Slack is an interesting tool for those people who work on teams. It enables you to have all of your communication in one place. All of your items in Google Docs, Dropbox, and many other tools can be organized and made searchable with Slack. You can make a team, and then have categories (public or private so if you have different levels for team members you can have a category just for management). It's easy to sign up. For me, its kind of hard to bring team members into the fold (I can make it r...
Mar 08, 2015•16 min
Canva is a great tool for creating graphics online. They have an ipad app, and some great graphics. If you use one of the stock photos, the charge is $1. I recently made some artwork for a podcast that cost me $1. Now if I was a person that blogged frequently, tweeted frequently, and created youtube videos frequently, this could add up. YouZign is also an online tool for creating graphics. It is (currently) $47. It is a one time fee. When I tried it out, it is very flexible, and easy to use, but...
Mar 01, 2015•9 min
Today we have a tool to help create copy for your website. It's Call Script Doll, and it's pretty cool. You put in the demographics of your audience, you put in your product, and from there you can have it spit out sales letters, email blasts, video sales letters and more. It's impressive. It's not perfect, and like everything I had to go back and tweak some stuff as it is taking your input and putting it into what amounts to be a template. The templates are created by copywriting gurus, and I m...
Feb 21, 2015•12 min
Pingdom Speed Test with Website Grader I found tools.pingdom.com to be very cool as it shows you how long it took your site to load, what slowed things down, and gives you a grade. The best part is its free. Vallue Add On Membership Site Tool I was using Digital Access Pass (protection and processing), Wistia (videos), and Optimizepress (theme) to create a membership site. Using those three tools I put out $624 a year or $52 a month. The tool I found is $197 for the first year and $37 a month af...
Feb 15, 2015•14 min
Easy Video Sales Letter If you've seen those cool videos where the words and the audio are in sync, then you will love Video Sales Letter. You simply type in your script record your voice and the software does the rest. you can add transitions and more. It's only $47 for a single user license. You can find out more at easyvsl.com (http://jvz5.com/c/59893/136368) You can check out a video on their website www.easyvsl.com (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/easyvsl) Content Gems This tools goes out and...
Feb 08, 2015•11 min
I had a client that told me about this plugin (but it also works without Wordpress). It's called Sumome (www.sumome.com) This tool allows you to have the following: Heat Maps Analytics that show how far people are scrolling down Multiple tools to provide ways to sign up for your e-mail list A tool that shows link to share your information. here is a demo of the share feature
Jan 26, 2015•8 min
Today I started playing with Wista Video Hosting. This company understands their audience, what they need, and they make it easy to use and the have a GREAT job of holing your hand virtually the process. Here is a video I made showing the back end of wista. Realize I just stared using the service, and this is my first impression http://schoolofpodcasting.wistia.com/medias/vlfk4ozsn5 (http://schoolofpodcasting.wistia.com/medias/vlfk4ozsn5) Their interface is awesome. Their support seems to read y...
Jan 11, 2015•20 min
Over the past month I went to fiverr.com to get a kindle book cover created. It was fine. It took a couple of days. It cost me $15 since I wanted the photoshop files. Then later last week I needed an ebook cover. Thats when I discovered ecover authority. Its a web based solution that I've seen other places (so they must have a reseller account). This one is different as its $37 ONCE. There is no monthly fee. If you are a person who makes guides, ebooks, software, or needs to show your product on...
Jan 06, 2015•8 min
Backup Creator I purchased (http://backupcreator.com/bc/?e=podcastcoach) Canva Design School (http://designschool.canva.com/) is a free list of tutorials to help you make better graphics. Elegant Themes Divi Theme Forever? Divi Theme is super powerful (http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=4473&url=18621) , but it uses a TON of short codes. It appears that if you use this to create your website and later decide to switch themes, you may end up with a page of just short...
Dec 30, 2014•16 min
For more information and videos see weeklywebtools.com/271 (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/271) Update from last week. We got a notice that wplistbooster is offering no support and apparently has conflicts with lots of plugins. Thanks to Orlando from hablandodetecnologia.com (http://www.hablandodetecnologia.com/) (a podcast about tech done in spanish). Explaindo Has Video, Cartoons, and Sketching All in One program. I've purchased numerous programs that produce videos. One was a white board, the ...
Dec 17, 2014•18 min
I've spoken about wplistbuilder.com (http://weeklywebtools.com/wplistbuilder) http://youtu.be/jDO3hl_K7q0?list=UUOsFNNFwDvziV6VCFF3-wEA
Dec 07, 2014•10 min
YouTube Channel Graphics CREATOR Last we talk about some premade graphics, this week we have a tool that makes it super easy to create your own graphics. Its from the people who make the logo creator software (which is pretty cool). They've just expaneded it to be YouTube and yet you can even unshackle it and it becomes a non-specific graphic creator (pretty cool). It's $37. Here is a video: [leadplayer_vid id="5472359703B15"] For more information go to logocreator.com (http://jvz4.com/c/59893/1...
Nov 23, 2014•9 min
Today I look at a package that is filled with great looking graphics for those of you on YouTube. Many times these packages are for the graphics in your videos, this one caught my eye as is also about the graphics for your channel as well. It's call the utube graphics Toolkit and the idea is there are over 900 graphics for you to use. It's not software. If you don't have any software there are tutorials that show you how to use these graphics with free software ware like Gimp (or if you have tit...
Nov 17, 2014•6 min
We all know that visitors don't read, they skim a web page. Well, a WordPress Plugin like Call to Action Pro can help drive your visitor's eyes in a direction that YOU want. The cool thing is the plugin is all drag and drop, and it incorporates some pretty slick templates. You have access to the Google font library, and every you make is responsive. It can be subtle color changes or completely obnoxious zooming headlines. Check out the video below for more information. For more information go to...
Nov 10, 2014•6 min
p Time RobotAsk the Podcast Coach show where my co-host Jim Collison talks about an interview he did with the folks from Up Time Robot. This is a completely free tool that will check your website and let you know if it goes down. I believe I've used them in the past, and its awesome (and you can't beat the price). You can hear Jim's interview at theaverageguy.tv Hello Sign Need a legally binding signature, check out (http://www.hellosign.com) . I've not used this service yet as the person who ne...
Nov 01, 2014•7 min
Swayy helps you discover the most engaging content to share with your audience on social media based on their interests and engagement. We give you relevant #hashtags and @handles so you can share better. Analytics show you what content is the most effective for growing your community. - per their website. Today I share my initial 5 minutes and come up with a "Meh.' It did turn me on to some new blogs, and I found some interesting articles. For me it would be great if it integrated with bufferap...
Oct 19, 2014•12 min
See www.weeklywebtools.com/264 (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/264) 888-563-3228 Today I talk about why I'm staying with nimble.com (a great tool for keeping up on all things social media). I also found out that the (http://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-page-builder-for-wordpress/242431?ref=jammindave) The other thing that I find annoying is everyone is offering multiple sliders. How about picking the best one and providing it for us instead of us having to dig through three different slide...
Oct 12, 2014•8 min
Skip to main content Dashboard Home Updates 1 Posts All Posts Add New Categories Tags Media Library Add New Links All Links Add New Link Categories Pages All Pages Add New Comments Thesis Site Options Design Options Header Image Favicon Uploader Custom File Editor Manage Options Thesis Hooks Appearance Themes Customize Widgets Menus WordPress Hooks Editor Plugins Installed Plugins Add New Editor Users All Users Add New Your Profile Tools Available Tools Import Export Max Banner Ads PRO Server In...
Sep 29, 2014•15 min
We've heard it over and over that the money is in the list. Today we have a tool that enables people to get on your list by texting a word to a number. Another tool allows you to do full on SMS marketing. Join By Text - Well Named This product does one thing, and it does it well. You can provide a keyword and a number and when people text to it, they are instantly sent a message asking for their email address. When they send it, they are subscribed to your email list. It works with all the typic...
Sep 23, 2014•9 min
Today I take a quick peak at optinmonster. This is a very versatile tool to help you grow your email liste. See the video at www.weeklywebtools.com/260 It seems everywhere I go see an optin monster box popping up at me. I wanted to get a good look. I was amazed at all the options that are available. you have an INSANE amount of control on how your optin forms appear. You can customize it down to the category, post, category and more. You can even set it to only show up on the SECOND time a perso...
Sep 15, 2014•9 min
You can sue these sites without having to set up a membership site you can create and sell courses and get paid Udemy.com (http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=Ee5nlwqyAws&offerid=323058.81&type=3&subid=0) Skillfeed.com (https://www.skillfeed.com/teach#!/sign_up/202128)
Sep 09, 2014•9 min
I went to a conference and saw a presentation from someone at LeadPages. It was really good without being a giant commercial for LeadPages. At the end of the presentation, I asked the rep if he had 4,000 email lists if you are giving away all these ebooks and other incentives for people's email address. Then the lights came on. (http://link.leadpages.net/aff_c?offer_id=6&aff_id=7619&file_id=47) You can have your list in Aweber (or whatever provider) and LeadPages delivers the incentive, ...
Aug 25, 2014•10 min
A new episode
Aug 11, 2014•9 min
We have talked about Contest blitz in the past which is a great tool for growing your email list, today we look at Raffle Plus which is a $19 plugin that allows you to create a prize and allow people to enter via facebook like, G+, twitter, blog comment, or email subscription. You can assign points to each action. When a contestant goes to the contest page they will see their totals. It's an interesting tool, but its hard to get a grasp on as the developer doesn't even have a description tat pro...
Aug 03, 2014•8 min
If you are doing any kind of affiliate marketing through amazon, you have got to check out this plugin. It's called Fresh Bundle Master (http://jvz5.com/c/59893/105821)
Jul 29, 2014•8 min
Mobile Responsive 13 templates and make your own Redirects to a new page. You can use cookies or ip address so they never see that page again. Page expiration page - Put countdown on other sites. MORE INFORMATION (http://jvz1.com/c/59893/105802)
Jul 20, 2014•6 min
Today I share a conversation that I had on the Ask the Podcast Coach show with Jim Collison from the Avergae Guy.tv (http://www.theaverageguy.tv) Where I had told him about Buffer, and now he is playing with Social Bro. It's a cool tool that gives you crazy insights into your twitter followers, and it also has a powerful search tool for finding your target audience. I really liked who easy it is to see when the best times to tweet, and it also shows some great insights who the fake followers are...
Jul 13, 2014•11 min
A new episode
Jun 30, 2014•8 min
Check out www.weeklywebtools.com/resucetime
Jun 14, 2014•9 min
I've talked about video tools in the past like Lead Player and viewbix, but today I found a tool that I'm not sure how it snuck under the radar as it has everything you need in one place. It's called supervideopro.com (https://www.warriorplus.com/w/a/ymm8b)
Jun 08, 2014•11 min
