Free Stuff & Resources
Avoid Craiglist Scams
I was so excited to be invited to be a Secret Shopper. What a great job for someone who is a usability expert and incredibly critical! I signed up right away then today my son-in-law said he signed up last week and they sent him a counterfeit check for $800 which he should cash at Western Union then send back only $300.
He had just told me this and I went in and posted some of my paintings of female serial killers for sale on Craigslist. Imaging my excitement to get a buyer in 5 minutes? I checked the email online only to find it listed on a scam site.
Watch this video to learn how to avoid Craigslist Scams
Help Customers Find You on Google Maps
Millions of people search Google Maps every day. A free listing on Google Maps makes it easy for them to find you. you can use the Local Business Center to create your free listing. When potential customers search Maps for local information, they’ll find your business: your address, hours of operation, even photos of your storefront or products. It’s easy, free, and you don’t need even need a website of your own to get a listing.
New FREE Stats!
Now Google wants more small businesses to list or claim their listing profiles on Google Local. To entice them, starting tomorrow it will give local businesses in the real world with physical addresses a free dashboard akin to what Websites get for free with Google Analytics.
It will show stats such as how many times their business comes up as a search result and how often people click through.
Free File-sharing at Drop.io no longer available.
Even though no longer available, I’m leaving the information because you can do the same thing with DROPBOX.com
Drop.io is an easy to use, online collaboration and file sharing service that provides users with a simple, real time and private way to chat and share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content through unique, user-created and controlled sharing points called ‘drops.
In just two clicks, users are able to seamlessly create personal sharing points, upload content via web, e-mail, MMS, Facebook, Firefox extension, phone and fax inputs and share it on-the-fly through drop.io’s various outputs like web, e-mail, MMS, Twitter, iTunes, fax and more.
Each ‘drop’ is non-searchable, non-networked, does not require any type of account registration and can be password-protected and set to expire after a period of time, so you can share exactly what you want with whom you want for as long as you want.
NOTICE: This service has been replaced by Dropbox.com






