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What Tools Katie Goes Platinum Uses
Blog and community helping women embrace natural gray hair
Tools
23 tools · grouped by what Katie Goes Platinum uses
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Tailwind
· 4 mentions · 3 sourcesOther“Tailwind (https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=992347%26u=1849681%26m=50947%26urllink=%26afftrack=) - I use Tailwind to schedule my Pinterest posts.”
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“Tailwind (https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=992347%26u=1849681%26m=50947%26urllink=%26afftrack=) - I use Tailwind to schedule my Pinterest posts. A lot of people like to manually pin but I just don’t have time to do that. I couldn’t live without Tailwind.”
high“And I use Tailwind to scatter those to these different boards that are all keyworded.”
high“I scatter pins to different Pinterest boards and through tailwind, I stagger them by date.”
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WordPress
· 4 mentions · 3 sourcesBlog“I decided to get WordPress.org and I read some not-great eBooks about it that I found on Amazon.”
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“I made a logo online for free, hired a WordPress tutor, bought a theme, domain name, and paid for hosting.”
high“I made a logo online for free, hired a WordPress tutor, bought a theme, domain name, and paid for hosting.”
medium“I found WordPress confusing and everybody, the little research I did online said that you need a wordpress.org site if you're going to make money eventually.”
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AdThrive
· 3 mentions · 2 sourcesAdvertising“I ended up moving over to AdThrive, eventually because they do more of the optimization for me, I like to just hand that over.”
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“Right now, I still make the bulk of my money through ad revenue. My new ad partner is AdThrive, which is the largest programmatic advertising network that specializes in bloggers.”
high“I started with media vine and I'm really love them. And I think they're great, but I ended up switching over to ad thrive because I heard that it was possible to make a similar amount of money, but have fewer display ads.”
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Pinterest
· 3 mentions · 3 sourcesSocial media“But the biggest driver was Pinterest, which I found out pretty quickly when you first get started, as you know, Google doesn't always find you right away, but Pinterest is a search engine too.”
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“she runs a 63,000-follower Pinterest community alongside a gray-friendly salon directory.”
medium“Her first time to explore Pinterest, which has driven most of the traffic that she's had to her website.”
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Zoom
· 3 mentions · 3 sourcesOther“since we've been in lockdown is I've been doing zoom calls and recording them. I turned them into a YouTube video and then I use rev.com to transcribe it.”
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“I just started gray hair confidence coaching where people can either ask me a question and get a quick video response if they just need a little support or they can actually book a Zoom call with me and we can actually talk about it.”
medium“It's a one-off but anytime you want to talk to me, we can do a 30-minute Zoom call. I'm here for a 60-minute Zoom call”
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Amazon Associates
· 2 mentionsAffiliate“I also earn income through affiliate sales, mainly through the Amazon Associates network.”
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“I also earn income through affiliate sales, mainly through the Amazon Associates network.”
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Shopify
· 2 mentionsPlatform“I recently started a shop (https://shop.katiegoesplatinum.com/) through Shopify, where I sell t-shirts and other products that I create in Printful.”
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“I recently started a shop through Shopify, where I sell t-shirts and other products that I create in Printful.”
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MailChimp
· 2 mentionsEmail“Mailchimp statistics from a recent campaign”
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“Mailchimp statistics from a recent campaign”
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YouTube
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesSocial media“you really need to go on my YouTube channel and see the video because then you can see the pictures of how Diana and other people have done this.”
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“I turned them into a YouTube video and then I use rev.com to transcribe it.”
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Printful
· 2 mentionsOther“I recently started a shop (https://shop.katiegoesplatinum.com/) through Shopify, where I sell t-shirts and other products that I create in Printful.”
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“I recently started a shop through Shopify, where I sell t-shirts and other products that I create in Printful.”
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Grow
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesAnalytics“On my Grow plugin that I use for Pinterest on my blog, I make sure the Pinterest description has some of the keywords that are mainly just for Pinterest.”
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“So when I finish my post, I have this plugin called Grow, which is a social media share plugin that's created by Mediavine.”
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BigScoots
· 2 mentionsOther“BigScoots (https://www.bigscoots.com/portal/?affid=928) - this is my hosting company and they have the best customer service! I originally had HostGator but once my traffic increased, I moved to BigScoots with no regrets.”
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“BigScoots (https://www.bigscoots.com/portal/?affid=928) - this is my hosting company and they have the best customer service! I originally had HostGator but once my traffic increased, I moved to BigScoots with no regrets.”
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Instagram
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesSocial media“So I shared that story in there and I started a Facebook page and an Instagram account and shared them in there.”
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“I market the products to my Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2514681492090866/), as well as on my Facebook page and Instagram.”
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Facebook
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesSocial media“So I shared that story in there and I started a Facebook page and an Instagram account and shared them in there.”
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“I market the products to my Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2514681492090866/), as well as on my Facebook page and Instagram.”
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PicMonkey
· 1 mention“Every time I make a blog post, I try to immediately create before I publish the post an image in Canva or PicMonkey.”
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Amazon
· 1 mentionOther“I do a lot of affiliate links to Amazon, which I have found to be very good.”
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REV
· 1 mentionOther“And then I use rev.com to transcribe it. And then I create a blog post.”
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Wix
· 1 mentionPlatform“The fact that we had a Wix site and a Typeform, there are lessons in that across all businesses that you can use to decrease the reliance on capital.”
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Gmail
· 1 mention“I have some alerts that I set up in Google, in my Gmail. And so if any hero requests come in that mentioned the word hair, I search for those”
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Animoto
· 1 mention“I invested in Animoto, the little video software. I remember I went to the Mediavine conference and they were there. It was $300 a year and I was like, "I can't do that," but I did it.”
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Google Analytics
· 1 mentionAnalytics“Google analytics date for the first 5 months of the blog.”
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Canva
· 1 mentionDesign“Every time I make a blog post, I try to immediately create before I publish the post an image in Canva or PicMonkey.”
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HARO
· 1 mentionOther“I'm also doing a lot more HARO requests. So that's been really good because that's a way for your name to get out there”
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