As an entrepreneur, you probably use a myriad of tools and systems to keep your business running smoothly. If not, you need to start! Having the right tools in your tool belt will enable you to focus on your business and increasing revenues. As a virtual assistant, I am frequently asked what tools I recommend. This is my roundup of my most used and recommended tools of 2019.
CRM
Active Campaign is an email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation, and CRM software platform for small-to-mid-sized businesses. With a sliding price scale based on the number of contacts and your list and your needs, it is the solution I recommend to all my clients.
Website
WordPress of course. I actually don’t work with any other platform for creating and maintaining websites.
Bluehost I’ve been with Bluehost for ten years and have never had a complaint. Bluehost plans offer their customers 24/7 live chat, unmetered bandwidth, and at least 5 email accounts. Its uptime is 99.99% and offers fast load times.
Optimze Press Create professional landing pages quickly and easily. Includes many templates to fit your purpose and a simple user interface. You can also get the Optimize Theme to build your entire website.
Social Media
Social media scheduling tools offer a convenient shortcut to queue up posts on your time schedule. They are not one size fits all so you just need to chose what fits your needs.
Hootsuite – their free plan is great for new entrepreneurs.
MeetEdgar
Missinglett_r monitors your blog 24/7 and when it finds new content, a social media campaign is created. Each campaign contains a years worth of social media posts created from your blog post which includes an image.
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Unsplash – Beautiful free images for your social media posts and more
Pixaby – Free stock images
Scheduling
Google Calendar – when integrated with the other systems
Project Management
Asana is the work management platform teams use to stay focused on the goals, projects, and daily tasks that grow business. Asana’s strongest advantages include a simple, user-friendly interface and dashboard that allows you to easily oversee one project or many.
Slack is a collaboration hub that can replace email to help you and your team work together seamlessly. … A Slack workspace is made up of channels, where team members can communicate and work together.
Other business tools
Bookkeeping – Wave is a free accounting solution. It’s a good basic system that enables you to track your income and expenses.
Grammarly.com – Automatically see any grammar and spelling errors in your posts, emails and online documents.
File Conversion Zamar converts many different file types fast, easy and free.
MightyText Do you ever find yourself wishing you could text from your computer, download images to your computer or have a hard copy of a conversation? MightyText is the answer.
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