Resources

Audio

Recommended This is a free, open source, (relatively) easy to use multi-track audio recording and editing program.

Autoresponders

Recommended  Very high delivery rates, and offers automation features for segmenting the subscribers on your lists. Aweber probably has more integrations with other platforms.

Recommended Like Aweber, they have very good delivery rates and automation. GetResponse has better integrations with some platforms than Aweber to add subscribers when the purchase products.

While this does have normal autoresponder features, it’s primarily designed to be used for sales funnels.  

MailChimp also has good delivery rates but some users have said that the interface is slow and they do not allow affiliate marketing links.  

Hosting

Recommended D9 Hosting isn't huge like some of the other hosting companies but they're big enough to offer you the support you need. In addition, they were started by marketers for marketers. They know he challenges that we all run into because they’re one of us.

Very large hosting company with full technical support used by many companies.

Another very large hosting company with full technical support used by many companies.

Images

Recommended Photoshop is the premier tool for image editing. It has a bit of a learning curve, but most things you need to do as a marketer use just a small amount of the capabilities.

Photoshop is great but costly. GIMP is a free, open source, image editor. It can edit many image formats and supports layers and .psd files.  

Windows doesn't show thumbnail images for .psd file so when you see them in a directory you can't tell what the file looks like. This fixes that. After this is installed, the file placeholders are replaced with a real thumbnail of the file.  

Tracking/Split Testing

This is used to track where your traffic is coming from so you can decide where to put your efforts for your greatest return.

Traffic (Paid)

Wayne Crowe has been using and testing paid traffic for years. In addition to selling solo ads, he provides an excellent no-cost training course.

Video

Recommended   

Recommended This is a free tool for converting videos. If you have a video in the 'wrong' format, or need to change the size or resolution, this is the tool that can fix that.

Website Creation

WordPress

Recommended The most popular platform for blogging sites. This is the free blogging platform that is the basis for a huge number of websites. While it very capable out of the box, there are also tons of extension available to do pretty much anything you'd want on your site. This is available from most hosts as an installable package.

Recommended This is a drag & drop designer for WordPress posts and pages that are hosted on your site. It’s great tool for quickly creating really nice looking pages inside of WordPress.

Recommended Another drag & drop page designer but the pages are hosted for you so you don’t need a site of your own.

ThriveThemes is a large set of tools for building sites and many other features including a WordPress theme builder

Audio

Recommended This is a free, open source, (relatively) easy to use multi-track audio recording and editing program.  

Autoresponders

Recommended Very high delivery rates, and offers automation features for segmenting the subscribers on your lists. Aweber probably has more integrations with other platforms.

Recommended Like Aweber, they have very good delivery rates and automation. GetResponse has better integrations with some platforms than Aweber to add subscribers when the purchase products.

While this does have normal autoresponder features, it’s primarily designed to be used for sales funnels.

MailChimp also has good delivery rates but some users have said that the interface is slow and they do not allow affiliate marketing links.

Hosting

Recommended  D9 Hosting isn't huge like some of the other hosting companies but they're big enough to offer you the support you need. In addition, they were started by marketers for marketers. They know he challenges that we all run into because they’re one of us.

Very large hosting company with full technical support used by many companies.

Another very large hosting company with full technical support used by many companies.

Images

Recommended Photoshop is the premier tool for image editing. It has a bit of a learning curve, but most things you need to do as a marketer use just a small amount of the capabilities.

Photoshop is great but costly. GIMP is a free, open source, image editor. It can edit many image formats and supports layers and .psd files.

Windows doesn't show thumbnail images for .psd file so when you see them in a directory you can't tell what the file looks like. This fixes that. After this is installed, the file placeholders are replaced with a real thumbnail of the file.

Tracking/Split Testing

This is used to track where your traffic is coming from so you can decide where to put your efforts for your greatest return.

Traffic (Paid)

Wayne Crowe has been using and testing paid traffic for years. In addition to selling solo ads, he provides an excellent no-cost training course.


Video

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Recommended This is a free tool for converting videos. If you have a video in the 'wrong' format, or need to change the size or resolution, this is the tool that can fix that.

Website Creation

WordPress

Recommended The most popular platform for blogging sites. This is the free blogging platform that is the basis for a huge number of websites. While it very capable out of the box, there are also tons of extension available to do pretty much anything you'd want on your site. This is available from most hosts as an installable package.  

Recommended This is a drag & drop designer for WordPress posts and pages that are hosted on your site. It’s great tool for quickly creating really nice looking pages inside of WordPress.  

Recommended Another drag & drop page designer but the pages are hosted for you so you don’t need a site of your own.  

ThriveThemes is a large set of tools for building sites and many other features including a WordPress theme builder