Doc Metrics Blends Flash and PDFs to Provide Analytics for PDFS.
You can put flash forms into your PDF and get information about how each reader is using your pdf (how long, what they’ve read, if they’ve printed it, and much more). It can be as low as 99 a month. That was the one thing I did NOT like about the service is there is no pricing sheet. You HAVE to sign up to get that information. You can see it at . http://www.docmetrics.com/
Viral PDF Tool
If you have affiliates you may want to look into this tool. It allows you to make brandable ebooks in pdfs. You put some code into your word document, and later the viral pdf tools replace those tools with the affiliate links. So an affiliate opens the branding tool, point it at the pdf, enter their information into the prompts and “poof” the same ebook now has their affiliate links in the pdf.
This could be very useful if you have an ebook that is a teaser for a product. Your affiliate can promote the book with this free ebook (that contains their links). You can provide the rebranding tool to all your affiliates. It’s only $37 in July 08. Check it out at viralpdf.com
Free PDF Printer Allows You To Control Web Links
http://www.pdfprinter.com/
PDF Printer is a free tool to create PDFs. This free tool allows you to Convert documents—text and/or graphics—to PDF from any of 250 different formats. Create clickable hyperlinks, quickly and easily, to transfer viewers elsewhere.
Make Your Own Comics
One way you can help your viral efforts is to make something funny and outrageous that people want to forward to their friends. Over at http://comiqs.com/ you can add “bubble text” in minutes to pictures and more. It’s free, and its easy to use.
SmartDD is a awesome looking tool that allows merchants to sell digital products without people sending the download link to all their friends (or worse, posting it at digg.com ). What it does it when someone purchases the product, it emails them a dynamic link. When the download is done, the link is inactivated. The following the smartdd follows up via email to make sure the download was successful. The best part of this software is there is a free version for those who only have a few items. You can try it and in the event you need more flexibility you can upgrade to the full version for around 75 bucks. Sign up for Free Version
Ticket Desk Pro Another cool script I am now using is Ticket Desk Pro. This is an amazing piece of software for the price (less than 20 bucks when I purchased it). This has a ticketing system, a F.A.Q. feature, a “frequent responses” feature, and a LIVE HELP option. I really figured it was too good to be true till I saw it on the Download Guard site (and I know Sam wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t quality). Check it out at ticketdeskpro.com They are using an interesting script that raises the price by a nickel (.05) every time someone purchases the script. Very interesting. That script will become available on Thursday 5/16/ at www.frankhaywood.com
Make WordPress Themes From Scratch I found a great article in Website Magazine (it’s free, and its awesome subscribe today). It has a list of online (and offline) WordPress Theme generation tools.
The WordPress Theme Gen tool allows you to create themes offline. The rest of the tools provide you with the ability to create WordPress themes online quickly and easily.
Debut Free Video Capture Screencast Software NCH makes a number of free titles all intended to get you to buy their “next level” software.
You can find debut at http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html
As a podcast consultant, I needed a way for my potential customers to see my schedule and book an appointment. This would eliminate the “what day is good for you” and then the whole confirmation, etc. I wanted to streamline things a bit. So I went looking for an online tool. My goal was to find a script I could throw on my site (with no monthly fee) if those exist I couldn’t find one. However what I did find (in some case free) were very powerful and very cool.
I found this site via a google search. After coming across a couple of sites that didn’t let you see the service (the whole “Call for a demo” routine) genbook.com is a great website. They have some cool demos, and more importantly no strings. That’s right if you want to try their free version for a while – go ahead. (the full version has additional notifications, the ability to get into the customer database a bit deeper, and the ability to accept payment right at the scheduling point).
It really look simple, and since it was free, I jumped right in. It turns out, it IS THAT EASY. Here is the cool part. You end up with a “book now” button that you can put anywhere. So I can put it on my website, my myspace page, facebook, craigs list, etc. (This really got me thinking). You can have multiple services at multiple prices (this is also available in the other services). I also love the way I can customize the look of it, how easy it was to set up my working hours, block hours I didn’t want to accept appointments. It was two very key words: easy and powerful. Ok, that’s three words, but you get my point. I’m using it at www.schoolofpodcasting.com and I’ll let you know how it goes.
Wev-Appointments web-appointments.com
This site has many of the big sites, it is cheaper than some of the other services I looked at. The problem I ran into was the interface. I’m not sure you can customize it alot as most of their demos had the same layout, etc. Also their flash demo was very 1992. It might be worth a shot. Their customer interface seemed pretty fairly straight forward. They have a 30 day free trial at
This site has a ton of features to their site. Easy to use and fully customizable Online Appointment Scheduler and Event Registration Software. The ultimate onlinee-booking Calendar software for any business type. The only thing I thought was strange is they limit the number of bookings per month (300 bookings for $20 a month. $30/month for 600). They have the most features and a very slick site. You can try it free for 30 days at bookingcalendar.com
