In today's Part 2 of my "Top 20 Favorite Tools" series, I get into more detail about outsourcing services and a couple of really neat tricks to get the biggest bang for your buck.
In the last episode, I talked about tools that I use for communication, a 3-pronged data back up strategy, video creation, and finally Graphics and Image creation. So make sure you listen to that one first.
Category #5. Outsourcing:
There are 3 major sites we use for outsourcing work in our business. 1) Upwork 2) 99Designs & 3) Fiverr
Each of them has a different utility. So when do you use which web site? And what is the best way to use them? All that and more in this episode. So be sure to check it out.
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In today's show, I'm going to list my top 20 tools, that I simply couldn't live without. And won't live without.
Show-notes and links to everything mentioned on the show, are available at http://SubscribeMe.fm/8/
#1. Communication: Skype
And for business communication, I use Gotomeeting.
#2. Data backup: When it comes to keeping our business data safe and backed up, I use a 3-pronged approach. I use Carbonite, Google Drive and a local hard-drive.
#3. Video creation: Camtasia Studio, Jing, Powtoon, iPhone, Audio downloaded from Audiojungle.
#4. Graphics & Images: Canva, Box Shot King, Gimp, and Jing
More tools coming up in the next episode. So stay tuned.
- Ravi Jayagopal
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Why not simply use email to deliver content? Why bother with a membership site, membership software and all the setup & maintenance headaches?
Let me first show you how to create the world's quickest membership site - in just 4 hours.
Step 1: Signup for an account with Mailchimp. They allow you to have up to 2,000 subscribers on your list, and send out 12,000 emails per month. So that's about 6 emails per month. Go to subscribeme.fm/mailchimp, and get $30 in free credit to use when you exceed 2,000 subscribers.
Step 2: Load up all of your course content into an email autoresponder sequence, set up these emails to go out once a week. You could even start with just the welcome email and content for module 1, since you will be dripping the emails over time.
Step 3: Create a one-page landing page through a free WordPress.com web site.
Step 4: Log in to Paypal, create a buy button, and put it on your free one-page sales page.
That's it! You could be done with this basic membership set up in about 4 hours. And you could launch it tomorrow.
So, if creating a membership site with just email can be done in 4 hours, then why even bother buying specialized membership software? Why bother with all of the setup and maintenance headaches of installing and running your own membership site, and spending time and money setting up a member’s area, and creating your content online, and protecting that content? So why bother with all that work?
In order to automate everything for yourself and your customers, you need a web site. And simply throwing up a WordPress installation on your site is not going to help you automate payments, automate member-account creation, automate content delivery, send out follow-up and marketing emails, allow members to access private content, watch videos, listen to audio, download reports and documents.