Biz Resources
The basic essentials that will help you automate and grow your internet business.
Autoresponder
You need an autoresponder service that enables you to build, manage and maintain a subscriber list. Your autoresponder should allow you to create email sequences in advance that will be mailed to your subscribers automatically over a time period that you designate. This service is the second most important tool you need after a good hosting provider.
Traffic Generation
Discover the secrets to try and test sustainable traffic methods without the help of Google, Facebook, PPC or SEO techniques. Use simple but highly effective tried and tested methods.
Affiliate Network
Find quality products that you can promote.
Tracking Software
It’s important to know which of your campaigns and advertising are doing well, and which need to be scrubbed. But you won’t know if you’re not tracking your results. You’ll need a tool that will allow you to protect and cloak your links, a click tracker, rotator and link manager. Make every click more profitable.
Affiliate Programs
Looking for quality products to promote? Looking in an affiliate market place will present you with thousands of products to pick from.
Site Theme
You’ll need to build fabulous website pages. But you don’t want to spend a ton of time and effort creating them. Create marvelous website pages with a tool that makes the process easy, yet give you professional results. You’ll create sales pages, converting landing pages, complete funnels, authoritative blogs and membership pages with ease.
Hosting Service
You’ll need a reliable and reasonably priced company to host your domains. Your hosting company must provide top notch security, fast responsive sites, and 24/7 technical support.
Time Management
Skyrocket the amount of productivity you have on a daily basis.
Dream Catcher
Keep random thoughts and ideas organized and your mind to focus on your productivity.
Sample Tracking Sheets
Sample tracking sheet to illustrate how to effectively use Time Tracking.
Project Manager
Hit deadlines, run productive meetings, track everything.
WP Backup
Be safe. Be sure your WP site is backed up and safe. Don’t fall victim to the hazards of an unprotected site.
Cloud Disk Space
Get free additional disk space for usage in your business.
Done For You (DFY) Products
Done for You Products do the heavy lifting for you. The sales funnels, graphics, banners, emails are all completed and available for you to personalize with your company information. We have two recommendations for you. 1) Has a free option available 2) The other has extensive training available
Gravatar
Universal identification across platforms.
Optimize Press
Is a theme for WordPress platform. Optimize press is perfect for creating membership websites because it comes with pre made templates for each of the pages that you will need. Optimize Press is also very flexible when it comes to creating squeeze pages and evergreen launches. This is a theme that is perfectly suited for internet marketers, more so than any other one we’ve tried.
Wishlist Member
A plugin for the WordPress platform. Wishlist member enables you to integrate your WordPress site with your payment platform and autoresponder service. It also facilitates page protection so that only members that have paid for particular set of pages will see them. This is instrumental in creating multiple offers and ability to upgrade from within the site.
Easy Video Suite
A video marketing suite for marketers which lets you record, publish, market and track your videos. It’s like having your own personal Youtube on steroids. This thing uses the latest cutting edge technology to give you a control panel for your videos. It makes your videos stream flawlessly using the powerful Amazon S3 and Cloud Front service. It allows you to insert html and optin forms directly inside your videos and can even create a site for you that integrates with Facebook at the push of a button. If you are planning to market with video, EVS is a MUST HAVE.
Wordpress
An open source website building platform that has become very popular over the last few years due to to its versatility and ease of use. With WordPress you can install pre made themes and plugins to create and customize the functionality of your website without having to do any coding HTML.
Camtasia
A screen capture software for PC that enables you to record the screen and audio from your computer. This software also enables you to do post production editing and modification of video and audio tracks. Camtasia can also be used to edit existing videos that you recorded on your phone or camera and then uploaded to your computer. Once your video production is complete you can export a playable video file to your desktop.
Screenflow
A screen capture software for MAC that enables you to record the screen and audio from your computer. This software also enables you to do post production editing and modification of video and audio tracks. Screenflow can also be used to edit existing videos that you recorded on your phone or camera and then uploaded to your computer. Once your video production is complete you can export a playable video file to your desktop.
Powerpoint
A slide presentation software for your PC that enables you to create slides and bullet points in a sequence that you can later animate and record. You can press the record button and move from slide to slide as you think into your computer microphone and create a video file right inside the software. You can export your recording to your desktop for further editing and manipulation in Screenflow or Camtasia.
Keynote
A slide presentation software for your MAC that enables you to create slides and bullet points in a sequence that you can later animate and record. You can press the record button and move from slide to slide as you talk into your computer microphone and create a video file right inside the software. You can export your recording to your desktop for further editing and manipulation in Screenflow or Camtasia.
Gimp
Is one of my favorite programs. This is a desktop for both PC and Mac and it is what many have called the “PMPP” Poor Mans Photo Shop. Despite the sarcastic nickname, make no mistake about it. Gimp is VERY powerful. By using Gimp you can create graphics that are just as stunning as Photoshop. It is much easier to learn than Photoshop and comes with a full help file and there are hundreds of tutorial videos online for using Gimp.
Audacity
This is a free audio editing software that needs very little explaining. It works on both Mac and PC from your desktop and its also free. Once you open Audacity you can just hit the button and start speaking. You’ll see the sound wave on the screen and you can edit, modify and even add effects. You can import additional tracks like music and adjust levels individually. An excellent way to create narrated mp3’s for your digital products.
Jing
A very easy to use desktop application which you can download free and it works on both Mac’s and PC’s. It is a screen capture software that enables you to snag what’s on your screen and upload it to the web in seconds. It can even capture up to 5 minutes of screen video with audio from your built in computer mic. We use Jing to easily communicate with our outsourcing staff and also to share content with subscribers quickly and easily.
Rescue Time
With so many distractions and possibilities in your digital life, it’s easy to get scattered.
RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive.
D9 Hosting
Reliable unlimited domain cPanel web hosting from D9 Hosting.
Cheap linux hosting with WordPress Support, unlimited disk space, bandwidth, and email accounts.
Roboform
Roboform password manager and form filler app that allows you to easily and securely access your logins.
Never have to remember or type your passwords again with RoboForm the world’s top password manager.
Evernote
Organize your work and declutter your life. With Evernote on your desktop and mobile devices, your notes are always with you and always in sync.
Colorzilla
Advanced eyedropper, colorpicker, color analyzer and other colorful goodies for your chrome and firefox.
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program.
Asana
Asana is a web and mobile application that allows teams to track their work, including managing tasks, projects, and conversations.
Provide invaluable support for teams that are benefiting the world, whether they’re working on moonshot visions or more down-to-earth ambitions.
Grammarly
Grammarly is an online proofreading, grammar checker, and plagiarism checker tool.
It eliminates grammatical errors and enhances your writing.
MailChimp
MailChimp provides marketing automation for e-commerce businesses. Send beautiful emails, connect your e-commerce store, advertise, and build your brand.
An online email marketing service for managing contacts, sending emails, and tracking results of your team’s email campaigns.
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