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Here is a list of all the courses, tools and services that have helped me over the years.
I know that when I was first interested in how I could create an online business, finding recommendations for tools and courses was something that I looked for all the time.
It is so easy to get stuck when you’re going it alone and it can really halt your progress and knock your confidence when it happens.
For me, taking courses or finding tools has frequently helped me to feel unstuck and fill in the gaps.
Let me know if you have any questions at all… Feel free to contact me here!
COURSES:
- IMAGINE An awesome course that walks you through – step by step how to create a coloring book with Midjourney and upload it onto KDP. It also includes Tangent Crystal, a tool that removes greyscale from Midjourney images and vectorizes them. Furthermore, Tangent Templates is also included in this course, which is a brilliant tool for creating low and medium-content books for KDP. Check it out here.
- HOMEBOSS – Nuria from the Homeboss has created several useful courses that I have purchased. The most extensive was her Children’s book course, there are also additional courses to help you with A+ content creation and creating printables to sell. I imagine she will continue to create more over time and you can find them all here.
- NANCY BADILLO – ESTY MASTERY COURSE – An all-round course if you are considering setting up an Etsy store. It’s the sort of course you’re likely to go back to again and again because it’s so in-depth and you will most likely have to look at the information more than once!
ALL MY TOOLS:
- Creative fabrica – this is where I find illustrations and fonts to use on my books and I’m in here DAILY! I’ve also recently become a seller on there too, which is a good additional platform to try if you’re already on Etsy selling digital products. Check it out here for FREE.
- Publisher Rocket – I use this to help with keyword research and finding categories. I love this tool and use it most days when I’m creating books.
- Imagine & Tangent Crystal – A course and software that shows you step-by-step how to create coloring books with Midjourney. The software included also removes greyscale from Midjourney images and vectorizes your images, removing the need to upscale them.
- VEO 3 Amazing Ai video generation tool. I’ve recently been getting into creating video for promotional purposes, in order to drive traffic to products.
- Midjourney – Where I create a lot of Ai Art & graphics.
- Ideogram – Another Ai art tool I use, primarily for coloring pages.
- Tangent Templates – An incredibly useful tool. I do not use the ready made templates, (aside from simple lines/basic planners) because I believe you should always create unique interiors. However, they do have a design builder, a great listing helper and a book builder which makes creating your books incredibly easy. This is one of the first tools I ever purchased and still one of the best! For even better results, combine with IMAGINE which includes Tangent Templates in the bundle.
- CANVA – I spent my first year purely usin Canva to create my covers AND my interiors for KDP. I still almost exclusively use it, but sometimes also use affinity publisher.
- Lets Enhance – where I enhance all the images I download from Midjourney.
- Publisher Champ – Great tool for checking your sales and various sales metrics and statistics. Compare sales and various stats over different months and years, connect your Ads to see total profit made, check out your global statistics and more.
- ChatGPT – basically use it as a personal assistant these days! Something I use every single day for one reason or another.
ETSY:
Having recently started on selling on this platform and I use this tool right now to help me specifically on ETSY.
- ERANK – help to find products, tags and keywords that have low competition and a high search volume. I love this tool!
KEYWORD RESEARCH:
- Publisher Rocket – one of the primary tools I use for Amazon KDP outside of the Amazon platform.
- Jaaxy – the keyword research tool that helps me find great keywords that rank in Google. Get 30 free searches here.
AFFILIATE MARKETING NETWORKS:
- AWIN – affiliate network that has thousands of big name companies on their books, I primarily use them for the ETSY affiliate program, on another website and Fiverr.com
- Shareasale – – Another large affiliate network that I use regularly to promote things such as Tailwind & Genesis blog themes. Find my Shareasale Review here.
- Panthera Network – A CPA network that I use for certain survey-site related offers. Find my Panthera Network review here.
- Amazon Affiliate Program – One of the first affiliate programs I ever joined. Read why I think it’s great for beginners here.
- Maxbounty – Another CPA network I use, mainly for survey related sites.
WEBSITE ADVERTISING:
- I’m currently with MEDIAVINE for Ads.
One of the highest paying options if you would like Ads on your website and they’re great for bloggers!
You do need at least 50,000 sessions per month on your blog to apply now, (sessions are different to pageviews). Other alternatives to Mediavine include – Monumetric and Ezoic.
While many bloggers to start with Google Adsense, you need a tonne of traffic to make much with Adsense and once you DO have that much traffic, you’re better off applying for a higher paying network.
OUTSOURCING:
- Fiverr – awesome site where you can purchases for as low as $5.
You can purchase a huge array of thins, writing, art work, editing, copyrighting, seo work, ebook covers.
But quality varies! I’ve found ebook covers are good quality. Read about Fiverr here.
- Upwork – Where you could outsource things such as VA work, article writing, ebook formatting, website design work and much more. Visit Upwork.
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