Essential Tools - Business Websites

On this page you'll find a list of some of our favorite online products and services related to business websites. Should you decide to buy the products or services we may make a small commission. We are an affiliate of some of these products because we like the products that much. You can read all about our affiliate details in our Terms and Conditions. It's totally your choice if you want to purchase a product or service. Enjoy reading!

1/17/2023


Website Hosting

We've used Bluehost Hosting for our website services since 2019. Why? Several reasons. They have a low price, it's easy to setup, and they offer multiple plans for the specific needs of a business.

We like the shared plan for small businesses since you get what you need and the price won't break the bank. They often offer a FREE Domain, FREE SSL, and FREE CDN (using a CDN is a website best practice). You can visit their site here.


Legal Templates

Privacy Policy / Terms and Conditions

If you are starting a business, you know there are some legal documents involved. Even for your website. (Always check with your legal counsel to know what you need for your business.)

You definitely will need a Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for your website. To do it right, you should get them from a business that specializes in it. We have two favorites for Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions:

Nicole Cheri Oden LLC - Attorney Nicole has many business templates including the essentials for your website. Here is a link to the Website Terms and Conditions template. And one for the Privacy Policy template. She has template bundles too.

The sweet deal: if a template is updated by Nicole because of changes in the law, Nicole shares the updated template with you.

TermsFeed - This is great for those who want to quickly get policies generated with an easy-to-use wizard. Privacy Policy can even be free if it doesn't have a lot of add-ons. Remember to get both a Pirvacy Policy and Terms and Conditions for your website.


Email Marketing

Capture those newsletter sign-ups with an easy-to-use email marketing tool.

MailerLite is our choice for email marketing. There are both free and paid versions. Get the paid version if you want unlimited templates and dynamic emails.

We love it for its' ease of use making it fast to do "all the things". Here is a link to MailerLite's website.


Form Builder for Your Website

Forms are a great way to get information from potential clients on your website. You can capture information for an event, gather priority information sign-ups, use the multiple-page form feature, and the list goes on. Truly feature-rich, our form builder of choice is WPForms.

The WPForms plug-in has a number of free 'get-started' templates with their Basic version. Using the Plus (paid) version will get you more features like connecting to your favorite Marketing integration. The Pro version has features to collect payments through an integration with your favorite payment processor.

WPForms is one of the top form builders. We love it's user-friendly interface. Here is the link to WPForms' website.