Resources

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Freelance Writing Websites

Microstock Photography Websites

Buy, Sell and Create Products Online

Free Trial Offer Websites

Blogging

  • Wordpress: The #1 Blog Publishing Platform. Free and easily customizable with wonderful support. All of my blogs use Wordpress.
  • Wordpress Plugins: Download any plugins, widgets, or customizable elements for your Wordpress blog.
  •  Woo Themes: The ultimate resource for premium looking Wordpress themes.

Hosting

  • Bluehost: All of my websites are hosted using Bluehost. Easy to use, 1-click automatic Wordpress installation, and good customer service.
  • PowWeb: Another fantastic and easy to use hosting service. Also includes 1-click Wordpress installation.

Product Distribution & Shopping Carts

  • E-Junkie: The shopping cart I use to sell my eBook. It’s compatible with Paypal Standard, Paypal Pro, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, TrialPay, Clickbank & 2CheckOut. Works like a charm, very low price to use. Comes with a decent affiliate program for your products.
  • Clickbank: Another digital products retailer. Probably the most popular. Decently priced, but comes with an amazing affiliate program for your products.
  • Paypal.com: Paypal is just ok for selling your own products through them, but you’ll need an account anyways to configure with and accept payments from the above shopping carts.

Keyword Research

  • WordTracker Free Keywords Tool: Spits out a number for the popularity of a keyword of your choice. Search volume numbers can be compared to find the perfect niche, or to choose keywords for your blog posts.
  • Google Adwords Tool: A tool to help you decide what keywords to use for your Adwords campaigns. You can also check to see the popularity of certain keywords and the competition for ads for those keywords as well.
  • Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool: Another fantastic keyword research tool, with even more information and numbers to compare and select the perfect keywords.
  • Seo Keyword Ranking: An excellent tool to keep track of the keywords you’re working on. Excellent interface and really easy to use.
  • Yahoo Site Explorer:  A tool that will allow you to count inbound links to any website you choose.  This is great for sizing up the competition for your target keywords.

Advertising Stuff

  • Google Adsense: Make money by placing relevant ads on your website that are generated from advertisers using Google Adwords. This is free to use, but you have to register for an account.
  • Google Adwords: If you want to begin advertising on Google, you can select keywords and locations and you pay each time someone clicks on your advertisement.

Email Subscriptions & Marketing

  • Aweber: The internet’s most powerful email opt-in service and email marketing/broadcasting tool.

Testing Results

  • Google Analytics: Google’s free website tracking and analytical tool. A must have for anyone with any type of website.
  • Clicktale: You can use clicktale to watch actual recordings of how people use your website. It is actually like watching their own computer screen, so you can then optimize your website if you don’t like what you see. You can view a small sample of website viewers for free. It will cost more for a larger sample.
  • Google Optimizer: This is another free tool from google where you can test different webpages of the same content, only changing one or two things, so you can see which one works/converts best. It’s basically a website optimizer testing tool.

Outsourcing Work

  • Elance: Hired service for just about anything you can think of.
  • Odesk: Another outsource website for freelancers, IT companies, programmers and web designers from abroad.
  • LogoMyWay: This is a unique website that you can use if you need a logo design. It’s in a contest format. You submit the description of what you want, and designers will compete against each other to win money.

Health Insurance

  • eHealthInsurance: Here, you enter your information, and it generates a number of different health care plans for your particular situation with a variety of different prices and specifications.
  • The National Association for the Self-Employed: NASE has a variety of different benefits to it’s members, including a unique, customizable health insurance plan for the self-employed.

Legal Stuff

  • LegalZoom: Easy online incorporation or LLC creation.

Books

For Capturing Video and Screencasts

3 Comments to “Resources”

  1. Chip Leatherby 21 February 2010 at 2:11 am #

    I absolutely love this site. I came across it searching for how much you get paid for breakmedia video’s and I am really taken with the style and tempo of the site. I will be trying out some of these ideas over the coming months. Good work and please keep it up. I am in the affiliate business and there is a lot of money to be made in affiliating. It is a lot harder work than I envisaged but everytime you make a sale you know it was worth it.

  2. MJ Wolfe 21 February 2010 at 4:29 am #

    Thanks for checking out my site Chip! What kind of affiliate sales do you make? Do you sell your own products or other people’s products?

    MJ

  3. Chip Leatherby 21 February 2010 at 2:19 pm #

    Hi MJ

    I run a series of websites mainly around online poker, casino and forex. I do have a couple of other sites that use amazon for niche products like GHD hair straighteners etc.


Leave a Reply