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As a business owner especially at the early stages of your business, there isn’t usually a lot of money to invest into your business as well as have staff to work on the different aspects of the business. Therefore you end up holding all the positions in the business from being the CEO, creative director, social media manager, content creator, accountant, photographer and many more. Wearing these many hats can be exhausting and time consuming. Having tools and apps that can automate your process, will help you concentrate on creating.
Here is list of apps and other tools you can use to make your life easier while not breaking the bank but at the same time allowing you time for yourself and your family. The amazing things about these apps and tools is that they are either completely free or have a free version which you can use until you are ready to invest for more features.
Content Creation
Canva – This is the one that encompasses most things. You can create patterns; create posts for all platforms, schedule and post directly from the app. You can also use it to create e-books, invoices, price lists and many more. They have a free version and paid version which has a few extra features such as a wider range of templates photos etc.
InShot - This is the app you can use to create content or edit your videos such as creating time lapses, add subtitles to your videos and many more. The free version has a watermark, but you can remove the watermark per video by watching an ad.
Streamlab – Live streaming YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. Free to stream on one platform, you pay for additional platforms.
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Analytics & Tracking
VidIQ – This is a YouTube analytics tracking tool, to check how your videos are performing. The free version is great for beginner, gives you suggestions for key words and trending words and also allows you to track competitors.
Facebook Creator Studio – For Facebook and Instagram analytics tool – Always free, app is available in App store and Google play
YT Studio – For your Youtube content analytics and data. Always free.
Scheduling
Facebook Business Suite – Facebook & Instagram planning – Always free, app is available in App Store and Google Play.
Pinterest – search engine for marketing and Scheduling in app; always free.
Tailwind – Pinterest & Instagram scheduling – Be able to create and schedule 20 free pins a month.
Planoly – Instagram scheduling and planning. You get free posts a month but have to pay for extra features
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Receiving Payment
Yoco – Receiving payment – you don’t need to have a machine, if you only sell online but you will need a website – Free to register and access the online plugin, you pay for the machine and transaction fee.
PayFast – Receiving payment from market places – Free for registration, you pay for transaction fees.
Payoneer – Receiving international payments. Free for registration, you pay for transaction fees. This so far the fastest, transactions take less than a day.
PayPal –Receiving international payments where Payoneer is not an option.
Designing
Stitch Fiddle – Designing and creating graphgan patterns.
Stitch Board – designing and creating graphgan patterns.
Stitch Works - Creating crochet charts.
Loyalty Free Photos
These are websites you can get loyalty free photos for your posts or to be used in your blog posts
E-mail Marketing
Mailchimp - Collecting email for your email marketing campaigns and other emails to your subscribers. You get a free version for up to 1000 subscribers.
Profile Links
Smart-bio link - Always free, to have multiple links in your bio. I love this particularly because you can have multiple links based on your Instagram posts with photo.
Which of these apps do you currently use?
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