Today I want to share with you some of my very favorite time-saving, life organizing, create cool stuff, kick butt business resources I have discovered and added into my arsenal over the years. Bottom line: these will help you work SMARTER, not harder!
Typeform:
Looking for a better way to get information from surveys, to employee on-boarding, to contact forms? Well look no further! I fell in love with Typeform because they changed my business and I think they will change yours too!
Typeform lets you build beautiful online forms & surveys with great completion rates!
Click here to try it out.
Evernote:
If you catch yourself jotting down notes in the middle of the day, collaborating endlessly, or basically need a better way to capture notes, ideas, and business cards. This is the best of the best! I love that it syncs across all devices, it integrates with google drive, and it allows you to organize to your OCD heart’s desire. You can get a free premium with this link. Enjoy!
G Suite for Work & Business (formerly Google Apps):
For years I had been routing my websites archaic email system through my Gmail. It had its bugs, it was messy, and I learned my lesson when the hosting provider I used had a system wide billing issue and turned off my business email without telling me that things had to change. Insert my true love Google.
Google Apps for Work is the best thing since sliced bread if you are a small business. For $5/month/user you can have a branded google account that comes with Gmail, calendar, drive (extra drive space!!!), etc all with your unique domain email address. It is essentially everything we love about our personal Gmail on steroids. Professional, effective, essential for any business owner!
- Business email for your domain
- Access from any location or device
- Enterprise-level management tools (no matter your business size)
Now every client I have get’s google for work. It is the best solution for managing one of your business’ most important lifelines, email. Here is a one-pager with more info.
Simple, easy to use and set up, in one word: magic. Click here to get your free trial and when you fall in love shoot us an email for 20% off!
Stamps.com
If you are like me and hate going to the post office, then I have the solution for you! I use Stamps.com for all my basic mailing needs. It allows me to send letters, packages, etc with the click of a button, tracking included! Just type, weigh, package, and leave for the postman – DONE! I highly recommend it to everyone! If you use this code to sign up, C-CYFD-HT7, you will get a 4-Week Trial plus a $100 bonus offer, which includes a digital scale and $45 in postage.
Yesware:
If you have ever wondered if there was an easier way to send emails, or if anyone reads your emails or clicks on the links you sent them… this is your oracle. Like mana from heaven Yesware has been amazing at helping me save time crafting emails (with templates), seeing who really is engaging, and setting reminders to follow-up so things don’t fall through the cracks. You can even sync your emails with the CRM platform that you work with. They even just launched Touchpoints which let’s you set up automatic campaigns, could they get any better?? Bottom line, when it comes to email, yesware does the heavy lifting. Check it out with a free trial.
One Tab:
This is hands down the best free extension I have ever added to my chrome!! It allows me to minimize open tabs into an easily digestible place. Even better is that I can name those tab groups, lock them (so they don’t get deleted), delete when I am done, and easily restore them when I am ready for them again. Goodbye chaos, hello clean and neat Chrome. Check it out here.
Pablo & Pixlr
If you create content that has pictures, quote blocks, logos, etc. then these three will be your best friends.
I love Pablo because I can easily add a quote to a static background image, add my logo, and then hit buffer (or download) and bam! – it is now in my buffer queue, 5 minutes or less to create a weeks worth of scheduled content. Internet high-five?
Pixlr is my jam if you need to get more creative or in my case most often convert a type of image to another or resize to fit a certain space. Pixlr also has an “express” version to create cool collages, add words, boarders, etc.
Totally amazing! Either way, it is basically a free version of Photoshop. You are welcome 🙂
Buffer & Hootsuite:
I am really big with set it and forget it. With all the platforms we use today for social media, It is easy to go down the rabbit hole of social sharing and over/under share. Thankfully, I found Buffer and Hootsuite.
Yes, they are very similar, but they do have their subtle differences that make it hard for me to pick just one, so what I do is use Buffer for more “personal” posts to my Facebook and Twitter and I use Hootsuite for the “business side” for all my business pages.
These two allow me to be able to find content that I love, schedule to share and keep going through my day towards progress. I love that both of them have chrome add ones so you can click straight from a site and add them to your respective queues according to the schedule you have set. Lastly, I dig that both allow me to see a “snap shot” of what got the most engagement and respond straight from the platforms if necessary.
Momentum Dash
This is another chrome add-in that blows me away every day. Not only does it have a new beautiful picture everyday, but it has these “widgets” built-in:
- To-dos
- “main focus for today” fill in
- Weather
- Frequent links
- My favorite part is it has a daily quote to propel you forward!
Positivity, production, focus… what more do you need!?!
I hope these various resources will help take your businesses to the next level like they have with our clients and our business!
