Cool Resources
Simply The Best…
All of the resources shown on this page will help you in some way to build your business. From outsourcing to generating leads and more, this list is based on only web sites that have been used by the marketing brainstorm team and are deemed as a valuable and reputable service.
Wordpress Themes
Squeeze Theme
I’ve used Squeeze Theme time and time again to grab email addresses for various projects.
Premium Wordpress Themes
Simply some of the best wordpress themes on the planet, seriously!
Improve Web Sales
Clicktale – This software literally shows you via video, actual people moving around your web site so you can make improvements. A NO BRAINER!
Lead Generation
Aweber – This autoreponder software allows you to add an opt-in form your web site to collect email addresses. Then you can setup an email sequence to keep in contact with your prospects. If you don’t have a list of leads and clients, you’re losing out, fact!
Outsourcing / Talent / Branding
Elance – Whether you’re looking for someone to design a site for you, provide a voice over, write web copy or any other project, elance provides the ultimate solution. You simply post your project and then you’ll get bids. You select the winner based on their price, experience and feedback. It’s that simple!
99 Designs – This is a great that where you can post a competition to have a logo / web site or print media produced. You get multiple designers working on your project and you pick and pay for the one you like the most.
Brandstack -This site is great for inspirational designs but is great if you’re thinking of starting a new business and want a ready made brand to buy. Simply head a long to the site and window shop from hundreds of brilliantly designed brands and conceps. Awesome.
Surveys
Survey Monkey – This cheeky little service has both a free and paid version. With the free version you get to read upto 100 responces to your survey. It’s easy to use, versatile, and hey, it’s called Survey Monkey, you can be cheeky asking your customers for their opinion so you have an excuse!
Article Distribution
SubmitYourArticle – Instead of logging into to every article site and submitting your articles to multiple sites, SubmitYourArticle distributes your article on one hit. It also has new technology that allows you to make small changes to your article, providing each site with a unique article resulting in more site visitors for you.
Data Storage (Videos, MP3 etc)
Amazon’s data storage service is cheap, so you’ll have to sign up with them first, but then link it with EZs3 to make it a whole lot easier, and they also offer the stupidly good call to action at the end of flash videos that asks people to opt in, or will send them to any link. Awsome!
Web Site Hosting
When putting your business / service or product on the web, decide where your target market is. Will it be international or do you want to tailor it to UK businesses only. We’ve listed recommended companies for UK and USA hosting. These are personal choices based on cost vs customer service and quality of the product. The following companies host Marketing Brainstorm and associated company web sites.
http://www.vletter.com/design_visitor.htm
Other Useful Stuff
Vletter – Instead of scanning in your own signature and adding it to your web site (not recommended anyway), Vletter allows you you to quickly produce a version online, making your site and emails more personal.
Graphic Design Exeter – My personal graphic designer – Hello Howson.
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