Blogging
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- Domain name registration: Godaddy and Namecheap
- Hosting: Bluehost and SiteGround
- WordPress themes: ElegantThemes and GeneratePress.
My Blogging Checklists and Worksheets will give you a clear plan of what to do and make it easy to set up and develop a money-making blog. Check out my blogging checklists and worksheets here.
Email marketing /List Building
Popular autoresponders: ConvertKit, Aweber, GetResponse, and MailChimp. Read my review of 4 Powerful Email Marketing Service Providers and Automation Tools.
OptinMonster is the best lead generation software on the market. It converts abandoning visitors into subscribers with its dynamic marketing tools and Exit Intent® technology. This WordPress plugin allows you to create and integrate highly effective email signup forms. It works with the most popular email service providers. You can use their pre-built templates that are designed for maximum conversions, customize your forms with their easy-to-use drag-and-drop builder, or create your own. Check out OptinMonster here.
LeadPages makes it super easy to create landing pages.
No clue what to say to your list?
Ready-To-Use Email Samples by Leva Duell. Simply grab one of my email samples to quickly pop out a high-quality email message or newsletter in less than 15 minutes. Get my email templates here.
Email Marketing Fairy by Kate Doster provides 60+ effective email marketing templates with examples covering everything from weekly newsletters to sales funnels, and everything in between. Get these email marketing templates here.
Bluchic provides great feminine-looking Canva lead magnet templates, funnel templates, sales page templates, and WordPress templates. Check them out here.
Email Marketing Freebies
Grow Your Email List Fast With Beautiful Lead Magnet Templates.
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Social media management and scheduling
Tailwind is great for both Pinterest scheduling and Instagram scheduling. Tailwind is the absolute best Pinterest scheduler. I save a lot of time by using Tailwind for Pinterest scheduling and get tons of traffic from Pinterest.
With Tailwind's new feature, Tailwind Create you can now create and schedule your Pinterest pins all in one place and save even more time.
Get your FREE one-month trial with Tailwind by using my link here. No credit card is required. Read my review of Tailwind here.
Images/ image creation
Canva is in my opinion the easiest graphic program for non-designers!
Photoshop is the most powerful but more complex program. But for creating social media images, it's so much easier for beginners to use Canva or PicMonkey.
Want to create social media and blog images? I recommend Canva, PicMonkey, and Tailwind Create. I use Canva every single day!
Stock images
See my listing of free stock image sites here.
Ivorymix is my absolute favorite resource for images and the best place to find feminine-looking images. Check out their free images. I highly recommend joining their photo membership. It's one of the best investments I've made for my blog and includes beautiful images, a large variety of great Canva templates, and great courses and tutorials.
Pixiestock is another great place to find feminine-looking images.
DepositPhotos provides great free and paid images you can use for your blog and social media. I use and recommend DepositPhotos and find a wide variety of images at their site. Their photos are very affordable at about $1 per photo. Check them out here.
Legal templates for your blog, website and business
Make your website legally compliant, avoid GDPR and CCPA fines and protect yourself and your online business legally. Use Amira's legal templates to make your blog legal in just 30 minutes. Check out the legal templates here.