Useful Tools…
I’ve been asked so many times “what do you use for this?”, or “how to I make that happen…?” I’ve decided the best way is to give you a table of all the tools and software I use, together with the price I paid for it.
I don’t profess to think I know the best tool for every job. I think a lot of personal taste should come into the choice of which you use. However, if you don’t have anything currently, to perform a task you need done, then you may find it listed below.
There is also a good list of open source software available for free download for all manner of tasks here.
Oh – and by all mean, please comment below if you have something to add in a particular category. Just remember, this is a help blog, not an advertising blog – this isn’t an excuse for you to splash your affiliate links everywhere… 
– But I will allow it if you have something relevant, and particularly useful…
I hope you’ll find it helpful.
I’m sure I haven’t included everything here, so I’ll be adding to it as time goes by, but for now – this is what it looks like…
| Editing Emails | Note Tab Lite | $0 |
| Web Page Editing | NVU | $0 |
| Product Selection | Clickbank Elite | $47 |
| FTP to website | Smart FTP | $0 |
| Keeping up-to-date | Tristana RSS reader | $0 |
| Comms | Gmail | $0 |
| Skype | $0 | |
| Autoresponder | Aweber | $25 per month |
| Hosting | Hostgator | $9 per month |
| Website scripts | Butterfly Marketing | $1,497 |
| MVS | $97 | |
| Word Press (Blog) | $0 | |
| Help Desk | Trouble Ticket Express | $0 |
| Squeeze Page Generation | Endless Optin | $195 |
| Your Squeeze Page | $32 per month | |
| PDF Generation | Open Office Writer | $0 |
| Split Testing | Add2It | $9.95 |
| Graphics | Photo Impact | $49 |
| Istock Photo | $1 per image | |
| Ecovers | $47 | |
| Video | Camtasia | $319 |
| Article/Ebook Content | Articash Article System | $0-$27 |
I hope you find it useful -
Don’t forget to drop me a comment below if you have anything to say – or more recommendations to give.
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Howdy Tim! You sure do have a very good selection of software. My problem is I am just starting to work on the internet and finding it very over-whelming.
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It started out to be related to Health but then I added some other information that isn’t related.
My main goal is to have people listem to an 8 minute message 1.212.990.7002 or listen to the recorded audio’s on the ashnow website or listen to the weekly calls > Wed. 9pm, Sat. 1pm, Eastern, 1.212.990.8000 pin 3024#
If you would like to learn about some Nobel Scientists and how to let our body heal itself, please visit ashnow, or listen to a weekly call.
Thanks for all your expertise!
Have a great holiday season and prosperour NEW YEAR!
Harry Townsend
Baltimore MD
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Hi Tim,
This is very impressive and to me, this is what no one has ever revealed before. Everyone tell you advertise this URL without any direction.
This is just wonderful and I cannot say enough about this blog. We now have a direction to follow. The details you have included makes this one of the best and this seperates you as one of my best mentors.
To Your Success
Happy Holidays
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Tim,
I am curious about Clickbank Elite. Is it really worth $47. Do you do that much CB marketing?
Thanks,
Kevin
PS. Thanks for the helpful list.
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hi tim .i am now among the living again that being so ,
i can now give you my full attention. i enjoy reading your blog it is very informative. but there is one thing i would appreiate your help with.
i have a list not a very big one may be 500.some optin some sent to me by other means
,all genuine. my question is . how do i move them to where they should be.
i have to tell you i have been very foolish and without going into detail i have to start really working hard,
thank you tim god speed. from peggy
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Hi Tim
You can add my system software to your list if you like
here is your unique JV Link for Virtual-internet-empires I set for you
http://www.traffic-supercharger.com/cmd.php?Clk=1667813
Yours
Geoff Lord
http://www.Vrtual-internet-Empires.com
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Good stuff on the downloads Tim. I hadn’t been putting audio on my sites, but now I can with Audacity.
Thanks,
Jay
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Now this is what I call a very very informative and useful and honest blog. I never knew about half the resources here and I want to thank you very much for sharing it!!!
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Hi Tim,
Good that you’ve added some of the free web resources for your readers who may be interested. I’ve a couple more you can add to the list, here they are:
1. Cool Text :http://www.cooltext.com (Free Graphic designs)
2. Optin Box :http://www.response-o-matic.com (Free webbased response opt-in box)Cool for those without autoresponders!
Gerald
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Hi Tim, I read all your emails that I get and this is cool. You always give out a lot of information. This blog is good, I plan to check out some of your resources. Thanks for all your information.
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Hi Tim,
This is ruby,and i,am just always thinking Thank
You Thank You,} You are just the greatest*
Tim i never get things done that you tell me,it is
not that i don,t want to it is how i,m so mixed up
i seem to automatically screw it up and it comes out
the oposite from what i intend *
i down loaded the information i was told to ,then
coulden,t find it ,so i did again and same thing *
So this is more than a comment,so i,m gonna hush
and say Thank You for all you do*
See You Sometime, ruby*
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Hi Tim, I know how busy you are so I just wanted to thank you again. And, if any of your subscribers need help with their advertising, I offer it at no charge.
As you can tell from my ranking at Tim’s Viral Spiral, I manage to stay at the top or near it, so if I can be of help, just let me know.
I can’t wait to see what the prize is that you have in mind for the top 5 finishers! Knowing you, I think I can say without fear of contradiction that it’ll be super!
Thanks again for all your help.
-Do or do not…there is no try- Yoda
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Hi Tim,
Excellent post! It’s very interesting to see what software successful IM’ers use. It’s one thing to get emails with recommendations which are actaully hidden affiliate links as you know that the objective is to sell you the recommendation. However to see a real list of useful siftware that is actually being used is great. So many thanks for that.
Steve
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Hi Tim.
I just checked out your blog and I think it’s really cool. Keep up the good work and from now onwards I’ll be checking your blog regularly. It is hard to see a great list of softwares that must have by an Internet Marketer. Thanks for the great info.
Thanks
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Hey Tim, thanks for the invite! Keep up the good work, till next time TB
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Thank you Tim.
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Hi Tim,
Just had a look at your list of tools above but everytime I tried the Articash link it just came up with an error message…….any idea what could be wrong? Cheers!
Rgds, Mike
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tim Reply:
September 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Hi Mike – Thanks for the notification…
The site was down, and I just noticed the price was wrong too. This system comes with a free ebook for advice and help on article marketing with an array of helpful tools and software as an optional extra. You can sign up for the ebook from the link above now – or here: http://www.articash.net.
Best wishes
Tim
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Dear Tim…..How Can My Adsense Show On My Main Site..Above..And No Sign Of it On My Sub Sites…All Adsense Is Active With Google..Regards Giselle
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Hi Dear Tim!
You,re so greit indeed. It has been saed that I have been lost in the wood and that is only the smallest trouble, but because off a constant hurry I have not enough time for anything.
I hope once time I,ll be able to go to a straight line and thank you so much for your tremendous help.
I wish you and Yours a very Pleseant Easter!
Many Greetings: Irén 3/13/2009
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Well you are providing abundle of tools of so much use for an
internet-marketer . The latter is also updated of rebrandable products at each time there appear some . As affiliate I find your software helpful at the level of front office but I have no control of the back office no idea at all .
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Greetings Tim, Thomas Richmond here, i am grateful for your information you provide us, although since strting online as an affiliate to now owning two marketing companys,
i have little use now but that does not give me the right stop learning and implimenting some tweeks here and there, the tools you have are awesome and anyone in there right mind would be happy to use them to help move a long there products or expand them as well.
Thanks for the info again Tim!
Happy Easter to you and your family.
God_bless you.
Best Regards Thomas
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You have lots of great tools here, my favorite in particular is Smart FTP. It’s what has made a huge difference in my internet marketing career.
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as i said before i keep trying,most will say i am very trying ,but there is so much content in all that you offer ,i tell myself i run twice as fast and still get nowhere .it seems there is more to learn from your e comments and ebooks than there is time in the day to cope ,
regards and best wishes
mike
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Hi Tim, Wow, I really love your web layout, very professionaly done, easy to read and find what you need…Id like to offer you and your readers a free tool that is soooooo very usefull in organizing all your traffic exchanges and affiliate sites along with your hosting companys and main monitizing sites like clickbank paypal etc. before getting this free tool I was using notepad to try and keep up with all my affiliate organizations and was lost on all my traffic exchanges, constantly searching for the url and my salespage url…this device solved all my problems in that area, it is add infected, but doesent get in the way of its usefullness. Download for free..Ken
http://www.the3cashmachine.com/recommends/affiliatemanager/
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Thanks a lot Tim.. especially for PDF generator.
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Tim,Thank You for all you do to help people ,especially when we are as newbie
as me ,and i do want to go automated ,as you told me about earlier, if you would
email me with the information,and thank you again,You are incredable,Just one
of a kind !
Talk Soon *ruby*
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Hi Tim ,
I believe you are a good man,thanks for telling about this your website,it’s very helpful tips and tools here….Great.
Regards
Ibra
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Whilst I think Open Office is great (I recommend it to many clients – I do IT support for a living) it’s a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut if all you want to do is create PDFs. PDFCreator is also Open Source & free:
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/download
When installed in Windows, you get a “PDF printer” so you can use whatever tool you want to create your document, including MS Word, and just “print” to the “PDF creator printer” – just click the print button, select the PDF printer from the drop down list & away you go. You may want to read through the long list of options the first one or two times you use it but you can ignore 95% of them for most purposes.
If you’re running several websites, kimsufi.com do a whole server (real, not virtual) for around £20/month. If you let the system do the default install of Ubuntu Linux, then install Webmin, then, using Webmin, install ISPConfig (all free) setting up domains, websites, email etc is very easy. Some tech knowledge is definitely required but you can run dozens of fairly large websites on the lowest-end server. £1/month extra gets you an extra IP address so you can run HTTPS for a site if you need to. If anyone wants this set up & doesn’t feel they can do it themselves, I’ll do it for you – fee negotiable as I only just thought of this. You can also run video & audio streaming from one of these servers but I believe that involves extra bandwidth charges. I also run Squirrelmail which is a full-service webmail server, vastly better than Outlook Web Access. Ohm, and there is plenty of good free autoresponder software you can run on such a server – and you don’t have to pay anyone an extra monthly fee
I could go on but I’ve written far too much already…
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