Resources

Tools for solopreneurs, creatives, and small business owners.

Self-Hosted WordPress

Learn more about managing a self-hosted WordPress website. It’s easier and more affordable than you think.

Domain Registration

Find the right domain name to grab more attention and visitors to your service or business.

  • GoDaddy – Register for a domain name with your GoDaddy hosting service and receive one year of domain registration.
  • Bluehost – Register for a domain name with your Bluehost hosting service and receive one year of domain registration.
  • Hostinger – Register for a domain name with your Hostinger hosting service and receive one year of domain registration.
  • DreamHost – Register for a domain name with your DreamHost hosting service and receive one year of domain registration.

Hosting Service

Web hosting is a service that allows for posting content to a website or web page.

  • Bluehost Shared Hosting Choice Plus is the easiest, most economical way for brand-new websites to connect to the Internet.
  • GoDaddy WordPress Hosting Deluxe is an affordable managed WordPress hosting plan for a new or existing website that allows room to grow.
  • Hostinger Business is a feature-rich WordPress hosting plan for new and growing websites.
  • Dreampress Basic is an affordable managed WordPress hosting plan for a new or existing website that allows room to grow.
  • SiteGround is a premium-managed WordPress hosting service. The StartUp plan hosts a single website, and the GrowBig plan hosts multiple websites. It is pricier than the other options but worth every penny. This is my preferred hosting service.

Logo, Favicon & Graphic Design

Create a professional logo using Fiverr Logo Maker. This resource offers three logo packages to choose from—which include high-quality, resizable logo files on a transparent or colored background—that are ready for immediate use for websites, social media, apps, print, and much more.

Visit Etsy or Fiverr to hire a talented and affordable graphic designer to create a custom-made logo, favicon, and/or custom graphics. Your design package should include the following file formats: PNG transparent, JPEG, and PDF.

A favicon is a small icon associated with a particular website or page in an Internet browser.

A high-resolution logo will look great no matter where it’s printed or viewed. A low-resolution logo may appear pixelated or blurry when printed or viewed on a large screen. For a logo to be considered high-resolution, it should have a minimum of 300 pixels per inch (PPI).

Email Marketing

Create effective emails, grow your audience, and increase sales with a digital marketing platform.

  • Mailchimp (free for 500 subscribers)
  • MailerLite (free for 1,000 subscribers)
  • Brevo (free to send up to 300 emails per day, unlimited subscribers)
  • ConvertKit (free for 300 subscribers)

Social Marketing

Plan and schedule your content for Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.

Design & Photo Editing

Writing Tools

  • Grammarly is a powerful AI writing assistant tool. It offers free and premium options.
  • ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot technology that can process our natural human language and generate a response.
  • Gemini is a Google AI chat tool for brainstorming ideas, sparking creativity, and accelerating productivity.

Free Stock Photos

Free Icons

Free Fonts

Color Inspiration

Web Design Inspiration

  • One Page Love is a unique collection of one-page websites.
  • Httpstr is a showcase of beautifully made websites.