I have put together this “Rolodex” of resources for your business. Resources that I have learned from many hours of training and reading. I know these resources will help expedite the results of your business. I will continue to update this page as I find additional resources that I find relevant to your business.
Driving Traffic
The one common thing that we all are trying to accomplish each day. We want as many people as possible to see the content we put out on our websites or blogs.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): is the process of increasing the quality and quantity of website traffic by increasing the visibility of a website or a web page to users of a web search engine. You can do this by using keywords or long tail keywords.
FREE SEO TOOLS
Keywordtool.oi: is FREE online keyword research instrument that uses Google Autocomplete to generate hundreds of relevant long-tail keywords for any topic. Use this tool to research keywords to come up with topics for relevant content.
Google Keyword Planner: This is a part of the Google adwords advertising platform. It allows users to research and analyze lists of keywords for use.
Free Keyword Tool from Wordstream: Discover and export new keywords and performance data to help you succeed in your SEO goals. This site makes it fast and easy to find the keywords to drive traffic through organic and paid searches.
Screaming Frog: is a crawler that allows you to crawl your website’s URLs and fetch key elements to analyze and audit technical and onsite SEO. It will find broken links and server errors, temporary and permanent redirects, analyze page titles and meta descriptions and identify those that are too long, short, missing or duplicated across your site, identify duplicate content, find URLs that are blocked by robots.txt, meta robots or X-Robots-Tag directives, and quickly create XML Sitemaps and Image XML Sitemaps.
Spotibo: is a SEO audit tool that helps you to find, in an easy and very simple way, all the indexing problems, duplicate content, wrong redirect, pages with error status, images with missing ALT test and much more.
Serprobot: is a free google ranking check you can use to find your websites google search ranking position instantly in real time.
Broken Link Check: is a tool that scans a website for broken internal and external links
SEOquake: is a free plug in for your browser that provides you with organic research data at a click of a button. Currently compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, SEOquake can provide parameters for listings within search engine results. Along with organic research data, SEOquake provides other useful tools including an SEO Audit, Keyword Density report, Internal /External Link analysis and even social metrics.
Analytics
This will provide insight into how your site’s content is performing.
Pinterest Analytics: Use Pinterest Analytics to refine your Pinterest strategy and get better performance. It helps measure Pin performance, analyze traffic and learn more about what your customers want. You need a business account to get started.
Google Analytics: Provides information on behavior of your site, conversion reports, segmentation, audience reports, advertising reports, and so much more.
Twitter Analytics: Provides data regarding your Twitter account. Measures and boost your impact on Twitter.
Hosting for Blog/website
This allows you to make your website available via the world wide web.
Bluehost: FREE Domain Name for 1st Year, FREE SSL Certificate Included, 1-Click WordPress Install, 24/7 Support, Starting at $2.95/Month
Godaddy: Award-winning, 24/7 support, 1 website, 100 GB storage, Unmetered bandwidth, Free Business Email – 1st year Free domain – with annual plan Starting at $5.99/month (Sign up Through Rakuten and get 2.5 % cash back.)
Email Marketing and Autoresponder
If you are looking to create an email list to market your product or services to a couple of options that I have used are listed below. See my Blog post comparing the two providers.
Aweber: Plan Start at $19.00/month with FREE 1 Month Trial
- 500 subscribers/ unlimited emails
- Access to our email experts who are here 7 days a week to help you grow.
- Easy-to-use tools to help you create emails, sign up forms and more to engage your subscribers.
- Industry-leading deliverability to help make sure your emails make it to the inbox.
- Simple email automation to get the right message to the right person at the right time.
- Connect to social media, landing pages, shopping carts and many more integrations to get the most out of your email marketing campaign.
Mailerlite: Plans Start at FREE
- 1000 subscribers/12000 emails
- Support team works 24/7, Drop a message and average response time is 5 minutes on live chat, 97% satisfaction rate
Get Response: Starting Price: FREE (ONE I USE)
- 2,500 newsletters/mo
- 500 Contacts (on free)
- 1 landing pageCreate and host 1 landing page with a monthly limit of 1000 visitors.
- Website BuilderCreate and host 1 website and access all essential features like galleries, popups, and forms.
- Connect your domain
Creating Social Media Posts
Canva: Available in a free or paid version. Use it to create posts for Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, e-books, Lead Magnets, and many other needs
Adobe Lightroom CC: Picture editing service that allows you to not only edit but store, organize and share your photos. You can download your presets into Lightroom to apply to your pictures.
Planoly: it allows you to visually plan, manage, and schedule your Instagram posts
TryInteract: Website that allows you to create quizzes from scratch or use a wide variety of templates. You can share to several social media platforms. You can use a direct link, use on Facebook ads, or embed into a website. There is a free option to this site.
Mindset
Best Books for Female Entrepreneurs
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Think & Grow Rich by Napolean Hill
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiosaki
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
Building a Story Brand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller
Company of One by Paul Jarvis
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene’ Brown
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
ManyChat: Visual bot builder for Facebook Messenger with broadcasts, analytics, scheduled posting and many other features. It allows you to build a list of subscribers in messenger that you can “drip” on or market to with offers.
Notion: Finally, a unified workspace for you and your entire team! With Notion, your docs, wikis, and tasks are all in one place.
Advanced Marketing Institute: Create Click Worthy Headlines
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American Marketing Institute: The World Famous Advanced Marketing FREE Headline Analyzer helps determine whether your headline will appeal or drive customers away by analyzing headlines for Emotional Marketing Content (EMV).
Meet Fox: Virtual Meetings Made Easy. The simplest way to host 1:1 Meetings. Free Option of 3 Meetings per month, allows for payment integration, and scheduling.
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. I am not an affiliate of any product or service that I do not trust for use in my business or on my own websites. If I don’t use it, I do not promote it. This is the only way I can jury product quality, service and support levels, which are so important to those who trust my recommendations.