102 Business & Blogging Tools and Resources

Welcome to the Business & Blogging Tools and Resources page of Let’s Reach Success.

I created this list to keep track of all products, services, tools and people who’ve helped me along my journey to creating an online business and living a life of freedom and independence.

I’ve also covered brands I respect and products I don’t yet use but which I believe in. All items listed below will be beneficial to your escape from the 9 to 5, personal growth, entrepreneurial mindset, and – ultimately – digital business earning enough.

Some of the links included below are affiliate but that’s because I trust some products so much that I’ve joined their referral program as I want to recommend them to my audience as often as I can. They can indeed help you take your goals and business to the next level. That adds no extra cost for you in case you decide to subscribe to their services, use them for free (most of what you’ll see below is free!) or purchase a product.

This page with business and blogging tools is for the learners who want to know more. For the hustlers who are looking to get things done. And for the creators who want to practice their craft, do what they love and turn it into their career.

Here are the sections you’ll find:

Blogging Tools

Setting Up Your Blog

How to Start a Blog That Makes $1000:Month – step-by-step guide.

The Passive Income Blog Boss [Free Course] – That’s a free course I released on the topic of earning passive income through blogging. You’ll learn what passive income is exactly and how it works, how to get started with blogging and make your site powerful, and the 4 main passive income streams you can create using your blog.

WordPress – the best blogging platform and content management system.

Blog Audit – a professional audit of your website and blogging strategy + a growth action plan.

Blogging Motivation

Fearless Bloggers – a community for bloggers to come together and learn, connect and level up. It’s a monthly membership that gives you behind the scenes content and my latest and greatest strategies. It’s a virtual playground that allows you to share your latest blog content and get feedback on it, get motivated thanks to the action others in the group are taking, and brainstorm ideas. And last but not least, it’s a safe, loving and empowering space to share what’s on your mind, ask me questions, feel less lonely, and find hope in the rollercoaster that is business.

Blogger Interviews – Get inspired by the success stories of other bloggers.

Hosting

WPX Hosting – A professional hosting for WordPress sites. Let’s Reach Success is currently using their services. Here’s my honest WPX Hosting review.

SiteGround – One of the leading hosting companies that powers over 2,000,000 websites.

WordPress Themes

Blossom Themes – feminine WordPress themes

Seva – the theme I’m currently using for Let’s Reach Success, by Blossom Themes.

Theme Forest – marketplace for website templates and themes.

WordPress Plugins

Wordfence – a top plugin for website security. I’m using it and it’s blocking so many attacks, sends reports of warnings, and scans the site all the time.

Hubbub – the social sharing plugin I use for Let’s Reach Success.

WP Optimize – the tool I use to clean my database with one click.

W3 Total Cache – to improve site performance.

Link Whisper – internal linking to boost SEO.

ShortPixel – compress and optimize images.

Adding visual content

Styled Stock Photography – I’m a lifetime member of this stylish stock photo platform for female business owners. I love their photos and Canva templates (my Pins and IG posts as well as lead magnet freebies are mostly from there).

Pixabay – a site with A TON of royalty-free images that I use almost daily. Open any post on Let’s Reach Success and see the images. They look professional but are something I found through tags on Pixabay in a matter of minutes.

Pexels – another great resource for royalty-free images. I also use images from Pexels to create beautiful graphics for Pinterest which helped me double my views there.

Canva – feel like a designer without any special skills. I use it to create book covers, Pinterest-friendly images, banners and more. It gives you all the right sizes too.

Site Monitoring

Google Search Console – see if your site is crawled properly and if there are any errors that Google has found.

Google Analytics – know exactly who’s visiting your site, what content performs best, create campaigns, set goals, etc.

Domain Authority Checker – A tool by Moz that lets you see the main metrics of your site, or any other website online. You get 3 free searches per day.

PageSpeed Insights – a free tool by Google that analyzes your site and gives you insights on how to improve its speed and performance.

Pingdom – a free website speed test.

Email marketing

The Email List Bundle – Swipe copy, done-for-you templates, tips and examples to help you start and grow your email list as a blogger. Whether it’s to actually set up your list, create your freebie, set up the freebie delivery email, write your welcome sequence, craft better sales emails, or decide when to send newsletters or what to write in them, you’ll find material inside the bundle that helps you with this.

Kit – the email marketing software I use. It should be your next move if you want to up your email game.

Zoho – I use it for mail but it’s an operating system for businesses that has literally anything. I can help you with sales and marketing, email and collaboration, and managing the business process and your team with the right apps.

SEO

Yoast SEO – the best SEO WordPress plugin. Helps me a lot. Guides you when installing it for the first time. From then on, helps you set up sitemaps, optimize your site for search engines, optimize each separate post for keywords, verify your site with Google and other major webmaster tools, as well as other features.

RankMath – I recently switched to this SEO plugin for Let’s Reach Success and am loving it. It’s more lightweight, and the features have been amazing so far. It also helps with redirections.

Google Keyword Planner Tool – one of my top blogging tools. Use it to find the keywords to plan content around.

Content Marketing

Fearless Content – a 4-week program that will help you get clear on what’s no longer serving you and release it energetically, re-organize your whole business from a place of abundance, and achieve radical alignment in your content creation. You’ll learn how to create a content creation process aligned with your true self thanks to Human Design. All through my experience after 7 years of publishing content online and experimenting with different formats, platforms, niches, passions, audiences, goals, business models.

CoSchedule Headline Analyzer – a free, one-click tool to help you write better headlines that drive traffic and shares.

Originality.ai – AI detector and plagiarism checker.

TypeForm – create feedback forms, quizzes and all other types of interactive forms to grow your audience and engage with them.

Podcasting

Blubrry – the podcasting hosting company I’m using for the Free and Fearless Podcast. It provides hosting, statistics, distribution and website, monetization.

PowerPress – a podcasting plugin by Blubrry to easily publish your episodes, display an audio player, your podcast feed, etc.

Audacity – the free audio editing and recording software I’m using for podcasting.

Blue Yeti – the microphone I’m using for recording.

Make Money Online Resources

If you need some inspiration, check out my monthly income reports to see exactly how I earn money blogging.

Blog to Biz System – the proven methodology I teach to go from not knowing anything about blogging or having a hobby blog, to turning this into an epic 5-figure business.

Blog Income Boost – an online pre-recorded workshop that covers 7 revenue-generating changes you can implement right away to monetize your blog and get closer to that 5-figure income. This is for the blogger who’s tired of feeling like nothing is working, waiting months to build a new income stream, not making the most of the amazing platform they’ve created, and not being their own boss yet.

Ads

Mediavine – the ad network I’m using for Let’s Reach Success. To qualify, you must have 50,000 sessions in the previous 30 days.

Ezoic – if you have a new site and want to earn from ads, you can join Ezoic. One of my other blogs is monetized with it.

Affiliate Marketing

Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing – Affiliate marketing is one of the top ways bloggers monetize their websites. Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing is also the best course for beginners and one I recently took to add this as a new income stream. It’s by Michelle from Making Sense of Cents, who earns over $50,000 a month through affiliate marketing. In this course, there are 6 modules, over 30 lessons, over 20 worksheets, bonuses, an extremely helpful exclusive Facebook group, and more, and she goes through everything when it comes to affiliate marketing.

The Blog Sponsorship Boss – The Blog Sponsorship Boss is your one-stop shop for anything related to making money with sponsored content as a blogger (from making your site irresistible to brands and joining marketplaces that offer sponsored opportunities, to reaching out to brands yourself, negotiating your rates, and turning this into a regular income). This course is a result of years of experience in the sponsored blogging niche and makings tens of thousands of dollars from sponsorships with just 1 blog. If I can do it, you can do it too.

How I Earned $128,386 from Blog Sponsorships Alone in The Last 4 Years

How to Write a Sponsored Blog Post: 10 Tips for Bloggers

SeedingUp – a platform for both publishers (make money from your blog with paid posts, links, reviews, videos, etc.) and advertisers (increase brand awareness by posting on specific sites in your industry or utilize other people’s social media following with video campaigns).

ValuedVoice – another platform I use to make money through sponsored posts on Let’s Reach Success.

Digital Products

Bold Business School – A program designed to help you build a digital product business that provides unlimited freedom and income. This expansive and empowering business experience will support you through turning it into a magnetic offer that you launch strategically and can sell over and over again; shifting your beliefs; growing an email list and making email marketing work for you; creating a strong foundation for your business; designing your signature program and turning it into a magnetic offer that you launch strategically and can sell over and over again.

Podia – the course and membership hosting platform I’m currently using. Read what I like about it here.

Teachable – another one of the top platforms to create, sell and promote your digital products.

High-Value Offers – By the end of of this book, you’ll know exactly what course to sell and how to validate the idea, how to name it, how to price it, what bonus material to add, who your ideal student is and what their challenges are, how to handle their objections, what guarantee to add to the offer, what to include on the sales page, how to overdeliver, and much more.

Have an online store

Shopify – the best e-commerce platform that lets anyone create a store and start selling things online, on social media or in person.

WooCommerce – best plugin to add an online store to your WordPress site and turn it into a real business. Handles payments, is highly customizable and offers plenty of extensions.

Amazon – largest retailer. You can sell literally anything there.

Ebay – another huge retailer.

Etsy – the place to be if you have handmade goods.

Sales funnel

ClickFunnels – create any marketing funnel to promote, sell and deliver your products online.

LeadPages – one of the best landing page builders.

Payment gateways

PayPal – quickest way to pay or get paid online, and set up a merchant account.

Stripe – another popular software platform to run an online business.

Productivity

Slack – This team collaboration tool will simplify communication and streamline workflow. Use it for free to stay in touch with your team, make video calls, integrate with other apps and share files.

Asana – Project and task management tool for remote workers.

Google Drive – Create spreadsheets and store and access all your files.

What/Who to Read

This list of blogging tools won’t be complete without mentioning some things you can read and listen to as well as people you can follow to stay on top of the industry updates and latest blogging strategies and also tend to your personal and spiritual growth.

So, below you’ll see 10 blogs, 12 books, and 9 podcasts you can check out.

Blogs

The Blog of Tim Ferriss – the lifestyle designer and jack of all trades Tim Ferriss who’s a bestselling author, successful blogger, podcaster, investor and advisor in major startups, and who speaks 5 languages, knows Jiu-Jitsu, dances Tango, is a national Chinese kickboxing champion and has hacked his body and mind, teaches us how to do the same.

MarkManson.net – the harsh truth about passion, success, relationships, and more (plus a lot of psychology and philosophy).

TropicalMBA.com – insights on entrepreneurship, location independence, building great products and scaling businesses.

ZenHabits.net – tips on how to ingrain a new behavior and stick to it, have peace of mind, be content and live more simply.

Tynan.com – thoughts on life, habits, loving work, writing books, playing poker, buying your own island, minimalism and being a nomad.

Neil Patel – learn to optimize content, grow traffic, increase your conversion rate and anything you need to know from the expert himself – Neil Patel.

ProBlogger – tutorials to help you learn the skills of blogging.

MOZ – SEO software, tools and resources for better marketing.

Backlinko – SEO and link building strategies.

CrazyEgg – more advice and products on site optimization from the experts.

Books

Podcasts

These blogging tools and resources will make your life and online business easier.

There are plenty of products and software services to answer any need of the aspiring entrepreneur, or online business owner. The point is to explore what’s out there and start with one tool today.

After experimenting, you’ll keep using those that save you time and money, improve your site’s ranking and content, help you get new leads and expand your brand.

While using these and becoming more tech-savvy, you should also dedicate your free time to the books, blogs, and podcasts I mentioned in the beginning. That’s because you need to feed your mind with the right type of information, build additional skills, and get encouraged knowing how others before you have succeeded in the same market.

Here’s to you and the blogging tools and resources you need to succeed at every next level!

Looking for the best blogging tools and resources out there? Here's a list of over 100, with anything from what you need to start, grow and monetize a blog, build an online store, get paid, be productive, create content, optimize your site, etc.