Bloggers

Understanding Social Media’s Place in Your Business Very cool 10 min. video that explains exactly how social media sites fit into an intelligent marketing plan.

Authority Black Book If you want to learn effective Social Marketing Tactics that generate traffic instantly, please do yourself a favor. Do not buy any product that claims to teach Social Marketing until you read The Authority Black Book! It’s free and extremely informative.

The First 6 Months of Blogging This is an extremely good resource that every blogger should read. It’s a 4 part series of articles written by Dragos Roua from his own personal experience. This is the kind of truth about blogging that can save you a lot of time and grief. He covers Writing, Promotion , Money and Tools.

Blog Talk Monitor This is a 5:30 video about a powerful piece of free software for keeping track of everything that’s going on in your niche. It can help you come up with targeted content, and stay abreast of all the important conversations about you blogs topic.

Blog Success This is, without a doubt, the best way to learn exactly how to build a high traffic, income producing blog in record time. I have a page where you can learn more about Blog Success here !

Blog Themes. I (and a lot of other professional bloggers) use Thesis - This is a brilliant Wordpress theme by designer Chris Pearson. After using several free themes I upgraded to thesis and I am so glad I did. In my opinion, it is the best solution for a serious blogger. Learn more at Thesis Demo Site – see the Thesis Theme in action

Web Hosting. My web host of choice Host Gator. They are extremely reliable, have a huge support team, and all the latest features and tools to simplify blogging. They are also extremely inexpensive at $7.95 per month with live, real person customer support available around the clock 24/7. You can also build a professional website in minutes, without any web hosting experience. Choose from over 4,500 templates!

Autoresponders and email service providers. If you are going to have a newsletter, or any other type of email list Aweber is the only way to go. You have probably heard that before and there is a reason. They are hands down, the best autoresponder service on the planet. Don’t even consider going with anybody else. Here’s an informative article with some really important “need to know” information about what it takes to get your emails delivered in this spam happy world we live in. It’s pure, grade A content.

More to come!