Here’s some tools either I use or have clients raving about how they’ve made

life easier (and more FUN) for them

ENJOY!!.

Tools to Make (You)

Work Smarter

The bigger it gets, the better it gets

WHY: Effective for storing ideas, working on issues, even doing customer care tasks

WHO: Teams that span unlimited in their size

People are starting to find all kinds of uses for this platform

WHAT: Used to prepare, schedule and edit a wide variety of content

BoostSuite offers two plans: – Free Forever and Professional. Their Pro plan starts as affordable

as $19 per month

TARGET: It’s the ultimate tool for beginners and biz owners with little prior marketing experience

WHAT: Tool that helps to optimise web marketing for small businesses

WHY: Analyses your marketing data, to identify key opportunities for improvement. It then generates simple tasks for you to complete

Like having a Marketing Director tell you exactly what you should do to best leverage your marketing

WHO: Any small business that’s either starting out, or is mature enough to be looking for an all in one management solution

WHY: There is no shortage of tasks that a business of any size needs to deal with, and oftentimes you’re forced to opt for three different tools just to achieve the workflow result you would like – drinkle is your answer

WHAT:  Project management, customer relationship management, spreadsheets, global notes, and even stock management

drinkle is thinking a step ahead

Great list of features in one place

WHY: Keywords are what help potential customers to find your business through organic search; the better you can understand your keywords, the better you can optimise your content for them

WHAT: Keyword tracking tool that will work just as fine on your competition, as it will on your own site/s

WHO: Beginner-friendly

The world’s fastest keyword rank tracker

AccuRanker offers heaps features

WHY: Their social sharing application is an awesome piece of technology

WHAT: One of the leaders in managing a transparent company where everyone can get involved

WHO: Online businesses

High-quality blog posts that these guys publish on frequent basis

Making it super easy to share any page you're reading

Check out my full article for a link to 10 quick tips for turning yourself into an Evernote power user

WHAT: For organising just about everything in your life and business

WHY: Whether its notes for a meeting or bookmarks from the Web, Evernote can take pretty much anything you want to throw at it

TARGET: Anyone looking for an organisation tool

Evernote is well established as the go-to app

WHY: It goes the extra mile to help you integrate 3rd party services like payments within your forms, helping you to save a ton of time along the way

WHAT: Whether it is a simple contact form, or a full-scale application form for a new order to be placed, Wufoo can deal and tackle with those requirements quite easily

TARGET: Anyone looking for a form builder

HTML form builder

It doesn’t stop at helping you to create forms

TARGET: Those wanting to get everyone involved for quicker evolution of your ideas

WHAT: Is all about collaborative mind mapping interaction, where you can bring in your team and work on aspects of your business together

WHY: Mind mapping can help to unravel loopholes that need fixing. It can also reveal big ideas that are hiding behind small steps

Leading online mind mapping software

It doesn’t stop at helping you to create forms

  Help yourself learn by teaching others!

WHAT: Helps you to create state of the art presentations within a couple of clicks

WHY: Achieved a new goal? Learned a new way of doing business? Create a presentation and share it with the world! Presentations are such a great way to learn, especially because it involves visual learning

TARGET: Those looking to create presentations to share

Become a great presenter by using Prezi presentation software

The pricing plans for Zapier run from free to $150 per month, based on the number of “zaps” (such as automated tasks) that are needed

to run

WHAT: This service is a lot like If This, Then That (IFTTT), but for businesses

WHY: For instance, every time you are assigned a new task in your company’s project-management platform, it will automatically create a calendar alert to remind you to finish it

TARGET: Those looking to connect the well-known apps already in use to automate work processes

Zapier makes it easy to automate tasks between web apps

Read on for 5 Time Management Tools

You May Not Have Come Across

Take a look…..

There’s a premium (paid) version, but you should get everything you need from the free one

This neat tool actually gamifies your day

• Upload your priorities and goals for daily workflow

• Runs in the background

• On a weekly basis, sends you an email outlining where you spent your time, and how you did compared to your goals

• Spend 10 minutes looking over the report during your weekly review, and be prepared for how valuable you find this

In addition to a beautiful picture (which changes daily), this app displays your Top Priority for the day, and a small ToDo list

• Momentum is a Chrome plugin that keeps you distraction free.  

You know when you open a new tab with the intention of doing something, but end up checking Facebook instead because you saw it on your “recently viewed” list?

Not any more…

Focus, focus, focus.  In an aesthetically pleasing way

Definitely give this app a go

SaneBox is the smartest email filtering tool I’ve ever come across  

• Your “Important/Urgent” emails make their way to your inbox

• Everything else gets sorted into folders like “Sane Later” and “Sane Bulk”, which you get a daily reminder about

Charlie is hilarious – and we ALL need more humour in our day

• An hour before a meeting (or whenever you set the specs), you get a neat and tidy email update with all social media, recent news and profile information on the person(s) you’re meeting with, and the company they represent

While similar, Charlieapp.com & Refresh.io have separate features and return slightly different search results, try them in tandem

Like an assistant handing you a dossier before the big sales meeting

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Basically, the gist is this….  

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