Our Tool Kit Will Help Transform Your Business, Career & Marketing

Supercharge for your business, career and marketing with resources I have been collecting for over ten years. There are 20 sections eg: sales, content writing, digital marketing, job search and podcasting. Enjoy exploring. 

1.     Accounting & Finance

• Sage Accounting: Quickly manage payroll and manage your business receipts for free.
• Expensify: Get a handle on all of your business expenses and invoices so you can concentrate on more important things.
• Clockspot is an online time clock that helps simplify payroll to just a few clicks.
• WagePoint: Take the hassle out of payroll with our automated solution. Eliminate manual calculations. Streamline your payroll operations, ensure accuracy, and save valuable time and money.
• Zoho Books: accounting software that is designed for businesses to manage invoices, bills, banking & inventory.

2.     Customer Support

• ZenDesk: Streamline your customer service interface, create support boards and streamline your response time.
• GetSatisfaction: A great customer community platform for interacting with your users, getting feedback and providing technical support.
• SurveyMonkey: Build free surveys to conduct market research, and keep a pulse on customer desires and satisfaction.

3.     Human Resources & Workplace Wellness

• ZipRecruiter:  Find better talent with cross-job-board posting, resume screening and a point-based score chart to find the best candidates.
• Intelius: Run a background check on prospective employees, browse criminal records and other information to make sure you’re hiring only the best people.
• AnyPerk: Reward employees with one of the most comprehensive perks programs out there, which provides discounts in countless services.
• Women in Biz Network:   Enjoy the Hire Her Job Board coupled with resources and tools for professional women.
• Bee Happy HR & Mindfulness :  Customized workplace mindfulness and wellness programs/products focused on education, recreation, sport and business.

4.     Legal

• Legal Zoom Business Attorney Plan: This attorney plan specifically tailored to small businesses provides attorney reviews of contracts and other legal documents, for a fraction of the price.
• Docusign: The most prominent service for eSignatures that is both legal and secure.
• Trademarkia: Search over 6 million registered logos, names and slogans to make sure your name or idea isn’t taken.

5.     Sales

• Sage CRM – Organize your contacts in sales funnels, enjoy better business insight, greater efficiencies and increase productivity across your entire business
• Highrise:  Organize notes, tasks and email conversations for up to 30,000 customers, leads, partners and contacts.
• Leads360: A sales management solution specifically tailored to turn leads into conversion, and track your performance so you can easily improve your sales.
• BidSketch: Create professional and clean client proposals in just minutes, and get a certified client signature when they approve.
• Microsoft Dynamics : Sales by Microsoft Dynamics provides a complete and intuitive solution that can help salespeople be more productive so they can focus on what’s most important—delivering amazing customer experiences.
• Agile CRM:  Sales & Marketing CRM with intelligent automation, telephony, web engagement, social media integration, email campaigns and mobile marketing. Free for 1000 contacts! Neat feature: has build it time scheduler for perspective customers to auto schedule time with you.
• Zoho One: Run your entire business on Zoho with our unified cloud software, designed to help you break down silos between departments and increase organizational efficiency.

6.     Marketing / Email Services

• MailChimp:  Email marketing made simple with an easy-to-use collection of newsletter templates, as well as the ability to customize your own design.
• SpyFu: A keyword tool for comparing the SEM tactics of your competitors, so that you can meet equal success in your online advertising and SEO campaigns.
• HubSpot: This all-in-one inbound marketing software facilitates SEO blogging tips, lead nurturing, marketing automation and more.
• Constant Contact  – Number 1 email marketing tool – very robust

7.     Operations

• Asana: With tasks, projects, conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish.
• Carbonite: Excellent and affordable cloud storage and online backup for any business.
• Trello: An efficient collaboration tool that allows you to organize your projects (completed, pending and in-progress) into simplified boards.
• Todoist – This program is great because it connects with gmail to help you plan your tasks efficiently – create recurring tasks, assign tasks to your team, categorize and more!
• Microsoft Office & Teams
• Scheduling: YoucanBook.me -is booking software that integrates with your Google and icloud Calendar so you can let others access when you are free and book time with you.
• Scribe – Chrome Extension to auto-generate step-by-step guides, just by clicking record. Save your team 20+ hours/month vs. video and text tutorials.

8.     Web Development/Product Development

• Balsamiq: For your next business presentation, Balsamiq allows you to mockup and design your ideas on a virtual whiteboard so they’re easier to share, modify, and get feedback on.
• 99designs: Run a graphic, logo, or web design contest, and walk away with multiple ideas and access to hundreds of designers.
• Amazon Web Services: An amazing service that allows you to run your entire business from the cloud, from business applications to mobile apps.
• Product Hunt: It’s a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.

9.     E-commerce

• Recurly: For any business that offers subscription or recurring billing, Recurly provides a simple solution for getting this done.
• Shopify: Set up a fully hosted and customizable online shopping cart that accepts all global currencies.
• Vendio: A platform for selling your goods on multiple e-Commerce channels, including Amazon, eBay, Facebook and more.
• Woocommerce WordPress Plugin: WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress

10.  Technology

• UserTesting: Get in-depth and immediate feedback on your website experience from real users, including a video of their experience as well as written answers to your questions.
• Jira: A simple and clean bug tracking and reporting system that helps you prioritize and assign issues and work through them quickly.
• MixPanel: A premiere analytics service for mobile and the web, focused on measuring very specific user actions and activity.

 11. Social Media

• SocialBro: “The number-one marketing platform for Twitter,” SocialBro maps community engagement on a simple graph. This is a tool made for businesses with the goal of monetizing their followings. A 15-day free trial is offered.
• TweetBeam – Share social media twitter feeds
• CrowdFire:  By the power bestowed upon you by Crowdfire and so on and so forth, you can manage your Twitter and Instagram accounts far more effectively by:
  • Finding inactive users and your unfollowers – unfollow them if you wish to
  • Finding relevant users to follow using our insightful “Copy Followers” feature
  • Keeping track of how your social media updates affect your follower/unfollower stats
  • Checking the relationship between any two Twitter/Instagram accounts and doing a whole lot more.
• Tweetdeck: Now owned by Twitter, Tweetdeck aims to maximize reach. With its customizable dashboard, users can schedule future tweets and monitor activity across several accounts — all at a glance.
•  Social Rank: Your Social Rank groups your best followers, most engaged and most valuable. From this information, businesses can take extra care of valuable customers. Social Rank generates a free report on the day of sign up.
• PageModo overhauls the aesthetic of Facebook pages by providing custom cover photos, additional tabs and unique landing pages. PageModo offers a basic free package and upgrades start at $6.25 per month.
•  Word Press is arguably the simplest way to add a blog to a LinkedIn account, which will attract more connections through content. Word Press is responsible for 23 percent of webpages on the net.
• Buffer App: Suggests content to share with suggested quotes as well – has a great scheduler that is far better then tweetdeck etc.
• Sumall – is your social media analytics and business dashboard. All in one place, all for free. Has free verison to let you know who gave you the most powerful tweets etc
• Similar Web – Will give you traffic numbers on competitor sites
• Trendinalia Canada – Shows you what is trending on twitter in Canada
• Twitter Analytics   – Gives  valuable insights related to your twitter followers
• klear (formally Twtrland) – Provides you with a rating on your twitter influence and helps you measure who you should be connecting with based on location, profession, etc and tells you how engaging, friendly etc they are – gives suggestions of who to connect with