MY BEST BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
by Cara Lumen

   
         
 

Here are some of my favorite resources from back end systems like shopping carts and merchant accounts, through marketing and writing tools to build your business. Enjoy.

SYSTEMS

A great shopping cart means autoresponders, broadcasts, ad tracking, upsell capabilities and much more. Easy Web Automation is the best. It will take your business as big as you want to make it.

Here's an article I wrote about the shopping cart features. It's called "What's in Your Shopping Cart":

My favorite Merchant Account is Practice Pay Solutions. The shopping cart is the cash register, the merchant account is your bank. Get same day deposits popped right into your checking account


My favorite web host is Blue Host. They have great band width for all those audios and videos you plan on making. And Fantastico to load your Word Press Blog.

TOOLS

I keep all my domain names on GoDaddy so they are all in one place.

I record my courses on Audio Acrobat. They have video and podcast capabilities too and a great training program. This is an important resource for recording purposes.

Free Conference Call is a free service for holding your telecourses. You can record there too. You just get on and talk!

I switched to Gmail and love it. I can get it from any computer anywhere I it is fast.

I recently started Mozilla Firefox for my browser and like it a lot.

Go to Meeting is in use everywhere. It lets you capture your screen while talking. I haven't worked the back end yet as a presenter but enjoy being in a class that uses it.

Membership Site Software for Word Press This great plug in can manage multiple sites and connects with your shopping cart.

Bit.ly to make those long links into tidy tiny ones.

Format-it to make your emails 70 characters wide

Moodle, a free learning environment for your courses.

Personal Radio Listening: Pandora Radio and Slacker - Music to work by - create your own mix at

MARKETING

Blog Talk Radio is free and does a great job of promoting your show to FaceBook and Twitter and Itunes. My show is Passionatey On Purpose

I now have a Wordpress blog which as I get better at, I love.

Use Fantistico to easly install WordPress. You can find it on Blue Host.

But I started out on Typepad and still recommend that for beginners.

Use the WordPress plug in Ping.fm to get your blog posts placed on FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn as you post them.

Exine articles is my favorite article submission site. They do a great job of letting FaceBook and Twitter know you have posted an article and have fabulous statistics to know what's working.

Google Wonder Wheel for article and post inspiration go to here to test out keywords and inspiration for related topics.

HARO (Help a Reporter Out) posts requests interview from authors three times a day

RESOURCES

Survey Monkey helps you make short surveys for free.

Music Bakery has great music you can buy for the intro and extro of your radio show.
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Istock Photo is where I get all my graphics.

Three software programs I use a lot is Sound Forge at www.Sony.com for editing my recordings, DreamWeaver
for making my web site, and Camtasia for screen recording, power point, audio and videos.

Electronic greeting cards: Jackquie Lawson

Picnik: Online photo editing: www.picnik.com

CONNECTIONS

Entrepreneur magazine for a ton of ideas and inspiration

WomanEntrepreneur I also joined Entrepreneur Connect

Connect with me:
Web: http://www.caralumen.com/ (Subscribe to bi-monthly updates, articles and events)
Blog: http://www.passionatelyonpurpose.com (Philosophical and practical insights to help you believe you can!
Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/passionatelyonpurpose (An insightful mix of personal growth and practical business building.
FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/caralumen
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/caralumen
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/caralumen

 

 
   

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Cara Lumen, MA, Your Idea Optimizer helps you turn your ideas into steady profit. As a business developer, content developer and educator, Cara helps you make money from what you already know. You can learn more about how to put your wisdom to work through her radio show www.blogtalkradio.com/passioantelyonpurpose her blog at www.passionatelyonpurpose.com and her Passionately On Purpose emagazine at www.caralumen.com

 

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