RECOMMENDATIONS

Welcome to the Recommendations page of LynSire blog and YouTube channel! Over the years I have used a number of products that have helped me transform every area of my life. I’ve explored online courses, read books, used a lot of tools and resources to help me grow my online business. I get asked often what I use and personally recommend, which is why I thought it’d be useful to share with you the resources that I have used.

This page contains all of the best resources that I have used so that you can always come to improve different aspects of your life. Whether you’re a blogger or YouTuber, or want to live a cruelty-free, vegan lifestyle – this page provides tools and resources to help you make it happen.

Disclosure: There are some affiliate links below and I may receive commissions for purchases made through links in this post, but these are all products I highly recommend. I won’t put anything on this page that I haven’t verified and/or personally used.

Canon EOS 70D Camera – The camera that I use for my photos and videos. The quality is amazing. There’s also a few useful books on this particular camera: this one and this one. It came with a 18-135mm lens.

Canon 50mm Lens – The lens I use for close-ups, and for a background blurry effect.

Rode VideoMic – The microphone I use with my Canon 70D camera. I use it for all my YouTube videos.

Canon G7 X Mark II – My newest, and current camera for my Spanish vlog channel. It’s small and lightweight so it’s perfect for travel photography.

MeFOTO Tripod – I had to buy a stronger tripod to hold the Canon 70D camera when I record videos for my beauty channels for my English channel and my Spanish channel. I have the gold tone tripod but it’s available in different colors.

Wireless Remote Control – This is the camera remote control I use. It’s easier to use this when I record a video or take photos and I don’t have to be standing up to reach the camera to press the record button.

Camera Battery – I have two extra back up batteries. These are generic but work just as good as the Canon brand (plus they’re much cheaper).

Koolertron Camera Backpack – The backpack that I have to carry around my Canon 70D camera. It has many compartments, it has a space to take a small laptop, and I can even attach my tripod to the bottom.

Ring Light – Similar to the one I have, mine is also by the brand Neewer. The ring circle I bought for better light quality. An affordable alternative to the original Diva ring light. I also bought the ring light diffusion cloth for a softer light effect.

SD Cards –  I have several to record and take photos.

Adobe Premiere – I use Premiere to edit all of my videos. It’s available for Mac and Windows. If you’re a beginner and have Windows I recommend Windows Movie Maker which is free and easy to learn.

WD My Passport Driver – I use a 2 TB hard drive to have extra storage for pictures and videos.

Toddy Screen Cloth – Ii came as a 3-pack and each one is a different pattern. They work really well to clean your laptop, iPhone, and iPad screen.

Faux Sheepskin – This is the texture I use to take many of my beauty product photos. I also use this in some my favorites videos in the background. You can see it in my May Favorites blog post.

Marble film vinyl– I put this on a white board to have ready when I take product photos for my blog or Instagram. This is the same sticker I have on my laptop. See this sticker on my Instagram photo.

Other items I will consider buying in the near future: Portable dressing tent, floral camera strap, Tripod dolly, Dolly Slider, Yeti microphone, any of these lights LimoStudio Softbox Light, StudioPRO Lighting Kit, Neewer Softbox lighting kit, or LimoStudio Lighting Kit, Neewer lighting reflector kit, and a Drone would be nice haha!

BLOG RELATED RESOURCES

Blogger.com – (I currently use WordPress, but Blogger is a great way to start) Blogger is a popular blogging platform and this is what I use to run this blog. It’s 100% free and easy to set up. It comes with handy free templates/ themes and gadgets/ widgets included.

My Blogger Themes – This site is great if you want to have other options for your blog design. This site offers a great selection of themes. Personally I like the themes available in the ‘Elegant’ and ‘Simple’ categories.

ConvertKit – This is the service I use to send out newsletters and freebies to my subscribers. It’s easy to use and free up to 2,000 subscribers.

Cursors-4U – This is the website I use to find cute cursors. I like to change my cursor depending on the holiday, have a flower cursor, or anything else that is cute.

DaFont – The site that I use the most to find beautiful fonts for my blog posts and videos.

Gleam – What I use to host giveaways. You can add multiple ways for your readers/viewers to participate. My favorite one so far, and so easy to use.

Izea – Get paid for being a creator as a blogger. With Izea find brands that want to work with you, and get paid!

Shareaholic – The site I use to add the share buttons on the left of my blog and also the social media follow icons that’s on the right column.

Tailwind – I use Tailwind to schedule a lot of my Pins at the recommended times, and it saves me so much time.

ThemeXpose – A useful site if you have Blogger and you want to give your blog a whole new look. I like that their templates are minimal and they are free!

YOUTUBE RELATED RESOURCES

Envato Market – Where I find high quality sound effects for a small fee. They also have stock images, and videos.

Famebit – I use Famebit to find campaigns and work with brands. You can join if you have more than 5,000 subscribers on your YouTube channel (they also work with Bloggers!).

Incompetech – I use this site to find free songs without any copyright restriction. Purple-Planet is another good place. For a full list check out my Complete List of Royalty Free Music for Videos blog post.

Soundible – I like this site if I want to find a particular free sound effect.

AFFILIATE PROGRAMS I RECOMMEND

You can earn money online if you join any of these affiliate programs…

Amazon Associates – One of the most popular ones out there apart from eBay.

Rakuten – Also has a lot of great brands like Toms, Walmart, Zaful, and more.

OUTSOURCE WORK FOR MORE PRODUCTIVITY

Fiverr – An awesome place where you can get a variety of things done for only $5.  I’ve used Fiverr for many small tasks to help me with building my businesses like get a photo edited, video edited, get a designed logo, and more. When you use my link you get one free gig.

Upwork – A great place to find photo/video editors, web designers, Pinterest managers, and so much more. This is where I found my bilingual video editor.

Philippine Virtual Assistant Network – This is a Facebook group where you can hire someone to outsource work. This is where I found my wonderful VA (Virtual Assistant) to help me with social media related tasks. You can get almost anything done very inexpensively. Philippines Best Virtual Assistant Jobs is another group that you can use.

ONLINE MARKETING

CC Search – This is what I use to search for free stock photos. For a complete list of image sites without any copyright restriction visit my Best Sites for Free Stock Photos blog post.

Creative Market – I find this site useful to search for photos, graphics, themes, templates, fonts, and more. They offer free goods every week!

Freepik – For free graphic resources. Here you can find vectors, PSD, icons, and photos.

Google Trends – This is what I use to have access to the Keyword Planner and search for trending keywords.

Google Analytics – This is what I use to track all of the statistics for my websites, including visitors, traffic sources, etc.

Google Translate – Since I’m always translating everything on my blog and YouTube channels this is a handy site to use. Another great translator is this one, and I like their Text to Speech feature.

MailChimp – One of the most popular email opt-in service. I use MailChimp for all my newsletters and mailing lists.

The Alphabetizer – A simple site to alphabetize, sort by last name, capitalize titles, and more.

TinEye – A handy site to search where a certain image originated from. Similar to Google Images search.

SOCIAL MARKETING

Facebook Link Fix – This page is useful if you have a Facebook page. Sometimes I want to share a link but it won’t show an image preview. With this page you can easily fix that.

Fsymbols – I use this site to find symbols like hearts, and arrows. This is where I found the symbols that you see on my Instagram bio.

Hashtagify – Sometimes I get stuck not knowing which hashtags I’m going to use on Instagram, I come to this site and I type in a certain tag. It will show me the most popular hashtags for that keyword according to circle size.

iEmoji – I’m not always on my phone, in fact, I spend most of time using my laptop. This site is useful to attach emojis to Twitter, Facebook, etc. using my laptop.

Social Bluebook – Add multiple social accounts and know how much you can get paid by a brand to work with them. You can add your blog, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and more.

TweetDeck – I use this site with my VA (Virtual Assistant) so that she can have access to my Twitter. She schedules most of my Tweets.