Resources

Interested in becoming an international man of mystery? Below is a constantly updating list of all the websites, tools, and resources I use to live a global life. From ways to make money online, get a new identity, or build an online presence, this list has it all. If there is something that you would like added, simply leave it in the comments and I will put it up.

Passport Services

VisaHQ- The internets #1 resource for passports, visas, and up to date travel information. Obtain any visa for any country in the entire world.

Simple Ways To Make Money

Ebates – Earn cash back for all of your online purchases. Pretty much free money for shopping online
We Reward - Earn good money for compeleting simple tasks like checking in, surveys, and downloading free smartphone apps
Sponsored Tweets – Get paid to tweet! Offers from $.10 all the way up too $10,000 per tweet. Great for anyone on twitter.

Lifestyle

Gilt Group - Luxury clothes and goods and absolute bottom basement prices.
Jetsetter - Luxury travel items, hotels, and trips at discount prices
Amazon - Worlds largest store. Ships anywhere in the world.

Blogging

WordPress - The #1 Blog Publishing Platform. Free, easy to install, and fully customizable with wonderful 24/7 support. Every blog I have ever made is built with WordPress
WooThemes - Custom WordPress Themes to fit any style and budget

Hosting Services

Bluehost - Every website I have ever built, including this one, is hosted on Bluehost. Its extrememly easy to use, and features 1-click WordPress installation. I highly recommend this service as you can go from zero to fully built blog in a matter of minutes.
Amazon S3 – Pay per use cloud hosting for your high traffic commanding websites.
Dropbox - The worlds greatest cloud based file sharing / storing system. All of my devices (iphone, ipad, home computer, work computer ) are connected to drop box.

Product Distribution & Shopping Carts

E-Junkie - An excellent online shopping cart for eBook distribution. Compatible with Paypal, Google Checkout, Clickbank & several other online payment services. Also comes with a built in affiliate program for your product.
Paypal.com - Paypal is just ok for selling your own products through them, but you’ll need an account anyways to configure with and accept payments from the above shopping carts.
Amazon Create Space - Independent booking publishing through Amazon.com. Your eBook creation is manufactured, shipped, and marketed by Amazon. Amazon will work with you to unleash the full potential of your eBook.
FastPencil.com – Similar to CreateSpace, Fast Pencil will take your digital eBook and transform it into a hardcopy. You also have the option of adding your book the huge Fast Pencil Marketplace.

Keyword & Domain Research

Google Adwords Tool - Google develope tool to help you decide what keywords to use for your Adwords campaigns. You can also check to see the popularity and competition for keywords as well. Priceless.
Seo Keyword Ranking - A tool to keep track of all the keywords you are currently exploring. Well built and easy to use. You can see a sample report here: Sample Report

Email Subscriptions & Mass Marketing

Aweber - As far as I am concerned and I think almost everyone will agree with me, this is the web’s most powerful email marketing tool. Nearly every successful online business uses this service for their mailing lists.

Advertising

Google Adsense - The best way to make easy money by placing simple ads on your website or blog. It’s a free service to use, but you have to register with a Google account.
Google Adwords - The simplest way to start placing ads on the web. Create an infinate number of campaigns and only pay when someone clicks on them.

Testing, Analytics, and Optimization

Google Analytics - Google’s free website tracking and analytical tool. A must have for anyone with any type of website.
Google Optimizer - A basic website optimizer testing tool through Google. Make temporary changes to your website and see which version converts the best
Clicky -Similar to Google Analytics, except it’s much easier to use and has a few better features including the ability to see how many people are on your site and what they are currently doing… in REAL TIME!

Outsourcing

Elance: A outsource hiring service for just about anything you can think of… writers, programmers, designers, editors, etc…
Replace Myself: John Jonas’s outsource service to find highly qualifed and very skilled workers in the Philippines for as little as $2 an hour.
Rescue Time – For you and your team, a web-based time management tool that keeps track of what you do and for how long when you are on your computer. Users download a desktop application from RescueTime that does all the tracking work, so there is no data entry needed. Great for keeping tabs on outsourced labor

Article Writing

Unique Article Wizard: The best tool to easily generate hundreds of thousands of backlinks by getting your articles on the proper websites