Okay, one of my all-time favorites and it's free and fun.
If you want to shift your thinking into abundance, confidence, attraction, or whatever you want to call it, go to www.tut.com and sign up for Notes from the Universe. You can choose how often they show up in your inbox. Mike Dooley is the author and boy, can he articulate it so it's a big "Duh" and you enjoy a chuckle. Natalie Tucker Miller turned me on to it a year of so ago and it's been one of the first emails I open everyday, since. Their free ecards are great, too. - Julia
Another social networking site that is in beta is Seth Godin's Triiibes. It's about marketing, etc, and pre-dates the launch of his new book, by the same name. It's reopened for more memberships until August 5th here: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/07/are-you-in-the.html
Looking for amazing stats? http://www.poodwaddle.com/clocks2.htm is pretty incredible, for personal interest, stats for your writing or just a world clock to use with clients. Check it.
Another way to connect on the web is to have your own radio show. http://www.iradeo.com/ will give you your own for free. If you're in the experimental stage, experiment with at least 3-4 methods of web connection, to find what works for you. Then, FOCUS.
This one could help you become famous (One coach I know already got on TV because she helped with this). Super great example of Servant Entrepreneurship. It's called Help a Reporter Out (HARO).
You sign up and three times a day you get an email with a list of media people who need quotes and interviews from knowledgeable people for the stories that they're working on. You reply to any that you have special knowledge of. Don't have time? Skip it that day. Here's where to sign up: www.helpareporter.com
This is a resource that my first virtual assistant shared with me. I just shared it with a current assistant. It's a free PDF converter that works like a snap! Great for protecting your intellectual property from being copied by others: http://convert.neevia.com/
If you've ever wanted to host online meetings but found the services available either too expensive or too complicated, you're in for a nice surprise: A basic account at Dim Dim is FREE, including your own free teleconference line. And enterprise versions are very reasonable also. I'm testing it out myself and Dee Taviner sent me a couple of favorable reviews on Dim Dim from BBC Online and PC World. Thanks Dee!
Have you ever wondered how to improved your search engine opimization so people would actually come to your website and buy things? This is one of the coolest free tools I've seen for checking how your site it doing. It's give you and instant report with several ideas for making improvements and you can also see how you're doing compared to your competitors. Check it out now: http://www.websitegrader.com/#ReportTop
Many coaches avoid reading/watching the "news" because it tends to be overwhelmingly negative. Most news and media come out of the old "blame and be blamed" paradigm that has up 'til now has dominated our culture. Previously, we only had the choice between being uninformed or being negatively informed. Not pretty.