13 Tools and Services I Use Every Day to Build a Profitable Blogging Business

Yesterday, during our Q&A webinar, we received a lot of questions about the tools and services we recommend for different aspects of blogging. While we touched on a few, there are quite a few more that I wanted to touch on.


Not all are strictly ‘blogging tools’ but all are things we regularly use as a team.
Note: I am an affiliate for some of the following tools and services but am also a daily user of all of them and have been for a minimum of 12 months.
Note 2: I’ve updated this list with 6 more tools that I use!

• Blogging Platform - WordPress.org
• Hosting Service – Synthesis
• Blog Design Framework – Genesis (note: the designs themselves are custom designed but built upon Genesis)
• eBook Shopping Cart – eJunkie (we sync it with PayPal to take payments at this stage)
• Customer Support Desk – Zendesk
• Project Management – Basecamp
• Internal Team Communications – Skype
• Forum Software – VBulletin synced with Premise for paid membership areas
• Email Newsletter Software – Aweber and Mailchimp
• File Sharing etc – Dropbox and Google Drive
• Social Media Management – Sprout Social
• Webinars – GotoWebinar
• Email – Gmail
• Blogging Editors – Ecto and MarsEdit (both are Mac tools but Ecto has sadly not been updated in years)
• Analytics – Google Analytics

Of course there’s plenty more but they are the main things that come to mind!