Recommended Online Business Resources

ProVirtual Domains & Hosting

My domains and hosting sales site is ProVirtual Domains & Hosting, powered by GoDaddy/WildWest. The prices are great and there’s 24/7 phone support. We have a $3.99 domain perma-deal where you can buy domains for $3.99 for each and every non-domain product you buy.

In addition, get free private domain registry when you purchase 5 or more domains – or just buy one and get private registration for only $1.95.

Ali Brown’s Online Success Products

I’m a fan of Ali Brown’s internet marketing info-products – specifically her Online Success Blueprint System. It’s a bit of an investment, but it provides a thorough plan for marketing a product online, with
a focus on email systems and tactics. It’s the system she used to take a small marketing ezine and built a multi-million dollar company from it, so I’m not going to argue with success. I’m not personally a natural marketer, so this product helped me quite a bit, especially with copywriting.

Ali also offers ongoing coaching through her Millionaire Protege Club and annual events such as her new Coaching Business Intensive and Shine 2010.

Absolutely get yourself on Ali’s mailing list. Besides just the value of observing what an successful email marketer does in her own marketing emails, she frequently announces free teleclasses that preview new products and events, and the calls are always packed with great info.

VA Classroom Social Media Programs

I enrolled in VAClassroom’s Social Media Marketing program soon after he opened the doors to VA Classroom – it’s a wonderful program and I learned a great deal. I don’t know everything – but I work with this stuff all day and I was amazed at how much I picked up. Owner Craig Cannings provides a wealth of information, presented in an organized way that doesn’t overwhelm.

Since then, the programs have expanded into other related areas such as Internet Marketing, Blog Marketing, Facebook Pages, Virtual Event Specialist and more. The monthly Membership Training Program gives you access to webinars, group coaching, networking forums and more.

I have colleagues that also taken one (or several) of the programs and they get unanimous rave reviews.

Formspring: Online Forms Processing

I absolutely love (and heavily depend on!) Formspring.  It’s an amazingly easy and incredibly full-featured online forms processing service that not only collects your form data online, but also saves it for later download. Formspring shines with features like online payment form integration, smart routing, robust email notification, surveys, outside service integrations and more.

AWeber – Email Marketing

I use and recommend AWeber for email list management, autoresponders and marketing broadcast.  Among AWeber’s industry-leading features includes a really slick opt-in form designer, unbeatable deliverability, shopping cart integration and fantastic support.

Also check out their informative blog and webinar series – full of
great tips on email marketing:

1 Shopping Cart

There’s a lot of online cart solutions – many of which I  endorse, but only one has an affordable one-stop web business automation system: 1 Shopping Cart.

Whether you’re a coach selling training programs or an info-marketer selling ebooks, 1SC has it all, including monthly payments (great for big-ticket services and programs), payment gateway integration and affiliate management.