Resources
Here is a list of resources that Laura personally uses and highly recommends for business, health, success and happiness:
Business & Productivity
OptimizePress – singularly the best business purchase I have made this year. If you want to do a product launch, or to produce a good, slick sales letter or a cheaper version of Kajabi then look no further. OP is AWESOME! I love it. Have a look for yourself at the functionality of this brilliant WordPress theme.
Aweber – Hands down the best and easiest e-mail autoresponder service I – and many thousands of other people – use to build and communicate with my list of subscribers. Probably my most essential tool.
Digital Access Pass – The pretty amazing and pretty cheap membership site and affiliate software that I use for my product sites.
SocialOomph – automates a lot of social media profile updates and marketing. There is a very good free version, as well as the profession version.
Tweet Adder – Awesome, awesome, awesome piece of software that builds your Twitter account. ‘Twitter, bah!’ I hear you say? Ok, well Tweet Adder will find you laser targeted, leads and optins on autopliot – for free! It’s truly an indispensable business tool. Free, targeted traffic – can’t say better than that really 
Animoto – creates super easy and brilliantly professional-looking videos and slideshows – free and paid versions – definitely check it out if you haven’t seen Animoto before.
HostGator - one of the hosting companies I use. Simple, cheap, hosts unlimited domains, installs WordPress easily, C-Panel interface – no brainer hosting really.
Submit Your Article – brilliant article distribution service – a team of people take your article, create lots of unique ones from it and distribute it to the top article directories online – great for backlinking and SEO, very white hat and VERY effective
Dimdim Webinar – since GoToWebinar hiked its prices up as much as $499 per MONTH(!), I switched to DimDim for delivering webinars. It has some cool functionality and is great for online meetings and presentations. You can get it free for 30 days with no credit card needed.
Adobe – I use a range of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection products – from Photoshop for design to Acrobat to Premiere for video editing to Dreamweaver for web design – great suite to have for anyone working online
Self Development & Seminars
Audible – for brilliant downloadable audiobooks on any topic, from business to fiction to learning a new language to the law of attraction. It’s a fantastic, cheap way to educate and coach yourself, on a shoestring…much better than watching TV! Start a 14-day FREE TRIAL with Audible and get 1 or 2 FREE audiobook downloads, I love Audible!
Alkaline Products
Wheatgrass Powder – highly alkalizing green juice for maximum energy and disease prevention
What are your thoughts? I'd love to hear your views and questions on this - leave your comment below and I'll respond.
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Why don’t people use constant contact? I find that much nicer for creating email newsletters and the like. CC is also cheaper from what I can tell. Neither can do what I need them to do.
My problem is getting through to people who want to know about my topic but think they are already the world’s smartest person on this topic. Yet they are essentially ignorant about the topic. Sort of like ugly girls who think they are pretty. They get away with it sometimes, but eventually it’s going to become obvious.
So pointing out their ignorance, an essential aspect of them learning, usually creates friction, like it’s my fault they are stupid.
However, if I could find people actually looking to know more about my topic, then I’m the best person possible they could learn from for all the right reasons.
What I can’t seem to do is market myself to a relevant community. But once what I’m saying catches on it will be a landslide transition to more intelligent thinking, problem-solving, etc.
So does any of this make sense?
John
Um yes kind of
What is your niche?
I use Aweber and Oprius… there are many good autoresponders, like Aweber, Get Response, Mailchimp, aweber etc… ALL have their strengths and weaknesses… it usually comes down to personal preference.
John, to effectively get through to people you have to get inside your ideal prospects head, know what conversation is going on and simply join THAT conversation to position your expertize, products or services.
Also just my two cents… you probably dont want to be running around calling people stupid and ignorant… wether you believe it to be true or not… not a great way to win friends OR influence people..
Best of Success