Tools I Use To Run My Business

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

• Zoom Clips — how I make my screencasts now. Built into Zoom, no extra subscription needed.
  
  

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.
• JoyPro Timer for screenshared timers during work retreats.
• Simplero.coach for AI chatbots including access to the latest LLMs.
  
  

Money Tools

• For USA — Tiller is what I use. Some of my clients like YouNeedABudget.
• Europe & other regions — Xero
• Healthy Money (my thoughts and methodology on money management)
  
  

Image Tools

• ChatGPT Image (currently 2.0) is what I use most of the time for AI image generation.
• 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.
  
  

Audio Tools

• Vocaroo.com — easily record short audio.
  
  

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

• Claude helps me with so much now — from figuring out which AI automations are worth building, to actually implementing them. It's become my primary thinking partner for this work.
• If you'd like to learn from and with me about AI automation, join my AI training group.
• 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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