microsoft free development tools

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-web-developer-express

web safe colors with html color codes

http://trace.wisc.edu/contrast-ratio-examples/TextSamples_6x6x6_On_FFFFFF.htm

email lists and email marketing

mailchimp.com looks like they have lots of social media and other integrations


verticalresponse.com work good, pay as you email


constantcontact.com too expensive

Posting to Google + and others at same time with chrome

Google+: Pages

Google + Business - Yes, yet another place we gotta add our clients

http://www.google.com/+/business/

200px × 200px is all you get for your profile image

Where you manage all your pages
https://plus.google.com/pages/manage

what is my rank in the search engines

http://whatpageofsearchamion.com/

put in the keyword and the domain and this will tell you which, if any, of the first 10 pages of the search engines you are on.