10xPRO – A complete All-in-one platform that will allow you to get your online business up and running fast and easy without any tech headaches. You'll have the ability to easily create and integrate customizable sales pages, event pages, webinars (including automated webinars), online courses, memberships, shopping cart system, sales funnels and automation, countdown timers, opt-in forms, your own affiliate system... and so much more.
Imagine software that includes the best of Clickfunnels, Kajabi, Leadpages, and Kartra combined – plus more. Also includes updated step-by-step online marketing training videos.
ActiveCampaign – Reliable, flexible, and feature rich email list management software/email marketing system.
Blubrry – Reliable podcast hosting service with a multitude of podcasting tools and distribution channel relationships. This company is the creator of the PowerPress plugin for WordPress (the plugin that allows for you to podcast on your own site and have your own feed).
Bubbl.us – Simple and easy-to-use online mind-mapping software with an incredibly user-friendly interface.
Canva – Very easy-to-use design tool that allows you to create your own social media and website graphics when you're in a hurry or prefer to DIY. Excellent alternative to Photoshop... and it's perfect for making small tweaks to pre-made designs as well.
Genesis Theme Framework – Very well coded, optimized and open source WordPress theme framework. You can purchase a pre-made child theme design to work with the framework, or you can hire a Genesis theme designer/developer to create one for you (most WordPress web developers are familiar with Genesis because it’s a widely used theme framework).
Note: We only recommend you use this framework if you are going to hire a develeoper to customize your site for you, because this framework (including pre-made child themes) is not user friendly when it comes to flexibility in customizations; however, it is very web developer friendly.
Godaddy – Reliable domain registrar. Make sure to register your name and company name through them. Please do not purchase anything extra that they attempt to sell you; you will not need it.
Gravity Forms – Reliable, flexible, and feature rich WordPress web form creation plugin.
G Suite – Reliable suite of online productivity tools owned by Google. You can create a branded domain email address with them, and all emails will be sent and received on their secure servers.
Memberpress – Reliable, flexible, and feature rich membership software plugin for WordPress that includes transaction email options and media link protection.
OnceHub (formerly known as ScheduleOnce) – Reliable online scheduling software that integrates with Google calendar in real time. Their current two software services are ScheduleOnce and InviteOnce. ScheduleOnce is the software we integrate within our 7 systems.
PicMonkey – If you need to edit pictures but can’t figure out photoshop – this is the favorite tool Pam Perry uses. It’s easy. It’s cool and you can save as jpg or png files and more!
Prevent Direct Access Gold – Reliable media protection plugin for WordPress that allows for you to restrict access to uploaded media files.
Sendible – Very user friendly and feature rich social media management software. Think Hootsuite, but easier to navigate without confusion.
Simple Podcast Press – Reliable podcast player plugin for WordPress to make your player look more professional.
Stripe – Easily accept credit cards online without the hassle and expense of applying for a merchant account. Stripe is a reliable and flexible service that will serve as your credit card payment processing gateway.
Thrive Themes – The creators of Thrive Architect and Thrive Leads; two WordPress plugins that we use that allows for you to easily create landing pages on your own site and a various different types of flexible opt-in forms that integrate with any email marketing system. They also have several other WordPress plugins in their suite of products that allow for you to easily add a variety of advanced features to your site.
Update: As of Spring 2020, Thrive Themes has released Thrive Theme Builder – a drag and drop, easy to use WordPress website builder. This is now our go-to choice for both beginners and web developers who want a user friendly way of designing a wordpress website that integrates seemlessly with very useful plugins (Thrive Themes in-house plugins and other 3rd party plugins)… and a site that is conversion optimized.
Wistia – Reliable, flexible, secure and feature rich video hosting service. One of the great things about the software is that it automatically re-encodes the video file for the best bitrate based on the internet speed the viewer has. You also do not have to worry about uploading a video with certain dimensions because it will allow you to set it and make adjustments after uploading it.
WPX Hosting – Reliable managed website hosting for WordPress. Includes Enterprise-level DDoS protection, Content Delivery Network (CDN), staging areas, automatic creation of SPF records…and more. These are extra services that you would usually have to pay separate companies for.
Yoast SEO Plugin – Powerful search engine optimization plugin for WordPress with numerous features. We consider the free version a “must have” on any WordPress site.
Zoom – Reliable and feature rich video conferencing software service.