My last post was a mouthful and I wanted to follow up with some tools that will help you accomplish the tasks that we talked about yesterday.As mentioned before, it is important to commit and marry this project without any doubt of failure. Keeping yourself positive with a healthy mind is of utmost importance, and I wanted to compose a list of items that I believe will help you an your business:
Payment processors: We currently created, use, and recommend http://securepaypro.com which offers an all inclusive shopping cart, auto responder, customer management system, 1 click upsells and much more.
Merchant account: Merchant account providers extend credit, so that you may take credit card payments directly. We have had good experience with the following company: myinstantaccount.directtrack.com/. This merchant account company will approve almost anyone, anytime without paying hundreds of dollars.
Website building software: http://zEZweb.com (invite code: vip)
Free FTP Software - FTP software allows you to efficiently upload and download large files. http://FileZilla.com is a free file transfer protocol software.
Place to host your website: http://hostgator.com
Purchase a Domain name: GoDaddy.com
Our personal list of additional resources:
Technical help:
zEZweb - http://www.zezweb.com/ (use invite code: vip)
Free & easy to use website builder that requires no technical knowledge. Allows you to build squeeze pages, sales pages, up-sell pages, & download pages.
BlinkWeb - http://www.blinkweb.com
This easy to use website builder that requires no technical knowledge allows you to create a multitude of different websites.
SiteBuildIt - http://sitebuildit.com
This is a very easy to use website builder that requires little or no technical knowledge at all. SiteBuildIt is one of the most popular website builders around.
DreamWeaver - http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/
Design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications.
Build-website - http://build-website.com
This website explains web page design, development, and promotion. A free web development toolbox is provided.
Rent-A-Coder - http://www.rentacoder.com/
Rentacoder is the world's #1 software outsourcing website. Find professional programmers to create your software for cheap.
Money making tools:
Social Network Empire (SNE) - http://snempire.com/
Easily create social networking websites and make money while building your subscriber list.
Butterfly Marketing Script - http://www.thebutterflymarketingmanuscript.com/
This is an extremely powerful membership site software script. This allows you to put in place up sells, down sells, paid memberships, free memberships, and so much more. This will help your website become viral as well.
aMember - http://www.amember.com/
aMember is a flexible membership and subscription management PHP script. It has support for PayPal, BeanStream, 2Checkout, NoChex, VeriSign PayFlow, Authorize.Net, PaySystems, Probilling, Multicards, E-Gold and Clickbank payment systems (see list of integrated payment systems) and allows you to setup paid-membership areas on your site. It can also be used without any payment system - you can manage users manually.
Goldbar - http://goldbar.net
An all in one solution that offers; Shopping Cart Software, Internet Marketing Tools, Merchant Accounts, Auto responders and more.
Powerpay - http://www.powerpay.biz/
Powerpay is a Merchant account. This is where you can get set up to do internet-based Credit Card processing.
PayPal - https://www.paypal.com/us/mrb/pal=3FK7HNWE6NUBW
PayPal allows you to pay online, or sell online in a secure environment. If you haven't already signed up for a PayPal account, do so now.
PLR Video Junction: http://www.plrvideojunction.com/special/holliscarter.php
Create multiple streams of income by using this professional-private label video library.
Clickbank - http://clickbank.com
Online retail outlet for over 10,000 digital product vendors and 10,000 active affiliates.
Business software:
Camtasia -http://www.techsmith.com/
Incredibly powerful screen recorder able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
CamStudio - (Free Version) - http://www.camstudio.org/
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files. Using its built-in SWF, CamStudio can turn those AVIs into bandwidth-friendly streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
ScreenFlow - http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/
ScreenFlow has the best screen capture available on the market. Easily create powerful, professional presentations with this software. (Only for Mac)
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It's easy to use and understand, and a great way to create recordings to put into information products.
Windows Movie Maker - http://microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
With Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD.
Email Aces - http://www.emailaces.com/
Auto responder service that you can use to generate web subscribe forms. These forms will enable you to build a list and follow up with your prospects.
Aweber - http://www.aweber.com/?317441
This is one of the auto responder services that we use. Try it free for 30 days. I enjoy Aweber's ability to send to multiple lists at one time, with the click of a button.
High Speed Conferencing - http://www.highspeedconferencing.com/
Hold and record telephone conversations. A great place to go to if you would like to hold teleseminars and have groups of up to 500 people on the line. You can moderate the conversations, and have the ability to mute participants on the phone with you.
Voice Shot - http://www.voiceshot.com/
Voice shot lets you send mass telephone messages to clients, partners, or customers. This is a great way to give JV partners updates on your upcoming launches.
Powerlink Generator - http://www.powerlinkgenerator.com/
This enables you to cloak any link that you would like. Typically, you will get better click through rates if you have cloaked affiliate links rather than the regular ones. Whenever you see links from that start like this, http://www.marchorne.com/recommends/..., I have used the Powerlink generator.
Smart Draw- http://www.smartdraw.com/
This is a great resource to visually map projects out. This is what I do in advance before I create software. It also has tons of really cool features that you can actually use in your products.
Adobe Photoshop - http://www.adobe.com/
Photoshop is the # 1 tool used by graphic artist and web designers.
Efficiency tools:
Dedicated Worker - http://www.dedicatedworker.com/
Dedicated Worker is a great place to find an affordable virtual assistant and customer representative.
Send Out Cards - http://www.sendoutcards.com/
Send Out Cards is a great resource to use to send physical postcards to partners, clients, or customers. Sending snail mail is much more powerful and effective than just sending e-mail.
Copywriting Forum - http://www.copywritersboard.com/
This is a great resource to either find copywriters or have your sales page reviewed by professional copywriters.
vFinance - http://www.vfinance.com/
This is a great resource to find venture capitol investors for your project.
Monster.com- http://www.monster.com/
Monster.com is where I find qualified employees. Using Monster is cheap and easy to post an add and then set up interviews with qualified candidates.
Web-Appointments - http://www.web-appointments.com/
This is an amazing resource to let you have your own schedule and let others sign up for a time slot. It is the resource that I have my profit creation consultants' use.
Robo Form - http://www.roboform.com/
Automatically lets you fill any form that you come across. This resource saves me hours every week.
Instant-Scheduling - https://instant-scheduling.com/?page=enroll&pc=S-N-E&co=y&type=professional
Instant-Scheduling.com is about scheduling appointments online with hosted software.
Google - Create a free Gmail account and use shared calendars, documents, and excel files. http://gmail.com
If you have any questions about these links, please let me know. We can provide custom programs for your business, as well as graphic design to spark it up a notch.
Please enjoy this list and use it wisely.
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