with John and Nadya Melton
Get our newest tips to UP your business and your brand straight to your inbox every week.
By submitting this form you agree to our Privacy Policy.
Resources
Resources
We often get asked what resources we use, such as our video equipment, the services we subscribe to, or the books we read. And we gotta tell you, it took us some time to single out the best of the best. That’s why we decided to put together a page with…
… our Favorite Books, Products, Tools and Services that Will Help You Elevate Your Business and Your Life!
Disclaimer: a few of the links are affiliate links (meaning that we’ll receive a small commission if you purchase through them)
Social Media Prospecting & Recruiting Guide + Scripts
Several years ago, when we decided to take our business online, we knew nothing about digital marketing. Once we started learning, we realized — a lot of the strategies wouldn’t work in the network marketing industry. Not because they’re not effective, but because they’re not duplicatable.
That’s why we started “translating” regular online marketing strategies, testing things out, and eventually, we found the perfect way to blend traditional network marketing systems with modern social media methods.
You can find our Social Media Prospecting and Recruiting secrets inside this guide.
Your Complete Video Guide
Lots of people do videos. Very few do it right. What do they know that most don't?
Download Your Complete Video Guide and Get:
Your Unique Brand Discovery Guide
Struggling to figure out your brand?
Let’s roll up our sleeves and help you get there.
Download your Unique Brand Discovery Guide and follow the steps. Answer all the questions and begin to get clarity on what your personal brand is all about!
Strategic Outsourcing
Feel like you don’t have enough hours in the day to do everything?
Get your time back!
Download our Strategic Outsourcing Guide and discover:
Follow-Up Tracker
Turn it into a Follow-up Book:
1. Download the 1-Page Follow-Up Tracker
2. Take it your local Staples shop
3. Ask them to print this template on 20-30 pages (front and back) and then bind it into a booklet
60 Min FAME Tracker
If you’re not successful part-time, you can’t be successful full-time. But how can you become successful if you only have 60 min a day? Find out exactly what you should be doing and get our tracker inside this free training!
100 Boxes Challenge
Looking to achieve big goals? Then you’ve got to break them down and start small! Find out how to do that inside this free training and join the simple 100 Boxes Challenge!
Boards App Explained
Do you find yourself sending the same files, messages, photos, and/or videos over and over again? Then you need to use the Boards App!
Boards an amazing tool that allows you to organize your content in easy-to-use folders that you can pull from any time you want. No more searching or copy/pasting messages. Create Custom Boards with all the files you frequently use and add a keyboard (just like the one you have for Emojis and GIFs) for quick and easy access.
Ready to optimize your conversations? We created a simple step-by step “tutorial” to help you get it up and running in minutes.
Grab Your 90-Day Success Tracker
Stay focused, get organized, and hit your goals for 90 days in a row.
We know from experience: you can't improve what you don’t measure. In other words, if you're not tracking the progress you’re making, you might just miss the results that you desire!
Next Level Training
Our Flagship Program
How would it feel to have a profitable online business with a truly duplicatable system so you can create not just financial freedom but also time freedom?
Launch, Build, and Grow a Profitable Network Marketing Business on Social Media with the Famous ATM System!
Through five, simple, step-by-step training modules, we'll teach the revolutionary system ATM (Add Tag Message) that utilizes modern, Facebook group strategies so you can prospect like a pro, build a massive amount of trust, and finally reach the financial freedom you've always wanted. PLUS, every strategy we teach is easily duplicatable so you can train your team with ease and help others accomplish their income dreams!
"We just had 51 New Associates join our Financial Firm in January which should put us in the Top 15 in the entire company. Our office is only 1 ½ years old and we’re competing against offices that have been around for 5, 10, 15 years old. Thank you for creating this!".
Brady
"I just did my month end review and my team added 121 new members this month! We grew 45% in just one month. #ATMforLIFE!!! This method is simple and easy to duplicate! Thanks so much John Melton and Nadya Melton for helping me get my biz to the next level!"
Mandi
"I have gotten 3 brand new customers and a new marketer on my team. Thank you so much John and Nadya, without you both I don’t think I would have done it."
Laurie
It's time to ATM your face off and build an MBA (Massive Bank Account)!
Our Favorite Online Marketing Tools
Social Media is great but you don’t own it. Any day, you run the risk of the algorithm changing or new rules being imposed and then you might lose your social equity!
So how do you build your own economy?
By building a website, an email list and/or a text messaging list. Here are our best recommendations to up your brand and get going with building your list.
Simple Website Creation Tools
Ready to elevate the look and feel of your brand on social media? Let’s start simple with these amazing tools that will help you create your very own website, even if you have no tech knowledge whatsoever!
Criteria
Product Description
No. of Links
Customization
Integrations
Security
Availability on Mobile
Pricing
Want an easy and effective way to turn your ‘link in bio’ into a powerful growth engine? Get all your links in 1 one place with LinkTree.
Unlimited
Pro only
Yes
2 Factor Authentication
No
Free
Starter: $5/mo
Pro: $9/mo
Make a free website on your phone in minutes. Add all of your links and customize them to your brand with Milkshake. You only link once.
5 per account
Yes (background, themes, images, fonts)
No
No
Yes
Free
$2.99/mo to remove ads
Got favorite books, beauty products, or just a list of anything interesting you’d like to share with the world? Add them all in Kit and share the love.
Unlimited
No
Yes
Yes
No
Free
Want to convert more followers into customers? Then create gorgeous customized links with Campsite that will get your leads’ attention.
Unlimited
Yes (background, themes, images, fonts)
Yes
Sensitive Content Overlay
No
Free
Pro: $7/mo
Pro+: $24/mo
Simple Website Creation Tools
Ready to elevate the look and feel of your brand on social media? Let’s start simple with these amazing tools that will help you create your very own website, even if you have no tech knowledge whatsoever!
Product Description
Want an easy and effective way to turn your ‘link in bio’ into a powerful growth engine? Get all your links in 1 one place with LinkTree.
No. of Links
Unlimited
Customization
Pro only
Integrations
Yes
Security
2 Factor Authentication
Availability on Mobile
No
Pricing
Free
Starter: $5/mo
Pro: $9/mo
Product Description
Make a free website on your phone in minutes. Add all of your links and customize them to your brand with Milkshake. You only link once.
No. of Links
5 per account
Customization
Yes (background, themes, images, fonts)
Integrations
No
Security
No
Availability on Mobile
Yes
Pricing
Free
$2.99/mo to remove ads
Product Description
Got favorite books, beauty products, or just a list of anything interesting you’d like to share with the world? Add them all in Kit and share the love.
No. of Links
Unlimited
Customization
No
Integrations
Yes
Security
Yes
Availability on Mobile
No
Pricing
Free
Product Description
Want to convert more followers into customers? Then create gorgeous customized links with Campsite that will get your leads’ attention.
No. of Links
Unlimited
Customization
Yes (background, themes, images, fonts)
Integrations
Yes
Security
Sensitive Content Overlay
Availability on Mobile
No
Pricing
Free
Pro: $7/mo
Pro+: $24/mo
Simple Website Creation Tools
Ready to elevate the look and feel of your brand on social media? Let’s start simple with these amazing tools that will help you create your very own website, even if you have no tech knowledge whatsoever!
Product Description
Want an easy and effective way to turn your ‘link in bio’ into a powerful growth engine? Get all your links in 1 one place with LinkTree.
No. of Links
Unlimited
Customization
Pro only
Integrations
Yes
Security
2 Factor Authentication
Availability on Mobile
No
Pricing
Free
Starter: $5/mo
Pro: $9/mo
Product Description
Make a free website on your phone in minutes. Add all of your links and customize them to your brand with Milkshake. You only link once.
No. of Links
5 per account
Customization
Yes (background, themes, images, fonts)
Integrations
No
Security
No
Availability on Mobile
Yes
Pricing
Free
$2.99/mo to remove ads
Product Description
Got favorite books, beauty products, or just a list of anything interesting you’d like to share with the world? Add them all in Kit and share the love.
No. of Links
Unlimited
Customization
No
Integrations
Yes
Security
Yes
Availability on Mobile
No
Pricing
Free
Product Description
Want to convert more followers into customers? Then create gorgeous customized links with Campsite that will get your leads’ attention.
No. of Links
Unlimited
Customization
Yes (background, themes, images, fonts)
Integrations
Yes
Security
Sensitive Content Overlay
Availability on Mobile
No
Pricing
Free
Pro: $7/mo
Pro+: $24/mo
Text Messaging Services
Did you know that 98% of people open their text messages (compared to 20% of emails)? That’s why Text Messages are so powerful. Here are our best recommendations, along with tips on how to use them!
Criteria
Product Description
Character Limits
Import Contacts
Messaging
Credit Rollover
Contract
Pricing
Looking for a simple and convenient way to connect with your team or your customers? Shout is the perfect app for that with its unlimited Shout-to-Shout messages.
*recommended use: your network marketing team/customer base
No limit
Yes, unlimited
up to 750 segments + unlimited Shout-to-Shout messaging
No
Month to month service or yearly
Free: unlimited Shout-to-Shout Messaging
$14/month - 750 Text Segments
*more payment plans available
Want to build your customer text messaging list, so you can keep them up-to-date on all of the amazing promos you’ve got going on? Then Project Broadcast is the service for you.
*recommended use: your network marketing team/customer base
Up to 1,024 characters
Yes
up to 5,000 messages/month (SMS, MMS, emojis, VM, photos, videos, and links)
Yes
Month to month service
Starter: $15/month - 500 messages
*more payment plans available
Building a brand? Then why not separate your customers from your general leads? We like to keep things separately and we love services that are easy to use. That’s why we love Community for our MLA text messaging list.
*recommended use: your personal brand
Up to 400 characters
No
Unlimited Message (SMS, emojis, VM, photos, videos, and links)
Media size up to 50MB
No credits - you have unlimited # messages per day, every day
Month to month service
Starter: $49/month - 500 subscribers
*more payment plans available
**Application may take some time as you will have to go through a waiting list.
Text Messaging Services
Did you know that 98% of people open their text messages (compared to 20% of emails)? That’s why Text Messages are so powerful. Here are our best recommendations, along with tips on how to use them!
Product Description
Looking for a simple and convenient way to connect with your team or your customers? Shout is the perfect app for that with its unlimited Shout-to-Shout messages.
*recommended use: your network marketing team/customer base
Character Limits
No limit
Import Contacts
Yes, unlimited
Messaging
up to 750 segments + unlimited Shout-to-Shout messaging
Credit Rollover
No
Contract
Month to month service or yearly
Pricing
Free: unlimited Shout-to-Shout Messaging
$14/month - 750 Text Segments
*more payment plans available
Product Description
Want to build your customer text messaging list, so you can keep them up-to-date on all of the amazing promos you’ve got going on? Then Project Broadcast is the service for you.
*recommended use: your network marketing team/customer base
Character Limits
Up to 1,024 characters
Import Contacts
Yes
Messaging
up to 5,000 messages/month (SMS, MMS, emojis, VM, photos, videos, and links)
Credit Rollover
Yes
Contract
Month to month service
Pricing
Starter: $15/month - 500 messages
*more payment plans available
Product Description
Building a brand? Then why not separate your customers from your general leads? We like to keep things separately and we love services that are easy to use. That’s why we love Community for our MLA text messaging list.
*recommended use: your personal brand
Character Limits
Up to 400 characters
Import Contacts
No
Messaging
Unlimited Message (SMS, emojis, VM, photos, videos, and links)
Media size up to 50MB
Credit Rollover
No credits - you have unlimited # messages per day, every day
Contract
Month to month service
Pricing
Starter: $49/month - 500 subscribers
*more payment plans available
**Application may take some time as you will have to go through a waiting list.
Text Messaging Services
Did you know that 98% of people open their text messages (compared to 20% of emails)? That’s why Text Messages are so powerful. Here are our best recommendations, along with tips on how to use them!
Product Description
Looking for a simple and convenient way to connect with your team or your customers? Shout is the perfect app for that with its unlimited Shout-to-Shout messages.
*recommended use: your network marketing team/customer base
Character Limits
No limit
Import Contacts
Yes, unlimited
Messaging
up to 750 segments + unlimited Shout-to-Shout messaging
Credit Rollover
No
Contract
Month to month service or yearly
Pricing
Free: unlimited Shout-to-Shout Messaging
$14/month - 750 Text Segments
*more payment plans available
Product Description
Want to build your customer text messaging list, so you can keep them up-to-date on all of the amazing promos you’ve got going on? Then Project Broadcast is the service for you.
*recommended use: your network marketing team/customer base
Character Limits
Up to 1,024 characters
Import Contacts
Yes
Messaging
up to 5,000 messages/month (SMS, MMS, emojis, VM, photos, videos, and links)
Credit Rollover
Yes
Contract
Month to month service
Pricing
Starter: $15/month - 500 messages
*more payment plans available
Product Description
Building a brand? Then why not separate your customers from your general leads? We like to keep things separately and we love services that are easy to use. That’s why we love Community for our MLA text messaging list.
*recommended use: your personal brand
Character Limits
Up to 400 characters
Import Contacts
No
Messaging
Unlimited Message (SMS, emojis, VM, photos, videos, and links)
Media size up to 50MB
Credit Rollover
No credits - you have unlimited # messages per day, every day
Contract
Month to month service
Pricing
Starter: $49/month - 500 subscribers
*more payment plans available
**Application may take some time as you will have to go through a waiting list.
Email Providers / All-In-One Business Platform Recommendations
If you’re ready to take your brand to the next level, we got you covered! These are some of the best platforms we’ve seen and/or used.
Criteria
Product Description
Email Automation
Features
Free Account
Pricing
ActiveCampaign allows you to create powerful custom emails, along with landing pages and forms that will help you grow your list.
This is the service we currently use.
Yes
• Emails
• Landing pages
• Forms to capture leads
No
Lite: $9/mo with 500 contacts + unlimited emails
*more payment plans available
GetResponse is a complete online marketing software that helps you grow your audience, engage with customers, and boost online sales. With over 30 tools in one easy-to-use platform, you can transform your online marketing.
Yes
• Emails
• Landing pages
• Website
• Webinars
Yes
Free: up to 500 contacts + unlimited emails
Basic: $19/mo with 1,000 contacts + unlimited emails + 1 sales funnel
*more payment plans available
Kajabi is an all-in-one business platform for knowledge entrepreneurs. Kajabi makes it easy to build, market and sell your online courses, membership sites, coaching program and more.
Plus, it’s super easy to use.
Yes
• Emails
• Landing pages
• Membership site
• Website (blog)
No
Basic: $149/mo + 10,000 contacts + unlimited emails + 3 products course
*more payment plans available
Leadpages helps you connect with your audience, collect leads, and close sales. Easily build websites, landing pages, pop-ups, alert bars, and beyond.
We absolutely love how simple it is to use.
No, but you can integrate 3rd-party email marketing platforms
• Pop-ups & alerts
• Landing pages
• Custom domain
• Hosting
No, but 14-day Free Trial
Standard: $49/mo + 1 site
*more payment plans available
Email Providers / All-In-One Business Platform Recommendations
If you’re ready to take your brand to the next level, we got you covered! These are some of the best platforms we’ve seen and/or used.
Product Description
ActiveCampaign allows you to create powerful custom emails, along with landing pages and forms that will help you grow your list.
This is the service we currently use.
Email Automation
Yes
Features
• Emails
• Landing pages
• Forms to capture leads
Free Account
No
Pricing
Lite: $9/mo with 500 contacts + unlimited emails
*more payment plans available
Product Description
GetResponse is a complete online marketing software that helps you grow your audience, engage with customers, and boost online sales. With over 30 tools in one easy-to-use platform, you can transform your online marketing.
Email Automation
Yes
Features
• Emails
• Landing pages
• Website
• Webinars
Free Account
Yes
Pricing
Free: up to 500 contacts + unlimited emails
Basic: $19/mo with 1,000 contacts + unlimited emails + 1 sales funnel
*more payment plans available