TLDR: Please recommend some tools for Twitter, mailing list, and selling platform for an online business selling courses (books + videos).Hi, I have been part of this subreddit for a few months now and it is truly a treasure trove of information and advice. Thank you to all the members here selfishly contributing.I am going to launch my business next year, and I am currently focusing on creating my content (courses which will contain books, manuals, and videos). I am an exercise professional, and I am creating courses on exercise programs for specific physical/mental goals.My website runs on Wordpress, hosted on shared hosting, and is quite slow, especially for videos. Would you recommend VPS hosting, and a platform other than Wordpress?Twitter. My Twitter account is tiny, and because I am an academic my audience is currently only other academics, which I will have to transition to the general public interested in improving their physique. I saw that most exercise authors use Twitter as their primary tool to advertise their product and build their community and connections. So far, a tool that I saw many of them use is Hyperfury which can allow you to save tweets as drafts, schedule them, and automatically re-tweet old tweets. This is useful to engage your audience and invite them to your website, and gives the impression of you being active on twitter daily.Mailing list. Almost everyone in that sphere has a mailing list with free content. One tool I discovered which claims to be even better than Mailchip is AWeber. Is there anything else you would recommend?Selling platform. This is the one I'm struggling with the most. Every other author I saw online is using Gumroad to sell their content, which seems appealing as it takes away all the hassle of hosting, streaming, and dealing with the nightmare of international taxes and setting up a payment system, which is worth the price they ask for ($10 per month +3.5% fees per purchase). However, I am concerned with piracy, as I intend to create 6 - 7 courses over the years and basically expand my audience and newsletter. If those courses are packed into a torrent and become available, or even sent to friends of the customer, then I can't depend on this as a business.The alternative may sound complicated. I thought of selling an 'access token' (either through my website, or through Gumroad for all the benefits explained above), a 'lifetime membership' if you like, to my content which will be hosted on my website INSTEAD of just having my customers download the course in a zip from Gumroad. In my website, users will have to authenticate through their account (and preferably Google account to discourage making temporary accounts to share with friends), to access the content for lifetime, including future editions.I will be very appreciative of any advice you would be able to offer, either for the topics above, or for other topics that I haven't thought of but wlll be important (or any online guides). see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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