Use these tools to create and grow your online business.

Website Builders

WordPress – A freeware open source blogging platform. It’s also a content management system and can create static web pages just like any “site builder” software. Wordpress is usually included with your hosting. Log into your control panel, click on the Fantastico icon and you’ll find it, ready to be installed.

Semiologic Pro – This Wordpress templates automatically creates search engine friendly page titles, meta tags, links, urls, categories and tags. Plus it adds all sorts of SEO related plugins for your blog. By default Wordpress installs only 2 plugins, last I checked. Semiologic installs a tried and trusted 63. Especially useful are the plugins for spreading the word to social bookmarking sites, social news sites, and RSS subscription services.

XSite Pro – Windows software with hundreds of templates and graphics for an original design. You can add audio and video with just a few clicks. You get a mobile phone friendly version of your site. Live news feeds. Easy to insert PPC and Amazon ads. And hundreds of new features to keep your visitors happy.

PLR Articles and eBooks

Article Underground – Jumpstart the content for your all your websites and blog. Members get 400 PLR articles per month. You can modify them however you want. You’ll also get dozens of training videos, blogs for incoming links, SEO advice and a private members site full of friends, so you’ll never get stuck.

Drop Shipping

OneSource Advantage – How do you find real authentic wholesalers? The search engines? Forget it! They’re full of middlemen, marking up the goods, leaving smaller margins for you. If you’re looking for wholesale goods, and I mean real wholesale products – without any of the middlemen – then the OneSource Catalog has everything you’ll need.