ONLINE BUSINESS RESOURCES

We don't think you can do better than our Online Business Ignition mini-course if you want to come up with a viable idea for a business.  Discover the things about you and your life experience that will help you solve problems you actually care about.  

Based on his book, “Will It Fly”, Pat Flynn's “Smart From Scratch” course will help you find and validate an idea that you can build a solid business on.

SiteGround lets you organise your website hosting (including WordPress sites), email addresses and URLs, all in the one place.  The reason we use them is because their helpdesk support is excellent and quick to respond.  And that's pretty important when you're stuck on a website problem or challenge.

Pat Flynn's “Build Your Own Brand” course will not only help you learn how to develop your own WordPress website, it will help you brand it so it stands out.  What's even better is that the course is free.  I used this course to help me learn how to build WordPress websites.

WordPress editors like Divi will make your life easier when trying to build a professional looking website without breaking the bank.  We use Divi as our WordPress editor because it works and has great functionality … not to mention tons of templates you can use to quickly get your website set up and looking great.

Need to design banners, graphics or other images for your website and you can't afford to pay someone to do it?  Canva is a great tool to help you quickly create professional looking images. Use it to create your own images, including a logo, font, or theme.  Try out their free account.  You'll love it.

Need some great photos or images that will make your website stand out?  Deposit Photos have a wonderful database of images that are available for purchase.  You can get them cheaper here than many of the other professional image sites.  Keep an eye out for their “100 photos for $100 sales”.

ActiveCampaign is our favourite because you can do so much with it.  Campaign automation, scoring, taggging, lots of advanced functionality that will save you time and make your life easier.

 ConvertKit is very similar to ActiveCampaign.  We've found it fairly easy to use.  And it's what online business guru Pat Flynn, from Smart Passive Income uses and he swears by it.

AWeber is perfect if you're just starting out.  It will grow with your business until you reach the point where you need more advanced functionality to enable scoring, process automation, etc.  And their support is great, not to mention their training videos for when you have questions.

Still not sure which Email Service Provider is the right one for your business?  Take our short quiz and find out which ones we recommend, based on where your business is right now.

Pat Flynn is one of the top online business gurus.  His “Email Marketing Magic” course is going to help you build a solid email list in a non-spammy, “nice-guy” sort of way.  If you want to save your time, money and energy by NOT doing all the wrong things, this “Email Marketing Magic” course will get you going quickly.

Amy Porterfield is an online marketing guru who focuses on helping people build their email lists AND create online courses.  She has a library full of ways to rapidly grow your email list.  It's free to access and I can guarantee you it's full of really useful hints and things to try.

Nathalie Lussier's 30-Day List Building Challenge is a classic and it's free.  Over the course of 30 days, you'll be given tips and advice about how to quickly build your email list.  You won't regret signing up.

We love LeadsHook.  It helps us build quizzes, questionnaires and diagnostic tools that deliver highly customised results for customers and useful segmentation data for us.  Best way I know of to ensure the leads we get are super highly qualified.  And you can use all of those tools to make your online courses and workshops more memorable and useful.

And if you sign up to LeadsHook through our affiliate link we'll give you some pretty cool bonuses that will help you get started using it faster.

The Profit First Method for managing your business's cashflow was created by Mike Michalowicz.  I use it religiously and it has saved my business from going down the gurgler more than once.

Forget to set aside money for taxes?  Didn't think to set aside money so you can pay your team when they are on leave?  Not going to happen if you're using the Profit First Method.  

Airwallex lets you make cross-border payments in other currencies without all the hassle.  It also lets you create “virtual” credit cards that you can share with your team.  You can control spending based on total amount spent or on how much can be spent at one time or over a given period.  Super useful when it's tough getting access to physical credit cards and easier to manage.

Stripe is a payment gateway platform that can integrate with many different types of software … allowing you to easily collect payment from your customers.  It has a lot of functionality which makes it possible to link your backend financial systems to it for tracking payments.

When I first started my podcast, getting the episodes ready to publish took hours!  In fact, it was so much work that some weeks, I wouldn't be able to get all the things done that I wanted to, when it came to repurposing the episode and using the content elsewhere.

And then I found out about Descript.  When you upload either audio or video files to Descript, it automatically creates a transcript.  And as you edit the transcript, Descript automatically edits the audio and/or video files as well.

So what used to take hours and hours AND HOURS, now only takes hours 😄.

And I am able to create my podcast audio file (for uploading onto Whooshkaa, my podcast hosting platform), upload the transcript, create video snippets for YouTube and social media and write my shownotes … all in less time than it used to take me to just do the audio file and shownotes.

So if you ever want to easily edit audio or video files for your website or a podcast or a YouTube channel, I can definitely highly recommend Descript.  I love it so much that I'm an affiliate for it. 

Which means that if you do buy Descript using my affiliate link, we'll get a small commission at no extra cost to you.  For which we thank you because it helps us keep on helping people like you grow their online business.  So you can start living the life you've dreamed of.

All the best and happy editing 🙂

If your community is the heart of your business, you want to make sure that they have a great experience when they are on your community forum.

We've tried MemberPress and Facebook and they just didn't do what we needed them to do.  So when we discoverd Circle and started using it, we were delighted to find that it does everything we need and it's easy to set up.

Need to manage multiple tiers?  Yes, Circle makes it super easy to do…including managing payments.

Need to chat with your community live?  And don't want to use Zoom?  Circle can do that to.

We love Circle and are an affilate for it.

Check out our blog post about the 5 key questions you should asking when setting up your community forum.

Or our YouTube video that shows you how to set up multiple memberships tiers.