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Web Tools Radio

Dave Jackson•redcircle.com
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If you are the person in charge of your website, and you want them to get more traffic, look great, grow your list, and convert more WITHOUT learning code. This podcast is for you. Any job is easy if you have the right tools.
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Untangling eCommerce Fees: A Quest for a Cart

E-Junkie Has A Simple No Mess Setup (http://www.e-junkie.com/?r=40178) has the ability to sound digital downloads via a buy now or a add to cart button. For $5 a month you get unlimited transactions and you can store up to 200 MB. As the typical Paypal fees are 2.9% +.30 cents per transaction. If we through out the 30 cents, it would be 1$172 to pay $5 to paypal (depending on how many transactions that would be lower cause 30 cents a pop will eventuality add up). You can have up to 10 products. ...

Dec 28, 2015•11 min

Divi Theme Vs ProStyler Evo

Pro Styler Evo Theme I recently learned about ProStyler (http://weeklywebtools.com/prostyler) has a ton of options — 4 Instant Presets— Ultra Responsive.— Multi-Purpose Theme.— Pre-configured Page Layouts (Templates) for homepages, pages, blogs and video layouts.— 3 different header layout options.— Responsive Image Slider.— Custom Widgets.— Unlimited Color Variations.— Tons of Shortcodes.— Google Maps Integration.— WooCommerce Integration.— SEO Optimised.— Built on the Latest Technology.— WordP...

Dec 21, 2015•11 min

Tracking Your Virtual Assistants Time - Great Free Stuff

Time Doctor Vs Rescue Time I've used www.weeklywebtools.com/time doctor (http://www.timedoctor.com/#563fdbd8d077f) Finding the Free Stuff at tne Envato Market This video shows you how (http://intelliplayer.com/watch/96a9615t6) Check it out at www.weeklywebtools.com/envato (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/envato)

Dec 17, 2015•9 min

Watch How Easy it is to Hack a Wordpress Site

WP Site Guardian This plugin shows you how easy it is to hack a Wordpress site, and then it shows how after installing their plugin your website is safe. Watch Video (http://intelliplayer.com/watch/0c8d015f2) Vid Stickers Vid Stickers are a cute way to make your videos stand out from everyone else who is using the same software as everyone else. The best thing about them is you get 50+ animations for $20. Watch Video (http://intelliplayer.com/watch/aaef315fi)

Dec 14, 2015•11 min

Free Screencast Tool

I stumbled across two tool that you can use to create screencasts. The first one is called Screencast-o-matic and the other is Jing. Screencast-o-matic allows you to record 15 minutes of video. You can record your screen and webcam, save the file and publish to YouTube. The free version will put a watermark on your video. I also found Jing which is from the same people who make Camtasia. This software allows you to create 5 minute videos. The files is a swf file. They used to have a pro version ...

Nov 30, 2015•10 min

The Quick, Easy, and Affordable Way to Create a Professional Logo

I've seen a few programs that help you create logos. This is great, but sometimes you are in a hurry, and that is where logaster (https://www.logaster.com/ref/podcastcoach.html) comes in handy (for the record, I think its a dumb name). You put in the name of your company, or lead magnet (or whatever you're making a logo for) and an optional slogan. (https://www.logaster.com/ref/podcastcoach.html) spits out hundreds of potential logos that you can tweak. You can add key words to help you find and...

Nov 16, 2015•8 min

How to Write Better Headlines Quickly and Easily

Yes I used this tool to make today’s post title. Previously I was playing with Headlinr as a tool for creating headlines. I like it. It’s a browser extension. This is an actual piece of software and it seems to have a bit more teeth. You can add words and additional functionality. It also has features to let you import and export Headlines. Builder The builder is where you type in a subject and it comes up with an insane number of headlines. If you like it you can copy it and paste it and use it...

Nov 02, 2015•11 min

Convertkit Email: Is This An Aweber Killer?

I've used Aweber (http://podcastcoach.aweber.com/) makes you pay for people who have unsubscribed (but you've never removed - according toe convertkit.com's site). Until recently, you could not add a list to aweber without doing a double opt-in. In some cases (without using the list automation) you could easily have the same person on multiple lists and be paying for them. For me, I've been paing $15 a month ($180/yr) so it did what I wanted it to do - send email, and convert an RSS feed to an e...

Oct 27, 2015•15 min

Copywriting -3D Flip Book - Bookly - Learn Dash

Boost Sales with Better Copy Ray Edwards is a master copywriter, and right now he is kicking of a course (that I have taken, it's awesome) and you can get a ton of content for free as he unveils his course. Go to www.weeklywebtools.com/rayedward Real 3D Flip Book link to a video (http://intelliplayer.com/watch/643ecti9i) Bookly Wordpress Booking System Over the years I've used many booking systems. I currently use Appointlet. It's fine. It's simple, and it does what I wants. However, when I saw ...

Oct 18, 2015•16 min

P1 Targeting App New Powerful Keyword Tool

In the past we've mentioned tools like Long Tail Pro, and Marketing Samurai, but there is a new tool on the scene called P1 Tartgeting App (http://jvz6.com/c/59893/181427) . It's a pretty cool keyword app. It does the following: You type in one word and it looks up tons of keywords You can then look at the competition around such words You can check domains that are available You can sort by profitability You can filter out the keywords that are less profitable The pricing starts at $29 (up to $...

Oct 04, 2015•9 min

FSQM Pro A Bit of a Disapointment

I was using Polldaddy to do polls. Its very robust, but if you use the free version you can't export the results. When I found FSQM Pro, it seemed to do everything that poll daddy did, AND it let your export your results. The plugin is pretty easy to use, I made a form, it looks great, and it has tons of options. When I went to export, I could export the questions - not the results. This is handy in the event you made a survey on one website and you wanted to duplicate it on another, but not wha...

Sep 08, 2015•8 min

CanvaKala Super Image Editor for Wordpress

(http://weeklywebtools.com/canvakala) is a new plugin that allows you to do serious editing to your images without leaving wordpress. You can add effects like those in instagram, add text, brighten, sharpen, etc. There are even layers like in Photoshop. There are hundreds of images to pick from (you are pulling from sites that have legal images). As I record this episode its $17 with a promise of the price going up (to what I'm not sure - you know the old internet marketing thing). They do have ...

Aug 17, 2015•6 min

Tawk - Free Chat with Modile Access

Thanks to Steve Stewart for this tip. Today we have a cool free chat tool with a very impressive feature set. There seems to be more catch... Monitor website visitors in real time Answer chats from your Mobile Device Proactively engage visitors with Triggers Customize your Visitor Widget to suit your site Localize greetings and messages in your Language Respond quickly with Predefined Shortcuts Integrate with Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, etc.. Check it out at www.tawk.to

Jul 28, 2015•5 min

Social Warfare - Best Social Plugin?

I hear about this plugin on my friend Social Warfare plugin (http://weeklywebtools.com/socialwarfare) unique in a few ways. (http://weeklywebtools.com/socialwarfare) It only focuses on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn. (but really, do you use others?) You can dictate what image is shared on FaceBook You can completel control what is tweeted out including hastags, mentions, etc The retweet button looks awesome (pull quote) Customize the description and picture of Pinterest. The price is...

Jul 22, 2015•12 min

Monarch Social Sharing WordPress Plugin

Monarch is a great tool for spreading your message on the Internet via social media. This is from the people at elegant themes. The more I look into the products of this company the more impressed I am with everything they create. You can choose everything about how the social buttons look, how they line up, what triggers them, it's got an amazing set of options that allow you to be super creative. It also (if you want) will display your followers and your likes, stats, etc. Behind in the dashbo...

Jul 15, 2015•10 min

Twitter Automation For Free with TweetJukebox

(http://www.tweetjukebox.com) is a free (currently) tool that allows you to create a list of tweets that just gets repeated over and over (or not) at a schedule that you pick.

Jul 05, 2015•8 min

Technology Updates – Everything is Looking the Same

Today I'm sharing some insights about Digital Access Pass (http://weeklywebtools.com/dap) (Data Protection) and Gumroad (e-commerce) Videos are at www.weeklywebtools.com/289 (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/289) Digital Access Pass Updates (http://weeklywebtools.com/dap) (DAP) is one of my favorite membership site tools. I LOVE their dripping feature. In the past you could not only drip content, but you could drip email (auto respond). The somewhat bad news is when you send email with your shared ...

Jun 28, 2015•20 min

First Impressions of Fresh Books

I have been using (http://try.hrv.st/3-60715) for tracking my time. Then in another Excel spreadsheet I track things like affiliate sales, books sales and other ventures that I have going on. I thought storing the Excel Spreadsheet on Microsoft One Drive would make it easier, and it did. But report meant pivot tables, and all sort of stuff. It wasn't hard, but I felt like I was painting with peanut butter. The price of (https://schoolofpodcasting.freshbooks.com/refer/www) if you want to have unl...

Jun 22, 2015•15 min

Super Amazon Affiliate Stores That Look Great and Earn More

I'm not sure how I found out about Best Podcasting Gear (http://www.bestpodcastinggear.com) , and it was super easy to setup and it's already converting and earning income. What Is it? It's a script (not WordPress - but more on that later), that makes it super easy to create an Amazon affiliate store. Top Features 90 Day cookie (instead of 24 hour) Great looking Site Super Easy to Add Products and Categories Completely Customization You can setup your store, but keep it offline (so when you flip...

Jun 08, 2015•10 min

Headlines – So Simple Even Your Kids Can Do It With Headlinr

We hear it over and over and Blog Post Titles, Podcast Titles are the headlines to your story. It's what gets your audience's attention. The problem is most of the time, its the thing we do last. We are tired, we just want to hit post, and we come up with something "that will do" and hit post. I just spent a few bucks to get a tool called (http://jvz6.com/c/59893/160856) that installs in Google or Firefox and it gives you HUNDREDS of examples of headlines. It provides a swipe file of some of the...

May 19, 2015•9 min

IntelliPlayer - Wisitia Video Functionality without the Monthly Fees

I've spoken about Wistia in the past, and I love it. I use Lead Player on this page, but what if you want an alternative? (Lead Player is not available any more). Well I found one that has all the functionality of Wistia player without the monthly fees. It's call intelliplayer. The best part its (as of now) $59. for multiple sites ($29 for a single site). How is it so inexpensive? Because you will be greated with an upsale for more templates (so you can make your video in something that looks li...

May 03, 2015•8 min

Video Motion Pro

There are a ton of Video creation tools that have come out over the last few months. If you can't afford Camtasia ($300) wait till you hear about Video Motion ($67). This software has the following tools This software makes it super easy to: Record your camera and/or screen Do green screen effects. You can edit on a time line You can upload directly to YouTube Includes 20 audio tracks for videos Includes auto updates. 30 logo animations (to make your own intro) I really liked the Video Outro cre...

Apr 26, 2015•6 min

Build Your Own Inforgraphic For Free - WP Scroll Depth

(https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-scroll-depth/) is a free plugin that works with Google Analytics to help you see how far down your visitors are scrolling. You also have the option to track events of three different types: Percentage: Percentage events are fired at the 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% scrolling points. There’s also a Baseline event which fires as soon as the page loads. Pixel Depth: Pixel Depth events record the scroll distance in pixels, rounded down to the nearest 250px increment. Whi...

Mar 24, 2015•9 min

Pablo Vs Save As Image - Cool - Quick - Graphics

If you read any article about getting more traffic, they will say to include images in your posts. Today we have two tools that make great looking images and they cost next to nothing. Pablo By Buffer This is a great tool that allows you to create images with text, multi-line if needed, and you can add an icon. Their images are limited, but you can upload your own. It's free, and you can make a great looking image in next to no time. weeklywebtools.com/pablo (https://bufferapp.com/pablo) Share A...

Mar 16, 2015•6 min
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