Top marketing resources for your business:
Here is list of top marketing resources, some I use and others have been referred to me by trusted colleagues. I know these will make your marketing experience easier and more efficient.
Blogging & Website Resources
LeadPages: Is an amazing and affordable tool for easily creating high-quality landing pages and squeeze pages. LeadPages will help you convert viewers into subscribers or buyers. Best of all, it works both with WordPress and non-WordPress sites alike.
You will see I use it on my websites! HIGHLY RECOMMEND –> CLICK HERE
Sam Cart – is more than a shopping cart, it is a sales funnel machine! You can use Sam Cart in place of using a Pay Pal button, it allows you to use Pay Pal or your merchant account but the best part is you can upsell anything just like when you order something from Amazon for example, when you check out it says ‘customers also bought’ or suggested for you. You will increase your sales simply by using Sam Cart. HIGHLY RECOMMEND -> CLICK HERE
WORD PRESS FIX-IT, This is a service for word press users that aid in simple fixes you may not be able to handle, but too small for your web developer. They charge a flat fee of $39
They provide more than website maintenance. They help you make updates to your website and more. We all need website maintenance support. Contact Sarah and her team and tell her JoAnne sent you! https://rvtechsolutions.com/care-plan/
Elegant Themes – great looking premium wordpress themes
Theme Forest – premium wordpress themes
Hosting Services:
–One of my websites are hosted with SiteGround. I like their customer service and their site scanning reports. Starting at $3.95 month, Check them out-> CLICK HERE.
BLUE HOST – A popular hosting service, I also have one of my sites hosted here. -> For Info CLICK HERE
Email Service Providers:
Active Campaign – This is the program I use for my email marketing. It offers a CRM system and hyper focus for your list segmentation. I would recommend this service to the active email marketer who wants more data and sales funnel capabilities.
Aweber – This is one of the most popular and robust email service tool. I use it myself and find it easy, reliable and great customer service
Mailchimp – A free service for up to 2000 subscribers. Easy to use and great customer service. Free version does not offer the best reports and additional features. This is good for anyone starting out.
Social Media Services:
Love this Facebook APP – let’s you create an entire system within your Facebook business page. Check out all the application on the Marketing Dish Facebook Page then see what 22Social can do to expand your business offerings.
Linked In For Business is owned by me offering these services:
LinkedIn professional profile updates, Individual & corporate training, LinkedIn Sales Training, Relationship Marketing. www.Linkedinforbusiness.net
Backup Services:
Stores & Back up your hard drive to this virtual site. I love it because it runs in the background backing up everything as I work. CLICK HERE for the info
This is my online backup and file storage & sharing files tool. Get the online version of Dropbox or check your mobile device for the APP. So easy to transfer files to anyone virtually!
Organizational Resources:
Saves your login passwords all in one place! No more searching for where you saved the login’s! You can use Roborn on multiple computers. I love Roboform and I’m positive you will too, its inexpensive and a huge time saver.-> CLICK her for details
Incredibly useful Firefox or Chrome plugin that allows you to schedule emails to be sent at specific times, set reminders and even hide email from your inbox.
Email Apps enable you to easily customize your email signatures with your personal social profiles and allows you to add to each outgoing email dynamic content such as your latest eBay item, recent blog post, your latest tweet or a cause to promote.
GRAVATAR –
Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site? As an example if you were so inclined to post a comment on this website following an article, your photo would appear next to your comments identifying you as the author or the comment – this is good personal branding for you!
SpotOn – Consumer loyalty program lets you find discounts and merchants create loyalty programs that run on mobile devices and tablets.
Smore – Tool lets you instantly design online flyer pages that work great for landing pages or mobile pages.
Resources For Images:
IMAGES: All websites, blogs, newsletters etc need images to enhance the presentation. But are you stealing images that you are not authorized to use? Download my List of commercial stock images sites where you can get free stock images!
Create your own images: (I use both of these resources)
www.canva.com – free and paid options
www.picmonkey.com – free and paid options
RESEARCH TOOLS:
Free Keyword tool: use it to get keyword suggestions for your marketing strategy
Google AdWords: Keyword Tool
All research starts with keywords, so if you haven’t already conducted thorough keyword research for your business, I recommend this as your very first step. The Google AdWords: Keyword Tool is one of the best keyword tools available to marketers and you need a Google Ad Words account to use this. This tool is tied directly into Google AdWords, and it uses approximate search frequency from Google (read: don’t rely too heavily on this search frequency data).
This tool can tell you which keywords are searched more than others based on broad, exact or phrase match volumes, depending on your settings
Soovle
This is a great little site to help quickly generate ideas. All you need to do is enter a keyword phrase and Soovle will display keyword suggestions from up to 15 different websites. You are able to customize which sites are included, which can be useful depending on your niche. This tool provides a different keyword research perspective compared to the Google AdWords tool.
Topix.com is a helpful resource for anyone looking for content ideas. Just enter a search term and the Topix engine will produce results that include news articles, forums, question-and-answer sites and blog posts that relate to your keyword.
– Copyscape is a tool that lets you search your content to see if anyone has plagiarized you!
NOTE: Some of the links to these resources are affiliate links, that means if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. Be assured, the commission comes at no additional cost to you. Also, I use many of the resources I recommend because they have helped me build my business and are useful.
If you have questions on any resource, feel free to email me, I’m happy to help.