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BEN'S TOOLSHED
The best apps, gadgets, and resources for creating and managing
your visual content and digital marketing – all in one place.
your visual content and digital marketing – all in one place.
Products that I use and recommend.
Here is a list of tools and resources that I strongly recommend to help you manage your visual content and digital marketing. I have tested every recommendation on this page and still use most of them. I’ll continue to add new tools as I test and use different strategies to promote and grow my own businesses.
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Build Your Website
Siteground Web Hosting
Highly Recommended!
#1 FOR HOSTING WEBSITES & BLOGS
I can’t say enough good things about Siteground. All of my websites are hosted on Siteground because the service they provide is stable, secure and super fast thanks to the special tools they’ve developed in-house for WordPress users and the expertise of their support team is legendary.
Namecheap Domain Registry
#1 FOR DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
Namecheap is my go-to domain name registrar. The prices are great and the service is even better. The control panel is user-friendly and I don’t need a doctorate to get things done on my domains.
OceanWP WordPress Theme
#1 FOR BUILDING WEBSITES & BLOGS
OceanWP is the fastest growing theme for WordPress. It’s an innovative theme that works great with page builders, but is best when paired with Elementor.Awesome WordPress Plugins
Social Warfare
#1 SOCIAL SHARING PLUGIN
Make it easier than ever for your audience to share your content around the web with the most beautiful, lightning-fast social media sharing buttons built to boost shares and drive more traffic without slowing down your site.Yoast SEO
#1 WORDPRESS SEO PLUGIN
Make it easier than ever for your audience to share your content around the web with the most beautiful, lightning fast social media sharing buttons built to boost shares and drive more traffic without slowing down your site.Elementor Page Builder
#1 WORDPRESS PAGE BUILDER
A front-end drag & drop page builder for WordPress that enables you to create high-end premium designs, without touching a line of code. It’s free and easy.Create Visual Content
Canva
#1 SOCIAL SHARING PLUGIN
Canva is probably the most popular DIY design tool. Canva allows anyone to easily create beautiful designs and documents using Canva’s drag-and-drop feature and professional layouts.RelayThat
RelayThat allows you to instantly create thousands of pieces of visual content with just your logo, some text, brand colors and an image or two that you upload into the system.
PicMonkey
PicMonkey is a photo editing and graphic design app. It’s most often seen as a direct competitor to Canva, and they do share a lot of similar features and functionality. One area where PicMonkey stands out is its photo editing capabilities.
Optimize Your Photos
JPEGMini
JPEGmini is a robust image optimization tool, trusted by tens of thousands of photographers, that reduces photo file size by up to 80% without compromising quality.TinyPNG
Make your website faster and save bandwidth. TinyPNG optimizes your PNG images by 50-80% while preserving full transparency!
ImageOptim
Removes EXIF metadata, such as GPS position and camera’s serial number, so that you can publish images without exposing private information and reduce photo file size.Find Photos & Creative Assets
Shutterstock
Search millions of royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and vectors. Get inspired by ten thousand new, high-resolution images added daily.Creative Market
Bring your creative projects to life with handcrafted design assets like photos, patterns, icons, and fonts from independent creators around the world.Record & Edit Videos
Screenflow
ScreenFlow is an award-winning and easy to use video editing, screen recording, and sharing tool that allows me to create screencasts, video tutorials, presentations and more.
TubeBuddy
TubeBuddy’s channel management browser plugin helps content creators, brands, and networks save time and grow their brands directly from within YouTube.Publish Your Content
Hootsuite
Manage all your social media in one place. From finding prospects to serving customers, Hootsuite helps you do more with your social media.Tailwind
Save time scheduling to Pinterest and Instagram, post at the best times for engagement, grow together with Tribes, get more actionable analytics.Buffer
Buffer is an intuitive social media management platform trusted by brands, businesses, agencies, and individuals to help drive social media results.
Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means I may get a commission if you decide to purchase. However, none of the costs of these resources have been increased to compensate me and this in no way affects my suggestions. I only recommend products I know and trust. My main goal for this list is simply to provide the best recommendations for you. It’s another way for me to continue #ChasingThankYou.
🔥 Let’s Discuss!
Are you currently using any of the tools above? Is there an app I should check out or add to this list? 🛠 Share your thoughts in the comments below.