Things I Recommend
These are all products I personally use or have used to run my business or my life. I’m only including them because I give them my HIGHEST recommendation. Check back soon… I have a LOT of updating to do! 
Website Hosting:
If you want to have your own domain, you need to get it hosted. I recommend HostGator for that. Overall I’ve had excellent results with them (and I’ve used them for about 5 years now). Their customer service is very immediate and very knowledgeable and the prices are extremely inexpensive. I had their $4.95 a month plan for several years and that was more than enough for me. I also really like them because their control panel is easy to use and intuitive. I have tried other hosting sites but just couldn’t be bothered understand how to use them.
Email Management:
If you have a website, you need to be collecting the names and emails of people visiting you. This is CRUCIAL so you can email them later on with offers, specials, or just reminders of your existence. The average customer needs to see something 7 times before they make a purchase, so you’re throwing a lot of money on the table if you don’t collect their information.
I like GetResponse because they’re user friendly, have excellent customer service, and I can understand them easily. I’ve spent hundreds of dollars per month on fancy email software and just loathed it because I couldn’t understand anything. This has been more than worth it for me.
Making The Most Of Your Time:
Action Enforcer is a tool I use to help double (if not triple) my productivity. It works with Macs and PC’s and rocks
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I would not recommend something if I didn’t believe in it, though it is possible that I may earn commissions from anything I mention on my blog.
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Dear Rachel
What a breath of fresh air you are!!!
I checked you out from an invitation (yet an other, it seems like hundreds) to participate in a marketing event.
What a delight to find a young person with your perspective. I’m in admiration of the way you are looking at things. Obviously you have the skill set to do the internet marketing with success. Yet you seem to be reaching into your self for your higher being.
It is so refreshing to find someone like you in this field. I admire your honesty about how the marketing works in the general public. I have purchased products and attended programs only to find that they were so far ahead of my ability to comprehend that I would wind up in a frustrated state til I just had to set it aside.
Your idea of a screening application is brilliant!! It could help people like myself make much better buying choices, even to the extent that a person could buy a series of products that help them grow their skills. What’s missing for many of us (people who didn’t grow up with computers and the internet)is a way to filter through all the product offerings to get the ones that are appropriate to our knowledge so we could actually use them.
Thank you also for the “exercise”. It was eye opening!
Sabina