Best Online tools and resources for internet entrepreneurs and online marketers. From Blogging platforms, web hosting service to software and payment processors

1. BEST TOOLS For Internet
Entrepreneurs And Online
Marketers
By Mohamed Anan
Internet Entrepreneur
www.valuestartup.com

2.  I thought it would be helpful to create resources
page for you that you can always refer to for your
online business needs.
 I have used each and everyone of the tools
mentioned below. They made a positive
contribution and proved worthy. Many of them are
free and the premium ones delivered high ROI for
the financial investment they required.
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links
below are affiliate links and at no additional cost
to you, I will earn a commission if you decided to
purchase the product or the service. Please
consider that these resources are really helpful
but they are not essential for your online success.
So kindly only purchase if you needed them to

3.  Blogging
 WordPress : The very best in the business. Very easy
to set up and operate. Thousands of free plugins that
can take your website to levels you can’t imagine,
your website could do almost anything with these
plugins and you don’t even have to know a single line
of code. It’s all automated for your convenience.
WordPress has Many beautiful free and premium
themes and a dedicated support. And the Best part is-
It’s FREE. And works on almost any web hosting
service imaginable. Almost all of my websites runs on
WordPress.
 Joomla : The second best -in my opinion- I mentioned
earlier that almost all of my websites runs on
wordpress. The web hosting company that I co-
founded is powered by Joomla blogging platform. And
it’s doing an awesome job. Even when I switched to
wordpress I didn’t find it necessary to immigrate my
website from Joomla to WordPress platform. It’s really
a matter of prefrences here. Some people favour
WordPress and the others favours Joomla. Do your

4.  Genesis Framework : My business grew as well as my concerns
for my website security. I was a victim of a hacking attempt that
demolished years of hard work in a blink of an eye. That was a
terrifying experience. I was sleepless at night until I tried
Genesis. This one changed my life. Truly it’s the best product I’ve
ever used. Simply it’s a WordPress framework consists of two
parts “The Genesis Framework and the child theme” The
Framework contains all the technical and security stuff and the
child theme is the beautiful skin. Genesis code is a state of the
art regarding security and SEO support, the framework is
lightening fast and this directly enhanced my SEO as Google
clearly loves clean code and fast websites. With Genesis you get
turn-key beautiful designs, I was impressed and spent hours
browsing and comparing between the designs. They all looked
unbelievable and I happily purchased the full theme package and
I use it on all of my websites. and I truly recommend Genesis
framework for your peace of mind. Ah you pay once and you get
life time support and updates too. So you would never have to
worry about your website safety ever again.
 Creat A Blog That Matters : This is by far the best course to
teach you how to start a blog from scratch to build a profitable
online business, to start a movement or to land your dream job. It
teaches how to build killer content and how to connect with your
readers to build genuine relationships. This course is designed
by Corbett Barr who is one of the most successful
online entrepreneurs today.

5.  BlueHost : Before co-founding my web hosting
company Bluehost was my number one choice. It’s
easy to use and it provides one click installation for
popular scripts -eg. wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.
It’s a very good choice for anyone starting his online
business journey. It’s a shared hosting service means
it has it’s limits and you should upgrade once you
reach a certain traffic load. (Ps. The link leads to a
special discount rate).
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6.  Shopping Carts
 E-Junkie : If you are selling a downloadable
product Eg. Ebook, Audio, video, Software, etc.
This should be your number one choice. It’s a
very simple and powerful shopping cart. Easily
integrated with Paypal. Google checkout,
Clickbank and other top of the link payment
processors. E-Junkie also provide product
delivery so once your customer pays you, E-
Junkie automatically send him an email with a link
of the product. Your product would be stored in
your server or better in E-Junkie servers with it’s
advanced security measures. Ah one last thing E-
Junkie provides a service called “Stamping”
means if you are selling PDF files E-Junkie
automatically stamp the customer’s Email and
Name on top of every page. This is done to stop
Ebook distribution and piracy. Not perfect but

7.  Payment Processors
 ClickBank : Obviously the biggest and the most
popular payment processor available today.
ClickBank also offers a huge affiliate network so
others can promote your products. It’s NOT that
easy. Don’t imagine that once you publish a
product thousands of affiliates would rush to
promote it. There are some strategies and I will
share them with you here.
 ShareASale : Not exactly a payment processor
but it’s the most user friendly affiliate network
available. Thousands of products to choose from
and very easy set up process. Their customer
support is top notch and their tracking system is
simply spectacular. I highly recommend them.

8.  Keyword Research Tools
 Google Adwords Tool : Nothing fancy here. It’s
the bread and butter of all keyword searches.
Always start here.
 Wordtraker : One of the very best in the business.
They have a free service and a premium one.
Their free service is top notch and gives Google
Adwords Tool a run for the money. Their paid
premium is simply fantastic! Many options, info
and measures. I suggest you try Google tool first
then when you feel you have started getting the
hang of it and needs a more advanced tool. This
is your number one choice.

9.  Email Marketing
 Aweber : Simply the best. I don’t think it needs
any introduction. Fast delivery. Accurate reporting
regarding the open rates by integrating with
Google Analytics. Complete automation and
Seriously, I mean SERIOUSLY the BEST
customer support I’ve EVER seen. They would
reply to your questions and inquiries within
minutes, they offer 24/7 support and they are
unrealistically friendly.
 MailChimp : A very respectable service used by
many professionals. Best for anyone just starting
out. And they have a FREE plan for people under
2000 subscribers and under 12000 email monthly.
Not bad for a starters. Not bad

10.  Google Analytics : Yeah Google again, I can’t
believe how these people are building a great
product after the other. Anyway this is the MAN.
Sign up. Insert a tracking code and you are good
to go.
 Clicky : REAL TIME Web Analytics! Unbelievable
you can see and track people who are on your
website right now -Kind of stalking, JK- This tool
is one of a kind. You track your website visitors to
learn which pages perform better than the other
so you can improve. Highly recommended.
 MajesticSEO : The world most complete
Backlinks database! Check your backlinks or
your computations’ backlinks. MajesticSEO
generate very comprehensive reports. They have
a free plan and a paid plan. The free plan
is unbelievably good. Upgrade only if you seek
more features and more in depth reports for your

11.  Outsourcing
 Odesk : Best place to find professionals in
programming, web development and IT services in
general to deploy advanced features for you or design
a specific theme you have in mind.
 Elance : Same as Odesk and also you can find
freelancers to create content for you and to optimize
your website and about every other thing imaginable.
 Virtual Staff Finder : When your business grow to a
certain point and you are operating a handful of
websites you would seek a virtual assistant to help
you out. Anyone ever tried searching for a VA -like
me- knows how unbelievably hard it is to find good
VAs. This is where Virtual Staff Finder takes over, with
their headquarters in Philippine they ensure to bring
you a decent talent with very affordable prices. So
you can delegate a portion of your work and work on
more important tasks to better leverage your time.

12.  Software
 Camtasia : The best screen recording software in
the business. It’s a premium software. But worth
every penny.
 Camstudio : Screen recording software and it’s
free.

13.  Hope that you enjoyed this article, Next article
would be a shorter one -hopefully- and it would
be about “How to create a valuable products and
service that people would buy”
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 Cheers
 Mohamed Anan
 www.valuestartup.com
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