TOOLS

Here you are! The top tools and programs that I use to run my businesses.

It has taken me years to single out the best of the best and I am proud to present to you some really great stuff.
Just a disclaimer – a few of these are affiliate links (aka I partnered with the company because I use the product and proudly endorse them – so I do receive a commission if you pay to sign up).

So go on and read this list and implement some new ways to manage and grow your business successfully!

Business tools

Amazon Prime

A $99 membership where you get Free Two-Day Shipping on tons of items, access to movies, music, photo sharing, and more.

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Dropbox

Dropbox is a service that keeps your files safe, synced, and easy to share. Bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and never lose a file again.

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Fiverr

An entire online marketplace to hire people for a variety of tasks and all for $5.

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Guru

Guru provides businesses with the tools to find and hire talented freelancers all over the world. We also offer freelancers the opportunity to market sought-after skills to a global audience for a minimal cost.

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A social media scheduling software to automate your posts and images to your online audience.

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Jing captures anything you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it instantly.

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Meet Edgar

Social media automation that recycles your best social updates.

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Online Jobs

Outsource to the Philippines through the largest online marketplace for finding and hiring ... proactively contact workers or post a job and let them come to you.

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Pinterest

Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.

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Evernote Skitch

Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.

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Sweet Process

Document all those repetitive tasks that eat up your precious time, so you can grow your team and grow your business.

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SamCart

SamCart is a shopping cart for information marketers and internet marketers selling digital products online.

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Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that allows both private individuals and businesses to accept payments over the Internet.

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Website tools

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is a storage/hosting facility for your PDFs, videos, etc... You pay only for the storage you actually use.

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Balsamiq

Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that reproduces the experience of sketching on a whiteboard, but is created online.

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Bluehost

A website hosting platform with abiliity to integrate with hundreds of other applications.

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ClickTale

ClickTale shows you deep drill-downs into online behavior with actionable insights to optimize user engagement and maximize conversions with heat maps.

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CrazyEgg

Through Crazy Egg's heat map and scroll map reports, you can get an understanding of how your visitors engage with your website so you can boost your conversions.

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GoDaddy

GoDaddy helps you buy domains and also has great website hosting options.

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Google Analytics

Get the website data you need to make intelligent marketing and business decisions with Google Analytics.

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PayPal

PayPal is a way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account.

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PopupDomination

Grow a profitable email list with high-converting mobile-response popups

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PostPlanner

Use Post Planner to find, plan and post better content to boost your reach & social media engagement today.

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Transmit

Transmit 4 is the ultimate FTP + SFTP + WebDAV + Amazon S3 file transfer client if you need to transfer files.

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Visual Website Optimizer

VWO is the easiest A/B, Split and Multivariate testing tool to optimize your website for increased conversion rate and sales.

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Volusion

An ecommerce software to build your online store and sell products *Melanie Duncan used and approved

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WordPress

Create a free website or easily build a blog on WordPress with customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes.

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ClickBank

ClickBank is an affiliate directory where you can find products or info products to promote to your audience and make a percentage of every sale.

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Courses

Blog that converts

A self-study course on how to maximize the use of your blog for more exposure and essentially more leads. It is taught by my super smart friend, Derek Halpern of Social Triggers.

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1K

A self-study course on how to make an extra $1,000 a month with freelancing. This is from Ramit Sethi's amazing arsenal of courses at I Will Teach You To Be Rich.

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Jumpstart your FB marketing

A self-study course for growing your online presence and boost your fans, leads and sales on Facebook. My incredible friend, Amy Porterfield, knows her stuff when it comes to Facebook!

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Webinars that convert

If you sell info products, digital courses, or coaching and consulting services online, then you should consider the possibility of adding webinars. Learn from my amazing friend Amy Porterfield.

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Video traffic academy

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Zero to launch

A self-study course to show you how to start a successful online business.

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Email providers

Active campaign

An all-in-one marketing platform including email marketing, marketing automation, and sales customer relationship management.

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Aweber

Email marketing and automation for small and medium size businesses. It is easily integrateable with hundreds of other applications and software online.

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Constant contact

An email marketing platform that helps with email automation and keepin track of contacts.

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ConvertKit

ConvertKit helps you manage emails lists and drip campaigns to increase reader trust, which directly increases sales when you launch a product or service.

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GetResponse

An email marketing platform with email design, landing pages, webinar page and split testing capabilities.

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HubSpot

HubSpot is an inbound marketing software platform that helps companies attract visitors, convert leads, and close customers.

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InfusionSoft

An all-in-one marketing platform that handles email automation, analytics, and much more to turn your leads into customers.

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Mailchimp

Online email marketing solution to manage subscribers, send emails, and track results. It offers integrations with hundreds of other programs.

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OntraPort

Ontraport is an all-in-one business and marketing automation platform that removes the burden of technology for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

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OptimizePress

Create landing pages, sales pages and membership portals inside Wordpress.

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SendGrid

SendGrid is an email service provider that sends transactional emails triggered by web apps.

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Hosting

Liquidweb

Manages website hosting.

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MediaTemple

Offers website hosting.

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Namecheap

Purchase domain and hosting packages.

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Books

Influence

This book explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings.

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Ultimate sales machine

The Ultimate Sales Machine shows you how to tune up and soup up virtually every part of your business by spending just an hour per week on each impact area you want to improve—sales, marketing, management, and more.

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Great leads

A great book to help you create incredible headlines that attract your target audience.

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Carts

Samcart

SamCart is a shopping cart for information marketers and internet marketers selling digital products online.

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Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that allows both private individuals and businesses to accept payments over the Internet.

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Design

99 Designs

99Designs is the largest online marketplace for all things logo design, branding, websites, packaging, t-shirts, car wraps, and more.

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Canva

Use Canva's drag-and-drop editor to design professional layouts to design presentations, social media graphics, ebooks, etc...

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Upwork

Find freelancers and freelance jobs on Upwork - the world's largest online workplace where savvy businesses and professional freelancers go to work!

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Landing page

Click funnels

A sales funnel software to create leads for webinars, book sales, high ticket clients, etc...

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LeadPages

LeadPages™ Software is the world's easiest landing page generator. It's the easiest way to build conversion optimized & mobile responsive landing pages. *Melanie Duncan used and approved

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SumoMe

SumoMe is a suite of free tools that can be used to grow your website's traffic.

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Unbounce

Unbounce lets marketers build, publish and test landing pages without IT or software. A/B testing and lead gen.

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Organization tools

Asana

A project management tool that tracks your team and their responsibilities. *Melanie Duncan Used and Approved

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Basecamp

A project management tool that your team can house all of your client work and daily progress.

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Flipboard

Collect great articles, videos and photos into beautiful digital magazines you can share and take anywhere on Flipboard.

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Hitlist

Hitlist is a weekly curated publication full of interesting, relevant links.

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Instapaper

Save all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing. With one click, Instapaper lets you save, read, and manage the things you find on the Internet.

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Payment processor

Easy Pay Direct

It is made to process credit cards, electronic checks and ACH transactions. It allows you to use email invoicing, recurring billing, batch uploading, and online payment forms to collect payments.

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Team organization

Evernote

Evernote streamlines workspaces on all your devices for note-taking, presentations, collaborations, etc..

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Workflowy

WorkFlowy is an organizational tool that you can take notes, make lists, collaborate, brainstorm, plan and generally

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Tracking

Improvely

Conversion tracking and click fraud monitoring for all your online marketing needs.

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Optimizely

Enterprise-level A/B testing and personalization for the web and mobile apps.

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Pingdom

With website monitoring from Pingdom you will be the first to know when your website is down.

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Traffic

Ad espresso

AdEspresso makes Facebook Advertising easy and profitable for small and medium businesses.

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Adroll

AdRoll uses retargeting to help you reach customers intelligently across devices on Facebook, Twitter, Apple iAd, and millions of websites.

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Perfect audience

Bring all your retargeting together into one powerful dashboard.

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Qwaya

An easy Facebook ads tool

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WordStream

Wordstream is proficient in developing, launching, and managing AdWords campaigns for local merchants and small businesses.

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Video

Easy video suite

Record, publish, market and track your videos with EasyVideoPlayer - a simple video marketing suite.

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Ezs3

EZs3 helps you create branding for your videos.

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Skype

Use Skype for instant messaging, voice or video calls.

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Skype call recorder

Call Recorder records Skype audio and video calls directly to your Mac.

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Vimeo

Vimeo helps you get high-quality tools for hosting, sharing, and streaming videos in HD with no ads.

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Wistia

Wistia provides professional video hosting with viewer analytics, HD video delivery, and marketing tools to help understand your visitors.

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Webinar

Any Meeting

The all-in-one conferencing solution for small business and medium businesses, from conference calls to video conferencing to webinars.

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Camtasia

An easy-to-use screen recorder, Camtasia helps you create more professional videos without having to be a video pro. Easily record your screen movements and actions, or import HD video from a camera or other source.

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Easy webinar

EasyWebinar creates marketing funnels with the combination of a Wordpress Plugin and full software suite for webinars and live streaming.

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Go to webinar

Generate leads for products and services using Go To Webinar by hosting webinars for thousands of prospects.

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Screenflow

With ScreenFlow you can record the contents of your entire monitor while also capturing your video camera, iOS device, microphone and your computer audio.

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Stealth Seminar

Stealth Webinars have automated teleseminar & webinar replay services.

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Webinar jam

A webinar platform that uses Google Hangouts.

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Wp membership

iMember

A Wordpress plugn to create your Infusionsoft™ driven membership site.

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Wishlist

WishList Member™ is a membership solution that can turn any WordPress site into a full-blown membership site.

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ZippyCourse

ZippyCourses is a WordPress plugin that enables you to create - and sell - online courses with ease.

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Wp themes

Studiopress

An online directory of Wordpress website themes.

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ThriveThemes

Blazingly fast WordPress templates and plugins, built to get more traffic, more subscribers, more clients and more customers for you.

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Woo Themes

WooThemes is a leading WordPress theme and plugin provider with tons of free and commercial products available to jumpstart your website.

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