The Tools I use (and recommend)

Next you can see some of the tools I use to create sites. No particular order and there are a some others I’ll be posting about later on.

XsitePro
I used to create my sites in Dreamweaver but now, I honestly couldn’t live without XsitePro. It’s so easy to create sites with this thing. I don’t particuallry use it to create Adsense sites but sales pages, squeeze pages, mini stores and even private members areas.

One of the feautres I like the most is the Affiliate Wizard which lets you organize all your affiliates programs and links. I have all my zillion affiliates programs links in one place and add links to my sites quite easy.

12All Email Marketing System
Another tools I used every single day. I now most people go for aWeber and maybe I’ll do it in the future, just to test it, but I do preffer to have a tool I can own and avoid the regular payments.

12all is fantastic for creating and managing newsletters.You can set autoresponders, schedule emails and set up filters very easily. It has work great for me.

Amember
I manage all my sales with amember. Memberships, ebooks, software, online guides and even sales of phisical goods (perfumes). I like the fact that I can organize all my ecommerce actions from one single software.

It’s easy to manage, it have already plugins for practically all the payments processors and you can get extra plugins for other popular content creation tools (like Joomla, vBulletin, Wordpress, etc)

Real Action Profits System
I have to say I’m still new on creating sites with RAP. I love the fact that everything can be done from one application and the way affiliate system work. You can give 100% of comissions directly deposited in your affiliates paypal account. Great to create viral sites.

NameCheap
Here is were I buy and manage my domains. I like to keep my domains and sites in different places as you can reorganize everything if a host is starting to give problems.

I’m Hosted
One of my host. I like the great space they give. However they are not as reliable as I would like. A good choice to have a low cost hosting service.

Odsol
This is my most used hosting service. I’ve been working with them for years and years. They have a great customer service which is one of the most important things to look for in a hosting provider.

000WebHost
I found this one recently. I’m still test it but as is a free service providing as much as the paid ones (php, sql, cpanel, etc). I wanted to post it. So far I’ve not get any problem with them so it could be the choice to go in the future.

Wordpress
As you can see I’m using wordpress in my blog and I also recommend it to my customers even if they want to build a simple “brochure site”. It’s easy to update, great to expand and if you use it right, visitor will come just by adding good content.

OpenAds
I use this to manage the ads I show on my sites and for ads I show in ad networks. It took me one day to figure out how it works and it has become the tool to go with in order to create and manage an ad campaign the right way.

Paypal
I get most of my orders via Paypal and 2CO. Now 2CO accept Paypal but I still use both to avoid keep my funds in just one place and to build up a good “transactions history” (you never know). Very good service if you don’t count the times I have to give refunds for stolen identity. I haven’t got any problems on my phisical sale though

2Checkout
Great if you can’t get a Paypal account (at first I couldn’t charge with Paypal from Ecuador). As always you can get chargebacks and stuff but this has happend only on digital goods so I can afford it. Good service, good tool.

Moneybookers
My sales with system are less than 10%. Which means that if I wouldn’t been using it I’ll be lossing 10% of my sales. I love the fact that they send the funds directly to my bank account.

eGold
I stopped to use eGold recently as Omnipay and other exchange service don’t work anymore. So I have USD 300 sitting there. If anyone like to buy some just let me know.