Bluehost and WordPress – Bluehost is a web hosting company  and one of the 20 largest web hosts hosting over 2 million sites. The company has its servers in the U.S. and one of the most reliable and affordable hosting providers.

WordPress.org is a free content management system (CMS) website builder and makes up about 27% of all sites on the web.

We used the Astra theme with a few custom colors and fonts on our website with some essential Plugins to keep things running smooth and safe.

Plugins are small bits of code that can be added that gives a website additional features and functionality.

All you need is your own domain name and of course web hosting to get things up and running

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Create and Go – We found their free tutorials easy to digest and liked their style training so we decided they were the best bet for learning proper blog setup and how to monetize a blog.

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Zazzle.com – We found this POD platform a few years back and it was the easiest one to get started to publish some of our designs to make passive income online. You just create a free account, set up and organize your storefront and start creating your designs on thousands of popular products.

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Clarke Courses – The best tutorials and courses for success on the Zazzle print on demand platform. Elke and her daughter Jen teach everything from everyday motivational mindset to eventual business owner success and helping people create a dream lifestyle. They are all over social media and have their own podcast.

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Youtube – a great and common place to look up and search for instructional videos. We have saved thousands on car, truck and appliance repairs alone using this free resource. 

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Pinterest – Pinterest is fantastic image sharing and social media search engine where you can create boards from pins that you love and use for inspiration for any project.

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Pixabay – A stock image and photography site with a lot of images that allows you to use the images freely on your blog without any credit to them or the original owner. Where possible it’s good to give credit to the owner.  Note that there are different rules for commercial use and how they can be used. An example is if you use the images to create a physical product. Also feel free to use your own photos if they are of a good quality and are relevant to your article.

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