Web 2.0 Tools for Businesses

Pros and Cons of 3 “Essential” online business tools.

Pros

Cons/Pricing

Google Apps

Large choice of services:

Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Hangouts (conferencing), Sites, Vault, Google+, Google Sites, Wallet, Maps, Picasa, Voice, Blogger, Groups and more

Secure connections and data storage

Flexible storage plans:

Store up to 15 GB in Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos and pay for additional storage: 100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB and 16TB

Services Uptime:

99.97% Uptime

Included spam filtering

Instant messenger

Pricing:

$5/user/month

$50/user/year

General Google cons:

Document formatting issues, design/customisation limitations

MailChimp

Email Campaign Creation:

Easy & customizable

Drag and Drop Editor, Email Beamer, Email Templates

Integrations, Merge Tags, Multi-User Accounts

Custom Forms, Segmentation and Groups, Subscriber Profiles, Autoresponders, Spam Filter, Diagnostics, Geolocation, Email Client Testing, RSS-to-Email, Delivery by Time Zone, Campaign Archives, Social Sharing, Coupon Codes, MailChimp Mobile, Mobile Signup Forms, SMS for Events,

VIP Subscribers

Campaign Reporting:

Interactive Graphs, Open and Click Tracking, Opens and Clicks Over Time, Opens By Location, Subscriber Activity Reports, Click Maps, Campaign Reach, eCommerce360, Analytics360

FREE
2,000 subscribers
(12,000 emails per month)
$10.00 /mo
500 subscribers
(unlimited emails)
$50.00 /mo
5,000 subscribers
$75.00 /mo
10,000 subscribers
$150.00 /mo
25,000 subscribers

Pixlr Editor

Completely free

Fully customizable user interface - movable and scalable windows

Resizable canvases

Crop, magic tool, fill, pen, blur, smudge, dodge, burn, pinch, bloat, clone, erase

Rotate, flip

Multiple layers

Transparency and colour choice

Image adjustments and 25+ filters

Requires Flash

Limited upload capabilities, requiring users to have an images saved to their hard drive before they can be uploaded.



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