Time and time again, friends, business partners, and more recently, readers of MyBusinessPins.com, ask me for good tools and services.
Here is my ultimate list:
My favorite tools
Tools for ideas and better productivity:
- a simple but very good notebook (made of paper)
- Braintoss app to quickly capture ideas
- Text Blaze lets me create shortcuts for recurring texts
- Asana – Organization and communication in my company
Tools for researching keywords (for my ad campaigns & websites):
- KWfinder by Mangools (my daily favorite)
- KDSpy for market research on Amazon
- LongTailPro the keyword research tool for niche sites and SEO optimized articles
- Google Trends for first impressions
Webhosting
- Kinsta or WPengine for professional websites with a lot of traffic
- DreamHost for simple small websites (also this website runs with DreamHost)
WordPress Themes
- Generatepress – my no. 1 for small niche sites with awesome page speed
- MH Magazine & Newspaper – my first choice for magazines
- Divi and Astra for everything else
WordPress Plugins
- Elementor – best wordpress page builder
- Rank Math – my favorite SEO plugin
- OptinMonster – my favorite for building email lists
- getresponse – favorite tool to send many emails
- WP Rocket – for caching and speedup your website
- Antispam – the name says it all
My favorite services
Email Marketing
- Getresponse – Great features at a very good price, never want to miss the tool again
Graphics & Design
- Canva – perfect for graphics, presentations, social media, I love it so much
- fiverr – for video or image editing tasks that others can do for me quickly and cheaply
Web Development
- freelancer.com – when I can’t get any further with my own skills