Running a blog or business? Here’s a list of some of my favorite plugins, blogging resources, and business products that I love.
Curious about what I use for my blogging and business? Here are some of my favorite blogging plugins, resources, and products that I currently use on The Fit Cookie.
Since this is a list of resources I use currently, this list may change as I change things on my blog, so check back often!
Disclosure: Some of these links are affiliate links, which means I make a commission if you purchase something through my links.
My favorite blogging resources and companies
These are companies and products that I currently use or have used in the past and love!
Mediavine
Mediavine Full Service Ad Management, this is a great way to earn money with your blog. I love working with Mediavine, they are a fantastic company!
Quickbooks
Quickbooks offers bookkeeping tools for small businesses. Get 50% off Quickbooks self employed through our link. Quickbooks Self Employed online is a LIFESAVER! I love it (it connects to TurboTax too so it makes it easy to do your taxes)
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an email service provider for businesses, blogs, and websites. They have a free plan available to try out.
Tasty Links
Tasty Links automatically link keywords on your WordPress Blog to make it easier to add internal links or affiliate links to your posts.
DPD (Digital Product Delivery)
Digital product delivery for digital products (like ebooks)
Shopify
This is a great way to create an online shop for your blog that won't slow your website down. You can set a custom domain and shop pages.
Grow/Social Pug
The Grow plugin from Mediavine (formerly called Social Pug by DevPups) is a GDPR compliant social share plugin for websites. Grow also has capabilities for image pin descriptions so you don't have to have a separate plugin for that if you don't want
AppSumo
AppSumo is a store for entrepreneurs, they run regular sales on blogging and business resources at deep discounts. I got SocialBee, Deposit Photos, ShortPixel, and more for a really great deal through AppSumo and I regularly browse their offerings to find great deals.
Creative Market
Creative Market is an awesome place to buy things like fonts, social templates, Lightroom presets, graphics, and more. They offer 6 free items every Monday.
Planoly
Planoly is a visual planner & scheduler for Instagram. I'm currently using Planoly and love it! I got a good deal on an annual plan on Black Friday.
ShortPixel
ShortPixel is an image optimization and compression plugin for WordPress. This helps to reduce image size on blog posts to improve pagespeed.
WPOPT web hosting
WPOPT offers web hosting and website management packages
TastyPins
Tasty Pins allows you to optimize your blog’s images for Pinterest, SEO, and screen readers.
Tailwind
Tailwind is a Pinterest & Instagram Scheduler, Analytics & Marketing Tool
Adobe Lightroom
I love the Adobe software! I regularly use Lightroom, Photoshop, InDesign, and I plan on learning Premier Pro. I highly recommend the photo editing apps!
SocialBee
SocialBee offers social media management scheduling and tools. I love using this tool because it has the ability to loop evergreen content and set content types.
Buffer
Buffer is another great option for social media management and social media scheduling. Buffer has a free plan available.
BeFunky
BeFunky is a free online photo editing and collage maker. Once PicMonkey stopped making a free plan available, I started using BeFunky for quick collages
Unsplash
Unsplash has free images with free licensing that you can use for blog posts, social graphics, etc.
Blog Networks:
Blog networks are a great way to get started with sponsored content partnerships to add more income to your blog. Here’s a list of blog networks that I’m a member of:
- Activate
- SocialFabric
- Clever
- Massive Sway
- IZEA/Tapinfluence
- Influence Central
- Ahalogy
- Find Your Influence
- AspireIQ
- Socialix
- Muse
- TRIBE
Affiliate Networks:
Affiliate programs are another great way to earn income blogging. There are many other affiliate programs, but these are the big ones that offer programs through multiple brands.
Helpful resources on how much to charge for sponsored posts:
Other great blogging resources:
- The Ultimate Guide to Creating Fresh Content Ideas (100+ prompts included!) – Marie Forleo
- Simple Pin Media Pinterest Planner for 2020
- Tailwind Instagram Planner for 2020
