Key tools & resources for solopreneurs & small business owners
A professional, well-oiled business is within reach – even for your small business. Here are some top resources geared to simplify the DIY in your business.
Startup Essentials
- Score’s Startup Template for writing your first business plan
- LegalZoom for setting up your first LLC
- Brand Essentials Workbook for establishing a cohesive brand identity for your business
- 4over4 for completely free, full color, single-sides business cards
Build Your Website
- Showit for eye-catching websites for photographers and creatives
- WiseIntro for a quick website
- Strikingly for a free and fast websites
- Squarespacefor beautiful portfolios and info sites
- Shopify for powerful e-commerce selling and dropshipping
- Big Cartel for free, simple online selling
- WordPressworld-class blogs
- About.mefor quick landing pages
- Bluehost for simple, affordable website hosting
- WPEngine for powerful, full-service WordPress hosting
- Leadpages for powerful landing pages
DIY Design
- Canva for easy graphics anywhere
- Adobe Spark for quick social media graphics
- Khroma for awesome color combos
- Moodboard for beautiful moodboards
- GIMP for free, open-source Photoshop
- Creative Market for affordable fonts, graphics, and templates
- Envato for premium templates for designing your website and more
Social Media Management
- The Content Planner for mastering social media planning
- Planoly for easy, visual Instagram planning
- Tweriod for identifying the best times to tweet
- Thunderclap
- SocialRank for finding the lead influencers in your circle
- Buffer for scheduling and sharing on social
- Hootsuite for your all-in-one social media manager
- Later for managing all things Instagram
Email Marketing
- Benchmark for simple email marketing tools
- Drip for a fully integrated eCRM and automated workflows
- Mailerlite for powerful, email automations
- Mailchimp for the best intro to email marketing
- ConvertKit
- SumoMe List Builder for growing your email list
- Gleam, HelloBar, IntroBar
Payments, Invoicing, Bookkeeping, CRM
- Square
- PayPal
- Sighted
- PocketSuite
- Xero
- Sales Navigator for Gmail
- Honeybook
- Dubsado
- 17hats
- Sighted
- Bench
- Shake for free contract templates
Scheduling & Conferences
- Acuity for scheduling calls
- Calendy
- Assistant.to
- UberConference for easy conference calls
- Zoom for simple web conferences
Collaboration & Project Management
- Slack
- Asana
- Todoist
- Trello
- Basecamp
Time Savers & Management
- IFTTT
- Zapier
- RescueTime
- Tomato Timer
- Last Pass
- Momentum
- Self Control for blocking distracting websites
- Evernote for note taking