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Cas Lin - Small Possibilities

This is my beginner blogger / content creators kit. These are all assets, resources and subscriptions that I have found to be worth my while as a beginner conent creator. If you are just starting out and looking for a guide for the essentials or just...

Sections

Assets

Inspirations

Programs

Socials You Should Have

Helpful Subscriptions

Editing Apps

Assets

Websites with free use photos videos and audios that you can use in editing product videos, shorts or long form content for your online content.

I love using Pixabay for free use images to use in my blog articles and Pinterest graphics it is so easy to use and the entire site is only royalty free so you can use whatever you can find!

Pixabay: 5.2 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere

I am planning to start really getting into video editing and am looking at different sites to source music that is royalty free. This one definitly caught my eye! Lots of variety including a selection of various lo-fi beats!

Royalty Free Music Download - Pixabay

I have been using printful for drop shipping. I feel like drop shipping sometimes can get a bad wrap but if you are creating your own designs and just starting out part of the first obstacle is funds and space for inventory! This helps bypass that st...

Printful, Inc

I just upgraded to the iPhone 16 pro max and it has changed my content creation game the camera and film quality are unbeatable! I haven’t invested in a film camera or anything and plan to be filming shorts and YouTube videos completely from my phone...

iPhone 16 Pro - Apple

Inspirations

Some inspiring blogs and youtubers that have inspired me to start my blog that I continuously fall back on for inspiration.

I love Life of Riza’s channel, her film work is absolutely breathtaking and I love how relatable her videos are. Her style and color grading are something I’ve been obsessing over.

Life Of Riza

Gawx Art shows what you can create with limited resources. He makes incredible works of art within just the confines of his own room, very very inspiring.

Gawx Art

Natalie remind me of who I want to be. I watch her videos and I see myself from the past and the me I want to become. She is very inspiring in how she talks existentially about life and truly just wanting to chase her dreams.

Natalie Lynn

Programs

Some editing programs that have really helped me out a lot and made my life 10000x easier.

I use canva All. The. Time. I use it for designing blog graphics graphics for profile pictures as well as Pinterest pins and stories! Its so versatile and user friendly!

Canva: Visual Suite for Everyone

Capcut is my video editor I am planning to start working more on starting a YouTube channel in 2025 so this is necessity!

CapCut | All-in-one video editor & graphic design tool driven by AI

I love using the Ulysses editor on my Mac tablet and phone, I can easily access all of my articles and they sync perfectly with my iCloud! I got the Ulysses app with my setapp subscription and it is probably one of my favorite apps from there! It als...

Ulysses

Socials You Should Have

Social media channels i recommend starting with if “all the channels” is a little bit much for you along with some pro cons for each and what each is helpful for. Make sure you cross post content!

Instagram is a must, the algorithm is a downright painful right now but just try to post consistently and make sure you are on here.

Instagram

If you are trying your hand at community building or running online events Facebook Groups are perfect for this and for posting shop updates and being able to reach people for blog and shop updates fairly consistently.

Helpful Subscriptions

These are some various subscriptions that just genuinely make my life and my small business journey so much easier as well as some wish list ones that I wish I could have.

If you are an Apple user and use the Apple ecosystem this is the best productivity subscription I have ever found it's basically the netflix of productivity apps. 10$ a month gets you unlimited access to any of the apps in their catalog and they will...

Setapp

I love using Buffer I just recently signed up and have converted all of my social media management over to Buffer. It has been life changing and has freed up so many more hours of my day! I can now basically repost different posts between my differen...

Buffer: Social media management for everyone

I got this app through my setapp subscription and I love it! It integrates seamlessly with my phone and iPad and helps me quickly draft up and clean up my social media captions from within my keyboard! Includes and integrated keyboard, basically ypu ...

AI-Powered Personal Knowledge Assistant | Elephas App | Mac ...

I use chat GPT a lot, I use it for brainstorming and feedback and getting general ideas down and into a format that is easily read and understood! My boyfriend is not really the crafty yarn type so having something to basically “brainstorm” with is e...

Introducing ChatGPT - OpenAI

I use mailer lite because I found their pricing structure much more friendly to beginner than the popular mail chimp one. Secret is just to shop around until you find something you want! The only thing I wish they would do is add the drag and drop em...

MailerLite

I use Paste way more than I ever anticipated! I got paste (you guessed it!) with my Setapp subscription and it is so helpful! It tracks everything you copy from iPhone Mac and iPad and lets you save and rename clips into different pinboards. I have p...

Paste – Clipboard Manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Editing Apps

These are just a few editting apps that are mobile only that I use for editing selfies and instagram posts or stories. They are go tos for me and each serves their own purpose.

I love using Snapseed it has a great user interface and is very helpful for doing quick photo edits from my phone with comprehensive set of tools!

Snapseed on the App Store

I love using a color story for planning out my instagram grid and for doing in depth color grading! I absolutely love this app but haven’t seen many people talking about it! It’s definitly worth it, allows for indepth color editing and changing the t...

A Color Story: Photo + Video 4+ - App Store - Apple

This one is fun to play with and is very easy to go over board too quickly! Be careful and stay subtle but definitly very helpful! I Don’t always feel like putting on a full face of makeup up when I am doing photos or if I catch a great photo but the...

Facetune: Video & Photo Editor 4+ - App Store

Organization

You don’t realize how much of an organized chaos this is going to be until you are in the thick of it. Start from the beginning and stay organized, track your expenses subscriptions purchases Etsy fees, and any social schedules. Keep your files organ...

A simplistic time tracker I can manually enter time spent from my phone or tablet and then it routinely reminds me a few times an hour when I am working on my Mac and prompts me to log what I am wokring on. Not obtrussive not complicated straight for...

Time tracking without being a pain - Daily for Mac

I love tick tick and have been using it for years, however recently it has just become more and more crucial to my life. I put everything in here, from chores around the house to notes and reminders to social posting schedules to color schemed and ed...

TickTick:Todo list, checklist and task manager app for Android ...

This is basically the HQ of my entire business. I have everything there, links to all of my socials logo files, social media schedules, project tracking, finances tracking, and hex codes for all of my color schemes. I highly recommend trying out noti...

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