The past few weeks have witnessed a flurry of activity when it comes to new tools, services and products that home-based and other small business opportunity, franchise and other small business owners can use to run their businesses more efficiently, to grow and become more profitable. Here are five in particular that we think are worth a mention:

Simple Performance-Based Small Business Lending

Credit Wise Advisors has announced the public launch of its new website, GoCreditWise.com, to provide new and existing small business owners with access to enhanced lending options and high-quality loans by emphasizing performance over and above credit scores. It’s a unique and more enhanced business loan concept for entrepreneurs and small business owners that enables them to get the money they need to achieve financial stability via cash funds in as little as 48 hours or less.

For more information, go to GoCreditWise.com now!

Small Business Website Creation Made Easy

Easysite.com’s new Small Business Website platform enables home-based and other small business owners to create their own search engine-friendly website without having to know any website code, even allowing them to add social media buttons with just a simple copy and paste function. Key features include unlimited hosting, photo galleries, HD video capability, an online store page, live video chat, forum, blogs and daily backups, among others. Choose from two affordable options.

For more information, go to Easysite.com now!

Affordable Push Marketing Technology for Small Businesses

While push marketing technology has been shown to be more effective than email or text marketing, many small business owners and local merchants have found the development of mobile apps with push notifications to be cost-prohibitive. Not anymore! Bizhappy.com announced just last week that it has created a customized small-business push marketing app for only $99 per year, including all set-up fees and with no ongoing fees of any kind. The app works with all iOS devices, as well as android phones and tablets and can be built in as little as 30 minutes.

For more information, go to Bizhappy.com now!

Streamlined Product Registration for Home-Based Businesses

Owners of home-based small businesses report that some of their most common impediments to growth are keeping track of their inventory, contending with other businesses in the growing market and continuously trying to keep up with advances in technology. Having now sold more barcodes than other leading reseller in the world, Bar Codes Talk has just launched a new feature on its website that helps home-based business owners to overcome these obstacles and streamline the product registration process.

For more information, go to Bar Codes Talk now!

New Financial App Tracks Real-Time Small Business Viability

Set to debut next month in the Apple App Store, Unleash’s new mobile app tracks small business financial health in real time and provides up-to-the-minute insights to foster better decision-making in just a few clicks. The app’s algorithm calculates a small business uScore that represents the overall health of the operation, along with suggestions on how to address any problems or make improvements. Unleash is available now for FREE trials as a private beta version.

For more information, go to Unleash.us now!

Give us your feedback! What other NEW apps and services designed for the small business owner have you found helpful as of late? Have any of the resources we’ve highlighted here been helpful to you? Let us know what you think…