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Shopping Carts

Magento Used to run a established eCommerce sites. It’s very powerful with lots of features, but also fairly complex.
Shopify Get your store online quickly so you focus on the crucial aspects early on.

OpenCart Great if you want to host your own store for more control and customization, but don’t want something quite as complex and resource-hungry as Magento.
There are lots of options in this space:
osCommerce
X-Cart
Zencart

eCommerce Web Services

WorldWideBrands
is one of the largest drop shipping databases available.
The $299 lifetime membership isn’t cheap but is a worthwhile investment, especially if you plan to start multiple businesses. It’s also a great place to brainstorm new niche and business ideas.
Zendesk Acts as a central repository for all of your customers service issues and is extremely customizable.
Aweber is one of the most popular email marketing services online. Their pricing is reasonable.
PadiAct Convert visitors into leads! helps you get more email leads & subscribers by targeting the right visitors.
Asana Helps to manage large projects and keep track of your personal to-do lists in one spot. It’s free if your company has less than 30 people.
SEOmoz Pro Membership gives you access to a wide variety of SEO tools and custom keyword rankings, at $99/month.
Google Analytics It's free and offers an impressive number of features and ways to analyze your traffic data.
Kiss Insights Lets you easily add small, unobtrusive surveys to the bottom of your webpages, at $29 per month.
Visual Website Optimizer World's Easiest A/B Testing Tool. The testing can be really powerful, but few people do it.
Crashplan Like A/B testing, regular backups are something most people should be doing but aren’t.
eCommHub automates many of the necessary. Currently works with Shopify with support for Magento, Volusion, BigCommerce and 3D Cart on the way.
LastPass Remembers your passwords so you can focus on more important things in life.

Outsourcing

ReplaceMyself The Philippines is one of the best places for outsourcing.
Manuals
Outsourcing quick-start guide
Outsourcing eBook - free.
oDesk Freelancing communities online. It takes periodic screenshots when the freelancer is on the clock, allowing to check for billing abuse.

Hosting Companies

HostGator Offers plans from $4 per month.
GoDaddy
1&1 Internet
Nexcess Best Affordable Magento Hosting. They have Magento-optimized plans starting at $25 a month and decent, U.S.-based email technical support.
WPEngine They host eCommerceFuel, are optimized for WordPress and can handle huge traffic spikes without going down.
Rackspace Best High-End Hosting for high-end performance hosting. It is a top recommendation (about $350 per month for server and support).

Credit Cards & Processing

Authorize.net Is a widely popular credit card gateway, and they integrate with just about every shopping cart on the market.
Gravity Payments In addition to a payment gateway (like Authorize.net), you need another company called a processing merchant in order to accept credit cards. They have some of the best rates.
Fidelity Visa card Fulfilling drop shipping orders can generate a lot of purchases. Offers the best cash-back program I’ve seen with 2% cash back on everything you put on it. The cash rewards have to initially be deposited in a Fidelity account, but you can always withdraw the funds if you don’t mind retiring broke.

Capital One cards If you’re more interested in travel, It’s the program that paid for an around-the-world trip. To get the most rewards and flexibility, it is recommended using two cards:
Business Sparks Miles Card Earns 2x miles per dollar spent
VentureOne Rewards Earns 1.25x miles per dollar spent, the redemption rules are much more favorable.

Market Research Tools

Google Keyword Tool Find out how many people search for a given term, and what related terms are popular. It is strongly recommend reviewing this keyword tool primer before diving in:
keyword tool primer
Open Site Explorer Is SEOMoz’s free tool for getting stats on site backlinks, anchor text, number of linking domains and more. The free version offers a lot of great information.
Compete Provides website traffic estimates for the last 12 months. It is useful for determining traffic volumes relative to other sites as well as traffic trends.
Quantcast Serves up demographic information on a website’s visitors including sex, education, income and age.
Google Insights & Trends offer information not provided by the standard Keyword Tool. You can get data on relative keyword search volume, trends, geographic origination and more.
SEOMoz Toolbar provides a-glance SEO metrics for websites, as well as for the results in Google’s search listings.
http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/{ SearchStatus Plugin for Firefox} Offers information for the loaded browser domain including Compete.com traffic estimates, PageRank and Alexa ranking.