Rock the Post is an excellent web service that bridges the gap between investors and people with ideas. The site works by letting you detail your ideas through posts from your account. In your post you detail your idea along with the things you need to make it happen. You ask people for funds, resources, or simply their time. In exchange you can offer them shares/equity of your company. You can also have people pledge money, resources, and time to your project.

If you do not have an idea to share, you can look for interesting ventures on the site to invest or pledge resources in.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service
• Helps you detail your ideas online
• Helps you get investors and contributors for your projects
• Lets you invest and pledge resources

Check out RockThePost @ www.rockthepost.com (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

You simply need to enter the website (e.g. woome.com) of an advertiser into the search box and press Search. The section “Active ads” shows the different ad copies for this advertiser, the websites (publishers) where those ads are running and their average ad position. You can see the total publishers reached per ad in the “Ad reach” section and see the advertiser’s best performing ad copies by clicking on the section “Best Performers”.

You can see the number of traffic sources for different ad copies.

You can also see the performance of different ad copies.

All the data can be exported into Excel files by clicking the EXPORT button on the upper right corner.

Features:

• Look into performance of Adsense ad copies of your competitors.
• Info on Adsense campaigns of 265,000 advertisers, running on more than 92,000 sites.
• View active running ad copies for an advertiser.
• View advertiser’s top traffic sources.
• Compare best performing ad copies.
• Monitor trends in real time.
• Export data into Excel.
• Free, registration needed to view more detailed stats.

Check out Mixrank @ www.mixrank.com (via ReadWriteWeb)

ContactMe is a web service and CRM solution for small businesses that can help manage clients and track pertinent tasks. With it you can consolidate contacts, organize people, track tasks, create a ContactMe button for webpages, access contact information from your smartphone, and integrate your contact list with other popular services such as email marketing systems.

With ContactMe, you can also create a database of your contacts and make them accessible depending on your business needs. Keep tabs on your clients by posting notes or by forwarding emails to “post@contactme.com” where it will be stored under the corresponding client. You may also create a ContactMe button for your website and webpages to acquire new sales leads. Track tasks as well as calendars, review analytical reports about your website, and access client data on-the-go using your iPhone.

ContactMe offers free and paid versions, with a free Biz Pro trial for 14 days. This tool is ideal for anyone who needs a quick CRM system integrated in their blog/website.

Features:

• Simple and affordable CRM solutions for small businesses.
• Consolidate and manage your client details in an organized place.
• Keep track of your clients.
• Manage tasks and calendars for clients.
• Create analytics reports.
• iPhone support.
• Create web page buttons and forms.
• Integrates with Facebook, Constant Contact, WordPress, wibiya, and MailChimp.
• Choose among three types of accounts: Free, Form Plus, and Biz Pro.
• Similar Tools: Bloove, Keepm, and Gist.

Check out ContactMe @ http://www.contactme.com

CampaignCog is a free to use web service that helps you track your emails and various stats about them. Using the web tool you can start email campaigns and specify the number of subscribers for it. Next you select a start date and a merge tag that helps provide reports of each individual email you send. Finally you select whether or not the clicked links in your emails are tracked. With all this done, you are provided an HTML code that you should paste into your email or sending software.

This code helps track the email and gathers various stats such as how many subscribers opened your email, read it, skim-read it, forwarded it, or deleted it.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you track your emails.
• You can find out valuable information about the emails sent to your subscribers.
• Find out how many people read your email, forwarded it, and deleted it.
• Similar tools: 1and1Mail, MailChimp and Nouri.sh.

Check out CampaignCog @ www.campaigncog.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

The built-in WYSIWYG email editor lets you create HTML emails without worrying about the code behind it and many annoying formatting issues. You can add text, create hyper-links, insert images, align your content with a few clicks and if too adventurous even edit the actual HTML code.

The software lets you create multiple groups targeted towards different sets of audience, and send emails to these groups as desired. You can give each group a name, enter addresses manually, or even import them from a CSV or a delimited text file. Similarly, you can also export groups and customize their mail settings. The software allows you to pre-defined fields that you can quickly insert in your newsletters. You can send a different reply-to address and send emails by setting even your Gmail account as the senders account. You can setup multiple accounts in the software and select the one you want while sending emails.

For a nominal fees, you can remove the 50 recipients per email cap and send emails to unlimited users.

Features:

• An easy-to-use email marketing software for Windows.
• Create groups and populate by adding or importing contacts.
• Design HTML emails and newsletters without any coding.
• Insert custom fields in newsletters and set default settings for each account.
• Send up to 50 recipients per message for free.
• Works on Windows Vista, 7 and XP

Download 1and1mail from  www.1and1soft.com

Virtual booklets are the online form of booklets and can be found on numerous websites. Normally to create them you need to be familiar with programming and coding. But thanks to SimpleBooklet the average internet user can create, share and print booklets with ease.

The way the site works is very simple: you place objects on the provided canvas, resize the objects to match your needs, and once a page is done you move on the next page in the booklet. The objects you can add include images, any type of files, a background image, text, video, embeddable code, a webpage, and audio. Once you are done with your booklet you can publish it online as a webpage or share it via email or on an online social network.

Webmasters can obtain a code for the booklets and embed it on their site. If the booklet comprises of text and images only you can print it out; this way you can use SimpleBooklet to create actually booklets and not only virtual ones.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you create, share print booklets online.
• You can share booklets online.
• You can get the embeddable code for your virtual booklets.
• You can print out your booklets.
• Similar tool: PrintableFlyerTemplates, Band-Flyers, MyBrochureMaker, BookletCreator and Pocketmod.
• Also read related articles: 3 Useful Booklet Printing Solutions For Mac Users.

Check out SimpleBooklet @ www.simplebooklet.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

To start with, the biggest edge MailerLite has on other email marketing software is a web-based structure which means nothing to download or sync to your network. Just create a free account on MailerLite and start creating beautiful newsletters. The content editor lets you drag-and-drop objects, add text and images and customize the style and colors of your email without getting into any HTML code.

You can import your contact list into MailerLite and the tool will handle duplicates and automatically take care of invalid addresses. You can manually add new subscribers, delete them and even search through them using an email or name.

MailerLite can send up to 1,000 emails per minute so you don’t have to worry about mail servers and any other technical issues. Once sent, your campaign can be easily tracked and analyzed through visual charts and detailed reports. This includes information like the number of people who opened the emails, number of clicks, number of undelivered emails and information about people who have unsubscribed.

MailerLite currently has a free trial through 1st October 2010 after which different plans are available based on specific needs. The people behind the service have told us that MailerLite will also provide a free plan with limited features after 1st October 2010.

To see MailerLite in action watch demo video below:

Features:

• Create and send email campaigns.
• All web-based, nothing to download.
• Import and manage contacts from one place.
• Automatically handles duplicate and invalid emails.
• Drag and drop content editor to easily create emails.
• Track your campaigns through detailed click reports and charts.
• Get unsubscribe and bounce reports.

Visit MailerLite @ www.mailerlite.com

Formstack is a website that presents a wonderful solution to creating online forms. It provides users with free and paid plans. The free plan lets account holders create 3 forms and 10 fields in it. These entries include text boxes, radio buttons, and all other elements required to make a brilliant online form.

After creating a form we are provided with its URL which we can deploy on the web. A JavaScript code is also provided which we can merge with our site’s code. Full HTML editing is also facilitated through the site.

Our form results are saved in our Formstack account; the free account saves up to 50 results.

Features:

• Offers a free plan.
• Form creation is simple and does not require programming knowledge.
• Each form’s URL, JavaScript, and HTML code is provided.
• Information collected from the forms in stored in our Formstack account.
• Related article: 3 Free Contact Form Generators For Your Website.
• Similar tools: EmailMeForm, Faary, VisitorContact, FormSite, Quick Form Builder and JotForm.

Visit Formstack @ www.formstack.com

To purchase products, simply create an account with your company’s valid contact information. Branders offers a wide selection of promotional products to choose from such as apparels, watches, pens, stress balls, USB drives, caps, notebooks, and many more. The site also offers live online chat assistance for easier transactions.

Features:

• Upload your company logo on various customizable products.
• Large selection of customizable products.
• Choose the product’s color.
• Get product quote before purchasing.
• Preview customized products before buying them.
• Money-back guarantee on lowest prices, satisfaction, and on-time shipment.
• Free samples, artwork enhancement, and $50 credit on your first order upon registration.
• 24/7 online support assistance through live chat.

Check out Branders @ www.branders.com

Getting started is easy, just create a new Twitter account and input all of your chosen searches and trends. Once you have done that, follow that new account in your regular Twitter account. That’s it!

Features:

• Track twitter searches and trends in your Twitter account.
• Track as many subjects as you like.
• Easy to use and free.
• Similar tools: Twilert and TweetAlarm.

Check out TweetAlert @ www.code-or-die.com/tweetalert (by Dean Sherwin)