If you have suggestions of tools you use and recommend, we welcome all submissions. Send them to info@schoolforstartups.co.uk.
Great registrar for domain names. Quick setup for WordPress, Magento, Linux and Windows Sites, great tools for building websites very quickly, and great administration tools.
State of the Art website building tool. You can build a commercial website in a few hours, or hire someone to do it for you just as quickly. GoDaddy has options that let you buy a Domain and set up a WordPress site in a few minutes. We are particularly fans of the Subscriber 2 plug-ins. It sends people an email whenever you post something new on the site, effectively creating a “newsletter” from every web post. There are several plug-ins that will allow you to incorporate PayPal buttons for content, products or services onto your pages. You can find a list of all plug-ins from within Word Press. Installation usually takes a couple of clicks. Applications can be removed just as easily.
Great solution for those who want to sell music and other Audio Content online products in Amazon, on iTunes, etc. You pay an upfront fee, but then retain 100% of all sales.
Great for selling audio, video and book content on Amazon in the US.
A great way to create and sell everything from print on demand books and calendars to music CD’s and DVDs online.
Great solution for those who want a turnkey, extremely robust online store they can use to sell anything. Built in shopping cart, order tracking, great reporting all provided by Amazon.
7,000,000+ images you can use royalty free on your website and in your products and services.
It is easy to add a bookstore to your website and having one that lists the books your customers may find useful makes perfect sense when your product or service requires special care or your customers benefit from more in-depth information. For example the School for Startups Bookstore lists the books we recommend to our students most frequently, including those that teach people how to use Word Press.
Google Keywords
When you are trying to figure out what Google keywords will drive traffic to your website, you need to know which keywords people look for most frequently. You can buy ads on Google for pennies per click in some cases at adwords.google.com, though in almost every circumstance it is better to manually build links using press releases and articles submitted to sites like prlog.com, openpr.com and ezinearticles.com. New tools at adwords.google.com will let you place ads in newspapers and sell run your correctly created video ads on television. You can sell ad space on your website to Google at adsense.google.com.
Want other website owners to buy and sell your products for you? Sell them through Commission Junction.
This is a very handy tool for surveying your customers to ensure satisfaction with your products and services.
This is a great place to post video created by your company. If you have accounts on viral video sites like Youtube.com or Revver.com, posting them on TubeMogul will automatically update those other sites with your content. This saves a great deal of posting and uploading time.
More Tools to Come
The resource list above is not in any sense comprehensive. There are more resources than we could ever begin to list, and requirements will vary from business to business. The tools listed above are some of our favorites and they meet the needs of many of our customers.
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