Hoover’s offers a new free service: List Of The Top 100 Companies
searched on their site. It is a monthly updated list based on the subscribers’ searches.

What’s Hoover’s?

Hoover’s delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drive business growth. In-depth coverage of the world’s top enterprises is at the core of our business tools and service that customers find vital to their operations.

Here is top ten:

To check the entire list: The Hoover’s 100

Summary

How can you benefit from the list? You can keep track of the companies that researches watch closely: an indicator for stock investors or a way to forecast what business types and companies are trend setters at present time.

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Next job site on our list of the ultimate resources for freelancers, part-time and work from home job seekers is CreativeHotlist.com. The web site focus is on: Job Searches, Portfolios and Recruiting for Graphic and Web Designers, Writers, Photographers and Illustrators.

The website is free, you just need to create an account. Job search is by:

Location
Category
Experience

In fact, the job site functions like most of other similar services: you can post your resume, you can track certain vacancies with your Hot List, search marketplace, etc.

Now let’s see how the company positions itself:

Creative Hotlist is a customizable online application for connecting talent, companies and services.Much more than a job site for the creative community, Creative Hotlist has a sophisticated search engine and enables users to find individuals, companies and resources for any aspect of the creative marketplace including job openings, creative services, artists, designers, programmers, printers,service bureaus, schools and clubs.

Creative Hotlist provides unique features for both individuals and firms. Individuals can post resumes, job-wanted listings and online portfolios. Companies and Organizations can post information about capabilities and services and from the same account, post job openings and, through the acceptance of resumes online, manage a hiring search.

What ultimately makes our site so unique are the advanced search capabilities and the ability to save searches in a personalized virtual filing system. Users can search for individuals and firms by keyword, location or level of experience.

Search results can be further filtered by keyword, location or experience and sorted alphabetically, by the posted date orgeographic location. Sorted results can be saved, filed and accessed anytime.

It is hard to say where they get their job postings from: it would be an advantage if they were unique and not re-printed from craigslist.org and similar job boards. The website is US focused.

My search for freelance web developer position returned 231 matches. Not bad. But when I started to browse them I discovered that most are outdated and submitted months ago.

Summary:
CreativeHotlist.com is a service operating on a creative job marketplace. They do not specialize in freelance, work from home and similar sectors. But they are free and their job database includes enough freelance and other positions to visit the website now and then.

RECOMMENDED: For more freelance and work from home jobs browse these two sites: Freelance Work Exchange and eLance (aff).

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ClickBank has been the top market to sell your e-books and other digital products for years. There were some lame attempts to compete with them, but not quite successful.

A new player of the market – Lulu.com – is fast to gain its market share. In fact, Lulu.com does not sell digital products. It helps to materialize your digital products for those customers that would like to buy them. You will be amazed at their process of handling publisher’s orders: take the Lulu publishing tour from their home page.

Lulu.com: publish and sell books, e-books, photos, calendars, CD, DVD and other digital content:

1. Lulu is FREE, FAST and EASY No set-up fees. No minimum order. No delay. No catch. Lulu prints and ships each book as it’s bought. The buyer pays the cost — not you. Lulu only makes money if you do.

2. You’re in control You retain all rights to your work. You decide on design and layout. You set the price and royalties. Lulu’s not the publisher — you are.

3. Sell to the world Lulu lets you sell your work through Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble — and on Lulu itself. Lulu handles all transactions, order tracking and shipping.

Check this page for book sizes and pricing.

There are a few tools that should help sellers with their business. For instance, Lulu Titlescorer – in my opinion, great idea.

The Lulu Titlescorer:
The Lulu Titlescorer has been developed exclusively for Lulu by statisticians who studied the titles of 50 years’ worth of top bestsellers and identified which title attributes separated the bestsellers from the rest.

We commissioned a research team to analyse the title of every novel to have topped the hardback fiction section of the New York Times Bestseller List during the half-century from 1955 to 2004 and then compare them with the titles of a control group of less successful novels by the same authors.

The team, lead by British statistician Dr. Atai Winkler, then used the data gathered from a total of some 700 titles to create this “Lulu Titlescorer” a program able to predict the chances that any given title would produce a New York Times No. 1 bestseller.

The products are rated and even cross-promoted: the famous Amazon’s – the customer that bought… also bought… You can check Lulu Top 100 Best Sellers Need help? Or would like to join the community of people with interests similar to yours? Visit Lulu forums

My tour of Lulu.com impressed me. Professional services, great website, fantastic solutions for publishers. Great job. And a great place for those who would like to market their digital products to the offline world.

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