1. Purchasing Your Domain – Business Name Domains

We have always purchased  our domains from a different company than we host at. This is part of our redundancy backup plan. This way if your host goes down for an extended time, there’s nothing you can do if you have the domain registered at the same location. By having hosting and domain registration (and with an off-site backup) separately you can get up and running on a new host in minutes. CanDoWeb’s Business Name Domains we built exactly for that purpose.

3. Email Hosting – Getting your email sorted is one of the most important things you can do and while certainly you can do it with most website hosting you can get more functionality hosting seperate from your websites server. So the two option we use and recommend are firstly if you already have your domain name and you use Microsoft Outlook based email then thexyz.com solutions are awesome and very affordable if you are starting out. The other option we recommend if you are buying your domain through Business Name Domains are ones that can be automatically connected to your new domain

4. Email Marketing with an Email AutoResponder – ConvertKit

Every Business needs Email Marketing to schedule emails to go to clients promoting Deals, Specials, Discounts, Sales and Newsletters…we recommend and use ConvertKit it is free to use for the first 1000 subscribers.

5. Creating Social Media Content – Video Editing – DaVinci Resolve 17

This is an awesome video editor and we use it all the time to create the “Little Big ‘Ole’ Me” YouTube Show and other videos we do. The best thing about it is it’s free!

6. Creating Social Media Content – Animation – Viddyoze

Want to make your Powerpoint or Keynote presentations POP or make a video where your Logo emerges from a fire Viddyoze does this using templates you add your content to. It saves hours of creation time and you can see how we have used it on the “Little Big ‘Ole’ Me” YouTube Show. You purchase a once off version which does most things and then have the option to upgrade to the template club which is what we subscribe to.

7. Create Content – Automatic Script

Create Sales Letters, Emails, VSL Scripts, Webinar Slides, Ads & more. Automatic Script is professional copywriting software that automates the process of creating your sales messages. Answer questions about what you are selling or marketing and automatic script creates your text.

8. Create Content – Screen Recording and Streaming – OBS Studio

OBS Studio is a free software that installs onto your computer and enables both recording of screen activity or the streaming broadcast of this to platforms such as YouTube, Twitch and Facebook Live among others.

9. Website Creation Tools – WordPress Plugins

The websites that we create 90% of the time are created using the free Website/Blog creation tool WordPress. But WordPress is kinda like a computer operating system and it needs apps known as plugin’s to add extra functions and make it easy to use and to protect it’s content. Here are the Plug-in’s we use and recommend…

• Theme – Generate Press with the GP Premium Plugin
• Drag and Drop Page Editor – Elementor and Elementor Pro
• Security – Wordfence Login Security (free version)
• SSL – Really Simple SSL
• Redirect to homepage – All 404 Redirect to Homepage
• Classic Editor – Classic Editor
• Disable All or Selected Comments – Disable Comments
• Insert Headers and Footers add things such as Facebook Pixels – Insert Headers and Footers
• Google Site Kit – Site Kit by Google
• Ultimate No Follow – Ultimate Nofollow

10. Team, Tools and Training – MyNAMS Insiders Club

If you want to be a part of a like-minded community full of people who get things done the MyNAMS Insiders Club is the place for you.  This group focuses on 12 essential topics every business owner must master to be successful.