Entrepreneur Tools for business
In the digital age there are some amazing tools to help businesses today. There are tools for any stage of business whether you are just starting brain storming what you what to do or a mature business starting a new sales campaign. A lot of these tools are open source so you get great products with out having a large price to pay.
One tool which I think no business should be with out is mind mapping software, the product I use is called Freemind and is available from source forge,
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It is available for all platforms the link above is for the windows version, it includes java which is needed to run it.
To see the features of mind mapping download this free “tips for search engine optimization” mindmap. This is a great mind map that has lots of really useful tips for optimizing your website.
I find it best to keep all my mind maps in one directory for mindmaps rather than all over the computer. I then name them by the category and usage, so I might have “business ppc marketing.mm” to store all my pay per click marketing information.
Freemind mind mapping offers lots of really useful features to entrepreneurs here is a short list:
Folding branches
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Save files as XML
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Export to HTML and XHTML
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Export document to PDF and Open Document format
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Exports image to png, jpg and svg formats
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Icons on nodes
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Clouds around branches
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Graphical links connecting nodes
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Search restricted to single branches
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Web and file hyper-links from nodes
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FreeMind browser/player for web in Java or Flash
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Transform mindmaps using XSLT