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How to Use Tools to Save Time and Make Your Blog Stronger
Today's episode is about the top tools and resources we use on the ProBlogger and Digital Photography School blogs. I share what they are, where you can find them, and how we use them behind the scenes to keep my blogs running smoothly, so you can use them to simplify your blogging life too.


In This Episode
You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode:

Why we use apps and tools to help us run the ProBlogger and Digital Photography School blogs
More than 10 tools that I've found useful for my blogs that you can use too
Links to all the resources and tools I mention

Further Reading and Resources for How to Use Tools to Save Your Time and Make Your Blog Stronger

Recommended Blogging Resources & Tools page on the ProBlogger website
The previous podcast episode I mention that includes detail on how we use SumoMe - Episode 68: How to Increase the Subscriber Numbers to Your Email List

Apps and tools that I use (please note, I am an affiliate for some of these)
Email Opt-Ins

SumoMe
OptinMonster

Email Providers

Weber
Mailchimp
ConvertKit

Landing Pages

LeadPages

Communications

Slack
Trello

Organization

Evernote

Social

Edgar - As promised, here's a video of how I use it:
(Or if watching videos isn't your thing, here's a blog post I wrote on how I use Edgar.)

Editorial and Social

CoSchedule

Other Essentials

Google Analytics
Feedblitz
Canva and Pic Monkey
WordSwag
Fantastical - great calendar app for Mac and iOS
Mars Edit - desktop blog editor
Easy Digital Downloads
E-junkie

Episodes in my recent miniseries on the important things bloggers/online entrepreneurs should do to find success:

Part 1 - The Most Important Thing You Will Ever Do as an Entrepreneur - Podcast Episode 88
Part 2 - The Second Most Important Thing You’ll Ever Do as an Entrepreneur - Podcast Episode 89
Part 3 - 4 Questions to Ask Before Quitting Your Blog or Online Project





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Darren: Hi there and welcome to episode 91 of the ProBlogger Podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and today, I want to talk about the tools and resources that we use and recommend over on ProBlogger. I get asked this question all the time, “What tool should I use for _____?” Fill in the blank and it's always different. What tool shall I use for SEO? What should I use for my hosting? What blogging platform should I be on? But then also questions around what email provider should I be using? What communications tools do you use? How do you organize yourself?

Today, I want to whip through around 10 to 15 tools that we use on ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. There are many options out there and I will give you a few different options for some of these different categories. You can find today’s show notes over at problogger.com/podcast/91 where I’ll link to all of the tools mentioned in this episode, and where I would love to hear the tools that you use as well in the comments of those show notes.

Creating great content, finding an audience, building engagement, monetizing your blog, this is ProBlogger.

Today, we're talking about tools and resources that you can use to improve your blog. As I mentioned before, there are hundreds of blogging tools out there. There's probably thousands of things, if you add in all the plugins that have been built. I'm not going to so much touch on plugins today, although some of the tools that I will mention do have plugins connected to them for WordPress. I'm going to cover all the categories of tools and reso...