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Accounting
Wave Accounting: Send invoices, track sales, track expenses, run reports, bill customers, accept payments, and view your monthly/yearly profit & loss.
Outright: Online accounting software allowing you to manage sales, expenses, taxes, and more. Helps you simplify invoicing and bookkeeping.
Blog Website Platforms
WP Engine: Whether you are setting up a personal blog or an intricate and complex multi-site for your brand, WP Engine makes managed WordPress hosting simple, scalable, and secure.
WordPress: One of the best ways to create a website or blog. It’s a powerful hosting platform that grows with you. WordPress allows you create beautiful and powerful websites or blogs.
ThemeForest: WordPress themes, website templates, and more. ThemeForest offers a large number of customization options and support.
Ecommerce Website Platforms
Shopify: Shopify is a complete ecommerce solution that allows you to set up an online store to sell your goods. It lets you organize your products, customize your storefront, accept credit card payments, track and respond to orders — all with a few clicks of the mouse. Easy to setup a professional online store. Easy to customize and code (HTML/CSS). Shopify offers mobile-ready sites and integrated payment solutions.
Bigcommerce: An all-in-one, feature rich ecommerce platform that allows even the most novice of user to create a fully functional online store and sell both physical and digital products online. Utilizing an easy to use interface, online retailers can publish products in seconds, accept credit cards, use multiple shipping methods, run effective marketing campaigns and more. Built from the ground up to support search engine optimization features such as search engine friendly links, effective use of heading tags, alt tags and per product and per page title tags.
E-junkie: E-junkie empowers you to turn your passion project into an online business with our easy to use ecommerce tools, helping you sell digital downloads (and tangible goods) online. E-junkie provides a lightweight, embeddable shopping cart that can go anywhere, including your website, blog and social media. Their shopping cart has a built in sales tax, VAT, packaging & shipping cost calculator.
Hosting
GoDaddy: GoDaddy is both a domain registrar AND a website hosting company - it offers the tools to help you build your website. This means you can register your domain name, build a website for it, and get it on the web - all in one place.
Bluehost: BlueHost is one of the oldest and most reputable shared hosting companies on the Internet. One of the most affordable website hosting companies. BlueHost allows hosting for unlimited domains, email accounts, and WordPress installs.
Payments
PayPal: A secure way to manage money, collect payment, send money & invoices, and more. Link your credit card and/or bank account to transfer funds and make/receive payments.
Stripe: Whether you're building a marketplace, mobile app, online storefront, or subscription service, Stripe has the features you need.
Square: From mobile point-of-sale tools and online invoicing to next-day deposits and inventory management, Square has everything you need to run your business anywhere.
Invoicing
Invoicely: Invoicely is free online invoicing for small businesses. Create and send invoices and estimates, track time and expenses and accept online payments.
Wave Accounting: A free, online software alternative to Quickbooks. Wave helps manage invoices, credit card payments, accounting & payroll. Best for small businesses.
PayPal: Create and email invoices to your customers in minutes. Your customers can pay securely in a few clicks, even if they don't have a PayPal account.
Documentation
Grammarly: a writing-enhancement platform developed for proofreading and plagiarism-detection resources for your text material.
Graphics
Canva: Design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so on.
Pixlr: A free online image editor. Enables to fix, adjust, and filter images in a browser.
Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop software is the industry standard in digital imaging and is used worldwide for design, photography, video editing and more.
Pixelmator: The world's most innovative, fastest, full-featured, and powerful image editing app for the Mac that has everything you need to create and edit your images.
Stock Photos
iStockphoto: Explore millions of royalty-free images, illustrations, videos, and music clips at great prices.
PicMonkey: Editing your photos is easy with PicMonkey! Add filters, frames, text, and effects with our free online photo editing tool!
Shutterstock: Search millions of royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and vectors. Get inspired by thousands of new high-resolution images added daily.
Free Images: Thousands of FREE images to use for your business. Search by photo category or use keywords for searches.
Instagram Apps
Wordswag: Create beautifully custom text layouts that would normally take minutes - or even hours - with just a tap.
Conferencing/Webinars
Google Hangouts: Create an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication.
GoToWebinar: Host a live webinar with up to 1000 attendees. Record webinars, and brand each webinar with your own brand theme. Great for private and group online seminars.
Wave Accounting: Send invoices, track sales, track expenses, run reports, bill customers, accept payments, and view your monthly/yearly profit & loss.
Outright: Online accounting software allowing you to manage sales, expenses, taxes, and more. Helps you simplify invoicing and bookkeeping.
Blog Website Platforms
WP Engine: Whether you are setting up a personal blog or an intricate and complex multi-site for your brand, WP Engine makes managed WordPress hosting simple, scalable, and secure.
WordPress: One of the best ways to create a website or blog. It’s a powerful hosting platform that grows with you. WordPress allows you create beautiful and powerful websites or blogs.
ThemeForest: WordPress themes, website templates, and more. ThemeForest offers a large number of customization options and support.
Ecommerce Website Platforms
Shopify: Shopify is a complete ecommerce solution that allows you to set up an online store to sell your goods. It lets you organize your products, customize your storefront, accept credit card payments, track and respond to orders — all with a few clicks of the mouse. Easy to setup a professional online store. Easy to customize and code (HTML/CSS). Shopify offers mobile-ready sites and integrated payment solutions.
Bigcommerce: An all-in-one, feature rich ecommerce platform that allows even the most novice of user to create a fully functional online store and sell both physical and digital products online. Utilizing an easy to use interface, online retailers can publish products in seconds, accept credit cards, use multiple shipping methods, run effective marketing campaigns and more. Built from the ground up to support search engine optimization features such as search engine friendly links, effective use of heading tags, alt tags and per product and per page title tags.
E-junkie: E-junkie empowers you to turn your passion project into an online business with our easy to use ecommerce tools, helping you sell digital downloads (and tangible goods) online. E-junkie provides a lightweight, embeddable shopping cart that can go anywhere, including your website, blog and social media. Their shopping cart has a built in sales tax, VAT, packaging & shipping cost calculator.
Hosting
GoDaddy: GoDaddy is both a domain registrar AND a website hosting company - it offers the tools to help you build your website. This means you can register your domain name, build a website for it, and get it on the web - all in one place.
Bluehost: BlueHost is one of the oldest and most reputable shared hosting companies on the Internet. One of the most affordable website hosting companies. BlueHost allows hosting for unlimited domains, email accounts, and WordPress installs.
Payments
PayPal: A secure way to manage money, collect payment, send money & invoices, and more. Link your credit card and/or bank account to transfer funds and make/receive payments.
Stripe: Whether you're building a marketplace, mobile app, online storefront, or subscription service, Stripe has the features you need.
Square: From mobile point-of-sale tools and online invoicing to next-day deposits and inventory management, Square has everything you need to run your business anywhere.
Invoicing
Invoicely: Invoicely is free online invoicing for small businesses. Create and send invoices and estimates, track time and expenses and accept online payments.
Wave Accounting: A free, online software alternative to Quickbooks. Wave helps manage invoices, credit card payments, accounting & payroll. Best for small businesses.
PayPal: Create and email invoices to your customers in minutes. Your customers can pay securely in a few clicks, even if they don't have a PayPal account.
Documentation
Grammarly: a writing-enhancement platform developed for proofreading and plagiarism-detection resources for your text material.
Graphics
Canva: Design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so on.
Pixlr: A free online image editor. Enables to fix, adjust, and filter images in a browser.
Photoshop: Adobe Photoshop software is the industry standard in digital imaging and is used worldwide for design, photography, video editing and more.
Pixelmator: The world's most innovative, fastest, full-featured, and powerful image editing app for the Mac that has everything you need to create and edit your images.
Stock Photos
iStockphoto: Explore millions of royalty-free images, illustrations, videos, and music clips at great prices.
PicMonkey: Editing your photos is easy with PicMonkey! Add filters, frames, text, and effects with our free online photo editing tool!
Shutterstock: Search millions of royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and vectors. Get inspired by thousands of new high-resolution images added daily.
Free Images: Thousands of FREE images to use for your business. Search by photo category or use keywords for searches.
Instagram Apps
Wordswag: Create beautifully custom text layouts that would normally take minutes - or even hours - with just a tap.
Conferencing/Webinars
Google Hangouts: Create an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication.
GoToWebinar: Host a live webinar with up to 1000 attendees. Record webinars, and brand each webinar with your own brand theme. Great for private and group online seminars.