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Marketing Resources & Tools
Here I will be adding recommended internet marketing tools and websites. Many of these resources I use myself, many are free, and some are affiliate products and services. Please read my Affiliate Disclaimer. Do add your own favourite sites and tools in the Comments at the bottom of this page, and let’s share and grow our internet success together.
Marketing Basics and Essentials:
Hostnine – Website Hosting: If you are looking for a reliable and cost-effective host with unlimited bandwidth, domain hosting and extremely fast support (email replies come back in less than 5 mins), then I use Hostnine which I recommend highly. If you’re UK-based, they have servers in Berkshire (server location is likely to be factor in Google rankings, though there are mixed opinions – but, why risk it?).
Heart Internet are an alternative, reliable and cost-effective hosting company, especially if your market is UK only.
They offer 24/7 UK support.
They offer good priced domains also.
Aweber Autoresponder: An autoresponder sends automatic emails to your list, amongst other things via opt-in forms. It is essential to build your list if you are serious about earning income from internet marketing. Aweber is a great autoresponder and one of the market leaders, you can create lists, opt-in forms and newsletters and more. Good support (on the whole), about $18 pcm, but first month is free so you can try before you buy.
Google Docs – Google docs are simply the best. You can store all your essential docs and access them from any computer wherever you may be! No need to worry about losing data…(well assuming Google servers don’t go down 
Google Keyword Tool – Keyword research is essential before you decide on the keywords for a site. It is usually best to select those which have a high volume yet not so much competition (ie no. of sites based on that keyword).
Wordstream: Another great keyword tool that’s free:
Google Analytics – Essential MUST-HAVE for monitoring traffic to your site. Requires a chunk of code to be added to your site.
Google Alerts – Receive emails about content you want to monitor. Good for monitoring activity on a topic, or searching for useful content for your site or your tweets. Adding value to others is what it is all about.
Google Adwords Tool – Good for wrapping words quickly so you have both exact and broad matches for your ad campaigns.
Budurl URL Shrink Tool – Useful for Twitter for eg. Free up to 250 urls, then you have to pay.
Aspect Ratio Tool – To ensure videos and images look right when re-sizing.
Photo Bucket – Upload photos, videos, images for free, then just point your websites to the url in photo bucket. (Caveat: for me this site always seems to crash here and there, but you get there in the end)
Free Stock Images – Yup, totally free to use great images for your websites and newsletters. Only catch is you have to become their Facebook fan – no probs, right? Daily limit.
Gravatar – Create your own universal Gravatar (the small icon that appears against comments etc).
Favicon Generator – Create your own Favicon (the little pic to the left of your tab at the top of the window).
Signature Creator – Create your own signature for FREE.
Jing – Add visuals to videos.
Convert Word to PDF quickly and online.
Thesis Theme for WordPress: Thesis offers a lot of options and flexibility, it’s good for beginner and more advanced bloggers. Helpful support too.
Check out this Blog Post about the Pros and Cons of Thesis. This Blog is made using the Thesis theme plus a skin on top. There is no absolutely perfect theme, but I really like this one, and it’s got a great clean look.
Leads:
Virulurl – Great place to obtain leads for your opportunity. For $197 p.a. you can send an email to 3000 random subscribers every 3 days. These are qualified leads.
Listjoe – Another great place for obtaining leads, same terms as Virulurl. For $197 p.a. you can send an email to 3000 random subscribers every 3 days.
Top Surfer – Solo ads or monthly subscription. Surf and earn free credits to use.
Highland Classifieds – Free Classified Ads
London Directory – Free Classified Ads
Syndicating Your Content:
Tubemogul – Distribute your videos across the web.
Traffic Geyser – Submit videos to video sharing sites like youtube and others.
Spin2submit – FREE Article submission – 10 submissions per month using the free option. Initial setup means you will receive a LOT of emails as you need to register to the directories, but this is a one-off exercise, which you will do as and when to ensure you are registered with any new directories Spin2submit adds. Make sure you choose the right Author Pen Name, as you can’t change it later. Paid membership offers further article spinning and other services.
Niche Blueprint 2.0 is an Ecommerce Bundle of all things you need to create a niche ecommerce site, in fact as many as you like, plus a whole lot more. And what’s more the Forum is top notch – in fact the folk on there couldn’t be more helpful.
This is what you get:
Discover Niches: A brand new tool that will jump start the creative process. This tool automatically examines millions of potential markets using Google and reveals the ones that will be ripe for ecommerce!
Keyword Blueprint: Absolutely essential tool to find which keywords are worth optimising for. Gives you which keywords have the green light, based on the NB team’s trustworthy algorythm.
Storefront Software: Brand new push button software that makes setting up a store front so much faster… even for complete newbies! It is a hundred times easier to use than the previous version and comes with a big list of professional templates … all included.
Dropship Blueprint: Brand new version of ‘Dropship Blueprint’ with thousands more products and suppliers at your finger tips with a new easier to manage interface.
Article Blueprint: Really good tool that creates multiple versions of a single article and automatically submits them to a network of high PR directories.
Authority Hub: Authority Hub finds high PR hubs which you can then add links to for fast improved search engine rankings
Link Blueprint: Lastly there’s Link Blueprint – a revolutionary 3-way link service that is undetectable by Google. Great for backlinking.
Twitter:
Twitter Tweanius – Click the link to learn how Twitter Twenius can help you use Twitter to your business advantage.
Socialoomph – Schedule tweets, manage followers and more – free and paid.
Gotwitr – Gotwitr makes managing your twitter following easier. Lets you add followers, remove followers and more, a page at a time. FREE
Twitbacks – Twitter backgrounds, FREE
Pay-Per-Click Networks:
When people consider pay-per-click advertising, they tend to think of Google Adwords because it generates the most traffic. Whilst this is true, there are so many other options which are both cheaper and easier to get approved with. Below are the most popular ones and certainly Facebook Ads are highly recommended as they generate a great deal of traffic. Yahoo and Microsoft are good too.
Do you have any internet resources you can recommend? Then add them in the Comments below and let’s share the knowledge
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A good collection of useful resources. It will definitely help many.
I have two friendly suggestions:
Whenever you are using pic and text as in Aweber Autoresponder above, please put the text in a block, say div or p, and float it left so that it gets aligned to the right of the pic rather than below.
Secondly, your Signature Creator link is not working. Did you mean favicon generator? Favicon and Signature are two different issues.
Thanks!
Subrato, your comment did get me looking at the nitty gritty of CSS, but although I’m a self-confessed she-nerd I couldn’t however get div or p to work….not sure why, so I have used align in the image tag, which for now is fine. The sig and favicon are sorted – both were there, just a few CSS bits missing!
Thanks for your suggestions, most valuable. Btw, your blog is great, love the look and feel, and fabulous content for people.
Hey Gary, thanks for visiting. Yes I built most of it myself although I had a lil help from a Thesis Theme programmer for some tricky bits
Time is of the essence! Aweber and Hostnine – I’m very happy with them, both have super fast support, in fact Hostnine always respond within 3-4 minutes, sometimes within less than a minute! Scary! 
Hi Reena
Great blog, very interesting and informative content, did you build it yourself? I found the the resources list very useful especially Aweber and Hostnine and I look forward to your future posts.
Gary