7 websites to help your business cheat sheet
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Further information on how to sign up, join and use the 7 internet sites in the presentation '7 websites to help your business grow'.TRANSCRIPT
namechk.com
1. Go to: http://namechk.com
2. type your chosen username in the search box
3. Results are quickly collected and displayed. Websites that have the username available are coloured green with a tick. Websites that have the username taken are displayed red with a cross.
4. Clicking on a green box will take you to the relevant website, where you can sign up and secure your chosen domain name.
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posterous.com
1. Go to: http://posterous.com
2. In the yellow box, titled ‘Get Started’, fill in your email address, choose a password, and enter your username.
If you have used namechk.com already, then enter your chosen username here. Remember no spaces though!
3. Once completed successfully the ‘Manage’ screen is shown where you can add your first story or ‘Post’.
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4. You will also receive an email sent to the email address you have entered during sign up, to confirm your sign up.
5. click on ‘Click to confirm your email address’ to confirm. Once confirmed you will arrive at the contact section of the
‘Manage’ page.
6. Here you can set up to add posts from your mobile phone,. Set up notifications, as well as add others, so they can login and add content to your new blog.
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Set notifications
Add new users
Set up your new blogto automatically poststories to facebook,
twitter etc.
Set up your new blog on your own domain.(May need help from your web developers
with this one)
sliderocket.com
1. Go to: http://www.sliderocket.com
2. Click on ‘Take a Tour’, to watch an interactive presentation on how to use sliderocket, or…
3. Click on ‘Sign Up’, and then fill in your details. Remember to choose the free version to try it out for non-commercial
purposes. You can always upgrade to the Pro version later.
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4. Once signup you will need to login using your email address and password
You can also sign in with your google or google apps account (if you have one).
5. There is then a welcome screen where you can choose to:
1. Participate in an interactive tour. This will allow you actually build a presentation following the instructions given in the tour.
2. Watch a tutorial
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slideshare.net
1. Go to: http://www.slideshare.net
2. Click on Signup in the top left
3. Fill in your chosen username, email addresses etc. And click signup
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4. Once signed up the welcome screen appears, asking if you would like to upgrade. Click on ‘Skip this’. You will also receive an email confirming your email address.
5. Next is the option to upload a powerpoint presentation to slideshare. You can upload a presentation for all to see
(publicly), or to share with a select group (privately).
6. Whilst uploading you can choose a new title, add a description and tag the presentation with keywords.
7. Once uploaded you can then share the presentation on Twitter, Facebook or both. Email a link, or copy the embed code to place a version on your website for all your visitors to see.
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google.com/apps
1. If you want to just try out the online google apps, I suggest just trying them individually at first. If you go to google.com/apps, there is a lengthly sign up process, which will be worth doing after trialing them individually, as it will give you more control.
2. For google docs go to: http://docs.google.com
3. For google calendar go to: http://www.google.com/calendar
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4. For google sites go to http://sites.google.com
5. For google mail go to http://mail.google.com/mail
6. Sign in with your google account. If you do not have a google account, you can create one by clicking the sign up button.
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issuu.com
1. Go to: http://issuu.com
2. Click on ‘Sign up now’. Now bear with us on this one, as it is a long winded sign up process.
3. Fill in your details using the form.
4.
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5. Issuu will now send you an email
6. Please check you email account, and click on the link in the email
7. You will now be shown a page, which suggests looking for collegues already using the service. You may follow their suggestions, or click on ‘skip this step’.
8.
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9. Next is the issuu welcome page
10. In the top left is the ‘Upload Document‘ button in the blue bar
11. The following page is a form, which allows you to upload your PDF document and all the details describing that document
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Choose yourdocument to upload
Give it a title and description
Choose a web name using keywords, to help being found in
searches
A link to your website
Select category,language and where your main audience for the document is
Sound can be added if this is relevant and adds value to the
document
The document can be public or private. Pri-vate is only available
to those who now the address of the
document
dropbox.com
1. Go to: http://db.tt/puAWg7p. Using this code, instead of going direct to the website will give you an extra 250MB of storage for free.
2. Click on ‘Download Dropbox’. The following screen will appear which gives you step by step instructions on what to do next.
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When you first run dropbox, it will ask you if you have an account. During installation an account was set up. Please choose login and enter your email address and password
3. The files tab, shows all the fiels and folders uploaded to dropbox
4. The events tab, lists all the vents that have happened. So you can see if a file has been updated and when. It also allows you to restore files to previous versions if required.
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zamzar.com
1. Go to: http://zamzar.com
2. Select the file you wish to convert from your computer. Choose from the dropdown list the file type you wish to convert it in to. Enter your email address and click convert
3. Your chosen file will then begin uploading to the site and start the conversion process.
4. Once complete which can take several hours, you will receive an email with a link to download the converted file.
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