Tool Selection Menu
Listed below in one easy to find location are the DolDay team's recommended resources (tools) for you to utilise to take your Internet Business to the next level
Main Categories
Affiliate Tools
Clickbank Marketplace - Use this to search for electronic products that you can sell to your niche as an affiliate.
Associate Programs - Use this to find affiliate programs for your niche. Both physical and electronic products here.
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Autoresponders
AWeber- comprehensive autoresponder software that is cost effective and has excellent email deliverability.
1ShoppingCart - autoresponder software and eCommerce package. It includes a full autoresponder as well as a shopping cart facility for online payments and an affiliate program component for running your own affiliate program
Infusionsoft - The Rolls Royce of Autoresponders and CRMs (Customer Relationship Management Programs). It includes a a shopping cart facility for online payments and an affiliate program component for running your own affiliate program. It is much more than that, as it has a full database CRM backend for tracking your sales and automating your business workflow
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Development Tools
NetIdNow - An Easy to use graphical website builder tool that we can utilise to build a website without the ned of a developer
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
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Domain Tools
Instant Domain Search - Use this tool to easily check out the availability of domain names that you are searching for
Godaddy.com - Cost effective domain name registrar that is reliable
NameCheap.com - Cost effective domain name registrar that is reliable
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DropShipping Tools
World Wide Brands - The unofficial governing body of Drop Shipping suppliers and wholesalers online. Use this resource to find physical products to sell to your niche. You can either stock the products yourself or get the wholesaler to drop ship (send them) for you. You have to become a member to use this service.
World Wide Brands Free Preview - Try out the tool before you buy it so as to save you money
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Niche Selection Tools
Google's Free Keyword Tool - Start with this tool to research keywords and keyword phrases that people search for in the Google Search Engine. This tool can be used either at the keyword research phase or for researching niche markets.
Google - Use this Free Search Engine Tool to find Forums and Research Competition. To find Forums type in 'your keyword' + forum. For Example: property investing + forum
KeywordTopia.com - Use this to search 7 Search Engines for Keywords in one go. Use this tool to separate yourself from the competition so that you don't have the exact same keywords as everyone else. This tool can be used either at the keyword research phase or for researching niche markets.
Clickbank Marketplace - Use this to search for competition in your niche.
Amazon - Use this to search for competition in your niche and get ideas for subjects and titles. Also can be used to see if there is demand for specific subjects and their popularity.
Dummies - Use this to search for competition in your niche and get ideas for subjects and titles. Also can be used to see if there is demand for specific subjects and their popularity.
Magazine.com - Use this to search for magazines in your niche and get ideas for subjects and titles. Also can be used to see if there is demand for specific subjects and their popularity.
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Product Creation Tools
eLance - Find professionals in a wide range of categories such as writers and developers to bid on your work and assist with your product creation.
Guru - Similar to eLance. Find professionals in a wide range of categories such as writers and developers to bid on your work and assist with your product creation.
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Backup
Mozy - Mozy is simple, automatic and affordable remote backup service. You have to install a software for automatic backup of media, documents and Outlook files. They also have a trial service.
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Blogging
Feedburner Feedsmith - Feedburner is a feed “enhancer”. It takes your default wordpress feed, and adds more functionality to it without you having to modify it yourself. Feedburner Feedsmith is a Worpress plugin that captures all your feed formats and redirects it to a single feed, this way you are sure that all your subscribers are reading the same feed.
Wordpress - Best
practice Blogging platform. Great for Search Engine Optimisation. Can
be made to look like a Blog or a Website. May need a developer to help
you customise the theme, but once fully setup it is an easy to use
Content Management System. Your web host may offer a one click install
of Wordpress to make the process simpler for you.
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S3Fox - S3Fox Organizer is a free Firefox plugin that works just like an FTP client but can only be used for your Amazon S3 account.
FileZilla-
Filezilla is a free and open source file transfer protocol (FTP)
client. It works on both Windows and Mac. It has a basic set of
features and is good for uploading/downloading files to/from your web
server.
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Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.
PowWeb - PowWeb is our recommended web host for
the beginning internet business.
We’ve hosted several of our own sites on PowWeb. They have excellent Hosting Plans and Very good service.
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Adobe Dreamweaver - Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development application originally created by Macromedia. Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems. Recent versions have incorporated support for web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages like PHP. It is a good tool for pros and beginners alike.
Kompozer -
Kompozer is a free HTML Editor very much like Adobe Dreamweaver. For a
free product, it has a lot of nice features like WYSIWYG Editor, Split
view editing and source code editor. The only draw back is that it does
not have source code highlighting.
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iStockphoto
- iStockphoto is an online, royalty free, international microstock
photography provider operating with the micropayment business model.
Images cost between 1 and 20 credits, depending on size with credits
ranging from $.95 to $1.50 USD each. iStockphoto
has a huge catalog of professional images and graphics
that you can use in your blog posts and other content. We buy most of
the images we use in our content from iStockPhoto.
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Instant Messaging
Skype -
Skype is a software application that allows users to make telephone
calls over the Internet. Calls to other users of the service, and in
some countries to free-of-charge numbers are free, while calls to other
landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features
include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.
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aMember -
aMember is a flexible membership and subscription management PHP
script. It has support for PayPal, BeanStream, 2Checkout, and other
payment systems and allows you to setup paid-membership areas on your
site. It can also be used without any payment system - you can manage
users manually.
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FeedBurner
- FeedBurner is a free service that gives you stats for your blog and
podcast RSS
feeds. This is an absolute must. It’s owned by Google and free to
sign up for.
Google
Analytics
- Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates
detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its main highlight
is that the product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and
technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew.
It can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines,
display advertising, pay-per-click networks, email marketing and
digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.
S3Stat - S3Stat
is a service that takes the detailed server access logs provided by
Amazon's CloudFront and Simple Storage Service (S3), and translates
them into human readable statistics, reports and graphs.
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Agents of Value
- Agents of Value is an innovative IT outsourcing company that focuses
on providing value-laden web development and marketing services for
entrepreneurial clients across multiple continents to help them nurture
their online businesses into fully profitable business ventures. Agents
of Value maintains full-time IT professionals who provide value-laden
services in search engine optimization, virtual assistance, remote
programming support, and more.
eLance - Elance is a site for online work where businesses connect with independent professionals to get work done. Elance delivers an immediate, cost-effective and flexible way to hire, manage and pay independent professionals and contractors online.
Guru - Similar to eLance, Guru is a free service to search for and find Freelancers. Post your project and get free quotes within hours.
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