Free Small Business Calculators

Free Small Business Marketing Calculators

1. Small Business Breakeven Calculator
Determine how many sales you need to make to break even.

2. Calculate How Much More You Could Be Making
See how much more you could be earning with 1 more or 10 more sales.

3. Calculate the Lifetime Value of A Client
Before you spend money on marketing determine how much each client is worth to during their lifetime of buying from you.

4. Calculate the Return on Investment for Your Advertising
Do the math before you spend money on marketing. See how much you need to bring in in revenue to make your advertising campaign pay for itself.

5. Calculate Your Web Site Marketing Conversion Rates
For each page on your site, whether it’s your homepage, a landing page or a sales page, there is only on number that can tell you how well its working. Use this calculator to evaluate how well your web site marketing is working.

Go to Marketing For Success for many more free small business marketing tools.

3 Free New Business Tools

ODesk

oDesk is the marketplace for online workteams, with the best business model for both buyers and providers. Our unique approach guarantees that an hour paid is an hour worked while also guaranteeing that an hour worked is an hour paid.

With an average job size of $5,000 and a rapidly growing global community of buyers and providers that numbers in the hundreds of thousands, oDesk is changing how the world works.

The Challenge

oDesk is designed to solve the core challenges faced by online workteams.

For buyers:

• How to choose the right service providers
• How to manage and pay a remote team, around barriers such as timezone and culture
• How to maintain flexibility that will allow you to adjust to your business’ changing needs

For providers:

• How to find qualified clients, with meaningful work opportunities
• How to work effectively with a remote client
• How to ensure payment is received on time and in full

The Solution — A Marketplace and a Workplace

Using oDesk is as simple as Hire-Manage-Pay.

Google Docs

Create basic documents from scratch or start from a template.
You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it’s free.

Upload your existing files.
Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files.

Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.
Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, change cell background color and so on.

Choose who can access your documents.
Just enter the email addresses of the people with whom you want to share a given document and send them an invitation.

Share instantly.
Anyone you’ve invited to either edit or view your document, spreadsheet or presentation can access it as soon as they sign in.

Edit and present with others in real time.
Multiple people can view and make changes at the same time. There’s an on-screen chat window for spreadsheets, and document revisions show you exactly who changed what, and when. Viewing a presentation together is a breeze, as anyone joined in a presentation can automatically follow along with the presenter.

Edit and access from anywhere.
There’s nothing to download; you access your documents, spreadsheets and presentations from any computer with an Internet connection and a standard browser. And it’s free.

Safely store your work.
Online storage and auto-save mean you needn’t fear local hard drive failures or power outages.

Easily save and export copies.
You can save your documents and spreadsheets to your own computer in DOC, XLS, CSV, ODS, ODT, PDF, RTF and HTML formats.

Organize your documents
Easily find your documents by organizing them into folders. Drag and drop your documents into as many folders as you want.

PortableApps

Convenient
Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.

PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). It’s open source built around an open format that any hardware vendor or software developer can use.

Free

The PortableApps.com Suite and Platform is free. It contains no spyware. There are no advertisements. It isn’t a limited or trial version. There is no additional hardware or software to buy. You don’t even have to give out your email address. It’s 100% free to use, free to copy and free to share.

Free Financial Tool: a look into your business finances

In a world of 6 billion people and counting, it’s small businesses—each employing just a handful of people—that provide the primary engine for economic growth and prosperity around the globe. MyBizHomepage is dedicated to supporting the millions of individual entrepreneurs who work so hard to make their organizations a success.

MyBizHomepage knows the challenges small business owners face every day, so they’ve created an integrated series of online business tools designed to overcome the obstacles that can impede your progress. They’ve made these tools available to everyone on MyBizHomepage.com. And because they want to provide entrepreneurs with every incentive to use them, they’ve done it for free.

One of the principle issues for entrepreneurs and small businesses is gaining a firm understanding of their financial condition. The MyBizDashboard™ included in the website automatically extracts the latest information from their QuickBooks software, computes standard financial metrics, and displays it on MyBizHomepage.com as an easy-to-understand, “financial dashboard” graphic. Entrepreneurs and small businesses can also take advantage of social networking tools—online forums and profiles—built into the site and can customize it with RSS feeds so that all the information they need to make better decisions and operate more efficiently are in one place.

Those who have seen MyBizHomepage.com have immediately appreciated its value. Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and PC Magazine are just three of the publications who have praised our efforts to provide small businesses with a suite of high-quality business tools that are just not available anywhere else.

MyBizHomepage is now used by thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses in 43 countries.

Entrepreneur.com says:

When you think about it, driving a car is pretty complicated. It requires coordinating several extremities while keeping your eyes on the road and the dashboard gauges. Steering a business takes just as much dexterity, which is why a dashboard view of your company’s operational metrics could really come in handy.

SaaS leaders like NetSuite and Salesforce.com pioneered this kind of front end for business processes. And for a decade, I’ve been telling any QuickBooks manager who would feign interest that the small-business market leader also needs a dashboard as part of its flowchart interface. Finally, someone has done it for them.

MyBizHomepage, a Middleburg, Virginia-based startup, automatically uploads your QuickBooks data (2007 and 2008 versions only) to your own customizable web page, where you can keep an eye on your enterprise’s critical operational factors in real time. Many are standard-but-important business measures—the state of payables, receivables, cash flow and inventory. But coming soon, says founder and CEO Peter Justen, are customizable gauges that your particular business might need more than others.

MyBizHomepage is a lot cheaper than NetSuite or Salesforce.com—as in, it’s free. In fact, if you’re not using a recent version of QuickBooks, you can download a free copy of Intuit’s $99 Simple Start 2008 during MyBizHomepage setup, which will make your data available to the dashboard. MyBizHomepage lets you choose how often you want your data display refreshed, including as often as your numbers change. It uses QuickBooks’ Web Connector to analyze your QuickBooks data, and three car dashboard designs—a Ferrari, Mini Cooper or ‘69 Chevelle—will soon be available for MyBizHomepage gauges. Your page is filled out by various RSS feeds of your choice, not unlike a Google or Yahoo homepage.

Another tool to help make running your small business a little easier.

Torie
Driving my biz

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