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Boost your productivity, streamline your income producing activities, and craft a customer experience that will increase sales, get you more referrals & loyal customers.
Flodesk is the email platform that handles all of my business (I have used them for years). I always hate those emails that look great on computer but then on a mobile device it's a mess. What I love about Flodesk is your emails will look great on an...
Design emails people love to get.
I use Haute Stock for my social media templates, website images, workbooks for digital marketing. The photos are gorgeous and there are literally thousands to choose from in a variety of different categories (wellness, workspace, nature, travel). Eve...
Haute Stock | The Premium Stock Photo & Video Membership
I never used direct mail in my business because it was so time consuming and expensive but when I got turned on to Mailbox Power it changed the game and I was able to implement direct mail into my marketing plan comfortably. You can automate everythi...
Automate Business Direct Mail & Gifting with Mailbox Power: All-in-One Platform
Vimeo is where I host and manage videos. It's an intuitive platform, easy to upload with settings to make your videos public or private.
Vimeo AI-Powered Video Platform
I use this screen recorder often because it's easy, looks clean for course recordings, and it's FREE!
Free Screen Recorder | Loom
I use Canva for all my designs and digital creations. There is plenty of options in the Free version but I prefer the Pro version. From social media posts, workbooks, planners, cards…pretty much everything.
Canva: Visual Suite for Everyone
I'm obsessed with Canva. At one point I wanted to make courses for Canva because I love it so much, then I found Brenda's Canva courses, she is one of the very few Canva verified experts and she has created courses I personally would have loved to cr...
Canva Courses & Course Bundles: Learn how to use Canva with Brenda
I love ChatGPT for content creation assistance. Just don't rely on this too much to where you lose your unique voice and characteristics that make YOU, you!
ChatGPT - OpenAI
I have been looking for a platform specifically for selling my digital marketing products and while I love Squarespace for many reasons, Beacons is my favorite if you are a digital creator and want to sell your products because everything is all buil...
Beacons | Mobile Websites for Creators
I've tried building with other sites like Go Daddy and it was so complicated. Squarespace makes it easy to create a beautiful website quickly even if you are not tech savvy.
Website Builder — Create a Website in Minutes — Squarespace
I think I had like 80k emails at one time! If your inbox needs decluttered, grab this and you will feel a little stress melt away. Get rid of all those emails you don't read that pile up daily taking your precious storage away.
Unroll.Me
I've used a few other link hosting sites but this one is my favorite because free and they have a great template selection.
Milkshake App | Free Website Builder
When collaborating with other businesses or creating anything I want to share with others I use boards because it keeps everything so organized and clean.
Boards | Your Business At Your Fingertips
Google Forms are great but I like Tally because in my opinion the forms are more professional looking and eye pleasing. Even better it's free! I use these forms to survey my customers and questionnaires for my courses.
Free Online Form Builder | Tally
When something is free and easy to use, that gets me excited! If you have physical products you take pictures of and want them to look more professional, this platform removes background automatically when you upload the image and then you can choose...
Pic Copilot: Free Remove Background and AI Background Generator
My go-to for creating content that people are searching for. I use the free version, you get 3 free searches daily. This is great if you run out of what to post on social media or looking for a fresh topic withing your niche/industry. What makes this special, it gives you the information people are actually looking for or asking about online.
Search listening tool for market, customer & content research - AnswerThePublic
When I need a new font for a project, this is where I go, thousands of amazing fonts to choose from for free!
Freshman Font | dafont.com
When I see a font I love but can't find what the font name is, I use this site to identify the font.
WhatTheFont Font Finder - Identify Fonts by Image
The Pen Pivot's free newsletter is fire, and I hate newsletters and will rarely open one when I see one from a company in my inbox, but I get so many amazing tips in every single email they send about how to put out better content and get your audien...
The Pen Pivot
Not enough people talk about HubSpot's certification courses, these are 100% free! Topics like SEO, digital marketing (too many to list) this is the place I go when I want to learn something new or get a refresher.
HubSpot | Free Courses
Nothing is worse than putting out a piece of content to then notice a grammatical error especially in business. It's also easy to do especially if it's something you have been working on and looking at for too long, the eyes don't catch everything. T...
Grammarly, Inc.
My go-to online thesaurus when I need a new word.
The Ultimate Word Finder & Unscrambler - Wordle Helper & Cheats