Author Platform Rocket: Self Publishing, Marketing & Advertising Advice For Authors

Show# 25 The Tools We Use To Manage & Grow Our Business

12.18.2017 - By Jonny AndrewsPlay

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Click Here To Get On Track With Your Ecosystem Profit Audit In the 25th episode of Author Platform Rocket, we delve into exactly which tools he uses to create, operate, and execute his online businesses. We share valuable insight into communication tools such as Ryver for managing projects and Hootsuite for sending and receiving social media messages across various platforms. Jonny goes into payment tools such as ClickBank for affiliate programs and Thrivecart as a solid shopping cart solution. He also shares creation tool wisdom about LearnDash, Fiver, Libsyn, Wordpress.org and Bluehost.   Download PDF Podcast Transcription Keep using tools that you are great at Managing projects is key – Jonny uses premium version of Ryver Shopping cart for marketers with an affiliate program: Thrivecart Processing payments through Paypal – the service has improved Moving into product production - engaging affiliates with ClickBank ClickBank will manage referrals – don’t manage them yourself – and they may promote your products AWeber is the ideal choice for an auto-responder If you are just doing fiction don’t use Infusionsoft All of Jonny’s sites are built on Wordpress.org – highly secure Leadpages.net for creating landing pages LearnDash helps create online courses and you get to keep buyer data For social media posting Jonny’s team uses Hootsuite Libsyn is the recommended podcast hosting tool Bluehost could be fine for web hosting Fiver is an affordable place to hire someone to configure a website Facebook group with access to a Google Doc for letting users rent space on his site  Download PDF Podcast Transcription 3 Key Points:  Payment tools: Thrivecart, Paypal, ClickBank Communication Tools: Ryver, AWeber, Leadpages.net, Hootsuite, Bluehost Creation Tools: LearnDash, Libsyn, Fiver, Wordpress.org, Bluehost Tweetable Quotes: “If you are using a tool that performs the same function, or a similar function, as one that I mention, and you are super hyper good at it…don’t go changing just because I recommend.” – Jonny Andrews. “The beginning and the end of every single successful businesses is going to come down to…can you handle the projects?.” – Jonny Andrews. “Keep things updated. Learn to run your sites correctly.” – Jonny Andrews. Resources Mentioned: Ryver – App for project management and client communication ThriveCart– Shopping cart for marketers Paypal – Payment processor ClickBank– Merchant account alternative AWeber– Auto-responder WordPress.org – Content management softwareleadpages.net LeadPages.net – Landing page builder LearnDash– Online course plugin for Wordpress Hootsuite– Merchant account alternative Libsyn– Podcast hosting Bluehost– Web hosting  

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