Hello, My name is Shannon and I have been making money online for the last several years. I am dedicated to showing everyone I can how to replicate my blogging success. I work very hard and I have been featured on some of the biggest blogs on the net, you can 
Hey Guys,
So today I want to get back to a little old school post type, I used to make list posts like all the time and you seemed to like them. I really need to post more here on IBB but I’m so busy these days with other things I can’t seem to find the time!
However today I am going to list off 5 must have tools of our blogging trade. Its up to you all to get in on the goods and start making money of your own! Not all these tools are money makers but they are worth having and doing regularly!
1. Twitter – Believe it or not a ton of bloggers have never heard of twitter or they have simply not found the time to fill out the 25 second form to get there twitter account. Granted twitter is time consuming and aggravating at times it really is a great tool that over time you can use and build up into a great advertising tool as well as a money maker! Be sure and follow me @shblogger today!
2. Facebook - Believe it or not but facebook is now for more then just your friends and family to connect! As a blogger you can use it to your advantage and create an account or page for your blog on facebook that people can become a fan of! Its easy to setup and well worth the few minutes of time, just be sure to update it every now and then so it doesn’t look dead!
3. Aweber – I have said it before and I will say it again, aweber is the best email marketing tool out there. Its easy to setup and use, not only that but I have seen significant growth since starting to use the hover pop up that it comes with! It seriously is worth the $20/mo and I suggest everyone get in on the goods!
4. Wordpress - Really do I even need to list this? If your not using wordpress for your blog then your either Stupid or completely have no idea what your doing…. Seriously use wordpress people!
5. Flip Mino HD, Mac & iMovie - If you ever want to get your name out there on sites like YouTube or Vidler then you need a flip vid cam, a mac and imovie for video editing and of course a little spunk to get noticed! I have made lots of posts on video blogging that you can checkout 
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October 23rd, 2009 at 6:13 am
great post and very informative tools thanks for sharing with us.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
Its easy to setup and well worth the few minutes of time, just be sure to update it every now and then so it doesn’t look dead!nice and informative post thanks.
October 24th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
No.5 is optional but yea I do have them as I myself realized too that its a good tool for marketing through a different channel.
I haven’t done a video post though, maybe in the future
October 27th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Aweber is def a must-have!
October 27th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
I absolutely agree with the 5th tool , people who are not using wordpress are absolutely stupid.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Totally agree with your list. I haven’t tried nº5 and I have just started using Aweber. Great!!!
October 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
i think really it is very important while marketing to have 5 tools with us. Even i will definitely try video images too.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Your post shows the importance of social media. I’ve tried them all more than once with my websites and being in twitter and facebook, for example, has helped to raise the number of visits per day, which has increased my sales rate.
October 31st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I definitely think that you need all of these tools to keep up with the current trend of the Internet. If you aren’t using any of these, I would highly recommend that you start because they are a huge part of what the Internet is becoming
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:20 am
Sure, we should really have these tools to promote and express the things in a way we want!
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 am
For me: wordpress, facebook and autoresponder. Thanks for the post.
Denis
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 am
You put it very well, in fact we have done such an attempt to do things , but in fact the result is a decrease of our visits .. But for me personally, respected video image??
November 4th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I also think really it is very important while marketing to have 5 tools with us. Even i will definitely try video images too Make Money Beginners
November 4th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
You need a good understanding about internet to use this tools! am i correct?
November 4th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
You also use Ning ! It’s easy and can customize well
November 5th, 2009 at 4:21 am
I like facebook the best, Twitter is good but I like all of the extra features you can use on FB especially the create a group setting.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:59 am
I think for every blogger having an account on twitter and face book is necessary now a days. They are great social Networking platform to achieve required traffic
November 5th, 2009 at 10:33 am
This is very nice approach and might be its increase your web traffic on your site as well. me Totally agreed
November 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am
i want to join a college network on facebook but i dont have school’s e-mail.any advice ????
November 7th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
These tools can be more useful for some sort of the traffic. E. g. if you have entertainment blog than you can expect good success with the facebook. Why? Because people spend their time on facebook when they are boring or looking for entertainment. So it is targeted traffic.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
yep, 5 really important tools, but that said, there are many more and each equally important like – digg, technorati etc…
November 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
3 of 5 on this list here. The only things I don’t have are #3 and #5. On videos, well I’m seriously considering to do that but haven’t had the time to do it yet. YouTube searches are going up the scale every month. Which is a very good indication to make your website visible there too.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:12 am
I’m about to start my own blog and I was curious as to what would be the best possible blogging platform to use? I used Blogger back when it was all HTML none of these nifty widgets they seem to have now and it seems nicer when it comes to styling your blog, but I feel like Word press would be easier to get myself out there it’s more widely known.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I agree with all your thoughts posted there. There are many interesting tools that can give you a boost in relation to blog that you write in. This is just another opportunity to get more traffic to your site.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:51 am
You are right that these are most necessary tools for our business. These are really very important. And have all these, I am new here at this blog.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Twitter is a must. One of the easiest ways to get traffic.
November 14th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Ya i agree….All these are the powers of today….
November 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I use 4 of those and perhaps I will start with the 5th from your list soon. For sure these are the tools more and more people use these days.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Hey Shannon ~ These are all great tools and I use them all except for the Mac part LOL … I can’t find the charger/usb cords for my camcorder so I recently starting using my Flip for my videos and it makes them such huGe files that I’m unable to even post one on my site (it’s about an hour and 1.1 gb) … any suggestions?
Hope you’re doing well … let’s get together! Let’s mean it!!!!!!!!!!!! *huGs*
November 19th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Nice set of tools. I think, from those tools, you can expand for more ideas or new set of tolls for us to use.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:51 am
I can see now that you rarely update this blog.
We are hoping to hear more tips from you.
November 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Yes without the use of these website for promotion it will be useless finding clients. Use of these sites will be helpful in gaining great credibility and making our presence felt.
November 21st, 2009 at 8:31 am
Good information for all of us regarding tools to get more targeted traffic to your blog or website.
There’s more to it but one step at a time is healthy for newcomers to the internet marketing world.
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 am
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November 22nd, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I’ve seen many people is signing up Aweber to collect their mailing list, I believe that this could help in online business. I’m going to sign up aweber and start building mailing list too.
Thanks for the tips shannon.
Calvin
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Pretty cool stuff there. i just started my blog. Maybe I can use some of this stuff.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
good ideas, i admit, using all these twitters, facebooks and other stuff can really promote the website and connect you with visitors, thanks for sharing!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:21 am
This article is absolutely fabulous, no joke.I seriously couldn’t have said this better myself.I will definitely gonna try this great post.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Out of all these, Facebook is the one to be on. Sure everyone waxes lyrical about Twitter, but it is full of spammy affiliate links and junk no one cares about.
Facebook has 300+ million active, yes ACTIVE users that spend around 20 minutes a day on the site. It is the perfect place to reach customers or potential customers.
Branding is now possible due to all the Facebook apps out there and if you have a business that isn’t on Facebook, you’re losing out people!
Roy
November 24th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Great article i must say very well written thanks you so much for sharing with us thanks a lot.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Good post i bookmarked this post wonderful and useful post thanks.
November 26th, 2009 at 8:42 am
These all the five tools are very informative for us.I will definitely gonna try this thanks.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:53 am
These five tips are very valuable for marketing good post thanks a lot.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:26 am
This is exactly what that i need very useful tools thanks.
November 28th, 2009 at 10:27 am
These tools are very important for marketing thanks.
November 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Again prepared a very nice article did. I followed with interest the article.
Success.
November 30th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Thanks man, I of course use youtube, but never thought of facebook or twitter as you described in the article. Thanks again, this should come in pretty helpful.
December 1st, 2009 at 9:27 am
Now when you talk to the camera it will feel like you are talking to a person. You could name your new plate-person-friend something silly. That way you will smile when you look at the camera.
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
Just signed up to Aweber. Thanks for the tips.
Joe
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 am
Believe it or not, many blogger don’t like twitter. Some of them said that twitter is not useful. Although, some other blogger feel the power of twitter.
Awaber is one of the best email marketing tools. but it is not cheap. I believe for personal blogger, this tool is not needed.
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:55 am
Number 5 tip is not really essential but it adds up to the tools.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 am
Now I am concentrating on Facebook I even put Facebook fan page 3 days ago, not bad, I have already have 33 people becoming my fans
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Twitter is a must while we enter into the Blogging section. Even though I haven’t tried Facebook Promotion technique, I have heard a lot’s of success stories regarding that.
December 5th, 2009 at 8:28 am
You can make money from facebook if you have more friends!
December 8th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I can’t believe that there are still some bloggers that haven’t heard about Twitter or Facebook. Everything is possible but… It is just unbelievable. I know that there may be a lot of people without knowledge about web mechanisms, but a blogger without a proper knowledge is just like a car without engine.
December 11th, 2009 at 7:02 am
I’ve tried them all more than once with my websites and being in twitter and facebook, for example, has helped to raise the number of visits per day, which has increased my sales rate.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
yes u are right buddy. it is really impressive tool
December 12th, 2009 at 6:20 am
This are really great tools that can be used for the purpose of getting the task easier.
December 14th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I would have to disagree that Facebook is a must have. Facebook is one of the largest time wasting websites around. Not to mention their business model relies on destroying marriages and relationships.
December 15th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Hi,I worked construction the only way to protect my tools was to either carry them on my tool belt, OR to keep them locked up in my own personal lock box.
December 17th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Yes, Tools are always important.Your work would depend on how well you are equipped with tools and hoe effective they are..
December 17th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Twitter, Facebook, Aweber, Flip Mino HD, Mac & iMovie, WordPress are five tools for our trade. These tools are equally used but My research says Twitter is amazing.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Wordpress is great, the others, I just can’t seem to get into.
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
What are the social networking sites that you are registered with?Any sites specific to your country/language?
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Fully agree, those social marketing sites are great web marketing tools for anyone who knows how to use them.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:27 am
These are all good tools to increase our website visitors at the early stage of promoting the site. It is especially useful when we can not rank well in google.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:21 am
I agree with you 100%.I use all of these tools and it works well for me.Nice post
January 7th, 2010 at 10:38 am
Twitter and Facebook are so important in blogging business, but still many people are not aware of the importance of having and account there.
January 15th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Tools are always important.Your work would depend on how well you are equipped with tools and hoe effective they are..
January 16th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Great list, and yes definitely people to take advantage of wordpress and use it! I’ve been using it for 2+ years now, and I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Till then,
Jean
January 20th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Yeah…I agree. The 5 tools of best tools for posting shouts, comments and other forms of trades. These are very popular this days that almost all people had these accounts like for facebook and twitter, may they be techy or not. Its a convenient way to stay connected…
January 21st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Great reference…..I really liked aweber…great site thanks for spreading the word
January 22nd, 2010 at 7:50 am
i can vouch for aweber, i have been using them for years and have nothing but great things to say! thanks for the list.
February 11th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
You can say I am addict of social networking websites like twitter and facebook. I am a funloving blogger. I blog as a profession as well as personally. Aweber is an awesome tool for online marketers. It’s a must have application to keep upto date with the industry that is changing each moment.
February 18th, 2010 at 5:14 am
Exceptional knowledge about the tools, and tools must contain innovative and creative features which help us as much as possible, by this the work which can be done very easily, by using immaculate tools with great features.