Thrive Suite is the best all-in-one WordPress site builder and suite of plugins available on the market today. If you plan on building your website on WordPress, you should check out Thrive Themes because it'll save you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars a month. This website you're on right now is built on top of the Thrive Suite.

WP Rocket is the best plugin I found for speeding up your website. This plugin handles all of the heavy lifting in order to make sure your website loads blazingly fast. Best of all, this plug-in directly integrates with Thrive themes. There are some decent free plug-ins on the market, but they don't come anywhere near this plug-in, in terms of performance.

Short Pixel is an amazing image compression and optimization plugin. This plugin will automatically compress and optimize all of your image files. This is a crucial step to ensure you're not serving up images that are way larger than they need to be. This will slow down the load times for your end-users. This does it automatically without any noticeable difference to the human eye.

Google workspace (formerly Gsuite) is probably the most workplace value you could get packed into one small monthly fee. You get to use Gmail on your own custom domain,  you get access to unlimited amounts of cloud storage via Drive, you get access to Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and so much more. I don't like giving big-tech all my info, but this is just too good.

This is the domain registrar and hosting company that I've been using for many, many years now. They have pretty much the best domain pricing on the market today and their hosting solutions are extremely competitive. I recommend this to all my friends who want to know where they should host their websites.

Activecampaign is my go-to email marketing software. This makes it so easy to grow and manage your email list as you start generating traffic to your website. You always want to start building your email list as soon as possible so that you have a way to stay in touch with people who find your content valuable.

Figma is my “daily driver”. I use Figma to design all of my mobile apps, web apps, and websites. This is by far the best UI design tool on the market today. Their live collaboration features and just overall ease-of-use make Figma a no-brainer for anybody who's serious about user experience and user interface design.

Adobe XD is a close second to Figma. I've used Adobe XD extensively but have recently transitioned to using Figma almost exclusively for my UI design work. That doesn't mean that the Adobe Creative Suite isn't valuable though. I still regularly use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and I haven't been able to give up those tools yet.

Notion is my go-to note-taking app. But that's just the beginning. Notion is also my go-to kanban board program. I used to use Trello a lot but Trello lacked many other functionalities that I wanted. Notion is an extremely simple & easy-to-use note-taking app that has advanced capabilities baked in.