37 Incredibly Useful Tools and Websites for Small & Home Business Entrepreneurs, Network and Affiliate marketers!
WE WILL BE UPDATING: ADDING AND REMOVING RESOURCES AS WE GROW OUR SUCCESS VAULT. THOSE THAT DON’T SERVE AS WELL AS THEY SAY ON THE PACKAGE WILL BE REMOVED. SO KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED ON THIS LIST OF USEFUL TOOLS AND WEBSITES, INCREASED FROM 37 to 40+.
All additions have an extra digit e.g. 4.1, 17.1, 28.1 etc.
Now to the fun, I truly missed you…
I’ve been away for a month working in India and I loved it. See a snippet of my hiatus below. I was creating tools for our clients and I thought about what useful tools and websites you might need to grow your business! To be honest I missed creating content just for you. To help you achieve your desired results. So even though I flew straight to Edinburgh, (Jules is not happy about this shhh); before I head home this weekend; I had to get this off so you can make some headway. So I hit the ground running…
Right back to the task at hand…
When you started your branding journey, that you’d need numerous useful tools and websites wasn’t on your agenda right? Well, today allow me to break the news to you…In order to brand you; you’ll need a plethora of useful tools & websites. The good news is most of these useful tools and websites are free…
In this post, I am going to share with you the #37 incredibly useful tools and websites that you should have in your toolkit. If you’re struggling to build your site/brand or just starting out in any kind of business, you will find a useful website or 10 here. Each in its own way to help you grow your business.
Simply check out and apply what you’re going to learn here. You’ll begin to enjoy your journey to branding you. Coz you definitely need to start building the brand your business needs! And see the results that you have been looking for.
This dude gave a huge list of helpful and useful tools 9 years ago. Most are obsolete today…I felt that you may prefer to be more targeted and streamlined..so as not to overwhelm you or anything…
So without further ado below are the incredibly targeted useful tools and websites for you the discerning business and brand builder on a tight budget and also if you’re a network marketer…
Incredibly Useful Tools and Websites for Email Marketing
1. getnotify.com – Get notified when the email you sent is read. This is truly awesome esp when you have a small list you can segment & laser target “your Hot leads” the ones opening & reading your messages! Or for team admin. If your downline is not taking action they cant blame you can they…
2. wetransfer.com– Transfer up to 2 GB of data. For free. You may have heavy files and your email provider won’t take it due to size…well here is a resource just for ya
3. scr.im – Share your email without getting spammed. Man Julie gets so many emails definitely scrappers or such like…this should help.
4. Aweber.com– (get started for less than £1). Create email newsletters, broadcasts, followups, basic capture & landing pages etc. for your users. This is a CRM like Mailchimp or GetResponse. I like having a couple just in case. Be warned Mailchimp is very finicky about MLM or network marketing so your account could be shut down with no warning whatsoever!
4.1. LeadPages – To ensure that your email list grows like a wildfire and works in tandem with your CRM – Aweber, Get LeadPages. Your online Forms, squeeze pages, capture pages, sales pages, will look the beesnees. Professional top notch and attract your target audience. That’s all I can say on this matter.
5. surveymonkey.com– Create surveys, get answers, learn what your audience needs, give it to them and make more sales…Simples.
6. unroll.me– Are you like me…Boy, I have a shed load of unread emails every end of month. Yet I am soft enough not to hit that unsub button. So this will help you save time, by cleaning up your inbox.
Useful Design, SEO and Analytics Tools and Websites!
7. similarweb.com– Get insights for any website or app, you will also learn a bit more about your site traffic and how you can tweak your website to get more traffic!
8. nibbler.silktide.com– Am sure you think google analytics is the beesnass! Well here is another one. A tool for testing website accessibility, SEO, and social media. It also helps you find where your website falls short for ranking and guides you on how to fix that. Very important for that organic traffic! An incredibly useful tool for your website!
9. woorank.com– Another analytical website tool. Close to similarweb, but on speed. We can’t get our sites well optimised enough. So this website is truly a useful tool.
10. builtwith.com– We get asked this a lot. So here is a useful resource to help you find out what websites are built with.
11. strikingly.com– If you like having several sites for different uses, but don’t wish to buy a domain, then use this to create a beautiful website for free.
12. hemingwayapp.com– Remember user experience is key, so you want to make your sentences and paragraphs short but impactful. You can even make them bold.
13. marker.to– Want a fun web based highlighter? Highlight stuff on webpages and share it.
14. iruler.net – An online ruler. Really does what it says on the package!
15. EasyWebpage – Create a disposable webpage in just a few keystrokes. This is great for short and long promos that you are sure you won’t repeat!
16. pdfgeni.com – A PDF search engine. For your content marketing research and comparison purposes before you offer whats already been rehashed! Frankly whatever you are looking for is out there on the internet…whether it’s all of it is the question!
17. howsecureismypassword.net – Test your password making skills. Now I don’t know about you, we all like to think we create unique passwords. Yet there are people out there sat waiting to grab it. Would you type your password into a website you don’t trust…your call! But the resource is here
17.1 By the way a one Bill Hess has put together a guide that rounds up everything you could imagine on account security. He put it all into one comprehensive guide, packed full of sources and actionable info. Bill points out the real danger of reusing the same password across various online platforms. Feel free to check out the article on reusing passwords here.
Incredibly Useful Tools and Websites for E-commerce
18. wufoo.com – A super invoicing and online form-building resource. Links to various Payment processors. We love it!
19. slimvoice.co– As an entrepreneur esp. if you do sell tangible products you are gonna need invoices. Enter slimvoice, you can create insanely simple, manage, export, and send unlimited invoices for free. See outstanding balances at a glance.
19.1. SiteGround – You know that for your eCommerce or any website really, your hosting is extremely essential. Its your website HOME, its where the Security begins. Choose the wrong one and you will have issues galore. I mean read about our kerfuffle with our former web-host here! Nuff said!
Incredibly Useful Tools and Websites for your Visuals
20. compressor.io– Ya know images do chomp your Gb space. Those large images slow down your site load speed, not good for ranking. Of course you can smush them…but why not impost an already optimized image. Use compressor to optimize and compress your images online.
21. picmonkey.com– Photo editing made easy & fun. Create unique images for your content!
22. canva.com – This is photo editing on speed. Create awesome event, blog or social media images, watermark them so they are evergreen for you and pay just $1 if you use their unique ones!
23. images.google.com.au – A reverse image search. This will help you find the original author of an image if you really want to use it so you can credit them and avoid Copyright issues.
Incredibly Useful Tools and Websites for Social Media Marketing
24. crowdriff.com/riffle– helps you build instant rapport with anyone on Twitter, giving you insights into the current and potential value of every user so you can prioritize and personalize engagement. So get your Twitter engagement, interest and activity analytics in real time. I absolutely love Twitter’s own analytics, very comprehensive until I found this. Go try this useful tool.
25. redditlater.com– Find out the best times to post on reddit.com. This is a free service that lets you schedule a link to be posted to reddit at a later time. Apparently, the reddit ranking algorithm is time-sensitive, so timing your post is key. The same post could be a hit, or it could never make it out of /new/, depending on its posted time! This tool is no longer available
26. hootsuite.com– Streamline your social presence, manage & auto-share your content they have some super cool new features that get over there and improve your Hootsuite experience!
27. screencast-o-matic.com a Screen Recording tool free for up to 15 mins! Super cool
28. joinme.com– Instant screen sharing for meetings. We used to use this a lot esp. for short team webinars! now we use the resource below or Zoom.us.
Incredibly Useful Tools and Websites for Web Sounds
29. whosampled.com – Discover music through samples, cover songs, and remixes for your video background sounds or just pleasure.
30. coffitivity.com– Ambient sounds to boost creativity, can be played in the background before a webinar, podcast etc… Could be distracting during though. You know what am saying…!
30.1. Soundcloud – the home of Your Power Echoes with Julie Syl. Our Online Radio Show aka Podcast. Of course you can also find us on iTunes Do go ahead and subscribe to both! Such fun, lots of Golden Nuggets, Go Grow your brand!
Incredibly Useful Tools and Websites Just Because!
31. growthhackers.com– A marketing discussion community, & another traffic-getting resource. This was discounted
32. thenameapp.com– Find a unique name for your idea. This was discounted too
33. reruncheck.com – I truly don’t watch much telly but if you wanna chill out after a long day, You can find out if the television show you want to watch is a repeat this week.
34. howstuffworks.com – A collection of explanations for how every single thing in the world works, I threw this one in for the heck of it…If you nothing else works, well you got the tool.
35. govdeals.com – I love this one, usually the Govt takes, now you can buy stuff from the government on the cheap.
36. differencebetween.net – Learn the difference between things.
37. CallMyLostPhone– you can sometimes forget the cell phone in the dirty diaper. Now you can call your lost cell phone. Ditch that stress!
So there you have them, some unique, some new, some not so new to you! Did you find any new Useful Tools and Websites for Home Business Entrepreneurs and network marketers? THIS LIST IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. I.E. It is growing year on year, so keep checking. Bookmark and you wont miss a new one. Better still join our blog tribe and you will be in the know!
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Hello to all, how is the whole thing, I think every one
is getting more from this website, and your views are good for new viewers.
Regards
Excellent blog here!
Also, your site loads up very fast! What web host are you using? Can I get your affiliate link to your host? I wish my site loaded up as fast as yours.
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Eve Hunt
Hello Eve,
Thanks for stopping by, glad you got value. We appreciate your feedback on our blog loading speed.
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Julie Syl
Excellent blog you have got here. It is difficult to find quality writing like yours these days.
I seriously appreciate people like you!
Take care!
Regards
Hello Alisha,
Imagine finding our 2015 Article on Business tools for home business entrepreneurs. Amazing.
Glad you got value.
Take Care
Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an extremely long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyhow, just wanted to say great blog
Hello Victoria,
That is sad. Glad you dropped by all the same and got value in the tools.
Great list Jules.
I know and use a number of these tools or some variants but this is worth bookmarking. Thanks
Glad you found similar tools to yours Adeposi.
Thanks for stopping by!
Pauli
WOW what a great list and highly useful! I know there is a ton there I can use. Thank you!
Thats what we like to hear Chris.
Thanks for your comment!
Pauli
Wow so much information Paul. I will definitely have to return to get more info at a later date THanks for sharing
By all means feel free Diane and Bookmark for ease of remembrance and access.
Good of you to stop by.
Paul
Awesome list of tools Pauli!! I use some of them, will check out the ones that I don’t. I’ve bookmarked this post!
I am glad you found value Jelena,
Glad you already use some of these useful tools and websites.
To be honest some I threw in for the heck of it i.e. the last ones 🙂
Pauli
Awesome tools for me as a beginner. Thanks for sharing!
Our absolute pleasure Carlito.
Glad you found value.
Pauli
Great listing. I use some of them, but others i am not familiar with. Thanks for preparing this blog. It is most helpful.
Glad you found some value Lewis.
Thanks for stopping by!
Pauli
Oh my goodness… I tried the wheresmycellphone link and it really works. Some much great info Julie thank you so much.
Glad you love our list of useful tools and websites Lorena welcome back from Sunny Hot Dubai.
Loved your images, saw some on Julie’s newsfeed!
Pauli
Hey Pauli! AWESOME tools, so many I’ve never heard of – checking a bunch of them out right now! Always love to see what tools other folks use. Thanks for sharing – Waving from just down the road in Galashiels!
Hi Emily,
Maybe next time pop into Scotland we shall drop in with Julie.
I am now warmly ensconced back in Liverpool with a conciliatory Scottish whisky 🙂
Glad you are checking them out. Let us know how you get on with them! We love your highly practical posts!
Pauli
Holy mackerel!! What great information packed in this post. Keeping it for reference. Thanks so much for the share!
Glad you found value Carol.
Pauli
This is definitely worth bookmarking after reading this post from these tools that can be useful as a internet marketer when it comes to websites for entrepreneurs! Thanks for sharing this valuable information Julie!!!
Glad you found value Danny and yes we do find them incredibly useful, Some of them almost daily!
Pauli
Wow, Julie talk about over delivering value, this is great stuff and tools that will be effective in any internet marketing business.
Hi Lorraine,
She is awesome isnt she, but this time I thought She should have a bit of a break 🙂
I sure hope you find them effective and some just for the sake of it I threw them in!
Pauli
Wow. Thanks for sharing all the incredible tools and resources to use on websites and in our internet marketing business. There is so much out there and when you share what you have learned about to help others it speaks volumes about you as a marketer. Thank you for sharing.
Hi David,
Thank you for your kind words and for taking the time. When we started our journey we made a vow to share what we know and what works.
Applied knowledge is where the real goodness is. No point knowing it all and not sharing with others who need it!
Pauli
WOW…. this is packed full. I am going to book mark this page as a resource and come back… You mentioned another I think? On the Periscope that I caught on with you???? the one about “cooking and recipes”. If you can remember that, can you send me a private IM? I tried to type into the web while you were talking, but may have been misspelling it and now can’t remember. Thanks.
Hi Stephanie,
I think you are talking about http://www.7search.com.
I have sent you a PM. Glad you got value.
Paul has indeed hit the ground running and Yes I heard what he said cheeky fella! lololol
Julie