Resources
I often recommend resources that I love and use for my clients and in my own company. Below you’ll find some of my favorites. I have personal experience with ALL of them and feel confident in sharing them with you. In the spirit of transparency, some of the links listed are affiliate links. If you use them, I will make a few bucks. Using these links does not increase the cost you pay for any product or service. If you’d rather not use my affiliate links, no worries … just Google the resource for a direct URL.
BUSINESS COACHING
Cindy Hillsey, Virtual Partnering
Cindy offers mentoring and business coaching for solopreneurs and Virtual Assistants. I can tell you from personal experience that she is wise, savvy, inspiring and supportive in so many ways. She is the one who taught me that knowing who your Ideal Client is in a deep and specific way is key to success in marketing your business. And we’re not talking niche or target market here … your Ideal Client is the person you connect with at a deep core level. If you’re not sure who your Ideal Client is, let Cindy be your guide! She has an Ideal Client product and does workgroups around the topic too. Go check her out … and please tell her Jackie sent you!
FAVORITE TOOLS
Professional Cart Solutions (1ShoppingCart)
Our favorite shopping cart solution for online business. Several levels of service to choose from based on your specific needs.
Practice Pay Solutions (Merchant Account)
You will need a merchant account to accept payment via credit card — and to integrate with your shopping cart. We use PPS and love them!
Audio Acrobat
Our favorite tool for recording and managing audios, with easy access to downloadable content.
FreeConferenceCalling
All of the free conference line services will have issues from time to time, but FCC is one with the fewer problems in our experience. We love their online dashboard for real-time conference management, free recording and great feature set. Highly recommend it for teleseminars.
Survey Monkey
An easy to use web-based survey tool. We use it for customer feedback, course evaluations, market research and more. And the basic plan is FREE!
Aweber
Our favorite tool for email marketing, hands down! Send your ezine, publish a signup form to your website, create autoresponders, manage all your email campaigns and get the stats you need to make your online biz sing. Plus their deliverability is top notch and the free expert customer support is the best around.
BlueHost
Affordable, reliable web hosting solutions starting at just $6.95 per month (including a domain!). Plus they know and love Wordpress … which makes them our top choice for WP hosting.
Glance.net
Looking for a simple, fast, reliable way to share your desktop? Glance is it. Once installed it’s literally a one click start for you. And we love that the participants have nothing to install on their computers — just go to your Glance URL, enter their session key and they’re looking at your desktop. This is our go-to application for simple webinars.
WishList Member
The fastest way to turn Wordpress into a membership site! WishList is a powerful solution for creating a full-featured membership site on your Wordpress platform. Amazing feature-set and excellent support. They offer a 30-day free trial and an incredibly low cost of just $97 for a single-site license.
Dropbox
One place for everything! I use Dropbox to sync information between my iMac, Macbook Pro, PC and iPhone as well as supplemental online backup. No matter which computer I’m using, everything I need is there. And it’s a great option for file sharing too. We use it with all our clients.
