Welcome to my resources page. Below I have a list of my favorite tools, services, books and other products that I regularly use in my business and life. I hope this helps you as you’re seeking out different resources. Having the right tools will help you on your journey to accomplish your goals and it may also save you time, money and energy.
Disclosure - I have affiliate links listed for some of the services and products below. Those are my favorites that I trust and that have treated me well as a customer. By clicking on any of the affiliate links and purchasing the products and/or services through those links, I may receive a commission on that.
Here are some great things that I use as a tea drinker, but it’s great for coffee drinkers too.
Content Creation, Books & Other products
Amazon Page with Recommendations
Here is a link to a list of some of the products I use for Content Creation, books that have impacted me and other useful tools and products that I recommend. It is on my amazon store page https://www.amazon.com/shop/steveryanonline
Information Management
This is an amazing online form builder and it integrates with so many other apps, including Active Campaign, Zapier and so much more. This is hands down, the best form builder.
Community Management Tools
Powerful tool to help you with your tweets, threads, scheduling in advanced, it’s totally awesome!!
VPN
If you love your privacy, you will love Surfshark. I use it on my computer and devices, both at home and while traveling to encrypt my web activity. My IP Address reveals so much information including the location of where I am. I value my privacy and Surfshark is the best VPN service that I’ve ever used. They also allow me to use it on multiple devices all at the same time. By using my affiliate link, you will earn some free usage on Surfshark. You will have to read the details that they give you for more information on that.
Headliners for posts and/or Thumbnails
Advanced Marketing Institute Headliner Analyzer. If you post written content, ads and/or write blogs, then headliner is a great tool to use. It helps identify the Emotional Marketing Value of your Content.
Open AI is an innovative AI that can help with blog writing, headlines, coding and other cool things. Check it out. It’s free right now to use.
Email Management
Active Campaign is the main email management system that I use. They are great for automating emails, segregating list and they have easy to use sign up forms that can be embedded or used as a link. I highly recommend Active Campaign. I love love love them.
Convert Kit is another great email management platform that I use. They have wonderful free workshops that can help you learn more about how to handle your email. The workshops doesn’t require you to have a paid plan. They also have a wonderful community on their community page that will help you build connections with others as well. They have a free plan up to 1000 subscribers. If you are just starting out, this is a great place to start.
I’ve used mail chimp before and they are easy to use and they also have a free plan up to so many subscribers.
Graphics & Video Editing
This is a great company for video editing Software. I use them on all of my video editing, specifically the Power Director 365 Link. There’s tons of royalty free music, templates and other easy to use features. The link above is an affiliate link.
Canva is a great website that anyone without experience can use to make easy graphics, thumbnails and social media posts. It’s not as advanced as Cyberlink, however, it gets the job done for easy task or if you need something quickly without editing experience. You can upload your own videos and images as well and make edits to them. All format sizes are availble. I personally use Canva Pro, which is a cost. The difference between Canva Pro and the free version, is canva pro allows me to have access to more content, audio usage and it allows me to have up to 5 other people on my team that can use it as well with their own login. The link above is an affiliate link.
Website Hosting & Domain Buying
Name Silo is a very easy to use domain buying services at very competitive low prices. I’ve used them and the process has been super easy.
Squarespace is a very easy website builder to use and it doesn’t require any kind of coding skills. If you need something simple, easy and fast to at least get your version 1.0 going, squarespace is a great place. They are a little bit more pricy but they are reliable.
Carrd.co is a very very affordable website hosting and building platform. They are one of the most budget friendly places that you can go to. They have free plans as well as paid plans. My refrral code is ym4f7r6z
Streaming on Multiple Platforms
Restream makes it easy to go live or use pre-recorded videos to stream to over 30 platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Linkedin and many other places. Restream is my top #1 favorite livestream service to use. The link above is an affiliate link.
Streamyard makes it easy to go live or use pre-recorded videos to stream to many platforms including YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Linkedin and many other places. Streamyard is my 2nd favorite livestream service to use. The link above is an affiliate link.
Gyre Pro is a lifesaver. Since I travel a lot, it was hard for me to find a way to keep longer 24/7 streams going like on my meditation channel. Gyre Pro has different plans, some allows you stream to as many as 8 places at once including YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and others. If you use my affiliate link above, you will get a 7 day free trial so that you can test it out before you buy it. They are super easy to use. You upload your video on their servers, choose the destination and start your stream. This really helped relieve some of my internet data usage as well from not having to stream from my own server. They take credit card and crypto payments.
Do you know other people that could use Gyre.pro? Sign up to their affiliate program using the link above and you can earn an affiliate commission too for people you refer to gyre.pro. A win win for everyone!! P.S. - They even take crypto payments & credit card payments.
YouTube Channel Growth
Helps with your YouTube Channel Growth & can help with you monetizing your channel better.
Administrative & Automation
Google Docs is a great alternative to Microsoft Word. You can type different documents that you need and even share them with others. It’s also a great collaboration tool to use if more than 1 person wants to work on a document.
Google Sheets is a great alternative to Microsoft Excel. Spreadsheets are great for managing lists and other databases.
Google Forms is a tool that is used for creating forms for people to fill out. There’s other options as well such as the form automatically exporting the information to a Google Spread Sheet for easy Content Management.
Zapier is a great automation tool that links many different apps. Let’s say you have a form for people to fill out and you want it to subscribe them to a certain list and then do some other action, zapier is great for that. They have free and paid plans.
Social Media Posting Management
Make helps to automate your workflow, especially if you’re a content creator. They integrate with many apps, platforms and websites. This saves you time. The link above is an affiliate link.
If you post on multiple platforms (TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc), then Later makes posting easy by allowing you to schedule your posts in advance and other tools to make managing multiple platforms easy.
Merchandise
Allows you upload your designs and sell your merch with print on demand on your website and your YouTube channel. YouTube channel must be monetized to sell on it directly.
Allows you to upload your designs and sell your merch with print on demand.
Other General Things
Amazon provides a lot of products on their website and usually offer fast shipping for different products that you need. The link above is an affiliate link.
Buy, exchange and grow your crypto securely with a Ledger hardware wallet, combined with the Ledger Live app. The link above is an affiliate link.
Teas that I love to drink
Throat Coat
Traveling
This is the adapter that I travel with. It works in over 150 countries, including the U.S., U.K., EU, Australia and many other countries. It is lightweight and I love it. It also has smart fast charging. This is a must have.