Hey Go-Getter!
We've put together a curated list of our favorite tools, just for you. We love to share what we know, and these resources are what you ask about the most, and the ones we use + love the most.
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Let us know how these resources + tools work for you; we’d truly love to know!
Powerpoint & PDF
Microsoft PowerPoint
Create products and presentations with the help of Microsoft PowerPoint.
This is the exact program I used to create my teaching resources.
Adobe
Make your projects more versatile with Adobe and Adobe Stock. Adobe is how I make my products editable and not only that, they also have beautiful stock images to showcase them!
Favorite SEO Tools
MOZ
Moz builds tools that make SEO, inbound marketing, link building, and content marketing easy.
Ahrefs
Audit your website, explore competitors, research keywords & backlinks - all in one place.
Keyword Finder
KWFinder covers both traditional and competitor keyword research to help you find long-tail keywords with low SEO difficulty.
Email and Blog Marketing
Bluehost
Our favorite hosting provider! They have reliable service and affordable plans from as low as $3.95/month. You also receive a free domain when you purchase your hosting.
MailerLite
Our email marketing service. MailerLite is easy to use and robust as ConvertKit , but not as costly. And, it seamlessly integrates with our shopping cart – SendOwl.
Go Daddy
GoDaddy is one of the world's largest domain registrars. They also provide web hosting, as well as a wide range of other services!
WordPress
Our favorite hosting provider! They have reliable service and affordable plans from as low as $3.95/month. You also receive a free domain when you purchase your hosting.
ConvertKit
Our email marketing service. MailerLite is easy to use and robust as ConvertKit , but not as costly. And, it seamlessly integrates with our shopping cart – SendOwl.
Mail Chimp
Kajabi
Launch your online business in minutes with our all-in-one platform that makes it easy to create online courses, launch marketing campaigns, build landing .
LeadPages
Leadpages helps small businesses connect with an audience, collect leads, and close sales. Easily build websites, landing pages, pop-ups, alert bars, and beyond.
Standards-Based Creation
Common Core State Standards
This site is the official home of the Common Core State Standards. It provides parents, educators, policymakers, journalists, and others easy access to the actual standards, as well as supporting information and resources.
Social Media Scheduling
Tailwind
This Pinterest scheduling tool saves us so much time! We use it to schedule our pins in bulk and it will automatically pin them to the boards we want them shared to on schedule. Tailwind also analyzes our best pinning times.
Planoly
Our tool of choice for pre-planning our Instagram. Includes a grid preview, planning for stories and great analytics tools PLUS you can schedule content and draft captions to post directly into Instagram.
Stock Photography
SC Stockshop
The original styled stock resource and our number one go-to whenever we need to update our Bluchic website images. Their images are extremely high quality.
Haute Stock
If you look around this stock resource you might see some familiar photos…we use these for all of our demo themes!
WordPress Plugins
Yoast SEO
The #1 Tool for making the most of your SEO on WordPress. If you have a website, you need this plugin. Plus, they have lots of tutorials to teach you how to use it well.
Social Warfare
This plugin adds beautiful, fast social share buttons to your site. We’re using the premium version and love everything about it! It also has click-to-tweet feature you can add to blog posts.
WPforms
The drag and drop form builder makes it easy and allows us to create beautiful contact forms in minutes. It’s also 100% mobile responsive.
BackWPup
Backing up your site—at least weekly— is essential. This tool is easy to use and allows you to schedule a complete WordPress backup that runs automatically. We highly recommend it.
WP Super Cache
If you’re on shared hosting (almost all of our users are), caching your site is essential for keeping it running smoothly. This simple plugin makes your site fast and is easy to use.
