Resources for your small business

You don’t need “all the things” for your business. Go with what will help you today 📆. Choose tools that simplify your business, that you can afford, and that don’t add complexity to your work. ✅

Website builders

Squarespace is a beautiful website platform that’s evolved over many years with many fans. Squarespace provides entrepreneurs and small business owners with a reliable website that is easy to edit and maintain for an affordable price. 

I am a Squarespace Circle member, and you can get 20% off your first year and a free domain name with Squarespace if you want to use my referral link here.

Wordpress.org is another perfect website platform. For most people, it will take more time and energy to manage and set up than Squarespace. If you choose WordPress, I recommend Wordpress.org over Wordpress.com.  

Wix has a FREE version and is simple to use.

Which website builder is best for you?

You can learn some of my pros and cons for each option here.  I am also happy to chat with you and share my thoughts based on my extensive experience. Ask me anything.

Content Creation & Marketing

Canva 

Canva is a powerhouse of tools and assets for content creation. The free version is super helpful. You can use Canva to create paid offerings, freebies and marketing materials. Here’s just a smattering of what you get:

  • Icons

  • Illustrations

  • Photos

  • PDF templates

  • Video templates

  • Presentation templates

  • Workbooks and freebie templates

  • Social media assets and so much more.


Creative Market Creative Market has endless resources you can use for marketing materials. Creative Market is excellent for brand materials, inspiration, illustrations, icons, design elements, fonts, and complete website templates. Primarily used by creatives, marketers and DIY entrepreneurs, you can also find great resources here. In addition, you can use elements you purchase here for freebies, paid offerings and marketing materials. 


Etsy! Similar to both Canva and Creative Market, you can find templates that can help you jumpstart new freebie offerings and help you produce material for your paid offerings & social media. You will find website templates, printable templates, and social media templates. Have fun exploring!

Free image resources

Troubleshooting & Techie Things

Facebook: Have you ever shared a webpage, but the image you set for your social sharing image needs to be corrected when you see it on Facebook? Then, it would be best to use this tool to erase the memory FB has of your old photo and load your new one: Facebook debugger.

Twitter: If you want to see what your page will look like on Twitter, you can use the Twitter Card Validator here.

LinkedIn: they have their Post Inspector here.

Productivity

Automate your coaching workflow - a free download when you join my email list. Learn how to set up your coaching workflow from the “discovery” call to the testimonial using FREE tools :).

My free course teaches you how to use ChatGPT for more business alignment and endless tailored content and marketing ideas. It is packed with easy-to-digest and actionable guidance to help you get the most from this free tool today for your authentic and aligned business.

Eule Planner. Perfect if you have a small business, side hustle or full-time business. Paper Planner. The excellent Kerstin Martin created it and is ideal for the solo entrepreneur.  I’ve used a lot of planners, and this is what I am using now.  Kersten Martin is a beautiful soul, a Squarespace educator and has created one of the best paper planners I’ve ever used as a solo entrepreneur.

Client management (payments, booking and more)

(for service-based entrepreneurs)

17 Hats I’ve used 17 Hats for many years for a good reason. I’ve evaluated the competition, and this keeps coming up on top for me. It also does everything the other tools below can do and more. It saves me a lot of time and money.

✓ automated emails (including scheduling and more)

✓ invoices & online payments

✓ sign contracts online

✓ booking system & calendars

✓ workflows (loads of automation available here)

✓ client portals

and so much more!

17Hats does for me now what I used to have to pay for several different tools to do for me, and it is much cheaper. Use the link here for 50% off. I do not get a commission from them for referring you. However, you get 50% off with my link.

Free booking systems

(for your business or side hustle)

  • 10to8 Booking and scheduling program loaded with free features

  • Calendly  I used Calendly when I first started this online business. I love its simplicity & there is a FREE version; however, it has more limitations than 10to8.

Use Gmail as a personal assistant.

  • Gmail Canned Responses. If you use Gmail, you already have this, but most don’t know it! Next time you open Gmail to write an email, look at the bottom right for the 3-dots. Click on them and choose “Templates,” you can save emails you often send to reuse or edit whenever you like.

  • Gmail schedules emails. This is a default feature of Gmail now, and you can find it on your “Send” button. Click the arrow.

Sign contracts

  • Hello Sign is an excellent tool for quickly signing contracts and agreements online. I used this more before I started using 17Hats, which does this for me now.  You can use this for FREE too!

Legal templates for your website

These templates can be used on your website. Please feel free to seek legal advice when you need it.  

  • Terms Feed A resource for some free legal templates and paid versions.