In this video I would like to share with you eight online business tools.
I love to keep my business and life running smoothly. As always,
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Welcome to powerhouse business on YouTube. I'm your host, Carolyn Soldo.
I'm a business owner, business scaling master and mom of two boys.
I love thinking big, pushing boundaries and doing things differently.
Most of all I'm all about achieving massive growth with ease and helping you
scale your business by living the life you love. Let's go.
As a business owner,
we need to leverage all the tools that are available to us to keep us organized
and efficient and today I want to share with you a tool that I use literally on
a daily basis to do just that.
Tool number one is Slack for communications.
Slack is available on my laptop all day long.
I have it always open and there are several different channels depending on the
topic. So there is a sales thread, there is a communications thread.
There is a coaching that there is a marketing thread,
there are several different channels and there's also direct messaging happening
between me and my team. This allows us to be always on the same page,
to communicate instantly with each other and to make sure we're always connected
no matter where we are located around the world.
The second tool I want to tell you about is zoom for communications.
Zoom offers you a variety of different ways to connect with people through video
conference. If somebody doesn't have internet access,
they can dial into a meeting. You can use cameras,
you can create virtual breakout rooms here as a chat feature and so much more.
Zoom is literally where I live. This is where I coach my clients.
This is where I meet with my team and we leverage it to again,
get things done. Always be on the same page.
The next tool is outlook online. Now,
I'm sure you are already using a calendar system,
but the beauty of outlook is that first of all it runs online so you can access
it from anywhere you go even on your phone and it also integrates with a variety
of different calendar systems. For example,
my outlook is my central place that holds all of my appointments,
including my kids' schedule.
So I have my hockey feed connected to my outlook.
I have my client sessions connected to my outlook through acuity.
I also have my team sessions connected to it,
so my calendars out there are all integrated with my outlook calendar and with
that it allows me to have a one stop shop, one central place.
That is my calendar,
that is my life really so that I can be sure I never miss a thing.
The fourth tool on the list is Vox or,
and you can replace that with WhatsApp and maybe telegram.
There are a couple of different tools out,
but I like Voxer the best and it adds like a walk. You talk he out.
You can also send little chat messages,
but the beauty of it is that you can speak messages to your family,
your friends, your clients, your team members,
literally anybody who has a Voxer account and in this communication really,
really easy.
So instead of typing a long email and sending that to a client for example,
why not send them a voice message? They can listen to it.
It takes five minutes and it speeds up your communications.
The next tool I think you should really consider using is last pass.
Well,
last pass is an amazing tour that acts like a vault for all of your passwords
and your system access. I can easily share my access with new team members.
I can revoke access if necessary and attracts whenever I change my passwords and
it's sitting in the cloud so it's protected,
it's always up to date and it makes my life super simple.
The next tool is air table.
Think of our table as an online mega spreadsheet application at our table can
help you get extremely organized when it comes to your projects as well as your
invoicing, your billing, your email marketing schedule,
your social media calendar. It can do so many things.
We have our projects organized in AR table and every time we need to know a
certain date and next step in a project or who needs to be paid.
Even on my team,
we go to our table that holds all of this important information.
The next app I want you to know about is Palatan. Now,
this is not a business oriented app,
but it's something for you because it allows you to stay fit on the go.
If you have a Peloton bike,
you can do your rides on any spin back you might encounter if you're at a hotel
or you're traveling somewhere. You can also do runs. You can do yoga,
you can do stretching,
you can do so many things and everything is streamed live or recorded on your
device. So you can run this app on your iPad, on your iPhone,
on your laptop, and your fitness is always with you.
And the last app or tool I want to tell you about is shoe boxed.
And shoe box is a tool that sits on top of your online mailbox such as Gmail for
example, and collect your invoices.
Imagine you're getting audited, God forbid. But if that happens,
you need to produce a lot of copies of invoices and things that you are
expensing in your business for example.
And you may also need there for your tax returns.
And shoe box makes it really easy because it automatically detects invoices that
are coming into your email because nowadays most everything is virtual and
online and it pulls them out into the Shoeboxed filing system.
And that allows you to then instantly search for vendors, search for invoices,
and have everything available at your fingertips when you need it.
And now I want to hear from you,
which online tools make you feel super efficient,
which online tools do you laugh and which ones do you use every single day?
Down below in the comments,
let me know which tools or apps you really enjoy and let's have a conversation.
As always,
stay focused on your goals because I believe that you are meant to bring your
passions to the world.
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