Resources

Welcome to the resources page. Here you’ll find useful resources to make your life and work as a digital entrepreneur, easier.

Some of them are free, others are paid. You should know that I don’t recommend things unless I’ve personally tried them or I know that they’re good through trusted sources.

Disclaimer: Some of the links on this page are affiliate links. That means that if you make a purchase through any of those links I will receive a commission at no additional cost to you (learn more at the privacy policy section).

Blogging and Writing Resources

Writing and Blogging Courses

Want to make money writing or blogging? Then you’ll love this. Free and paid resources to take your writing to the next level (AKA, the money level).

Elna Cain’s courses

Elna is a professional online writer and entrepreneur. She’s been featured in many publications such as Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Freelance Writing, Smart Blogger, among many others.

Elna helps aspiring bloggers and writers become successful. In her blog elnacain.com, she offers actionable and useful advice for beginner and not so beginner writers and bloggers.

I took many of her courses and I LOVE what she does. I went from taking a day or two to write a 1000-word post to just a couple of hours. I also improved my writing skills and learned how to make my posts more engaging.

If you’re a beginner or an intermediate blogger you’ll want to take Elna’s courses. She’ll help you grow your freelancing or blogging income, write more engaging and SEO-driven posts, send successful pitches, among other specifics to make money writing or blogging.

If you want to be a serious digital entrepreneur, take a look at the courses she offers:

• Get Paid to Write Online: Free course to learn the basics so you can start getting paid to write online.
• Freelance Writing Prep: A 1-hour Masterclass where you’ll learn the basics to have a successful start as a freelancer.
• Writing Sample Starter Kit for New Writers: Don’t have any writing experience or samples to show? No problem! In this course, you’ll learn to create optimized writing samples that catch potential client’s eyes.
• Write Your Way to Your First $1K: What if you could find everything you need to know to start a profitable business online, and stop wandering through the web to
• Ready Set Blog for Traffic: A complete course full of success-proven strategies to grow your traffic and monetize your blog.
• Writer Website in a Weekend: Creating a website where you publish your content is highly recommended to attract clients. In this course, Elna teaches you how to build a professional writing website that attracts high-paying clients.
• Create Content for Blog Traffic Masterclass: Your blog doesn’t have any traffic? In this Masterclass you’ll get actionable advice to create content that drives traffic to your blog.
• Freelance Blogging in a Weekend: You want to blog for money. And you want to find high-paying clients. Also, you’d like to write better, more engaging posts, in less time. Ok, so say no more. Take this course.
• Fast Track to SEO Writing: SEO is essential when you’re in the writing and blogging business. Learn how to make your articles rank in this video masterclass and start writing highly optimized articles!

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Let’s Reach Success‘ courses

Lidiya K, the woman behind letsreachsuccess.com, is a digital entrepreneur who turned her blog into a 5-figure business, and now teaches you how to do the exact same thing.

She took her more than 7 years of experience and created several courses. Check them out and learn a step-by-step process to build and turn your blog into a successful full-time business.

A business that comes from a place of abundance, and helps you build a fulfilling life.

I took some of Lidiya’s courses and I personally admire her a lot. She is a source of inspiration and I think her content will impact and inspire you in a deep way.

These are some of her courses on blogging:

• Blog to Biz System: How to start a blog and turn it into a business that makes $5000/month.
• The Blog Income Toolkit: If you want to monetize your blog effectively, this toolkit is for you. You’ll get proven strategies and templates to create lead magnets, emails, and content for your audience that leads you to boost your income as a blogger.
• Fearless Content: Learn to create content that resonates with you. Stop wandering through topics and niches. Discover what you’d like and go for it in a consistent way.
• 2021 Blog Planner Printables: An extremely complete kit with printables to organize your whole blog. SEO, Pinterest and Goal planners, income trackers and other printables that’ll help you organize your business so you have more time to focus on growing it.

Writing Grammar & Editing Apps Online

Grammarly: You’ve probably heard about Grammarly, the app that helps you edit, correct, and enhance your texts. The free version provides basic editing insights that prevent you from committing grammar errors when you write. The premium plan has more insights that’ll assist you in your edition to take your texts to the next level. You can use it online or download the app.

Hemmingway App: Awesome online feature that helps you write clearer and more readable texts so you better connect with your audience and make sure your message reaches the target.

Create Dazzling Titles for Your Posts

Headlines can make a difference in someone clicking on your post or just scrolling away.

But it can also be extremely challenging to create them.

The resources below will help you craft attractive headlines for your posts. After a while, creating amazing headlines will become natural to you.

• Coschedule.com Headline Analyzer: A free tool that helps you write powerful headlines for your posts. You enter your headline and it gives you a score based on the analysis of different aspects like word balance, character count, clarity, etc.

• Titlecase.com: It converts your headline to uppercase, lowercase and other different types.

• Aminstitute.com headline analyzer: It provides the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) of your headline.

• Headlines.sharethrough.com: It analyses how engaging your headline is.

Need Someone to Write Content for You?

If you’re too busy or just don’t want to write content for your blog, I can help you.

As a freelance writer, I help business and site owners boost their traffic and sell. How? By writing unique, engaging, and SEO-driven blog posts that convert.

If you want to know more, click here.

Productivity Tools

Tomato Timer: An online timer to use the Pomodoro technique.

Toggl track: Learn how much time you spend on each of your tasks.

Project Management Tools

Toggl Plan

Trello

Asana

Basecamp

Evernote

Coschedule

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Marketing and Writing Newsletters

I know, I know. No more newsletters, please!

I hear you. I used to have the same problem.

I subscribed to a lot of newsletters that then hung unopened in my inbox forever because I didn’t have the time to read them all. And that made me feel guilty and anxious.

But here’s why I’m giving you this list. Newsletters can be powerful tools for your online business.

You need to only read the newsletters that are useful for you and your business.

Reading newsletters within your niche is no waste of time. Newsletters provide insightful and actionable tips for businesses.

I added some minutes of newsletter reading to my work routine because I know that they’re useful to me. The key here is to subscribe to the right newsletters so you don’t waste your time. Here’s a short list of marketing and writing newsletters for you.

Marketing Newsletters:

• The Tilt: If you’re going to subscribe to only one newsletter, let it be The Tilt. A unique content marketing newsletter for entrepreneurs by renowned content entrepreneur, speaker, and author Joe Pulizzi. And when I say unique, I mean go and subscribe right now! You’ll get actionable insights for building a content business. Besides, they’ve developed a crypto coin named $TILT. If you subscribe to The Tilt newsletter through my link, you get $5 USD worth of $TILT coin.

• The Random Newsletter: Also by Joe Pulizzi, The Random Newsletter is a fantastic bulletin about media, content marketing, life success, and random ideas (always inspiring). I enjoy and learn a lot every time it arrives in my email.

• Dennis Shiao’s Content Corner: Curated content about marketing, interesting people, podcasts, and life in general. What I like about this newsletter is that I always find out about something interesting and useful for my business or daily life. This is the way I find out about new trends, brands or interesting books and podcasts. If you want to be updated on everything related to marketing, I recommend that you subscribe to Dennis Shiao’s Content Corner.

• Future of marketing: Extremely insightful content about User Generated Content (UCG). Their premise: “the future of marketing will be driven by the voice of people.”

Writing and copywriting newsletters

Selfish Forever: a newsletter for digital nomads. I’d love to describe it for you but why deprive you of its author’s Ash Ambridge magical words?

Meat & Hair: Also by Ash Ambridge, this resourceful daily newsletter brings the best copywriting pieces every day. Listen to me, you don’t want to miss it.

Social Media Resources

Content Management Resources

Buffer: I must say I used Buffer for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for months and it’s intuitive, easy to use and it delivers well. It has a free plan that allows you to manage up to 3 channels, 1 user, and 10 posts a month.

Social Pilot: I would recommend Social Pilot if you have clients as a social media marketer, as it doesn’t have a free plan and the cheapest one allows you to manage up to 10 social profiles for a good price. It also has a 14-day free trial.

Postcron: A great app at a good price. The starting plan is not expensive and it allows you to manage 8 social media accounts + 2 Instagram profiles, and schedule up to 100 posts a month. It also has a free version with some features unlocked.

Tailwind: An intuitive social media automation tool, it’ll make your life as a blogger/freelancer much, much easier. Although it doesn’t have a free plan, the cheapest option available is accessible and has a lot of features, so I consider it a deal.

Hootsuite: Good for advanced and bulk marketers. It has a free trial but not a free version. I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re a solopreneur, as it has a high price for features you won’t need.

Travel Resources

For Deciding Destinations

Thorn Tree (Lonely Planet): a forum where travelers share experiences and questions about places in the world. You can sort by destination, activities, interests, etc.

Tripadvisor: get founded opinions on everything. From town and cities to hotels and car rental companies and restaurants. Millions of people publish reviews on Tripadvisor, so you’ll find what you´re looking for. Where to eat? Is this travel agency reliable? Are there mosquitos in Tailand?

Find flights, housing and transportation

Excellent websites to plan your whole trip and get good deals.

• Expedia

• Kiwi.com

Image and editing resources

Find Free Stock Images and Vectors

Find free stock images. Just remember to check if you need to provide attribution.

Pixabay

Pexels

Unsplash

PxHere

Create Pictures and Professional Designs

Canva: I love Canva for one simple reason. I’m not a graphic designer and Canva is an incredibly intuitive and resourceful tool. You can create any design you want, and it has the most amazing templates for everything.

Social media preset designs, invitations, personal cards, and anything you could imagine. It also helps you create graphics for your web easily and fast. The free version is complete, but there’s a point at which, as a content entrepreneur, you feel you need more.

The premium plan is accessible and has more features like background remotion, design dimension changing (so you can transform an IG post into a Pinterest Pin in seconds, for instance), brand color palette generation, among others.

Life Design Resources

• The Life Planner Kit: A kit by Lidiya K. from Let’s Reach Success to plan your whole life. Lidiya is a successful digital entrepreneur that I personally admire a lot. She turned her blog into a 5-figure business that’s aligned with her purpose and allows her to have the life she wants. A happy and fulfilling life. She took all her experience and put it into this kit with 35+ printables to organize your whole life. Check it out! Also, click here to access all the free resources for life design Lidiya provides in her blog.

• The Tim Ferriss Show: A business podcast where author, speaker and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss interviews world-class performers. Get extremely useful insights, tips, advice and information from the best.
• Want to Become a Successful Freelancer? Get Rid of the Employee Mindset
• How to Become an Entrepreneur (And Quit Your Job) in 3 steps – A Starter’s Guide
• How to Create a Vision Board: a Beginners’ guide
• The Secret Sauce to Building your Business While You Work 9 to 5 (and having more free time)

Free Courses

• Hubspot: Would you like to learn new abilities for your business but don’t have the money yet? Hubspot has TONS of free courses and certifications in many, many fields! This is just amazing. Go now and find your course.

• The Science of Well-Being: A popular, awesome free course by Yale University about happiness and well-being. You’ll get actionable insights on how to build a happy and fulfilling life, based on scientific research.

Free personality test

16 personalities test: Take this free personality test and get valuable information about yourself that’ll provide you with more self-knowledge. You know, Information = Power. Knowing yourself more will unlock hidden abilities that’ll help you grow as a person.

Software Deals & Hacks

• AppSumo: Amazing deals on incredible apps. I once got a lifetime membership in an app for $40 (after the offer ended, the monthly membership was $25).