9 Necessary Tools to Make Money with WordPress

As mentioned in my other post – Make Money with WordPress: A Guide for WordPress Business, we all need a set of tools in order to carry out effective business with our WordPress websites. Then what are those tools? By the term “tools”, I mean everything that helps us do business, ranging from setting it up, implementing and managing it. And the “tools” here do not only include recommended applications but also some highly regarded services and essential plugins. It’s rather safe to say that almost no business on WordPress can succeed on their own. They all need help from certain tools.

In this thread I will provide you with the 9 most needed tools to conduct business on WordPress. It’s advisable that you have these tools with you after finishing installing your WordPress business website. Because with the right tools, your business will be taken to the next level.

I assure you that, these all are carefully handpicked by me with the advice from experienced entrepreneurs who have managed to make the most out of their WordPress business.

The 9 tools include:

• Google Drive
• SEO by Yoast
• MailChimp
• Hootsuite
• Trello
• PayPal
• Slack
• Google Analytics
• OptinMonster

Now, let us examine each and every single one of those to see what they have to offer us.

1. Google Drive

Google Drive, in my opinion, is the best place to store and sync files online. The most highly praised feature of Google Drive is that it is super easy to use. Moreover, it is accessible from anywhere since it is based online. What are its main features? Well, there are a web based word processor, a spreadsheet editor, a presentation designer and form builder. Due to its a simple interface, it enables us to have coinciding editing and association on documents.

For our company, this is where all of our materials, processes and documents are kept. As there are many teams in our company, this helps remain a predictable stream and allows us to manage processes rather than people.

What is more, Google Drive can also be utilized to keep a record of key metrics and to create monthly report that have simple but useful graphs.

2. SEO by Yoast

SEO by Yoast, now also known as Yoast SEO, is undoubtedly one of the most popular WordPress plugins. Among many SEO plugins on the market right now, Yoast SEO has proved to have the factors to become the number one out of its rivals. With SEO by Yoast, you can easily optimize your WordPress site in order to help search engines easily track you down and index.

Not only can you add meta tags with SEO by Yoast, you can also have your whole site optimized. For detailed steps on how to install it, you can go on Google and find out!

3. MailChimp

For those who conduct marketing online, MailChimp is extremely essential. Trusted by more than 7 million people worldwide, it is a popular email marketing solution that gives you various ways to design and send your email newsletters.

What can you send with MailChimp? Well, it lets you send and keep track of emails, subscribers, examine analytics, create good-looking email templates, and establish auto-responders. What is more, you can also run campaigns that will cope with the work of sending emails whenever your blog gets updated. Customizable sign-up forms can also be created with it, together with sign-up checkboxes with various forms.

The setting up can be handled with MailChimp for WordPress plugin. After that, you will need an API key to connect your MailChimp account with the plugin.

4. Hootsuite

As a long-standing user of Hootsuite, I highly recommend it to you. This marketing tool does the job of helping you track and manage different social media accounts from one dashboard. With the hootlet plugin, you are allowed to share to your social media directly from the browser. I usually use it to schedule social media posts and promote new posts every time I publish new posts. It is easy to use and functions rather excellently without any bugs so far.

For the free package, you are entitled to 03 social accounts. If you want more than that, you will have to spend some money on other packages, but the money will be worth it.

5. Trello

This is another team managing tool. With a system of visualized cards and boards, Trello makes it really easy for user to track how a project is advancing and who is taking charge of what. As an open ended product, it can be customized to suit the requirements of your team or project.

As for our company, we assign different activities into different boards. Inside each card, we add people who take responsibility for the task. In this way, we track, plan our content, and keep records of it very effectively. One of the notable feature of Trello is the email-to-card, where you can create a Trello card with an email. This feature helps you transfer that email thread into a task list instead of letting it being forgotten in the inundated inbox.

6. PayPal

PayPal is an international online payment service that enables businesses, ranging from small ones to giant ones, as well as individuals, to accept bank or credit card payments for the items they sell. PayPal helps with online payments for hundreds of thousands of Internet e-commerce ventures, not to mention traditional brick-and-mortar businesses that have an online presence.

Because of its numerous features such as convenience, ease of registration, security and fraud protection, etc., PayPal has evert reason to be your chosen online payment service. In fact, when it comes to buying and selling things online, you don’t have many choice. And PayPal is guaranteed to be the best among its kind.

7. Slack

Slack is a team management, productivity and communication tool. Slack is used by members of a company to communicate with his team across different timezones and locations. It is no strange thing that Slack is more effective than email, and it can be combined with many other popular online tools.

Right now, our company is using Slack for communication and sharing information. As it is integrated with Trello, we can be notified about changes made on Trello without actually visiting the site. Convenient, isn’t it?

What is more, its creators are very kind to provide customers with beautiful quotes and inspiring messages on the loading screens on the web that never fails to make my day more brightened.

8. Google Analytics

Everyone knows that Google Analytics is one of the most comprehensive and free website analytics tool in the market. But why is it so important? Good question! Let me show you why through its capacities listed below.

Google Analyrics shows:

• Who visits your website – their location, the browser they use, their screen resolution, their language, etc.
• What they do when they visit your website – how long they stay on your website, what pages they are drawn to the most, how many pages an average user is viewing etc.
• When they visit your site – you can see which time of the day your website attracts the most visitors. Base on that you can schedule to publish your post and get more effective view rate.
• Where are they from – in other term: how the user found you. Whether it was through a search engine or social networks or a link from another website, or just a direct type-in.
• How users interact with your site’s content – You can see how many users clicked on a particular link.

And so many more.

With those data provided, you can improve your website content and give readers what they want to read. If this is well handled, you are likely to get a lot of money from your website.

9. OptinMonster

OptinMonster is the most popular conversion rate optimization software. What is great about OptinMonster is that it allows you to convert leavingvisitors into email subscribers. In case you wish to grow your email list, then this is a must have WordPress plugin in 2016.

Conclusion

So, those are all the necessary tools you need to have with your WordPress business website.

After all, it will come down to what type of business you are doing to choose the most suitable ones. But believe me, these tools are highly recommended to all WordPress entrepreneurs who are determined to make money with WordPress.