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Having all the tools you will need for your website in one place saves you hours of searching the web for answers. So we decided to list everything we think will be helpful to make your website the best it can be. This page will be updated from time to time as we discover new tools that may be helpful so bookmark this page for quick reference in the future.

WordPress

• WordPress.org – If you use a WordPress host from our website then downloading WordPress will not be necessary. But if for some reason you need to download WordPress (maybe for testing your website locally) then you can do it here.
• WordPress Plugins – Find thousands of plugins that may be helpful for your new website here.
• Theme Forest – Huge selection of amazing premium WordPress themes.
• Woo Themes – Another great resource for premium WordPress themes.

Shopping Carts and Product Distribution

• Paypal – Use Paypal to accept credit cards on your website. Paypal also integrates with all shopping carts you may install on your website.
• E-Junkie – A shopping cart that works great for selling digital products like ebooks of online courses. It also allows you to create affiliate programs for your products. You will use E-Junkie with a payment gateway like Paypal.
• Clickbank – This is probably most popular digital product website. Clickbank is great for creating affiliate programs for your products.
• WP e-commerce – This is an amazing plugin for WordPress for creating a shopping cart on your website. Probably the most comprehensive WordPress shopping cart around.

SEO and Keyword Research

• Market Samurai – The absolute best keyword research tool available. It runs on both Mac and PC.
• Google Adwords Tool – This is a great tool for doing keyword research. You can find related keywords and determine their competition.
• WordTracker Free Keyword Tool – Another great keyword tool that is very easy to use and navigate.

Email Marketing

• MailChimp – If you are wanting an email marketing tool that will grow with your email list this is a great option. MailChimp allows you to have a list of up to 2,000 for free.
• Aweber – This is the most powerful and popular email marketing tool out there.

Statistics and Testing

• Google Analytics – Google Analytics is a free website tracking tool. Keep track of how may visitors are coming to your website, where they are coming from, and what keywords brought them to you among other things.
• Clicky – The same thing as Google Analytics except it is a lot easier to use with real time results. You can get your first website for free.
• Google Optimizer – A tool that allows you to test different pages to see which one brings you the best results. It is an A/B testing tool and it is free.
• MAMP – Install a local version of you website on your computer for testing before you make it live for the world to see. This is for Mac.
• WAMP – The same as MAMP except this is for Windows.

Outsourcing Work

• 99designs – If you need a logo for your website or business this is a great website. Using a contest format you post what you would like and how much you are willing pay and designers compete with their designs. You pick the winner and pay them.
• Elance – A great service to hire just about any type of person to do something for you.

Video and Screencasts

• Camtasia for Mac – If you are doing any type of screen capture maybe for tutorials, this a great application for doing that.
• Camtasia for PC – Same as above except for your PC.
• Omnidazzle – While doing screen captures if you would like to draw on your screen. This is for Mac.