Domain Name – Buy your  .com

The first thing that you would want to have before creating a website is the domain. The best thing about these domains is that they are very cheap and can easily be bought. An indication can be that if anyone is spending more then 10$ on a domain it means that he is being ripped off. The negative thing is that you have to register quickly to get a certain domain that is perfect for you but if you are late that name can be taken by someone else.I recommend Godaddy because of the fast & secure registration.

Blogging

• WordPress: The #1 Blog Publishing Platform. Free and easily customizable with wonderful support. All of my blogs use WordPress.
• WordPress Plugins: Download any plugins, widgets, or customizable elements for your WordPress blog.
• Woothemes: The ultimate resource for premium looking WordPress themes.My blog is running on Woothemes ‘Headlines’ Theme.

Hosting

• Hostgator: Hostgator has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1996. Our internet hosting package helps businesses and individuals get high-powered service at a fraction of the cost.
  
• HostMonster:  99% of my websites are hosted on Bluehost. Easy to use, 1-click automatic WordPress installation, and excellent customer service. Highly recommended for your first site.
• Amazon S3: The Amazon Simple Storage Service. Reliable internet storage, which is great for putting large files like podcasts and videos, so you don’t create bandwidth problems on your own website.
• Servint: This is where an upgraded server package which can better handle the amount of traffic and activity on your blog. Great customer service, and they walked you through the entire migration process.

E-Commerce/Online Store

• Volution: Build and grow your online store with the ultimate set of ecommerce tools. From a wicked storefront to reliable hosting and more, you’ll never look back.Recommended!
• Shopify: is an online e-commerce platform that allows individuals to create digital stores.The platform currently hosts over 10,000 online retailers, including stores for Foo Fighters, Angry Birds, Tesla Motors, Amnesty International, and Evisu Jeans.
• Ebay: an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.

Product Distribution & Shopping Carts

• E-Junkie: provides shopping cart and buy now buttons to let you sell ebooks, sell mp3 tracks and albums, sell software, icons, fonts, artwork, phone cards, event tickets, cds, posters, books, t-shirts and almost everything else you want to sell.
  
• Clickbank: Another digital products retailer. Probably the most popular. Decently priced, but comes with an amazing affiliate program for your products.
• Paypal.com: Paypal is just ok for selling your own products through them, but you’ll need an account anyways to configure with and accept payments from the above shopping carts.

Keyword Research

• Market Samurai: The number one tool for keyword research available, hands down. You can view my tutorial videos about Market Samurai here.
• WordTracker Free Keywords Tool: Spits out a number for the popularity of a keyword of your choice. Search volume numbers can be compared to find the perfect niche, or to choose keywords for your blog posts.
• Google Adwords Tool: A tool to help you decide what keywords to use for your Adwords campaigns. You can also check to see the popularity of certain keywords and the competition for ads for those keywords as well.

Advertising Stuff

• Google Adsense: Make money by placing relevant ads on your website that are generated from advertisers using Google Adwords. This is free to use, but you have to register for an account.
• Google Adwords: If you want to begin advertising on Google, you can select keywords and locations and you pay each time someone clicks on your advertisement.

Email Subscriptions & Marketing

• Aweber: The internet’s most powerful email opt-in service and email marketing/broadcasting tool. This is what I use to build my email list.

Testing Results

• Google Analytics: Google’s free website tracking and analytical tool. A must have for anyone with any type of website.
• Clicktale: You can use clicktale to watch actual recordings of how people use your website. It is actually like watching their own computer screen, so you can then optimize your website if you don’t like what you see. You can view a small sample of website viewers for free. It will cost more for a larger sample.
• Google Optimizer: This is another free tool from google where you can test different webpages of the same content, only changing one or two things, so you can see which one works/converts best. It’s basically a website optimizer testing tool.

Outsourcing Work

• Elance: Hired service for just about anything you can think of.
• DesignCrowd: This is a unique website that you can use if you need a logo,website and business card design. It’s in a contest format. You submit the description of what you want and your budget for each project, and designers will compete against each other to win your project.
• Virtual Staff Finder: I just recently hired a full-time VA and this is where I got him. Virtual Staff Finder is the best and quickest headhunter service on the web if you’re looking for high quality VAs for anything you want done by someone else for your online business. It’s run by my buddy Chris Ducker and I highly recommend it.

Books

• The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss, Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich: Pretty much the most awesome book in the entire world. I reference this quite a bit in my posts.
• ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse: The best book about blogging from the number one online blogger, Darren Rowse.
• Moonlighting on the Internet by Yanik Silver: I also own this book and it’s really what inspired me to go full time working online. I finished it in 1 day because it’s so good.
• Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson: I reference this book a lot here on the Smart Passive Income Blog because there are so many gems in this book that I model my business from.

For Capturing Video and Screencasts

• Camtasia for Mac - for screen captures
• Camtasia for PC (Camtasia Studio) – for screen captures
• Omnidazzle – to draw on screen

Content Writing for YoungCEO.net

• InfoBarrel - Since eHow’s writer’s compensation program died, Infobarrel is my recommended ad revenue sharing site to write for. The new author box alone is worth signing up for.

iPhone Applications

• How to Create iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience: The most extensive eBook guide to getting your iPhone app ideas from your brain into an iPhone, without having experience on touching codes! Tons of free tutorials &  bonuses to go along to ensure you achieve your Iphone app and sell on Itunes/Apple Store.

Niche Sites

• Blogging to the bank: This Million Dollar Blogging Blueprint works better than any other blogging method on the internet.So if you’ve already got a blog that is struggling to earn a few dollars or you’re sick of spending thousands of dollars on Google Adwords or other paid advertising
• The Niche Site Duel Hub: This is where I and 18 other people share their journey of building a niche site from scratch and doing our best to rank #1 in Google and make money. Check out how I got my niche site to #1 and earning an income in about 2 months!
• THE Backlinking Strategy That Works: One of my most popular posts which goes into detail about my backlinking strategy and how I was able to climb a brand new niche site to #1 in Google.
• The Best Spinner: The #1 Article spinning software that saves a ton of time by allowing you to easily reword articles that you’ve already written so you can submit them to multiple directories online without worrying about duplicate content.
• Unique Article Wizard: The tool that I use (along with The Best Spinner, above) that generates hundreds of thousands of backlinks. Check out the video about how it’s used in The Backlinking Strategy That Works (above).
• Blog Blueprint: This piece of software generates high quality backlinks to your websites fast – up to 20 per day. For more information about how it’s used, check out The Backlinking Strategy That Works (above).