What is affiliate marketing? How to leverage this to be your own boss.

By Rebecca Colvin

Founder of BoudicaMarketing.com

If you are looking for ways to work from home so you can be your own boss, or you have already started a business, but you want to be more organized, check out this list of my favorite marketing, advertising, and business-related tools that will help you get more exposure for your business, brand or products, enabling you to earn money from anywhere with a laptop, camera phone, and internet connection!

I use most of these tools daily. Some are free tools, and some are paid, but they are all very affordable and pay for themselves with increased productivity and organization.

Some of the links on the page are from my affiliate partners; and if you use them to sign up, will compensate us both! You might also like to read "How to do affiliate marketing" here.

Website

WordPress is one of the most versatile website-building tools you can use to create your internet home base.

The danger of building your following and audience on other platforms, like social media, is that your page could be shut down anytime and lose all your followers.

That's why building an email list to share content produced on your own website is crucial to growing your online business.

This helps you reach people who want to hear from you and enables you to earn money through blogging, affiliate marketing, ads, or selling your products and services.

Want to get started with WordPress? I invite you to join using my partner link: Click the green underlined for instant access to a $25 WordPress Coupon, register here - (click the link) -> and you'll get $25 off!

Collect Money

Collect money online with Square! Square is dependable and offers a way to process credit cards and send invoices for payment.

They have great tools to keep track of all your incoming revenue. It also integrates with Shippo to help you ship, and print shipping labels for your orders.

Use my referall link to sign up now online to take payments with Square and get your first $1,000 in processing fees for free.

Sales Funnels

You can easily make forms on Hubspot for marketing and tracking your customers. Best of all, it's a free customer relationship management tool useful for all-sized businesses.

Ad design tools

Canva.com creates brilliant ads, flyers, business cards, videos, and custom-branded content. Upgrade to Canva Pro for even more features to make designing anything a breeze.

Trello.com is my favorite organizational tool. You can keep track of everything you are doing, make checklists, collaborate with others to show them your boards, and view your cards if they need to be involved. It's been a lifesaver for my business, and my clients love it because they can see what I'm working on and communicate there with me.

Midjourney.com lets you use descriptive text prompts to make beautiful AI art whenever you need something original. You'll need a Discord account to use it. There are monthly or annual charges.

Ideogram.ai is a new AI art generation website that can give you typography for signs, logo's, & content to use for social media or anything else you can dream up. It's more intuitive and easier to use than Midjourney, all around one of my favorite AI art and typography generators.

Google Workspace

Get a Google Workspace for 20% off when you sign up using my affiliate link.

What is Google Workspace? Google Workspace is a cloud-based productivity suite that helps teams communicate, collaborate and get things done from anywhere and on any device. It's simple to set up, use, and manage, so your business can focus on what really matters, growing.

Watch a video or find out more here.

Here are some highlights:

Business email for your domain
Look professional and communicate as you@yourcompany.com. Gmail's simple features help you build your brand while getting more done.

Access from any location or device
Check emails, share files, edit documents, hold video meetings, and more at work, at home, or on the move. You can pick up where you left off from a computer, tablet, or phone.

Enterprise-level management tools
Robust admin settings give you total command over users, devices, security, and more.

Sign up for Google Workspace using my link and get a 14-day trial, and message me to get an exclusive discount when you try Google Workspace for your business.

Request a discount for Google Workspace by emailing me at boudica@boudicamarketing.com, or you can schedule a call with me here.

I hope these tools can help you build a business that fulfills you and helps you live the life of your dreams!

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