Tools

As your affiliate marketing skills advance, you will need tools to improve your productivity. After all, time is money.

Here are my favourite resources and time-saving tools.

Autoresponder

Aweber is currently celebrating it's 10th Anniversary and has over 43,000 customers.

If you're serious about building an opt-in list (and you should be), you need a professional autoresponder that will give you full control over every e-mail you send.

I've also tried GetResponse, which offers a limited free account, but I find Aweber easier to use.

Take a free test drive with the Aweber autoresponder here.

Hosting

My 2 personal favourites; HostMonster and HostGator.

HostMonster is the cheapest host with unlimited transfer and unlimited domains. Very important if you plan on having multiple landing pages.

HostGator on the other hand offers many different packages, including very cheap reseller hosting. If you're concerned about climate change and global warming, it might be interesting to know that HostGator has recently invested in Renewable Energy Credits (RECs).

Both hosting companies are reliable and offer a good service.

Click here for the full features of HostMonster.
Click here for the full features of HostGator.

Domain Names

At the moment I have domain names registered with 3 different companies

1 and 1 is the service I first started using. It's cheap, reliable and offers free private domain registration.

Namecheap is my favorite registrar service. A bit more expensive than 1 and 1, but with the many coupons available they often come out cheaper. I find them to be more user friendly and easier to organize. They also offer free privacy.

GoDaddy is my favorite for bulk buying .info domains (great for redirects). For less than $10 you have 10 .info domain names with free privacy. With GoDaddy the private domain registration is only free if you buy more than 6 urls at the same time.

Tip: before buying a domain name or hosting, check google if there are any coupons available.

Voice Recognition Software

Now I know this is not an obvious recommendation. Why would an internet marketer need voice recognition software right?

Well, if you're mostly an article marketer like me, it can save you lots of time.

If you have Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can use the built in speech recognition software.

If you're willing to spend a little bit of money though, you're in for a much better experience. Click on the link to read my review of the best voice recognition software available at the moment.

Form filling, password management

One of the time consuming hurdles every internet marketer has to deal with is filling out forms and remembering passwords en logins (all those forums, merchant sites, article databases,..).
Roboform will simplify all of this and save you lots of time.

You can get the free version right here to get started. As soon as you're making money I advice you to treat yourself to the pro-version of Roboform by clicking here.