A few more of my favourite Tools and Resources

byDave07

1.7K followers

4 years ago

Hi All

I wrote a quick blog post earlier this week to share a few of my favourite tools and resources that I use for building my business. Since they seemed to be very well-received (thanks to everyone who sent me PMs to ask for more info) I thought I would share with you a few other handy tools that I use.

Most of the tools you need for building your business are free - as are most on this list - but occasionally it is worth spending a few dollars to get the job done right!

Anyway, here we go with part 2 of the list!

More Business Building Resources

Zoom (https://zoom.us/) - If you have attended webinars given by other digital marketers then you might already be familiar with Zoom. In many ways it's a bit like Skype or Facetime - in that you can have a video call with one or more other people. (When Heidi and I want to discuss something in our business, we jump on a zoom call). Another great feature is that you can record the call as a video (potential product idea?). You can also share your computer screen with others on the call. It's also completely free to use all these basic features.

Coolors (https://coolors.co/) - have you ever been to a website and been appalled at the choices of colours that the owner has made? Coolors is a free resource for helping you pick a selection of colours that work together, rather than clash.

Aweber (https://www.aweber.com) - If you are planning to create an email mailing list for your business (you really should!) then you will need an account with an autoresponder service to store the email addresses securely and sent out messages. There are a number of free services such as Mailchimp and Mailmunch, but they all have limited capability, as well as a reputation for closing your account if you send emails with affiliate links. Aweber gives a good balance between cost and functionality (in my opinion)

Personal Auto DM (https://www.personalautodm.com/) - This is a tool for sending direct messages to new followers on Twitter. I should say - this is frowned upon by Twitter and is a bit of a gray area but I have been using it for about 6 weeks now to invite new Twitter followers to visit my site, join my email list and get a free gift.and it is building my list nicely!

Answer The Public (https://answerthepublic.com/) - Struggling for Keywords - especially low hanging fruit ones? This could be the answer to your problem! Simply stick in your main keyword term and you will get a selection of hundreds of "long tail" keywords based on it.

Pretty Links Wordpress Plugin - Lets face it, affiliate links are uglier than Orcs! Nobody is likely to click on a link that looks spammy or potentially dangerous. Pretty links is a plugin that allows you to take a link that looks like this:

https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/a_aid/07231e5d/campaign/lau...

And turns it into something that looks much more normal such as:

https://mywebsite.com/WA

Which is much more likely to get someone to click on it.

RemoveBG (https://www.remove.bg/) - This is one of my favourite graphic tools! It's a tool which allows you to remove the background from an image and so allows you to then use the main subject of the image for creating other graphics. Let me show you an example:

Here's a photo of me on holiday last year in Columbia:

If I run it through RemoveBG then I can completely remove the background of the pic like this:

And then I can superimpose this image of me onto a completely different background using something like Canva!

I hope you find some of these tools useful. Please let me know how you get on!

Cheers

Dave