Website Tools

• Squarespace Domains for registering domain names.
• Simplero for website hosting, design, and email list hosting. Here's why I chose Simplero.
  
• Delphi for my Ai clone (knows all my public content!) -- talk to my Ai bot here: George Kao's Ai

Video Tools

• Kapwing is how I make my shorter videos with colorful subtitles or a lower third. (Tutorial: how to put colorful subtitles to a video using Kapwing)
  • Why I don't use Canva for video editing -- it doesn't automatically trim out silences in the middle of the video. Kapwing does.
  • When I try to generate captions/subtitles with Canva, it fails sometimes. Kapwing never fails :)
• Snagit -- how I make my screencasts, e.g. the kapwing tutorial above.
• Streamyard -- to stream live video to multiple platforms at once, e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn.​

My Productivity Tools

• Focusmate -- virtual co-working for accountability
• Todoist -- task-management software. Simple, fast.
• Google Voice -- separate accounts for business / personal
  
• Simplero for client scheduling and event registrations.
• E.ggtimer.com for screenshared timers during work retreats.
• Poe.com for Ai chatbots including the latest LLMs from Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, GLM, Qwen, and Grok.
  
  
  

Money Tools

• For USA -- Tiller is what I use.  Some of my clients like YouNeedABudget.
• For Canada -- Mint.ca
• For AU and NZ -- Getpocketbook  
• Europe & other countries -- Xero  
• Send money internationally using Wise for better exchange rates
• Healthy Money (my thoughts and methodology on money management)
  
  

Getting Help For Your Website, Copy Editing, Graphic Design & Technical Needs

• Fiverr (For $5 to $50 you can get logos and graphics created, as well as many other little jobs done.  Could be a good place to find contractors for bigger projects too, by testing their skill with smaller ones.  Here's my video on how I use fiverr.)
• TaskRabbit (hire local help)
• 99designs (get professional designs, use my link to get $60 off your first design -- the best discount available online, since I opted to give 100% of my affiliate commissions to the discount)

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Image Tools

• Ideogram.ai is what I use most of the time. Here's my tutorial.
• Canva for my IG carousel posts. How's how I use it.
• Compressor.io -- reduce file size of images so they're faster to load online
  

Online Survey Tools

• Google Forms (for tutorials, click here.)
• Clients also like TypeForm.

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Audio Tools

• Vocaroo.com -- Easily Record Short Audio
• Speakpipe -- allow website visitors to leave you voicemail without the phone

Podcasting Tools

• Substack is the podcast host I use for the George Kao Podcast.
• I recommend either not starting a podcast​ (because of how challenging it is to grow listeners) or making it so low-maintenance that it's easy for you to keep going. It takes me 5 minutes to upload each episode onto my podcast... because I basically download my best Youtube videos and upload them to my podcast!

Automation Tools

• Zapier -- for linking together many tools, e.g. Simplero, Google Sheets, Gmail, etc. Lots of possibilities in how to automate your virtual tasks.
• As mentioned above, for most of my business software, I'm now happily using Simplero. 

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