My favorite tools for my online business
Useful tools for online entrepreneurs
Useful for Planning and Organizing:
- Asana for project management
- Notion for project management
- LastPass for storing and sharing passwords
- Calendly to make your schedule available to others
- Zoom.ai to make your schedule available to others
- Google Calendar to make your schedule available to others
- PDF Compressor for compressing PDFs
- Dropbox for central file storage and sharing with your team
- Google Drive for central file storage and sharing with your team
- Microsoft Excel for content planning
- Trello for content planning
- Miro for creating a welcome flow
Useful for Establishing Your Brand Identity, Tone of Voice, and Visual Style:
- Fiverr for hiring freelancers
- Upwork for hiring freelancers
- WhatTheFont to identify a font
- Wix Logo Maker to create your own logo
- Pinterest to create a mood board for your visual style
- Canva for all your designs; the free version offers many features
- Canva Color Palette Generator for choosing your brand or community colors
Useful for Communicating with Your Community:
- Zoom for hosting live Q&A sessions or webinars and recording them
- GoToWebinar for hosting webinars
- WebinarGeek for hosting webinars
- Microsoft PowerPoint for creating webinar presentations
- Skype for video calls
- Active Campaign for sending emails
- Loom for screen recording
- Wave.video for streaming on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and more
Useful for Creating and Editing Photos, Videos, or Audio Files:
- OpusClip for automatically generating shorts from long videos, including subtitles
- Clips for recording square videos with automatic subtitles
- Adobe Premiere for video and audio editing
- Adobe Rush for video editing (a more affordable version of Adobe Premiere)
- iMovie for video editing
- MixedCaptions for subtitles
- HappyScribe for subtitles
- BIGVU for video recording with autocue
- Adobe Photoshop for photo editing
- Adobe Lightroom on your phone for photo editing
- Facetune for editing portrait photos and selfies
- LunaPic to make your background transparent
- YouTube for automatic subtitling with timings
- Mijntranscript.nl for transcribing video interviews to text
- Sonix.ai for affordable automatic video or audio transcription (not 100% accurate)
- Dictation feature on iPhone for recording a podcast
- PDFescape for making a PDF fillable
- Mock-up World for creating mock-ups, such as for your community
- UniConverter for converting videos to audio
Useful for Posting:
- Bitly for shortening links
- Vista Social for scheduling posts and publishing on multiple platforms simultaneously
- Buffer for scheduling posts
- Hootsuite for scheduling posts
- Loomly for scheduling posts
- Castmagic for converting audio into social media posts, newsletters, etc., using AI
- Pexels for downloading royalty-free photos for your social media or website
Useful for Learning and Optimization:
- SurveyMonkey for conducting surveys
- Google Forms for conducting surveys
- Wufoo for conducting surveys
- Typeform for conducting surveys
- Google Analytics
- AnswerThePublic to research popular search terms in your field or topic
Useful for Automating Your Facebook Group:
- GroupLeads, for help with collecting email addresses, automating welcome messages, and managing Messenger
Useful for Advertising:
- Facebook and Instagram for advertising assistance
- Facebook and Instagram for community assistance
- Facebook and Instagram Text Overlay Tool to check if your image has too much text
- Google Digital Workshop for Google courses
- Google Display Ads for deploying banners via RTB
Or feel free to email us at mail@welovecommunities.nl. We’re happy to help!