11 Essential Internet Marketing Apps for Maximum Dollar Making

15 December
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by nickycakes

Sometimes you gotta get work done without distractions, and many online marketers are easily distracted.  Nickycakes has found the best way to combat this is with a fresh Windows 7 install and ONLY the essential applications you need to work.  No games, no movies, etc.  Most people have never put in a solid 8 hours of work on their internet ventures, and it takes something like this to make them realize how much time they waste.  Here is the list of apps Nickycakes has installed on his work pc:

  1. Firefox
    No-brainer.  Chrome is good too, but until they have all the good plugins, it’s worthless for work.
  2. Leechblock for Firefox link
    Leechblock allows you to block all the timesink websites that you likely spend all day looking at instead of working.  You can specify sites that you don’t want to allow yourself access to during your work hours.  It works wonders.  Put everything non-work on there.  Especially news sites, facebook (you can add an exception for just the ads directory if needed), forums, digg, reddit, blogs, etc.  Nickycakes even blocks gmail since he tries to only check his email once a week or so.  Email is next to worthless for business these days.
  3. Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox link
    Webdev toolbar is essential for any online work that involves running any of your own pages.  The features are too numerous to list, so you should just get it for yourself.  100% chance you need a lot of the features it has..badly.
  4. Photoshop
    Obvious.
  5. MS Office
    The time will come when you need Office for something and will wish you had installed it at the beginning instead of spending an hour getting/installing it for a 2 minute task when you need it.   Alternatively you could get Openoffice, but it’s just not even close to as good, unfortunately.
  6. Dreamweaver
    Best overall web editor for the broadest range of skill levels.  A retarded monkey could make changes to a website with dreamweaver, and plenty of pros use it as well.
  7. PSPad link
    Nickycakes’ code editor of choice.  Beats the hell out of notepad.
  8. Dropbox link
    Dropbox is simply awesome.  It puts a folder on your computer that automatically sync’s with dropbox’s servers to back up your data and let you share it with yourself or others who have dropbox installed on another pc.  If you do work on more than one computer, then you NEED something like this.  Save your work in the dropbox folder from  your desktop, it syncs automatically, and then when you get on your laptop, the files will be there ready for you to do work  at the library or whatever.  This also means you can sync stuff like firefox bookmarks, IM logs, entire “my documents” folder, etc on all your computers.  (if you’re using it on a non work pc, you can do fun stuff like sync a torrent folder to make utorrent auto-download stuff at home while you’re out).
  9. Putty link
    If you have dedicated servers, which you eventually should, you need a good SSH client.  If you’re clever, you can also use it to turn your dedi into a proxy without using squid.
  10. ExpanDrive link
    Expandrive turns any FTP into a drive on your pc so you don’t need to mess with a silly FTP client to upload and edit stuff on your sites.  Why this functionality hasn’t been built into windows since 1995 is anyones guess.
  11. Instant Messaging
    You should avoid using it as much as possible when you’re working, but you’ll need instant messaging for some stuff, especially if you’re like Nicky and don’t use email.  There are some all-in-one IM clients out there, but Nicky hasn’t found one he really likes so he just uses the standard clients.  If you’re American, then most of the people you know are on AIM, and the rest of the world uses MSN.

So, wipe your work PC, fresh install windows, throw these apps on there, and get to work.  No more excuses.

Keep it real.

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