Recommended Resources

These are some of the things I highly recommend and use personally.

I treasure these gems in my online marketing toolbox.

Aweber Autoresponder:

aweber

I use Aweber.  It’s the gold standard for email deliver ability, and more important, is really the crux of your whole business.  never skimp on your autoresponder.  Your list IS your business.  Your allegiance should ALWAYS be to your list rather than a particular MLM company.  Period.

I also use iContact as a secondary autoresponder, which I use to import leads from GoToWebinar registrations.  iContact allows you to import lists (which Aweber does not) – and you can get a fully free trial.  If I were starting over, I would look into icontact.

Here is a quick video overview I recorded:

Contact Management:

Oprius is designed specifically for Network Marketers

If you’re organizing leads on paper, they’re not searchable.  You won’t follow-up effectively.  And you’ll lose sales.

I recommend Oprius.  It helps tracking prospects through your sales process (or processes if you promote multiple business opportunities), and the real value will come at some point in the future, when you realize how many successful network marketers and internet marketers you’ve met over the years.  Trust me on this one!

Professional network marketers use a professional CRM.

Oprius Review (and bonus)

Streaming Audio and Testimonial Management:

BYOAudio

For recording conference calls, collecting testimonials, putting audio on your websites and blogs, putting videos on your websites and blogs, and now sizzle calls hotlines.

Byoaudio.  Simple.  Easy.  Effective.

Tax & Receipt Management

Shoeboxed is awesome. Even better with an iPhone as you can just take a picture of a receipt then throw it away and shoeboxed enters the data manually and even categorizes it for you! IRS-approved!  Click on the banner to get a free account.

Optimizepress WP Theme

Optimizepress is a WordPress theme that creates high converting squeeze pages, sales pages and product funnel pages.  Personally, I think it’s one of the grossly under-priced products I’ve ever seen.

Optimizepress

LeadNetPro

LeadNetPro is the simplest way to get started marketing if you don’t know anything about marketing.

It allows you to generate and filter leads quickly using voice broadcasting.

Offline 2 Online Method DVD

I’ve created a special 82 minute DVD that explains the strategy behind using this technique to conquer the #1 problem most network marketers are facing:

1) How to generate leads for free

2) How to quickly contact these leads with your advertising message

This DVD is a FREE bonus you get when you join LeadNetPro – and I also allow you a full license to give away to your customers also.

Read my full review on LeadNetPro

Maxemail

Maxemail gives me a dedicated virtual fax machine for $14.95/yr.  I get a dedicated fax phone number, and all faxes go directly to my email as a PDF attachment.

Awesome!

Maxemail.com

Rapportive

Rapportive is a super-secret spy tool for Gmail.  Free!  It cuts down your lead cost significantly.

Check out a video I cut on how I use Rapportive.

Google Apps

I use google apps for documents, so I can use GMAIL with my email accounts registered on my own domain (like myemailthisisanexample@themarketingcouple.com

Free to start, until you fill up your email like I jut did

Get Google Apps

Phonetag

I use phonetag to automatically transcribe my voicemail messages.

Phonetag is checked by real humans, so it’s very accurate.  For $29/mo it’s like having a virtual secretary.  It saves my SOOOO much time.  Plus, it acts as a searchable record for voicemail messages in my Google Apps (Gmail) account.

Phonetag requires conditional call forwarding.  This is available on cell phones, all business phone systems, and some personal phone lines.  I have to transfer my phone number from the residual side of my phone carrier to the business side to make it work.  But it is a lifesaver.  The time you save is unbelievable!  Checking phone messages the old way is a low-value activity and you’ll never be on top of all your calls.

Start a FREE trial of Phonetag

Grasshopper:

Want to keep your number private?  Want to set up your company to have multiple extentions?

Use Grasshopper.  I do!

Dropbox

Dropbox is an essential tool if you have more than 1 computer.  And it’s free.

Read my post on how I use dropbox.

Evernote

I used to clip ideas and code and all kinds of stuff in text files.  What a mess.  Now I just use Evernote.  It also can hold PDFs, photos, videos – anything.  Plus it’s accessible online from anywhere in the world.  Supports both MAC and PC from desktop.

And free.

Download Evernote and get organized.

Domain Registrations:

I use both GoDaddy and Namecheap. but I tend to use namecheap much mire frequently as I prefer their interface and order process significantly.

-Andrew