Where is your focus today? What type of tools do you want to learn about?
Choose a category to see the most valuable online marketing tools, services and products we use for both ourselves and our clients. Without them, we would not have the ability or confidence to deliver something of value to the marketplace. Or that we could automate the many routines and regular tasks that improve productivity and help us gain the desired freedom and profitability we seek.
Email Marketing & Automation
Email Marketing & Automation Tools ⇑
ConvertBox
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Kit [Freemium]
Don’t be at the mercy of social media platforms when it comes to getting your message out to the world. Email marketing is alive and well and Kit makes it easy to manage your email list and set up automations.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools ⇑
KeySearch
Keyword research made easy! Keysearch helps us find profitable, low competition keywords in seconds as well as provide us with many competitive analysis keyword insights!
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SERPStat
SERPStat is an affordable, powerful and smart search engine position tool we use for Backlinks Analysis, Rank Tracking, Keyword Research, Competitor Analysis and technical SEO Site Audits.
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TubeBuddy
TubeBuddy [for YouTube] is a FREE extension for your browser that integrates directly into your YouTube dashboard to help you manage, optimize and grow your channel more easily.
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Website & Landing Page Tools ⇑
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Bluehost
Webhosting and more
Your website needs to be hosted somewhere safe and secure. Bluehost have years of experience and make it incredibly easy to get a new site up and running with their one-click automatic WordPress Blog installation.
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Convertri Funnel Builder
Convertri lets us quickly create sales pages and funnels with a built-in payment gateway. The page-builder is easy to use, you get great support and the end result is fast-loading, professional web pages that help you get paid.
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Thrive Architect
Part of the Thrive Themes suite of ‘conversion-focused’ WordPress tools. Using the Thrive Architect page-builder proved a valuable turning point in our ability to more effectively create websites capable of converting visitors into subscribers and customers.
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Divi Theme Builder
The Divi themebuilder was a step up from our page-builder experience and proved a game-changer in finally giving us complete flexibility and control over all aspects of creating and maintaining our websites. Including split-testing!
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Kit [FREEMIUM]
Free landing pages for your next idea
If you’re just starting out Kit’s freemium package gives you quick and easy access to well-designed free landing page templates. Meaning you don’t even need a website to start gathering interest and email addresses!
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Productivity [‘Time’ Management’] ⇑
LastPass [FREEMIUM]
This simple password manager has been a productivity game-changer for us. No more ‘cryptic’ manual password updates! LastPass makes it easy and secure to share passwords with associates and VAs across multiple devices and browsers; i.e. LastPass for Safari and Chrome.
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GetFriday Virtual Assistants
GetFriday is a Virtual Assistant company that can do any manner of jobs for you. We have been using them for years across different businesses and continue to use them now. Using a VA company means THEY replace and train the new VA if a single person decides to move on.
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Dropbox [FREEMIUM]
The primary document and photo storage system we use for syncing and sharing ‘static’ files. In particular Colin has found the ‘dropbox view only no download’ Smart Sync feature of Dropbox Professional a gamechanger in preserving storage space on his laptop.
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Evernote [Freemium]
We pride ourselves on being paperless and Evernote plays a large part in making that a reality. It is Colin’s go-to information and idea capuring tool that lets him collect, grab and store anything that might use up space on a desk or energy in the brain!
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Trello [Freemium]
We have found that simple project or task management is how we best answer the question ‘what is trello used for?’ Trello is a collaborative, web-based Kanban-style list-making application and now the main tool we use to manage communication and resources to get jobs started and finished.
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If you’d like some deeper insights about how we use any of the above tools inside our agency or client sites, please feel free to reach out to us. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
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