FREE Business Software

FREE Accounting Express (from Microsoft)
Microsoft provides a free basic accounting system for small businesses.

FREE Business Plan Charts (from Business Resource Software)
Create the charts you need for your business plan. These charts can provide a great first impression to investors or anyone critical to your business.

FREE Cash Management (from TurboCash)
TurboCash is a free, open source accounting application with many third-party plug-ins available.

FREE Customer Relationship Management (from HighRise)
A simple way to track your contacts with clients. Remembers who you talked to, what was said, what to do next, who to call back, and when to follow-up.

FREE Customer Relationship Management (from FreeCRM)
FreeCRM.com offers a more sophisticated approach to CRM, but requires more time to learn. It allows tracking of potential deals in your pipeline and determines if your sales performance is on track.

FREE Business Management Courses (from Small Business Administration)
The Small Business Administration offers links to an impressive array of more than 40 free, business-related courses. These online courses cover many areas of managing your small business, including finance and accounting, marketing and advertising, e-commerce, and international trade.

FREE Security Certificate for Email (from Comodo)
Comodo provides a free security certificate. Each message you send is verified that it came from you and was not modified along the way.

FREE Website Hosting (from Microsoft)
Microsoft provides a free website with email accounts for small businesses.

FREE Website Log Analysis (from HitTail)
HitTail is a free service for measuring the effectiveness of websites up to 100,000 visitors per month.

FREE Shopping Cart (from AgoraCart)
Organizes and displays your products to your prospects, accumulates items in an order, tracks multiple products until the shopper is ready to check out.

FREE Mailing List Management (from Gnu)
Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, and spam filters.

FREE Project Management (from BaseCamp)
Basecamp provides tools tailored to improve the communication between people working together on a project.

FREE Business Planning Resources (from Business Resource Software)
This library of resources contains links to hundreds of sites offering research materials for every possible line of business.

FREE Example Business Plans (from Business Resource Software)
This library of business plans includes entries in the Moot Corp Competition at the University of Texas. Each business plan was a winner or finalists in the competition. The judges (venture capitalists) selected these plans as representing the best in marketing strategy and presentation.