It really is tough - deciding on your 'tech stack'. Everyone has an opinion (or five) - platforms keep giving great offers (and there are new apps every day!), do you go for that 'all-in-one' solution or the specialist one and then there's your budget to consider as well as your tech capability - the noise is deafening!

Save yourself a huge amount of time trying to find out what works best - I've done all that already, so you don't have to
Save your money - trying out lots of new tools takes time and money
Use the time you save on your product or service or your business or your clients
Remember that your processes (like email automations) are as important as your product or service processes - it's what your contacts see BEFORE they see your value
I only recommend tools that I actually use every day.

I love processes (I know, weird right?) and can only use tools every day that make sense to me and help me achieve the right end result. I have spent countless hours testing and experimenting - so save yourself a whole lot of time by considering the tools/platforms listed below!

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To succeed online, you don't need just great tools, you need to learn how to use them. Some tools make that less easy than it should be through clunky processes or functions. Or indeed, you find that the tool doesn't do quite everything you thought it might...

The tools listed below are worth your time investment AND have the right functions for you to build a successful online business.

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Flowlu

This is a powerhouse for managing small business CRM! Contacts, leads, sales, invoicing, time tracking, task management, team collaboration, report generation - it even has mindmapping! It impresses me everytime I use it - which is every day. The combination of automations and custom fields are its secret super-power which means it is the best CRM platform for providing the exact processes to support any kind of business. It's brilliant.

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Sessions

I ❤ Sessions! This is the brilliant Zoom alternative that does things so much better and has a clean and easy interface. Great tools too like scheduling, recording, webinars and rooms. Not to mention agendas that can be attached to different meeting types. Your recorded videos get stored at no extra charge! And if you use my link below you'll get a 20% discount which is very cool!

(And works brilliantly with Noota, mentioned below.)

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Noota

This AI-driven video meeting note taking platform has transformed how I do all my online meetings! Not only does it record any browser-delivered video (eg Zoom, Teams, BigMarker, Sessions, etc), it does three brilliant additional things - the first is a real-time transcription of what's going on that you can highlight as and when you want. Second is just magic! You can highlight a sentence or too in the text and download a video clip of just that text! The third bit of magic is it applies AI to summarise the meeting and detect participation and tone, as well as topics and keywords.

Trust me, it reveals things that are amazing insights that are so useful.

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Plectica

Plectica is a fairly recent find that I'm so delighted with! Coming from a corporate background I always used Microsoft Visio - but this is pricey and complex. Plectica brings simplicity back to your process thinking - it focuses on getting your idea down and shareable. I love the walk-through capability too, with way points so that you can fully engage your customer in the new process/way of working. Brilliant.

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Tilda

Here is a no-code builder that gives you beautifully designed websites (like my one here!). You can use template blocks or design your own (and save them as templates). As well as having a generous page allowance (500 per site) it also has a blog and membership areas. It integrates perfectly with Flowlu (no middle-ware required) so my forms here can trigger CRM-based automations depending on which form is used. It is not expensive at $120 per year and is much easier and less troublesome than Wordpress (which I will never use again!).

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UpCoach

For my 1:1 mentoring or strategy clients I use Upcoach to manage and record progress, as well as keep on top of assigned tasks. There's so much that UpCoach does - smart documents (create your own online client-only or cohort-only collection of things in one place), then there's the apps like 'circle of life' where you can capture current capabilities or views and then capture future ones too. And a personal favourite of mine is 'Habits' - this is where you can assign clients daily (or whatever) tasks, that they get reminded about and cna mark them off when completed. You can then tell how folks are doing against planned improvement - a simple comparison would 1 hour a day practice of piano - do that for a month and there WILL be improvement! It's a very capable and powerful platform that can also handle the financial side of things too.

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