Recommended Products and Services

Navigating the digital marketing landscape almost always means deciding which products, services, and vendors to use to achieve your goals.

I only recommend products and services I either use and love myself, or that I’ve seen clients achieve success using.

Note that for items with an * after the name, I may receive compensation if you start using the product or service, as part of an affiliate or partner relationship. I only recommend products we know, use, and love! This affiliate revenue helps support my ability to provide free educational articles on this website and through the email newsletter.

Website Builders / Content Management Systems

WordPress Web Hosting

Website Plugins, Extensions and Themes

Tools and Services for Marketing Communications Professionals

  • Active Campaign* (Email marketing)
  • AddEvent* (Event Calendar tool)
  • Airtable* (Relationship database tool, plus dashboards, forms, and more)
  • AlsoAsked* (Keyword research tool)
  • AWeber* (Email marketing)
  • Brevo* (Transactional email service)
  • Calendly (Appointment scheduling)
  • Campaign Monitor (Email marketing)
  • Circle.so* (Online membership community platform)
  • ClickUp* (Task and project management)
  • Dashthis* (Data dashboards)
  • Databox* (Data dashboards)
  • Donorbox* (Donation platform)
  • Fathom Analytics* (Simple, privacy-first website analytics)
  • FundraiseUp* (Super-powerful and high-converting online donation platform)
  • JotForm* (Powerful Form Builder)
  • Kickpoint Playbook* (Excellent analytics training courses)
  • Kit (formerly ConvertKit)* (Email marketing, landing pages, email automation)
  • LearnWorlds* (Online Course Platform and LMS)
  • LiveChat* (WEbsite chat widget)
  • Mailchimp* (Email marketing)
  • Mailerlite* (Email marketing)
  • Make* (Marketing automation tool)
  • Namecheap* (Domain registration)
  • Optinmonster* (Conversion optimization tool with pop-ups, etc.)
  • Pixlr Express* (Online photo and image editing tool)
  • Postmark* (Transactional email service)
  • Rev* (Transcripts, captions and subtitles for your audio and video files)
  • SE Ranking* (Tool for website audits, keyword research, backlink tracking)
  • Semrush* (Tool for website audits, keyword research, backlink tracking, and more!)
  • Softr* (Platform for building apps or websites based on data stored in Airtable or Google Sheets)
  • Ticket Tailor* (Event registration and ticketing solution)
  • Uptime Robot* (Website uptime monitoring service)
  • UTM.io (Tool to generate, standardize, organize, and share URLs with UTM tracking codes)
  • Wordtracker* (Keyword research tool)
  • Zapier (Marketing automation tool)
  • Zeffy* (Online donation platform)
  • ZeroBounce* (Email validation service)

Business Services / Payments

YNAB (You Need a Budget)* (Budgeting for your business or your personal life)