Tools I Use To Run My Business

Here are the websites & software tools that I've found helpful for my business.

May you benefit from this page of resources!

 

Website Tools



Video Tools



My Productivity Tools

  • Focusmate -- virtual co-working for accountability
  • Todoist -- task-management software. Simple, fast.
  • Google Voice -- separate accounts for business / personal
  • Squarespace Scheduling -- what I use for client scheduling and group call signups.
  • Tomato Timer for pomodoros. E.ggtimer.com is more flexible.
  • Poe.com for Ai chatbots including Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude Sonnet & Opus, Meta Llama, and Mistral.


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)



Image Tools



Online Ideas Collaboration



Online Survey Tools



Online File Sharing

  • Google Drive -- what I use for file sharing with clients and public audiences.
  • Dropbox -- when I'm uploading a very large file (e.g. over 1 gig) this tends to be faster than Google Drive



Audio Tools


Podcasting Tools


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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