Helpful Online Business & Content Creation Tools
Make Life Easier & Take Your Online Business & Content Creation to the Next Level as a Spiritual Entrepreneur
Here is a list of some recommended tools (& affiliate discount offers) that I have found helpful to make your small business life easier.
EMAIL MARKETING TOOLS
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FLODESK
Flodesk allows you to create the most gorgeous, modern email campaigns. It is highly visually appealing, intuitive and incredibly easy to use. Click on the image or here: https://flodesk.com/c/PAYHALFPRICE to get a free month's trial of Flodesk and if you decide to stay, you get a massive permanent 50% off the subscription fee, making it only $19US a month., which is brilliant. This one's an abso winner, I love it! You can read my article on Flodesk here. |
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MAILERLITE
Mailerlite is a nice email marketing platform that is a lot more visually appealing and easy to use, compared with Mailchimp. You can start a free accout for up to 1,000 subscribers, and you can send 12,000 emails per month. If you have more than 1000 subscribers, you pay. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT MAILERLITE |
IMAGE / VISUAL CONTENT CREATION
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Canva
Canva is a fantastic A Class tool to create all sorts of images and visual content where you can add any image you like, or one from their database, text and other cool effects. It has 100s of great templates, everything from making logos, to posters, You Tube thumbnails, headers, pretty pdf's, ebooks, social media images, it goes on and on. You can customize templates easily, as well as add your own branding colours. I use canva for everything! You can do a lot with a free account, or upgrade to a paid account. CLICK HERE |
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Ultimate Content Creation Template 'Canva DreamKit'
For a special price of $27 you get fantastic professionally designed templates to use for PDF workbooks, cover pages, lead magnets and a myriad of other content creation resources. These designer-made templates, allow you to create modern, beautiful-looking, resources. They are easy to use, adaptable for your niche, purpose and branding, are a massive time-saver. The kit also includes a host of other bonuses, including Instagram, Facebook & Pinterest templates & much, much more more. Take a look for yourself. CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT |
BRANDING TOOLS
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Coolor
Create your branding palette for free with this handy online tool that allows you to muck around with colour selectIons to find ones that go together well and form a palette. Colour codes are shown on each colour swab so that you can use them from there accordingly. If you are stuck with colour choices, or want to play around, this is a helpful tool. Coolor has also recently upgraded and provides lots of extra tools. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT COOLOR |
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Image Color Picker
With this free online tool, you can upload a photo / image with colours that you like, then hover over the various parts of the picture to get the exact colour codes of each variant shade. This is a really wonderful tool for finding colours that you love. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT COLOR PICKER |
LIVE VIDEO MEETINGS
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Zoom
Zoom is the perfect upgrade option to Skype. The video image is alot clearer and I have foud that unlike Skype, there are no connection / audio / visual issues, so long as you have good internet of course. You can also record sessions, and have up to three people in your meeting / video call at a time with the free account, or pay for a pro or business account. Zoom is also an excellent option for webinars. I use Zoom for 1:1 sessions as well as group sessions for teaching English, where I can easily host a class and control a virtual classroom of students, mute and unmute, and share screens with a virtual whiteboard and anything else you might want to show on your screen such as documents or powerpoint presentations. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT ZOOM |
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Skype
Skype is free and the all time classic, however it has become second in popularity and usage next to Zoom, due to Zoom being more reliable, with more features, as you will see below. Skype has recently made some improvements though. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT SKYPE |
ONLINE SCHEDULING SYSTEMS
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Acuity Scheduler
Use Acuity Scheduling to allow your local and international clients easily make bookings with you in your own timezone. I find it easier and better to use than alot of other schedulers that I tried. With Acuity, you can set up your hours and availabilities, customize it to your needs, and even choose how many appointments you want capped per day and you can set up your schedule way in advance. I like that you can also do things like create a buffer zone between appointments. You can design your Acuity page and either keep it as its own link, or embed it onto your website. You can see an example of my online scheduler I set up with Acuity here CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT ACUITY SCHEDULING |
SOCIAL MEDIA POST SCHEDULERS
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Planoly
This is a great solution to visually plan, manage and pre-schedule your social media content. You can effectively and more efficiently manage content and campaigns on Instagram and Pinterest. It means you can feel less stressed and way more organized. You can have a free account and get 30 scheduled posts per month per each social you have in social set of 4 (eg: FB, IG, PI & TW), upgrades to paid accounts are also possible, should that suit you more. By using this free link you will get an extra 10 free scheduled posts every month! CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT PLANOLY |
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Later
Later is a wonderful tool to use to not only schedule posts to several social accounts at once, but also to search for and organize images in a way that is visually appealing and attractive from a branding & design point of view to display your story and message, especially when it comes to Instagram. You can also preset captions and re-use countless times in a simple click. You can drag and drop to reorder post visually. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT LATER |
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Tailwind
A great tool to save you time by helping you manage BOTH your INSTAGRAM and PINTEREST accounts in the one place. You can quickly schedule posts in advance, upload images individually or in bulk, and set it all up to save you countless time later. It also suggests hashtags and you can set up a bio for clickable links and can drag and drop to reorder post visually. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT TAILWIND |
SELF-HOSTING COURSE PLATFORMS
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New Zenler
New Zenler is the ultimate platform to self host your online courses - it has a host of extras, including state-of-the-art sales pages, brilliant modern templates, email marketing & funnels without paying extra . Get in now while they are in beta stage - I am a partner and can offer you an incredible deal, through private invitation, which is the only way to currently join while they prepare to launch. Try it for free and decide. - LEARN MORE HERE. - GET FREE INVITATION TRIAL HERE |
DISCOUNT OFFER SITES
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Appsumo
This is a place to get access to ever-changing hot deals that will save you money with software, products, business tools such as Evernote, MailChimp, Deposit photos...etc etc etc, go check it out to see what's hot deals are on now, including some freebies. CLICK HERE |
OTHER HANDY TOOLS
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Rebrandly
A free online tool to quickly & easily shorten your long urls and add in your own words (ie: customized end of url). You can do custom domain stuff too. CLICK HERE |
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Time and Date
Free international time conversion tools. General Time Conversion For general time conversion worldwide - just add a city or time zone: CLICK HERE Event Time Announcer To generate a page link with the date/time of your online event/group conference/meeting in your time zone, and a list of what times that is in different country time zones. This makes it easy for people all around the world to now when to tune in to your event: CLICK HERE International Meeting Planner To show your online meeting time in your time zone, and cross reference other time zones to work out the best times to host. CLICK HERE |
