Online tools you need

To ensure your internet business is successful every creative industry business will need a certain number of things. Getting Started   Paypal - Open a paypal account so you can accept payments and ask for donations - The account then links to your bank account so you can transfer the money you make from your Paypal account into your bank account. CLICK HERE       A Domain - namecheap.com, godaddy.com - buy your domain only $10 a year or less depending on the extension (e.g. .com, .net etc) http://www.zandomain.com   Hosting - I recommend HOSTICAN because they give you plenty of web space and their support is excellent. If you are adding audio and video you will need plenty of space. Looking For Affordable Web Hosting? Check Out Three Of The Best Web Hosting Services Available       FTP Software - To get something from your computer up to your hosting you need what is called a file transfer protocal software or FTP. There are several free ones like CuteFTP - do some research. If you are planning on running more than one blog it is best to buy one. If you are only focusing on one blog FileZilla is a free one. http://filezilla-project.org/   Article marketing service like isnare.com that will send your articles out for free. Also join http://www.ezinearticles.com   Training : You truly will make your goal of making money blogging shorter if you get help from experienced mentors    Get started with video. This free site will help you create and distribute vdieo. It's called Easy Video Producer   Get started with audio. Download audacity free and create audio, edit them and upload them to your blog. Here's a video on how to do that CLICK HERE   To save you audio as .mp3 you will need a lame plugin for audacity that you only have to download once and install when you use audacity for the first time. Download it to your desktop. When you go to save Audacity will say you need it and ask you to find it - just click on the BROWSE button and find it on your desktop. That's it!   Building Your Business All of the above plus : Article marketer upgrade to a professional service that will send your articles out to thousands of site. Aweber : You need to build your list and you can do that by joining an autoresponder service like Aweber   Start Your Own Membership Site : You can run your own membership site like this one which was built using Launch Formula Marketing. You get the added benefits of building a list plus having affiliates that will promote your site for you. Start distributing your audio/video RSS - I use www.hipcast.com to help me distribute my audio and video. You can also use the PODPRESS plugin to add audio to your Wordpress blog. Private Label Right Membership - Need content for your blog or membership site? This site will provide you with LOADS! With Private Label Right products you can use the material, re-write it, and use it on your blog - definitely re-write it and don't use it as it is. I recommend you upgrade because whenever a new PLR product comes out I know it will eventually end up in here for Elite members so I don't buy it - that has saved me thousands! Video Distribution - Use Traffic Geyser to help you distribute video across 500 sites at once.   Teleseminar System - Begin running free or free based teleseminars that you can turn into multimedia products and sell. There are loads of different services available. Research the best one for you.