Recommended Tools & Resources

Research

  • Market Samurai – this is a great tool that will analyze your competition and show you where the low hanging fruit is.
  • Compete – gives you in depth market intelligence. See how much traffic a web site gets, who’s sending the traffic, and if the web site is gaining popularity or losing it. The best resource for doing market research.
  • Alexa – is one of the oldest market research tools online. Their clickstream capability makes it a very powerful tool to use when looking at where the traffic is coming from to a particular CPA offer.
  • Quantcast – is a great market research tool for providing a vast amount of demographic data which is very useful when getting traffic from facebook and myspace.
  • Google ad planner – their main strength is that they tell you “affinity”, which simply means where the traffic is coming from, and where it’s going. They also have powerful demographic data.
  • Spyfu – is a great tool to spy on competitors to see their ads and keywords.

Hosting

  • Hostgator – hosting solution with cpanel for fast creation of blogs with fantastico.

Domains

  • Namecheap – the best place to buy your domain.

Optin Page

  • Optimizepress – a WordPress theme that creates optin, sales and launch pages quickly and easily.
  • Exit Splash – catch the visitors exiting your webpage.
  • Blog Entry Pop – this is a superb looking pop over that you can use on a WordPress blog to catch new visitors.

Tracking

Press Release

Offers to Promote

  • Offervault – quickly find top offers and compare payouts between networks.

Traffic

  • Market Samurai – this is a great tool that will show you how to optimize your site and get the best possible traffic from the search engines.
  • Traffic Dashboard – Kim Roach created the traffic dashboard to make it easy as 123.
  • Traffic Geyser – using video to attract traffic from the search engines.
  • SEO – Search Engine Optimization by John Rhodes
  • Article Marketing – A complete system by John Rhodes
  • Traffic-Bug – great tool to get indexed in the search engines quickly.

Article Writing

  • Instant Article Factory – an amazing tool that allows you to create articles in minutes and provides great templates to work around.

WordPress

  • The Socrates Premium Theme – this a customizable premium WordPress theme that is search engine optimized and configured for advertising.
  • Woo Premium Themes – if you want a large variety of shiny looking themes to choose from.
  • WP Local Pro Theme – this is a superb theme for local businesses.
  • Optimizepress – create optin, sales and launch pages quickly and easily.
  • WP Twin – create a clone of your blog.
  • Blog Post Auto Links – this automatically links keywords in your posts to affiliate offers.
  • Wishlist Member – WordPress plugin makes a blog into a membership site in minutes.

Graphics

  • Ebook Cover Creator – this is a great tool to quickly create your own great looking ebook covers in minutes.

Sales letters

  • Copywriting – Jason Fladlien is the best person to teach you how to write great copy.

Product Creation

Outsourcing

  • Burn Your To Do List – this is a system where you buy credits and use them for article writing, backlinking, blog maintenance and more.

Webinars