Your point, well made.
Through these free links you can for example find freelancers with all kinds of skills; test a piece of copy for clarity and readability; assess the effectiveness of your website in marketing terms; check your website's page rankings on a daily basis quickly and easily...
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http://www.email-marketing-reports.com/deliverability/introduction.htm
If you're new to email marketing, you might wonder just what issues there could be around delivery. After all, you write an email, you put in the recipient's email address, you click "send", and you expect it to land in front of that recipient a moment or two later...

http://www.peopleperhour.com/ – if you’re looking for a freelancer here’s the place to go - not just creatives but other skills as well.

http://www.editcentral.com/gwt1/EditCentral.html Put your copy through the six ‘readability’ benchmarks and see how it scores for clarity – I hope you don’t find the experience quite as surprising as I did…

http://websitegrader.com/ This tool looks further than how well or not a website is optimised – it measures the site’s overall marketing effectiveness. Websitegrader not only ‘scores’ a website based on things like traffic, SEO, social popularity and some technical factors it also provides basic advice on how any website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

http://www.webceo.com/ I use this tool on a daily basis to check how the websites I’m involved with are ranking. Web CEO claims that “our SEO software offers more for free than any other software package or suite for SEO.” And just for once, they’re spot on.

http://www.internetmarketingforbusinessowners.com/
If you like a slick idea, marketed in a very slick manner, by a very slick presenter, have a look at this slick site – it’s quite slick. Have to say that it’s more of a weekend excursion than something to get distracted by in your working day.

http://www.copyscape.com/ Got a suspicion that your content is being used by somebody else, somewhere? This is the place to go to find out. I used this tool last Friday and discovered that some of my work had indeed been plagiarised!

http://www.jingproject.com/ Ever wanted to show somebody something on your computer screen where a movie would really help get your point across? Jing makes it dead easy to make a short movie based on what’s happening on your PC’s computer screen.

http://optimization.marketingstudies.net/content/defining_online_conversion_what_is_it.php Want to know the truth about response rates and conversion rates? If so, here’s the site for you. It’s as dry as dust but it gets down to the nitty gritty.

Not all these links are clickable...
ACPI
Admiral
Allenbridge
Allianz
Allianz Global Investors
Cardif Pinnacle
Centrepoint Insurance Services
Chelsea Building Society
Clifton Asset Management
Close Investments
Credit Suisse
Dennehy Weller
Denplan
Derbyshire Building Society
Dexia
Domestic & General
Edge Group
Ely
Fortis Commercial Finance
Helm Godfrey
Hiscox
Invesco Perpetual
J O Hambro 
Just Retirement
Lowes
MetLife
Mortgage Next
NatWest
New Star
Norwich & Peterborough Building Society Plan Invest
Purely Mortgages
Reyker Securities
Royal London Asset Management
Russell Investments
Sesame
St James’s Place
The West Brom
Threadneedle
Torquil Clark
UIA
VW Financial Services
Wesleyan Insurance
Winterthur Life
Yorkshire Investment Group

Sales letters:

Must be the season for it...I'm getting a lot of interest in sales letters - both the snail mail type and the e-mail blast kind. If a good sales letter floats your boat, then you might want to have a look around here...

New European proverb: "financial directors who think European, act European and transact European… get their European invoices paid - immediately." More...

Given the niche I occupy, I’m online quite a bit looking for sources of reference, assistance and dare I say it - inspiration. Much of what I find is daft, inaccurate and irrelevant, but not always. Because every now and then, a little gem pops up: something that’s extremely useful and helps make some aspect or other of my job, a little easier to do.

Here they are