Recommended Vendors

At Bourn Creative, we search high and low to find the best tools available to help us run and manage our business. Over the years, we’ve tried and tested a lot of options and listed below are our recommended vendors — our favorite tools and resources, and the ones we use in our own business and highly recommend.

 

Recommended Shopping Cart for Entrepreneurs

1ShoppingCart
1Shopping cart offers email marketing, autoresponder, affiliate management, and shopping cart services. Wildly popular with the online marketing community, almost all of our clients who sell products and services on their websites use 1ShoppingCart.

 
Recommended Email Marketing Provider

AWeber
AWeber is by far the easiest email marketing system available for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s social media integration is awesome and it’s quick to setup and simple to get started. We set up all of our clients who don’t need shopping cart services at AWeber.

 
Get Up to 10 Free Images From iStockPhoto

iStockPhoto.com
iStockPhoto is by far our favorite resource for stock photos, illustrations, videos, and audios… and the one we use almost exclusively for our own blog images. We have an ongoing subscription because we use so many images, but they have packages and plans that are affordable for everyone – and let’s face it, their images are just awesome! With our link, you can even score up to 10 FREE images!

 
Recommended Domain Name Registrar

GoDaddy
GoDaddy is one of our favorite companies for domain name registration and email. Their tech support is available by phone 24/7 and their domain management panels are simple and very easy to use. Plus if you collect domains like we do, they have a great program to cut down on the cost of buying domain names.

 
Recommended WordPress Website Hosting Company

HostGator
HostGator is one of our top choices for WordPress website hosting. They offer fair prices on hosting, have good support, and offer account management through an easy to use c-panel.

 
Genesis Framework from StudioPress

StudioPress Themes for WordPress
At Bourn Creative we build almost solely on the Genesis Framework, creating custom sites and working on theme customizations. StudioPress themes are the only themes we work on for one reason – they’re the best. If you’re not quite ready for Bourn Creative to create a powerhouse site for your business, starting with a StudioPress WordPress theme and the Genesis Framework is our ONLY recommendation.

 
WishList Member WordPress membership Site Plugin

WishList Member
WishList Member is our favorite premium plug-in to turn your WordPress website into a membership site – and it is the only one we use for clients! Plus, additional WishList plug-ins are available to add to its power and functionality and make administering your membership site a piece of cake.

 
Instant Teleseminar tool for hosting teleclasses

Instant Teleseminar
Instant Teleseminar is the provider we use at Bourn Creative for all of our teleseminars – with or without Slides. We love Instant Teleseminar because it is super easy to use, fast to set up, and participants can listen in by phone or by web simulcast!

 
Infusionsoft Shopping Cart and Email Marketing Provider

Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is the provider we use to power all of our email marketing, auto responders, shopping cart, and affiliate program. The advanced segmentation and targeted marketing that Infusionsoft allows you to do is unmatched. We love them!

 
WordPress Website Platform For Small Business

WordPress.org
WordPress.org powers more than 25 million websites and WordPress.org allows you to install WordPress in your own hosting account and manage all aspects of your site yourself from design and content, to plug-ins, videos, and images.

 
Recommended Web-Based Project Management Tool

Basecamp
Basecamp by 37signals is an awesome project management tool used by more then 5 million people worldwide, including Bourn Creative to collaborate on projects, track hours of work, share files, and complete to-dos. Basecamp has made collaboration with our virtual team members simple and easy!

 
bit.ly Custom branded short links for small business

Bit.ly
Bit.ly allows you to set up your own custom short domain for free (at Bourn Creative we use http://bourn.co). Use your Bitly API Key to link your new custom short domain with your WordPress blog and other apps like TweetDeck so all of your shortened link are branded!

 
Recommended Video Slideshow Software

Animoto
Animoto is my favorite video slideshow tool! I use it to display my portfolio images on YouTube and for family videos because it is so easy to use! Animoto’s white-label pro version is perfect for photographers too – Add music, choose your transitions and design, and click a button – Animoto does all the rest!

 
Small Business Social Media Management Tool

Hootsuite
Hootsuite is a simple social media management tool for small business. Review your lists, posts, and news feeds from Facbook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more all in one place – plus, schedule out evergreen posts in advance to save time!

 

 

Please note that some links on this page are affiliate links, meaning that if you decide to purchase using my link I may receive an referral fee. Rest assured that this referral fee is never added on top of the price.