Hosting
Bluehost is one of the top hosting companies. Bluehost offers inexpensive, reliable, fast hosting and superb 365/24/7 customer service. I've been using their hosting for 10+ years. They guarantee 99.99% up-time. I've been using Bluehost for many years and I'm very happy with their services. They are very helpful with any WordPress issues too.
Start your blog with Bluehost hosting for around $3.95 a month! Signing up for at least 12 months or longer will get you the best rates.
- Domain name registration: godaddy.com and namecheap.com
- Hosting: Bluehost and SiteGround
- WordPress themes: ElegantThemes and GeneratePress.
- Landing pages: LeadPages
- OptinMonster is the best lead-generation software on the market. Create lightbox popups, floating bars, slide-in scroll trigger boxes, sidebar forms, after post and in-line forms while giving you the ability to A/B test, add page-level targeting, and much more. Check out OptinMonster here.
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Email marketing
Automate your email marketing with autoresponders. Read my review of 4 Powerful Email Marketing Service Providers and Automation Tools.
Social media management and scheduling
Tailwind is great for both Pinterest scheduling and Instagram scheduling. Tailwind is the absolute best Pinterest scheduler. I save a lot of time by using Tailwind for Pinterest scheduling and get tons of traffic from Pinterest. With Tailwind's new feature, Tailwind Create you can now create and schedule your Pinterest pin all in one place and save even more time.
Get your FREE one month trial with Tailwind by using my link here. Get started Free. No credit card required.
Read my review of Tailwind here.
Images/ image creation
Photoshop is the most powerful but more complex program. But for creating social media images, it's so much easier for beginners to use Canva or PicMonkey.
Canva is probably the easiest tool to create compelling social media images for people who don't have a graphics background. I use it almost every day! Want to see what Canva is all about? Sign up for your free trial today! Try Canva Pro FREE for 30 days.
Canva provides a large set of templates – even with the free version of Canva. And with the paid Canva subscription, you'll get many additional premium templates and images. The Pro version of Canva provides over 60 million premium photos, images, icons and thousands of premium templates, easy resizing of your images, saving your brand colors, logos and fonts, using transparent images, animation, team templates and folders, and better organization with folders.
PicMonkey is an easy-to-use, popular graphics program. Many people are using it to create Pinterest and other social media images.
Stock images
See my listing of free stock image sites here.
DepositPhotos provides great images for your blog and social media. To get unique images that will help you stand out, I recommend DepositPhotos. Their photos are very affordable at about $1 per photo.
Legal templates for your blog, website and business
Make your website legally compliant, avoid GDPR and CCPA fines and protect yourself and your online business legally. Use Amira's legal templates to make your blog legal in just 30 minutes. Check out the legal templates here.