Following are our favourite tools & resources for digital publishers and writers. It’s a work in progress so check back often!
Administration
Quickbooks: Manage your books, track expenses, send invoices, accept payments, and manage payroll/HR.
ZOHO CRM Plus: Unify your sales, marketing, and service teams with a 360-degree customer view. Manage email campaigns, convert visitors into leads/contacts, automate processes, close deals, manage multiple social media interactions, provide multichannel support, gather feedback, and measure key business metrics.
Vimeo: From virtual events to webinars to interactive classes, go live (confidently) with ad-free, fail-safe streaming. Simulcast to social platforms like YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitch, and stream with RTMP.
Marketing
OptinMonster: Convert and monetize your website traffic with floating bars, scroll boxes, gamified wheels, geolocation targeting, over a hundred templates, and much more. Instantly grow your email list, get more leads and increase sales. It’s a favourite of lots of brands you’ll recognize.
eReleases: Press release editing and distribution service for small businesses. Distribution partner for Cision PR Newswire, and supplements newswire distribution by sending press releases to a hand-selected group of journalists, reporters, bloggers and influencers.
Linking News: Get Featured on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Reuters, USA Today, MarketWatch, and other top-tier media through this press release distribution service.
24-7 Press Release: Distribute your news to traditional and digital media outlets using the user-friendly, proprietary, cloud-based platform.
Systeme Suite: Funnel builder, email marketing, online course builder, affiliate program, and other tools to ensure a successful marketing campaign.
Semrush: SEO, content marketing, competitor research, PPC and social media marketing from just one platform.
NiceJob online reputation management: Build your reputation, grow your business. Review monitoring, website/landing page, customer tracking, customer stories, connect to 1000 apps, customer journey events, social proof, coaching and tons of other features depending on which package you choose (start free).
News
The Globe and Mail: Engages Canadians through its award-winning coverage of news, politics, business, investing and lifestyle topics, across multiple platforms.
Outsourcing
Freelancer: Hire the best freelancers for any job on the world’s largest freelance marketplace.
Upwork: Freelancer marketplace offering Development & IT, Design, Sales & Marketing, Writing & Translation, Admin & Customer Support, Accounting, Legal, HR, or virtually anything else you need.
Professional Development
Udemy: Trusted by over 14,400 companies and millions of learners around the world, Udemy is the first place I go if I need to learn online. Choose from over 210,000 online video courses with completion certificates.
Get Results That Stick with Bob Proctor: Discover the secret to having “good luck” from Canada’s greatest prosperity teacher.
The Brian Tracy Proven Process for Success: Start with a free,14-Step Goal Setting Guide to start setting and achieving your biggest goals.
Publishers
Self-Counsel Press: Business and legal publisher.
Revenue
Affiliate Networks
Share-a-Sale Affiliate Network: We frequently promote Share-a-Sale merchants on several websites. They have the most two-tier affiliate programs of any company I’ve worked with, and that means more passive income for you.
CJ: One of the largest affiliate networks. They have a good selection of Canadian merchants of all sizes.
Products
Printful: Order custom design products to drop ship or sell direct online under your own brand. Customize over 250 products, including T-shirts and other clothing, décor, pet products, posters, phone cases and more. One of the most complete services available, with branding options like tear-away tags, stickers and inserts.
Website
GreenGeeks website hosting: Our environmentally-friendly website host. Choose a Canadian data center during the signup process to ensure compliance with Canadian data sovereignty laws.
Podia: Sell courses, coaching, ebooks, webinars, workshops or what have you. Podia takes care of hosting products, taking payments, and getting products to your customers.
Interact: Create interactive quizzes that generate leads and sell products.
Place It: Create professional designs with a library of free mockups, designs, videos and logos.
Writers
Draft2Digital: Automatically distribute your ebook to all major online retailers at no cost. You only pay 10% of sales.
Killer Covers: Cover design for digital products, such as ebooks, reports, software boxes, and more.