A Self Guru: This is hands down the best place to find and use legal documents for your website and business. I specifically use her templates for all of the legal documents here on VAMICreations and LOVE how easy it is to set everything up in LITERALLY 30 minutes or less! You'll find a full review and interview posts soon. Amira has helped over 10,000 entrepreneurs legally protect their business and I am thankful to be counted in that number.

You can find more about her templates and which ones might be recommended for your business in the post 7 Ways to Keep Your Creative Handmade Business Legal. I'll also be having an interview of Amira posted soon too and will link it here as well. :)

Flodesk is amazing and something that I am so thankful to have found through Jenna Kutcher's courses (see below for links). If you use this link to start your own Flodesk subscription, you'll get 50% off!!! How cool is that :) They have tons of templates, easy to use workflows, forms and email list imports. Even if you're not tech savvy. :) Highly recommend them as I love using them and will not be leaving anytime soon.

Stupid Simple SEO: This course by Mike Pearson is simply put - amazing and is a step by step guide on how to set yourself up for massive success (if you do the work) for your website using SEO for Google searches. He only opens this course four times a year but it is highly recommended. You learn how to optimize your website for SEO, how to rank in Google, how to grow your site with traffic and you'll get a lifetime of updates! I'm currently almost done with this and am working through implementing everything in the course. Later this year, I'll be posting a full review of the course and how it has changed the amount of traffic going to my website.

Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing : This course by Michelle of Making Sense of Cents is a great way to figure out Affiliate Marketing, how you get started, what your options are, and how far you can go. Michelle has made over $50,000 a month with Affiliate Marketing and many others have done the same or higher! She walks you through everything from showing you how to find and apply to affiliate marketing sites, how to stay within the rules (i.e. nofollow links so Google does not penalize you, disclosure of links - like the way I have above), how to promote your affiliate links, and much more to include a huge list of bonus materials. And the best part? You can also be an affiliate for her course (like me!) and be a part of her Facebook group where you can ask questions of her and others who are and have taken the course. I'll be posting an interview with Michelle and a more complete review of both of her courses that I have taken soon. If you have any questions for her you want answered, send me an email at vamicreations17@gmail.com and I'll make sure to include your question. :)

Making Sense of Sponsored Posts : This course is also by Michelle and is an amazing walk through of how she does sponsored posts to the amount of $10,000-$20,000 a month! She walks you through each step, gives you templates on how to set up, apply for and pitch brands, as well as follow-up steps for ensuring sponsor satisfaction and possible ongoing parternship. She also has a Facebook group for this course where you can ask her and others questions about your media kit (see mine as www.vamicreations.com/work-with-me), your email pitches, and to not only recieve input but also encouragement as you work through the course and build your sponsorship networks.

Jessie on a Journey Brand Pitch Bundle is an awesome class about how to pitch sponsored posts to brands with a bunch of templates as well as bonuses including a list of 101+ brands that work with bloggers that Jessie built and adds to continuously. She has a number of other courses that I have not had the chance to take but will in the future to include: how to start your own travel company, affiliate marketing, how to turn your blog into a profitable business, one-on-one blogging consultation, brand pitch success where she takes your proposal and helps you create a successful pitch, how to use facebook ads successfully, how to get paid to travel, and more! I will be posting an interview of Jessie soon, stay tuned! :)

Social Media Growth:

Jenna Kutcher is absolutely amazing entrepreneur and has grown her business into a 7 figure business from a Craig's list camera. She has done a majority of it using social media. Her courses for Pinterest, Instagram, Email Marketing, Podcast, and Photography are all superbly done, step-by-step blueprints for you to grow your business. I'm going through several of them now and will be reviewing them later this year once I have the chance to see how the changes have grown my accounts. Her honest and refreshing way of teaching is like she is sitting there with you, walking you through everything. :). And if you're looking for free mentorship, her podcast is one of the top rated in the USA and always has wonderful tidbits and information about business growth, development, and so much more!

Mom Makes Cents' McKinzie Bean has a number of great classes for you to take, I'm still working and reworking my way through these. Most of hers are via video as she walks you through everything from Pinterest, to email, to affiliate marketing using Pinterest and more!

Pinterest Primer is a FREE (yep Free!) class that shows you how to set up Pinterest, schedule like a pro, create viral pins, and more.

Pin-to-Profits is a great starter course all about how to use Pinterest with affiliate marketing to create your own business. McKinzie goes through how to set up your business Pinterest account, how to create rich pins, how to optimize your account and create viral pins, how to create traffic to your website and she gives some great bonuses like Canva Templates, free stock photos and more.

Pin-to-Profits Affiliate Marketing is another great course by MicKinzie which focuses on Affiliate Marketing using Pinterst. Here she takes you through how to build your Pinterest Profile, how to create and optimize your Pinterest profile and pins, branding, implementing the course to create affiliate pins, and Pinterest Tips for Bloggers. This is a great course to learn all about Pinterest and what you do with it using both affiliate marketing and creating traffic to your website.

Pin-to-Profits Promoted Pins Promoted Pins goes well with the Affiliate Marketing course as this course teaches you all about how to create successful Promoted Pins campaigns in Pinterest that will allow you to greatly increase your reach with Pinterest. Promoted Pins have nearly doubled my traffic to this website and increased my reach for each article I promote. I'm going through this one again to make sure I am impletementing everything and to add on what I have already done.

Pin-to-Profits List Building is all about how to build your email list. McKinzie delves into how to create opt-ins and lead magnets, build a landing page, what sales funnels are and how to do them effectively, as well as some advanced strategies and a ton of bonuses to include a number of PDFs and templates to start building your email list. Email list building is something that I have heard time and time again from many bloggers and online businesses is so important to start building and growing from day 1 of your business.

Pin-to-Profits Bundle is a great bundle (and what I bought) to have all five classes while saving some money. The classes included in this bundle are Pin-to-Profits Foundations, Affiliate Marketing, List Building, Promoted Pins, and Tailwind. I had bought the Affiliate Marketing course first and loved it so much that I got the bundle and have been using it continually. McKinzie goes through her courses and updates them continuously and you have these courses for a lifetime. :)

McKinzie also has a Mom Blogging Mentor Ebook that is a step-by-step roadmap for how to start and grow. If you are looking for something more than just the ebook, she also has a book and a course Mom Blogging Mentor Ebook and Course that is a perfect combination for new mommy bloggers with 8 modules to help you set up and get started with mini-courses for all of the bundle classes.

Jessie on a Journey provides a Blog Audit that I highly recommend. I requested one for my website and her blueprint has helped greatly improve it. She looks at your website as well as social media accounts to show you specifically what it takes to grow and what you can improve to gain more traffic and also how use it to better monitize your website. I loved having her do my audit, learned alot, and will probably do another one in a couple of months to see how I have improved as well as see what else I can improve.

Canva is where I create a lot of my social media posts and most of it is free. Combine Canva with your photographs or any number of websites you can find free downloadable photographs for your site and you have some of the perfect social media posts. Don't forget to add them to each of your posts so you can have them for your readers to share.

Tailwind : This tool is amazing and has resulted in a SIGNIFICANT increase in my Pinterest profile growth! It is the ONLY scheduling tool I will use for my social media accounts. I will have an interview of a Tailwind POC to answer all of your questions about Tailwind, to include new features that are coming out, what to expect in the future of Tailwind , how they work with social media (very closely with Facebook and Instagram), and many more! A second article on a step-by-step tutorial on how to set Tailwind up for your use is in the drafting stages now.

The Tailwind Communities for Pinterest and scheduling are done in a way where you can literally devote an hour of your weekend to it and have set up your promotions on Pinterest and Instagram for the week! That is a HUGE time saver! An on top of that, it helps with figuring out the right times for both and the best hashtags for Instagram. Currently, I have focused on Pinterest (0-425,000 views a month and 100 to 1,200 followers and growing every day), but while pinning you can also post on Facebook and Twitter! I need to explore those two options more as well as get better at using it to post with Instagram.

Craftsy This is an amazing store and resource that has everything from crochet/knitting kits to indie yarns, patterns, classes, sculpting equipment, sewing equipment and kits, everythign a maker wants and Craftsy ...this has it's own special article (found here - a tutorial of how to sign up for bluprint and a 30 day review of what is offered) as it is quite simply an amazing resource of classes and so much more!!! You can check it out yourself for a week free! There is one more article in the works for you about Bluprint - about the yarn/pattern kits I have bought and used from Bluprint - such fun and highly recommend!!!!

Etsy : This store is absolutely amazing and one of my favorite stores as I LOVE supporting others who create some beautiful pieces of art. You will find that a lot of my recommendations for patterns, yarns, dragons, and so much more will come from here.