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What’s in your blog tool box? There are some essentials you need to be successful. Please enjoy these free and low cost tools to help you springboard your blog to success.
- Aweber — This is the gold standard of email marketing and autoresponder services. It will help you turn your one time visitors into engaged subscribers. The best way to keep them coming back again and again.
- Host Gator WP Hosting — A good (and popular) wordpress hosting company. Very highly recommended by many experts in the business. Easy for the non techie.
- GoDaddy Domains — Having one place to obtain and keep track of all your domains is priceless and GoDaddy is the top dog. Don’t buy any of the other stuff they will offer you, but definitely use them for your domain purchases.
- StudioPress Blog Themes — Many developers say their wordpress themes can be used “out of the box” but when you get them it’s a different story. Not StudioPress. You truly can use them right out of the box. Lots of design varieties and a super helpful support forum for your questions too.
- Google Best Practices Guide — This guide from Google SEO master Jerry West is a must have. To get visitors, you must have traffic to your blog and the best way to do that is from the search engines. This no BS manual will walk you through tested strategies to help you get to the top. And you get free lifetime updates after you purchase your copy.
- Gravity Forms — This is the premier wordpress plugin for just about any form you want to add to your blog. It makes adding a contact form to your site a five minute activity. On top of that, getting notifications and responding to visitors who contact you is super simple. But this plugin does tons more too. It can handle surveys, polls, email distribution to multiple addresses and much more. Take a good look at this plugin. It is well worth the money.
- Easy PLR — Every once in a while, writer’s block may strike. When that happens, it’s handy to have some posts in your pocket so your blog doesn’t sit idle. This inexpensive and well written PLR (private label rights) content that you can use as your own is the answer.
- Blogging Planning Calendar (FREE) Beat writer’s block by creating your blog planning calendar. This free calendar from Lynette Chandler is packed with topics to fill your blog throughout the year. Use it to organize your blogging ahead of time by the year, month or week. Get a jump start on your content so you can put your blog on auto-pilot and quit stressing over a dead blog.
- Business Blog Mastery Course (FREE) A video course from blogging expert Denise Wakeman. You will learn how to get the best out of your blog to get more visibility and attract more clients.
- Five Critical Tactics for Business Blog Success (FREE) A valuable audio course from blogging expert Denise Wakeman. You will learn how to boost the effectiveness of your blog so you can attract more opportunities for your business.
- Passive Income Guide (FREE) Learn how to add a passive income stream to your blog using affiliate marketing tactics. Free guide will kick start your efforts and help you get some income generated on your blog.
- Email Marketing Tips (FREE) They say the money is in the list. Well, the money is really in connecting and building a relationship with your list. These email marketing tips will help you do that correctly so you get the pay back you deserve for your effort.
Do you have a suggestion for a cool blog tool that should be listed in the tool box? Please send me a message.
