedy team, Penn & Teller, assert in their cable show “Bulls**t” (bullpucky?) that recycling isn’t really all that useful and maybe not necessary.

Whether the Earth wants plastic or not, recycling of inkjet cartridges is useful in many different ways. However, before you choose where to recycle your inkjet cartridge, do a little research to make your recycling efforts effective. Recycling won’t work if we don’t close the loop. Many charitable institutions around the world have initiated ink cartridge recycling programs, which fund hospitals, school activities and other social concerns. This type of funding cuts costs in many ways from tax breaks for charitable donations to lowering the price that we have to pay for the services the funded organizations provide. In addition, remanufactured compatible inkjet cartridges are usually a fraction of the cost of brand name inkjet refills.

Several inkjet printer manufacturers also maintain recycling programs. However, your recycled ink cartridge doesn’t always make it around the loop.
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Have you always face a problem when you go to cyber cafe, in school, college or customer office. You realise they don;t use the software in their PC. But you need it immediately. That’s will be very time consuming if you download a huge file back to your PC. Here I have found some very interesting software that can store in a small thumb drive. i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school, or any other place where you can plugin your device. Check them out, you can either scroll-down for relevant category, i.e office software, email tools, messengers, games, etc. or get a ‘all-in-one’ package (all essential tools) . While there are more apps for windows users, I tried to include a mac version for each essential tool. All free. Enjoy!

What is Portable SOFTWARE? : Portable Softwares are such customized Free Tools which are not required to be installed on a PC to run them. IF you are using a PC at your Office or you are at a Cyber Cafe, where the Open Office or Firefox is not installed, still you can run the portable version from your own CD or USB Thumb Drive without messing up with the installation on the PC. The Open Office / Firefox runs just smoothly from the CD / Thumb, as good as any installed software suit. Using portable Software from a CD, you can always keep your PC clean and away from crashes.

PortableApps.com Suite™ is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go.

FREE PORTABLE SOFTWARE

7-Zip Portable
AbiWord Portable
Audacity Portable
ClamWin Portable
Command Prompt Portable
FileZilla Portable
GIMP Portable
KeePass Portable
Miranda IM Portable
Mines-Perfect Portable
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition
Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition
Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition
Notepad++ Portable
Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable

On-Screen Keyboard PortableOpenOffice.org Portable
Pidgin Portable
PokerTH Portable
PuTTY Portable
Sudoku Portable
Sumatra PDF Portable
Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable
VLC Media Player Portable
winMd5Sum Portable

Download | Freeware 80 MB FOR FULL VERSION / 30 MB FOR LITE VERSION

http://portableapps.com

FREE PORTABLE OPEN-OFFICE.org (Freeware)

| Download Portable Version | Open Office version 2.0 = 74 MB | 1.1.5 = 54 MB
[Open-Office Home] [Download-Regular version 2.0] Regular Version 83 MB

Portable OpenOffice.org allows you to carry an entire office suite — word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, etc. — with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. Portable OpenOffice.org is a repackaged version of OpenOffice.org designed with portability in mind. It works just like regular OpenOffice.org installed on your computer does, except it allows you to use it on any Windows computer without installing anything. It has all the features of the excellent OpenOffice.org office suite except for the Data application. It also includes some special enhancements to make it work even better from your portable drive. Download the zip file and unzip and copy on your CD or Thumb Drive and run the software from CD or Thumb. [Update: 17 Nov 2005]

FREE PORTABLE FIREFOX BROWSER

Portable Download Homepage | (Freeware) ( 5.50 MB)

Portable Firefox allows you to run the Web Browser from your Thumb Drive or from a CD. For Example if you are using a PC at your Office or a friends house or a Cyber Cafe where the Firefox Browser is not installed, you can run the Firefox from your Thumb Drive or from a CD, without having to install the Browser on the PC. Just plug in the CD or Thumb drive , use the Browser , remove the CD / Thumb drive and you are done without messing up the PC with additional software installations.

• Portable Firefox - Run the Mozilla Firefox web browser from a removable/USB drive
  • Portable Firefox Live - Run Portable Firefox from a CD-R
  • Portable Firefox: Deer Park - Try out the test version of Firefox 1.5
• Portable NVU - Run the NVU website editor from a removable/USB drive
• Portable Sunbird - Run the Mozilla Sunbird calendar from a removable/USB drive
• Portable Thunderbird - Run the Mozilla Thunderbird email client from a removable/USB drive
  • Portable Thunderbird: Deer Park - Try out the test version of Thunderbird 1.5

FileZilla FTP (Portable Version) Freeware : Size : 2.25 MB

Homepage | Download | No installation required on PC. Use from CD / Thumbdrive / USB

• Portable FileZilla allows you to carry a whole FTP client with you on an iPod, USB Thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media like CD or DVD. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It is a repackaged version of the popular FileZilla FTP client designed with portability in mind, so it has all the same great features of FileZilla, but there’s no installation required on your PC. Just click it use it and forget it style. (Added on 10 December 2005)

Portable Office Software

• Abiword [Win (6.3 mb) / Mac (9.5 mb)] - word processor (compatible with Microsoft word)
• OpenOffice [Win (65 mb) / Mac (127 mb)] - free alternative to Microsoft Office (fully compatible with Microsoft Office docs)
• PDF Viewers: Sumatra [Win (1.1 mb) ], Foxit PDF Reader [Win, (1.8 mb) ]
• Notepad ++ - feature-rich Notepad replacement.

Portable Email/Calendar/ToDo Programs

• Mozilla ThunderBird - [Win (6 mb), Mac (20.5 mb), Cross-Platform (Win, Mac)] - very good email client (built-in address book, import/export, tons of addons)
• Calendars: Mozilla Sunbird [Win, 5.6mb], Sunbird [Mac, 9.7mb], Lightning [Win, 1.3mb) - ThunderBird addon
• Mail [Mac] - requires locally installed Mail.app
• iCal [Mac] - requires locally installed iCal.app
• Address Book [Mac] - requires locally installed Address Book
• Quick Mailer [Win, 20kb] - tiny program for sending quick e-mail messages
• gDisk [Mac, 1020kb] - handy program that turns your gmail account into a portable hard drive. (More stuff for gmail)

Portable Text and Voice Messengers

• All-in-One (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc.): Gaim [Win, 6.9 mb], Miranda IM [Win, 1.2 mb], Adium [Mac, 15.5mb], Trillian [Win]
• iChat [Mac] - requires locally installed iChat
• Newspeak [Mac, 1mb] - Newspeak Cocoa IRC client
• Skype - exlpains how to make skype portable

Portable Media Tools (Audio / Video)

• Audacity [Win (2.4 mb), Mac (5mb)] - simple audio editor and recorder
• VLC [Win (9.3 mb), Mac (24 mb)] - powerful media player that plays almost all popular audio and video formats
• K-Lite Mega Codec Pack with Media Player (resource unaccessible) - another powerful media player for playing all conceivable formats
• iShout [Mac, 7mb] - record and listen to your favorite internet radios.
• CocoaJT [Mac, 8.7mb] - stream live TV programs from major broadcast channels.

Portable Graphics Viewers and Image Editors

• GIMP [Win (8.6 mb), Mac (87.5 mb)] - free alternative to Photoshop
• IrfanView [Win, 1013kb] - fast graphic viewer with basic image editing features
• XNView [Win, Mac, Linux] - image viewer and converter (supports more then 400 image formats)
• Inkscape [Mac, 24.6mb] - scalable vector graphics editor

Portable Browsers and Internet Tools (FTP, Feedreaders, Torrent Clients…)

• Firefox [Win (5.8 mb), Mac (21.9mb), Cross-platform (Win, Mac) ]
• Other browsers: Camino [Mac, 16.2mb], Opera [Win], Safari [Mac] - requires installed safari
• Feedreaders (RSS, Atom …): RSSOwl [Mac, 5mb], Feed [Mac, 564kb], GreatNews [Win], Sage [Win, 0.2 mb]
• FTP Clients: Filezilla [Win, 2.3 mb], FireFTP [Win, 0.1mb], CyberDuck [Mac, 9.9mb]
• TrayURL [Win] - bookmark manager
• uTorrent [Win] - popular torrent downloader

Portable Security Software

• Antivirus: ClamWin [Win, 5.9mb], Dr.Web CureIt [Win, 5.5 mb]
• Keepass Password [Win, 1mb] - securely store and manage your passwords
• Omziff [Win, 0.5mb] - lets you encrypt/decrypt a file, using secure encryption algorithms. Also includes a password generator, file shredder, file splitter and some more tools.
• LockNote [Win] - simple text file that lets you store sensitive info with 256bit password encryption.
• RoboFor2Go [Win] - secure password manager and form filler
• Smart Sniff [Win, 57kb] - lets you inspect network traffic that passes via your network adapter.

Portable Games

• Sudoku - popular puzzle game
• Bricks2000 - popular tetris clone
• Logix - something similar to minesweeper
• Gem Drop - fast-paced puzzle game
• GeneRally - 2D racing game
• Nagaskaki - chess game
• NarkoMania - cool minesweeper clone
• NeverBall - part puzzle, part action game

Other Portable Utilities

• 7Zip [Win, 1.1 mb] - file archiver and compressor, supports 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR and more
• Registry Tweaker [Win, 1.52mb] - registry tweaking tool
• Restoration [Win, 229kb] - handy program for recovering deleted (or formatted) files
• YamiPod [Win] - powerful iPod manager (copy mp3/AAC files to and from your iPod, import/export playlists, search for songs, remove duplicates,..). More iPod tools
• Drive Manager [Win, 1191 kb] - quick summary for each local and removable drive.
• PStart - lets you organize and create menu-like list for quicker access to your portable programs.
• SyncPAppX - script that syncs preferences between portable and local applications.
• RQ Money - handy utlity to manage your credits and debts
• SIW - a system analysis tool that tells you almost everything you need to know about a computer, i.e. hardware, configuration settings, etc.
• WinAudit - one more analysis tool
• Convert [Win, 155 kb] - fast metric unit conversion tool (distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass…)
• UK Calender [Win, 321kb] - straightforward calendar with ToDo and reminders
• CPU-Z [Win] - provides detailed info about your processor and other components
• Country Codes [Win, 1358 kb] - a small database of country codes and additional information for all countries.
• TreePad Lite [Win, 866kb] - personal database program, lets you store all your notes, emails, bookmarks, etc. into one well-structured file
• StartupList [Win, 158 kb] - displays all items that are in any way related to your computer startup and are executed without any user interactions
• eTextReader [Win, 279kb] - read plain text files provided by Project Gutenberg in a book-like manner.
• Index Your Files [Win, 640kb] - provides an easy way to create index databases (of specified folders and drives) for quick file/term search
• RockXP [win, 768kb] - handy utility for retrieving Win XP’s product key
• WhoisThisDomain [Win, 42kb] - view owner and registration info for any domain name
• Converter - portable unit convertsion utility

Portable Developer Tools (Techies Only)

• Nvu [Win (7.3 mb), Mac (12 mb)] - easy-to-use webpage editor. Simpler alternative to Dreamweaver and Microsft Frontpage
• Server2Go - apache webserver (no configurations needed)
• InstantRails[Win, 60mb] - contains Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run.
• Putty [Win, 0.9 mb] - lightweight telnet and SSH client
• Follow-Me IP - displays your external IP address
• XAMPP [Win, 25/17 mb] - integrated server package of Apache, mySQL, PHP and Perl. Just Unzip and Run
• HTTP File Server [Win] - simple and easy-to-use file server for personal file sharing.
• CurrPorts [Win, 46kb]- lets you view a list of ports that are currently in use, along with applications that use them
• FTP Servers: Quick’n Easy FTP Server [Win, 355kb], PureFTPdManager [Mac, 10.9mb]

All-In-One Packages

• PortableApps Suite [Win, 89.5mb] - includes 7 programs for essential needs (office, email, IM client, etc.) + cool Startup manager and backup utility
• FSuite [Mac, 668.3mb] - over 30 useful tools in one file (Office, Graphic, Audio, Video, Internet, Developer Tools and Games)

Portable Operating Systems (’HowTo’ Articles)

• Mac OS Classic 7
• Portable Linux: Knoppix, Ubuntu
• Win XP

USB ThumDrive Tips

• How to create a bootable USB key
• Never Forget your USB Stick
• QuickLaunch your USB workspace

That’s mainly it… In case you’re looking for something that wasn’t mentioned above, there are a couple of resources you may want to check out. These are Portablefreeware.com and Tinyapps.org

Source: Makeusof.com