Transistor - my podcasts have been one of the biggest ways I've built authority and reputation. Transistor is dead simple, and has great analytics. Plus, it's cheaper than what I was paying Amazon S3 to host them!
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. Jackson is a co-founder of Transistor.fm; the list is maintained over time, so this entry postdates the page's stated 2016 publication date.
Reedsy - after trying iBooks Author and Pressbooks to write my books, I've finally settled on Reedsy for writing, layout, and publishing of ebooks.
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list.
WPengine and WordPress - at the end of the day, I make money from my words. It's where I've built my reputation.
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. His WPengine link is affiliate-tagged.
WPengine and WordPress - at the end of the day, I make money from my words. It's where I've built my reputation.
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. WordPress itself is named without a link; the WP Engine link in the same bullet is affiliate-tagged.
ConvertKit - my newsletter is where I build relationships, and earn trust. This is where I'll share what I'm learning, and ultimately ask people to buy.
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. His ConvertKit link is affiliate-tagged.
Podia - Podia is an all-in-one selling platform for solopreneurs. It's where I sell my digital products: downloads, courses, and books.
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. His Podia link is an affiliate partner link.
ScreenFlow - I believe the future of my business is in video + video courses. I'm in ScreenFlow almost every day. Sometimes I use it to "hijack audio" during interviews. Sometimes I use it to edit video. It's getting a lot of use.
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. His ScreenFlow link is affiliate-tagged.
Digital Ocean - all my apps and coding projects are deployed here. I like it way better than Heroku.
A page titled 'The tools I use', listing the tools he makes his living with, ordered by importance. He notes he keeps adding to and modifying the list. Named only as the thing he prefers DigitalOcean over.
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Hardware, services4 years
Software5 years
Podcasts, courses, other8 years
Books25 years
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.