Website Hosting Resources
Hostgator is a leading provider of web hosting, reseller hosting, vps hosting, and dedicated servers. Over 5.000,000 websites trust HostGator for their web. Provides multiple add on domains, email, and more.
WordPress powers more than 25 million websites and WordPress.org allows you to install WordPress in your own hosting account and manage all aspects of your site yourself from design and content, to plug-ins, videos, and images. Easiest way to install is from within Hostgator!
WordPress Thesis Theme. My favorite theme! Thesis is a premium template system for WordPress that is designed to serve as the rock-solid foundation beneath any kind of website. Over 37,534 people rely on the airtight SEO, incredible design flexibility, and lightning-fast loading times that Thesis provides. (Affiliate)
Optimize Press. WordPress plugin that makes creating squeeze pages, sales pages and membership pages a breeze! (Affiliate)
Listbuilding Resources
Aweber is the easiest email marketing system available for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s quick to setup and simple to get started. It also has the highest delivery rate on the internet. (Affiliate)
Pretty Links WordPress Plugin great tool for creating masked links. Also provides basic tracking so that you can gauge responsiveness and engagement. Best way to install is within WordPress Control Panel via ‘add new plugin.’
Bit.ly allows you to set up your own custom short domain for free. Use your Bitly API Key to link your new custom short domain with your WordPress blog and other apps like TweetDeck so all of your shortened link are branded!
Social Media Resources
TweetDeck is your personal real-time browser, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare. You can group your followers, schedule your tweets and it’s installed on your desktop.
Hootsuite is an awesome social media management tool for small business. Review your lists, track your keyword, posts, and news feeds from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more all in one place – plus, schedule out evergreen posts in advance to save time!
Audio, Image & Video Resources
Instant Teleseminar is the provider we use for all of our teleseminars – with or without Slides. We love Instant Teleseminar because it is super easy to use, fast to set up, and participants can listen in by phone or by web simulcast! You can even reach the bridgeline using Skype. Instant Teleseminar provides a 250 Guest Line & 2,000 webcast streaming, Replay & Download, Scheduling and much more. (Affiliate)
Audio Acrobat is the easiest way to stream audio. Produce and publish great audio to your Web site and emails. Create your own online radio show or podcast. High Quality Audio Recording & Hosting. (Affiliate)
Free Conference Pro. Bridgeline includes control panel, recording, 24/7 access, custom recording, # of callers.
Free Conferencing.com. Another free teleconferencing service which in addition to recording calls also offers call-in capability using
SKYPE.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Use it to speed download times for your video, audio and image files and also to back up important data.
Flickr: Creative Commons. Great source for blog post images. Make sure you attribute source and link back to artist’s page!
Pixlr is a free online photo editor with a professional touch. Edit, adjust and filter your images..
Audacity is a free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X. Use it for recording, slicing, and mixing audio.
Jing is a free software that captures anything you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, known as screenshots and screencasts. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X. Use it to illustrate examples in your trainings.
Animoto is my favorite video slideshow tool! Animoto’s white-label pro version is perfect for photographers too – Add music, choose your transitions and design, and click a button – Animoto does all the rest!
Payment Resources
Infusionsoft is the provider we use to power all of our email marketing, auto responders, shopping cart, and affiliate program. The advanced segmentation and targeted marketing that Infusionsoft allows you to do is unmatched. We love them!
Whamcart is an affordable shopping cart for the work at home community. Manage your Products, Sales, Prospects, Clients and Affiliates. Also includes email marketing features.
Paypal. Accept payments, set up products, use as your shopping cart. Upgrade to business account.
Technical Support
Web Support Team. Tech help for your internet business. Get help with Opt In pages, autoresponders, etc. (Affiliate)
Printing Resources
Kunaki. CD/DVD printing/duplication company that produces product on demand, taking the orders and delivering for
you.
Vervante. On demand publishing for your home study course, cd/dvd products, etc.
Productivity Resources
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A “note” can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten “ink” note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, and searched. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms.
Timetrade is an online appointment scheduler. You can set up different calendars for different kinds of activities, customize welcome emails and more. It’s quick, easy and powerful. Automatically synchs up with ical, google calendar and outlook.
Dropbox is a file sharing service between users, computers, etc.
Freemind. Mindmapping software for creative thinkers.
Gmail. The BEST email for dealing with spam & deliverability. Get an account!
Google Reader. Reader for all your RSS Feed’s – beats email!
Research Resources
Survey Monkey. Create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time. Free for up to 10 questions.
Promotion Resources
Teleseminar Nation. Teleclass Listing site.
Membership Resources
Digital Access Pass (DAP). is our favorite premium plug-in to turn your WordPress website into a membership site – and it is the only one we use for clients! Plus, additional WishList plug-ins are available to add to its power and functionality and make administering your membership site a piece of cake.Wordpress Membership Plugin used on all my sites. Allows for full customization of content, including dripping of content, affiliate capacity. (Affiliate)