Free Holiday Gifts for Your Business

Keynote Systems is offering free Web and mobile site monitoring for any one week period now through January 1, 2010. Online retailers can choose to monitor their Web and mobile sites from over 240 worldwide locations. Keynote will provide free ‘on boarding’, which includes the creation of monitoring scripts and the setup of daily performance reports and alerts. Keynote is also offering a complimentary on-site meeting to review a retailer’s Web infrastructure and performance issues. 

Email marketing service Campaigner is giving away free downloadable templates and tools for holiday email marketing. The “Holiday in a Bag” tools include holiday email templates and graphics, holiday e-cards, and 100 tips for holiday marketing including instructions for optimizing deliverability of email marketing and tips for growing your contact list.

Campaigner is also offering a chance to win a day of free marketing consultation from Campaigner experts, who will provide assistance with campaign ideas, content, design and email marketing, plus coaching on how to carry that knowledge forward into future campaigns. The contest closes January 5, 2010. The winner will be notified by email after January 7, 2010. 

Webnode is offering its Premium web building tool and eCommerce site building program for free, starting on CyberMonday and ending on December 14. Retailers can build a website and eCommerce store in a matter of minutes, according to Webnode.
 
The eCommerce Platform, named the eShop, usually costs $299 per year. The user can sell up to 1,000 products, accept credit card payments through Paypal and receive marketing tips, product placement pages and strategies for maximum site performance. The website building package costs $119 and includes 5 e-mail addresses, own domain use, 1000MB of storage and 20GB of bandwidth. Users who sign up during the special period will get six months free off of the premium price.

To sign up, enter CYBMONSHP during the checkout for the eShop Standard package and CYBMONWEB for the Standard website package. 

Email marketing service provider iContact is offering Holiday Templates to customers, including flyer coupons, postcards and newsletter formats. Ten new templates have been created with an emphasis on Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. The "Holiday Email Marketing Success Checklist for 2009" includes a list of the Top 10 Days of 2009 to Send Holiday Emails, Five Big Picture Strategies for Email Marketing Success and the Five Practical Steps for Maximizing Email Campaign Performance. iContact is also posting tips on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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