Tools & Resources to Make Your Marketing Life Easier!
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Website Resourses
Building a website for your business can be a daunting task, so we have a list of resources to help make the process a little easier.
The basic requirements for a website is a domain, a host, and a content management system (cms), which is the platform like WordPress that you create it on.All of our recommendations are used either directly by us or our ThinkFlame® Agency Clients and have proved useful and effective.
We dive into some of these tools as well on our blog.
Hosting
BlueHost
Bluehost is one of the largest website hosting providers and powers millions of websites.
Siteground
Web hosting services crafted for top speed, unmatched security, & 24/7 expert support.
Domains
Namecheap
We have purchases 80% of our domains through this service and never had an issue.
WordPress Themes
Elegant Themes
This is the theme we use the most as it is very user-friendly for our clients to update their own content. They also have an entire library of free layouts you can start with if you are building your own site. They do not have a free version, but they do have a great life-time offer.
Elementor
This is the 2nd of the two most popular WordPress Theme/builder. Elementor is a plugin and comes with a free version to try. It has a large library of layouts to choose from. Another great choice. A number of our clients successfully use this theme.
Graphics & Photos Resources
We live in a visually driven world online. There are tools to help you put your best graphic foot forward.
Graphics
Crello
Bluehost is one of the largest website hosting providers and powers millions of websites.
Snappa
Some of our clients use this tool. It is similar to Crello, although I think Crello and Canva have more template options.
Photos
Pexels
While the free photo banks can be limited in their offerings, they are a great place to find base photos to build custom graphics as well as simple blog images. Please double check the attributions and usage in their lisence.
Pixabay
While the free photo banks can be limited in their offerings, they are a great place to find base photos to build custom graphics as well as simple blog images. Please double check the attributions and usage in their lisence.
Email Resources
Regular communication is key, so here are some tools to help.
Email & Autoresponders
Google Workspace
Google Workspace is more than just email, but their business email is the core and our mainstay for email communication. For DIY Marketing, it is a flexible and easily scaleable solution.
Aweber
Aweber gives you the email marketing, segmentation, and marketing automation you need to make keeping in touch with your customers seamless and simple with their many built-in resources.