Choosing Your Hosting Provider

HostGator.com LLC is a world-wide provider of shared, reseller, VPS and dedicated web hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University. Since then, HostGator has grown from a small hosting company with just three servers into a world leading and industry recognized hosting provider with more than 12,000 servers under management. Click Here to get started.

Get Your Website on Search Engines (SEO)

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s “natural” or un-paid (“organic”) search results. When using the WordPress platform, your website already does a good job with SEO, but that doesn’t mean you can’t improve it further! Make sure that your website is optimized to its fullest. Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site.

Social Media Platforms

Social Media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are very important in today’s world. Having a hard time getting your name out there? Your name, brand, and service can instantly be spread around millions of people. Facebook has 1.26 billion users and 699 million daily active users. Twitter has 215 million monthly active users, 100 million daily active users, and sees 500 million tweets per day. If you don’t have any social media platforms set up, you might want to email me!

Send Better Emails

MailChimp’s email designer makes it easy to add content and collaborate on emails that fit your brand. Gather information from readers on your signup form, and send them newsletters they care about with segmentation. Multi-user accounts allow you to grant different levels of access to your team members, and you can share feedback right inside our email designer. Access your MailChimp account from any device, and use our iPad app to compose and edit campaigns, even when you’re not online.

Custom Online Form Builder

Need to build a custom form or create an online survey? Formstack helps you create powerful online forms, allowing you to collect information, payments, registrations, etc., in one centralized location. All form submissions are stored in their secure database, ready for you to retrieve and create reports in a snap. You can easily embed your form into your website as well. This is a great tool to have and I recommend it to most of my clients. If you want to create an account you can do so by clicking here.

Have Online Videos to Upload?

Hosting your videos on a platform like YouTube or Vimeo can serve many purposes – Not only can it help establish an online presence in the social media world, you can also use these services to embed videos in the content of your website. Deciding whether to use YouTube or Vimeo is tough but you can’t go wrong with either or. Ask yourself these questions: Is view count your number one priority? Do you get tired of watching ads? Would you rather not sift through junk to find what you want? There are a number of questions to answer to before you decide which platform best fits your needs.

Always Stay Organized!

This is my favorite tool, and its FREE! Keep everything in sync: With Evernote, all of your notes, web clips, files and images are made available on every device and computer you use. Remember things you like: Save everything cool and exciting you see online and in the real world. Snap a photo, record some audio and save it. Work with friends and colleagues: Share your notes and collaborate on projects with friends, colleagues and classmates. Click Here to get started.

Upload and Share Files with Others

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer. Today, more than 200 million people across every continent use Dropbox to always have their stuff at hand, share with family and friends, and work on team projects. Any file you save to Dropbox also instantly saves to your computers, phones, and the Dropbox website. Click Here to get started.

Say Hello to Cloud Accounting

Join over 5 million people using FreshBooks to make billing painless. Work Anywhere: With FreshBooks, your business is accessible from any computer or mobile device (iPhone, iPad and Android), and your data is always backed up and secure. Save Time Billing: FreshBooks is built for small business owners to get organized and get paid. You’ll be tracking time, logging expenses and invoicing your clients in no time. Click Here to get started.