![]() It costs $34.95.Įcto – regular readers will know about this one already as I’ve been an ecto (for Mac) fan for quite some time. Still – I’ve paid for this one too and am using it more and more. In many respects it leaves ImageWell for dead as it’s got some great extra features (it allows you to make images 3D, add reflections etc – however the only thing that it doesn’t do is add text to images (something I need). Picturesque – this tool is similar to ImageWell as it is another Mac image editing tool. It used to have a free version but recently it became a paid only tool – well worth the $19.95. Yes you can do all this in photoshop – but this is a much lighter and easier to use tool. It is how I edit most of the images that I use here on ProBlogger and allows the adding of text, cropping, adding borders, reshaping and in it’s latest version the ability to change contrast, brightness, saturation and sharpening. It is a light image editor that gives you the power to do a whole heap of image editing quickly yet professionally. ImageWell – this image editor (for Macs) is amazing. Pricing varies depending upon how many subscribers you have but starts at $19 a month. This is one tool I should have paid for years ago. Emails are delivered in much higher numbers and the tools that Aweber offer are leave anything else I’ve used for dead. Since switching to Aweber I’ve felt a weight lifted from my shoulders. Emails were not being delivered in greater and greater numbers and I was finding the service quite unreliable. However I increasingly found that you DO get what you pay for. I spend around €20 a month on Skype.Īweber – For a long time I used a free newsletter service to send out weekly newsletters to many thousands of subscribers. I also pay for SkypePro which gives free calls to landlines within my country, free skype Voicemail and a discount on having an online number (something I also have). I regularly call overseas and the rates on Skype are considerably cheaper. The main thing I pay for with Skype is calls to landline phones and mobiles with SkypeOut. For the main it is free – however I pay for a couple of extras to make it even more useful. I use it as my primary instant messaging tool as well as to chat voice to voice with business partners and in networking. ![]() Skype – Skype has become the backbone to my online communications. In this post I wanted to look at some of the tools that I do pay for: ![]() However sometimes you get what you pay for in life and as a blogger wanting to build your blogging into a business there are some things that can be well worthwhile paying for. There are so many free applications and services available for bloggers that many of us get into a mindset of being anti paying for anything.
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