Resources
My newsletter will provide you with great resources for use in your online business. I have a few good resources to list for you here to help make things easier. These tools will help you get things underway.
Keyword Research
Like it or not, to get any traffic on the Internet; you need to be search engine friendly. Sure there are tons of keyword tools out there you can buy, but why? You really don’t need them since you can use these tools for free.
They are from Google, the king of the search engines, and the software you can buy gets its information from Google anyway. So save yourself some money!
Use Dot-O-mator to find good domain names to go with your keywords.
WordPress
In today’s’ Internet Marketing world you can’t really get any kind of results without having a blog and WordPress is the one you need to use. There are many thing you need to do to make a blog successful.
This guide will take you from no knowledge to a WordPress expert in no time flat. You get a free sample at the link below.
Knowing WordPress is one thing, having a great theme is something else. You can spend thousands of dollars on having a great theme designed. There are still other pages you may need like a Squeeze Page, OTO page, Video Pages, Splash Page, or even set up a membership site.
This is where the Profits Theme shines! It does all of this and more. It is totally customizable and it is as simple as ‘point and click’ to make your blog a powerhouse. It is the theme used for this blog. It has literally saved me thousands and a ton of time.
Graphics
At some point you will need some graphics work. You can either pay a lot of money for someone else to do it or use this great free graphics program. There are many plugins and effects you can install to do just about anything you can imagine.
Web Hosting
This is a unique program that is free to join. If you upgrade, you can have hosting included in it. For the price, it is a great value especially if you include all the other items that are in the whole package. It is the perfect way to get a blog up and running easily for little money.
It is run by a guy who is in the top 25 ClickBank affiliates in the world, so you might learn a thing or two from the forum and all the other ways he has to market on the Internet. It is well worth checking out.
As a matter of fact, this blog is on the hosting right now. I moved it here and was very surprised at the great tech support and the whole experience. You can read about my experiences with moving this blog to their hosting HERE.
Autoresponder
“The money is in the list”; you have probably heard this a lot. Can you afford to spend $30 a month until you build up a list big enough to make enough money to pay for it? These things don’t happen overnight.
This s a free autoresponder until you get 1,000 people in your list. after that it is very inexpensive. It works just as well as any other one on the Internet.
This is another free autoresponder that has many features you can find on paid ones. It also has a way to increase your traffic and advertising built into it. When anyone clicks on your links in the emails, you get credits to get traffic to other offers. It is owned by Gary Ambrose who is a well known marketer in his own right. This is designed to be free forever. There is a great forum if you have any questions.
Article Writing
Whether you are just writing a blog post or an article for an article directory, you need to be able to format it properly. This handy free software will help you do that.
The program this was originally used for is no longer in existence, but the software works great.