Resources For Your Candle Making Business

Office Supplies

• 123Inkjets - Get up to 75% OFF Inkjet Cartridges!
• Bizchair.com - All office furniture specializing in chairs
• Franklin Covey - Organizing & time management tools
• Vista Print - Office products, custom & FREE business cards
• Stamps.com - Bringing the post office to you!  Free $80 Offer!
• Viking Office Products - 1000's of products, FREE delivery, and exceptional customer service.

• Oriental Trading Co. - Great fundraiser incentives for younger groups.
• Go Promos - Everything promotional including:  pens, lighters, clothing, and mugs.

• WearGuard - Custom logo printing on durable aprons, shirts, and jackets etc.

• Quicken - Use Quicken with your business and personal finances and help get your accounting in order, which results in time saved. Import info into tax software and save even more time.
• Stone Edge Technologies - A full function order management program that works with compatible web based shopping carts and requires Microsoft Access.
• PaloAlto - Offering many software packages for your business including:
  Business Plan Pro - The easiest way to write a business plan with 400+ sample business plans.
  Marketing Plan Pro - You can create a complete marketing plan in seven steps with this software.
  Advertising Plan Pro - When you need a complete marketing communication plan for your business.
• Microsoft Access - Whether you are creating a database for personal, departmental, or organization-wide use, Access offers a set of tools rich enough for the most experienced database developer, yet accessible enough for first-time users.
• Microsoft Excel - Spreadsheet software

• Pay By Check - The best alternative to a credit card for internet transactions. Your customers only need a web browser and a checking account. You can also enter the information for phone or fax order customers.
• PayPal - Enables any individual or business with an email address to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online. Accept all types of credit cards and debit cards at your web site. Sign up is FREE for your PayPal account.
• Instant Business Letter Kit - Write powerful business letters with over 100 fully formatted downloadable templates to make it quick and easy to write professional quality letters.
• SmallBizBooks.com - A compilation of ebooks, reference guides, and software recommended for the entrepreneur to help their small business succeed. Essential software is listed for creating Business Plans, Marketing Plans and more.
• YouSaveOnTaxes.com Strategies to help you reduce your taxes.

• Macromedia Dreamweaver HTML editor software - The easiest, most powerful way to build and manage any website. Dreamweaver provides the tools professionals need in an integrated, streamlined environment.
• Adobe GoLive HTML editor software - Create and manage pages for the web.
• Microsoft FrontPage HTML editor software - This program provides the features, flexibility, and functionality to help you build better Web sites. Take advantage of professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools - everything you need to create a dynamic, sophisticated Web presence.

• Optilink - Where do top ranked sites get their links? Now you can find out. Reverse engineer any site's linking strategy -- and then do it better! No need to be an expert. OptiLink reveals everything about the competition.
• Web Position Gold - Tracks your positions on each search engine for each keyword you are targeting. Allows you to schedule when you want it to check, and then view and evaluate a report that it generates.
• Search Engine News and the Unfair Advantage Book - This book and monthly newsletters are vital information you need to stay on top of all the latest and future search engine changes. No detail is left unanswered. Updated monthly, this resource will keep you from spamming the search engines, and give you the latest tricks to out rank your competition.
• Search Engine Optimizer (SEO) - Search engine optimization software that keeps you up to date on all the latest changes and gives you expert advice on exactly what search engines need to find you and rank you well for your keywords. It also tells you what to do to your web pages to avoid being banned by search engines for improper tactics. Evaluate any web page on your site for the 11 Major Search Engines and know precisely what you need to do to optimize your page to make it search engine friendly.

• Interland - If you want to get a website going for your candle business, but you don’t want to mess with a webmaster or learning html and web development, then Interland’s “Site Builder” is the answer. You can build a site that looks good and host it here for a reasonable amount.
• Site Build It - Here is another way to get going online without becoming an internet guru. This company takes it one step further to help you succeed. They offer a lot of great advice and direction, but they charge more for their service. If you're serious about succeeding online and you want more time to run your business, then this is the place for you.
• Host Rocket - Looking for affordable hosting without giving up all the conveniences? Here is a great place to host your website. Reliable hosting and great tech support.
• Go Daddy - Domain names, web site hosting, email accounts, create a web site, drive sales and traffic, ecommerce solutions. 

• People PC - Offers unlimited internet access, accelerator technology, and email with spam filters.  GET 3 MONTHS AT HALF PRICE!
• Netscape Internet Service Provider - Get unlimited internet access and email, Plus Web Accelerator. 1 Month FREE TRIAL!
• EarthLink High speed internet - with pop up blocker, and spyware blocker.

• The Business Guide to Permission Email Marketing - Your email list is without a doubt the most important information for repeat sales to previous customers. If you want to make money with your email list without getting blacklisted for spamming, then this course is a necessity. Learn no risk, low cost, permission based, opt-in email marketing from the pros. If you are emailing your customers, this course will teach you the correct way to do it.
• Get Response - is a smart autoresponder that automatically follows up with your prospective customer and builds your opt-in list. If you're using it, you know how it increases your profits, boosts your conversion ratios and builds credibility.  Big Time Saver - We Love This Product!

• FreeAuth Virtual Credit Card Terminal "Gateway" - Accept credit card payments with your very own internet based merchant account.  With FreeAuth's virtual credit card terminal "Gateway" account you can take advantage of the FREE gateway setup when you use their internet based credit card merchant account.  They offer some of the lowest monthly processing rates in the bankcard industry!