Recommended Tools
All the software and services below are tools we use for our own sites and the sites of our clients. They are all awesome and highly recommended.
*Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and we may be paid a small commission for referring you.
This is the company we use for our business phone numbers. No expensive set ups, no long term contracts just a great business VOIP service. Whether you operate from an office or are on the move get your own business number operating during your business hours and diverted to voicemail or another number out of hours.
Complianz is a premium cookie plugin that automatically monitors the cookies on your WordPress site and updates your cookie policy accordingly.
GDPR rules state that your visitors must be able to see what cookies are being set and opt out of any non-vital cookies. It would be much more expensive and time-consuming to constantly monitor your sites cookies manually. These can change every time you install or update plugins.
This is the plugin we recommend to help achieve that compliance. While this carries a yearly fee, (normally £52 per year) it is much more reasonable than most similar plugins who can charge upwards of £9.99 per month.
SPECIAL OFFER: We can provide discounted licences for this plugin for our hosting clients for just £40 per year (£3.33 per month) instead of the usual £52 per year. You can order that here.
Getting your legal policies right is a MUST for any website owner. Don't fall for "One size fits all" solutions or online policy generators, they may not cover you legally if there is an issue.
K&K Legal consulting offer policies written specifically for your business by qualified lawyers at a price small businesses can afford.
Shortpixel automatically compresses all your website's images without losing any quality. This is an important factor in your website's speed optimisation, which is vital for both your visitors and search engines.
Their unlimited package is normally £9.99 per month.
Special Offer: If your site is hosted with us, we can provide this for you for £9.99 per year plus a one time £5 set up fee. Order your discounted license here
So you want to edit that button on your site, you want to change the colour of that text but you can't find the settings to do either in WordPress or worse the design of the element you want to change is controlled by a plugin with no design settings.
Enter CSS hero, install the plugin, go to the front end of your site, get to the page you want to edit, click edit with CSS hero, click the item you want to edit, and make your changes. Simple!
This is an excellent full-featured service for running a mailing list for your site. Unlike other similar services, there are no monthly fees and five simple tiers that allow you between 5,000 and 25,000 subscribers.
You can set up your own mailing list for up to 5,000 subscribers for a very low one-time price of just $49 (£39). Compare this to most services that want $15 to $200 every month. Why pay monthly when you can pay just once?
If you have never been to APPsumo you really should visit. This is an EXCELLENT place to get lifetime deals on all sorts of useful software to help you run your online business. They have HUGE discounts and regular lifetime deals.
Excellent online service for instantly removing backgrounds from images. Really useful for E-commerce sites who wish to present their products clearly on a white background.
As our clients know we are very big on security at 3001 Web. Good strong passwords are a must for all website owners especially when you consider the penalties for any business who suffers a data breach. So long complicated passwords are always recommended, but who can remember them? If you store them on your computer what happens if your machine ever crashes?
Worry no more Roboform is password heaven, once set up all you need to remember is one good master password. Check it out today, we would be lost without this little gem.
There are a ton of different WordPress form plugins out there, but we recommend Fluent Forms. It is fast, light and extremely easy to use. It includes stunning drag-and-drop form builders, templates, conversational forms and full conditional logic. In short, it has everything you will ever need from a form plugin.