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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 (Sale Still On – $50 off with code: Black Friday). 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.
  • SELLING DIGITAL – A great course to help you get started with selling digital products, including on market places like Etsy. There is also a monthly drop of PLR templates that you can sell to customers. Courses included ones on – how to sell planners on Etsy, how to set up a shopify store, how to set up Facebook Ads and more!
  • THE SELF PUBLISHING SUCCESS STRATEGY. – This course was created by BEN, from “money on the side.” Is an extensive KDP course for anyone interested in low and medium content publishing. It’s excellent for beginners and covers absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish. Find it here.
  • WEALTHY AFFILIATE – Where I took my first baby steps into online business. Here I learnt how to build a website, how affiliate marketing works, how to make money from affiliate marketing and much more. If I hadn’t stumbled across this platform years ago, I highly doubt I would have made a full-time income online today. It made me realise what was possible and also contains a huge community of other like-minded people.
  • 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!

AMAZON KDP 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.
  • Nurie Creator – A cloud based software that I’ve been using to create coloring pages and coloring clipart without greyscale and without the need for upscale tools, or complicated prompts. This tool is a one off price. If you are looking for an alternative to paying for monthly subscriptions like Midjourney or just want to create multiple simple coloring images without greyscale, you coud find this tool useful.
  • 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.
  • BookBolt – Useful if you are interesting in creating puzzle books. It also has many other features. You can design covers, do keyword and niche research and much more.
  • Creative market – this place has some absolutely fantastic art work. It can cost a little more but is worth the price if you want to make your books stand out. You will find far fewer books using the artwork here than on other sites.
  • 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.
  • Affinity Publisher – a high quality program that can help you to create professional looking interiors. There is a learning curve here but plenty of free training available online.
  • Midjourney – Where I have started creating Ai Art & graphics.
  • 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.

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.

AFFILIATE MARKETING NETWORKS:

WEBSITE ADVERTISING:

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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