My Top Secret Business Tools

Do you want to run a successful online business? Here are some breadcrumbs.

My “Secret” Weapons - These are for your eyes only - don’t even think about telling anyone. Well, okay maybe one or two people but NEVER tell your competitors:

Natural Mom PLR - PLR content for the natural/green niche.

Hire Your Kids -If you have a home business or plan on starting one then you need this book! It shows you step-by step how to legally hire your kids to work for you and claim a tax deduction. It is written by a CPA that specializes in helping small and wahm businesses. It even links to all the IRS forms you will need to save yourself some money. Get it before the new year!

xSitePro - This awesome web design program has been the key to my building a VRE (Virtual Real Estate Empire) …Muhawwwaa. This amazing program is what I use to design many of my web sites. It is so easy to use and it was made with affiliate marketers in mind. Quite simply you choose a template for your site or you create new one, choosing columns, colors, backgrounds, graphics, etc, with the click of a button. Adding Google ads or affiliate links and banners is super easy because it has a built-in affiliate manager that remembers all the information for you….no more digging up codes. I designed my surfer girls site in about 3 hours. This site was also designed in xsite.Pretty cool!

Mom Masterminds - This is an exclusive mentoring forum or mastermind group. It is comprised of talented women who run online businesses and affiliate marketing businesses. Some of the smartest online business women I know of are members of this forum. It costs to join but the rewards are soooooo worth it. Mom Masterminds has really helped me focus my business and increase the profitability of my web sites. I have also met many amazing mom members and much to my delight a nice percentage of those moms are involved in some aspect of natural family living, natural parenting, natural health and wellness. It has been amazing to network and create joint venture opportunities with so many talented “natural” WAHMs. There are so many businesses represented…content sites, Internet marketers, service providers, stores with physical products, MLMs, and Direct Sales. The list goes on but they all have one thing in common. They all think joining Mom Masterminds was the best decision they ever made. After being a member for one year you graduate and get to stay on at no charge.

Aweber - This is a newsletter list manager and auto responder. I have about 30 newsletter lists for all my various sites and I host them all at this one place for one monthly fee. I also set up auto responders on some of these lists so that emails get sent to subscribers with prewritten information at intervals that I choose or to automatically send them downloads upon request. I could NOT live without this service. Take a FREE test drive.

WahmCart - An wonderful shopping cart, affiliate program manager, autoresponder, and so much more!

Mini Course Money - learn how to increase your passive income with ecourses. Click here to get started. I made the ecourse at www.greenliving101.com after reading and listening to this product.

List and Traffic - Did you know that having a list of subsrcibers is a BIG money maker? For heaven’s sake make sure you get the email addresses of your web site visitors such as through a newsletter offer and then join this special forum for only $10.00 month to find out how to turn that list into profits.

Audio Acrobat - I have used this many times to create audio to put on my websites. It is super easy to do, even for beginners.

PhpMyDirectory - If you want a directory to put on your site then this is what I recommend.

All Mom Content - If you don’t like to write your own web site content and articles or don’t have time then you NEED this. For a small monthly fee you get custom written articles on mom topics, recipes, and product reviews that you can use on your sites. New content is delivered every month.

All Health Content - Heath based articles, recipes, and product review bundles to use on your web sites for a low monthly fee. New content is delivered every month.

Easy PLR - Packets of articles for you to use on your websites with no monthly subscription. You pick what you want and buy!

My “Not So Secret” Weapons - Yeah pretty much everyone knows about these. If you don’t, then where the heck have you been????:

Google - A make big chunk of moola from displaying Google ads every month…nuff said. You can join here:

Amazon - Another big chunk of money can be made here to.

Frontpage - A web design program that I use for my larger web sites.

Web Hosting I Like:

Dayana Host - You can get good hosting for as little as $1.50 per month! I use them for several of my sites.

Dreamhost - Host numerous sites on just one hosting account. It couldn’t get any easier. I have alot of sites hosted here.

Other Business Tools I Like - Some of these I have used and some I just promote but I do not promote crap so these are good:

Natural Moms Business Guide - This is a product created specifically for moms that want to make money from “natural” businesses, like cloth diaper businesses, sling and baby carrier businesses, homemade natural product businesses, and even sites that educate others about natural living and lifestyles. Carrie Lauth knows her stuff and she outlines everything you need to do to make your business a success!

Blogging Starter Pack - EVERYTHING you need to know about blogging. This great guide has step by step tutorials for all important aspects of getting a blog off the ground running from installation to marketing.

Internet Tax Helper Pro - This program was designed for Internet Marketers and other online business finance management. It is really awesome. Enter your affiliate commissions as they occur and it will keep track of your income from every source.

Presenting Your Products - This product will show you how to:

How to create product photographs that will make your visitors want to buy — in the comfort of your home office.
Why optimizing your photos will allow you to include larger, faster loading, more detailed depictions of your products.
Techniques to get rid of a cluttered background, even AFTER you’ve already taken the picture.

Don’t settle for less than spectacular photos, because you feel like you have to. There is no need to spend thousands of dollars hiring someone to take your photographs for you. (Unless you want to!) Presenting Your Products will show you how to capture your visitor’s attention with great product photographs.

Easy Website Builder - If you don’t know much about web design but still want an awesome web site this is for you!

Easy Article Marketing