Resource Library
FREEBIES, TOOLS, SERVICES AND RESOURCES FOR YOUR SERVICE-BASED BUSINESS
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When it comes to entrepreneurship, a lot of us are always on the lookout for new and better tools that would help make running our business easier. I’ve tried a plethora of those tools! Now I’m on a mission to share only the best and my favorites with you on this page.
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FREEBIES
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Get your biz in order
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PLANNER
RIFLE PAPER CO
Time after time I always go back to Rifle Paper Co planners. It’s my go-to planner that never leaves my desk.
NOTEBOOKS
KIKKI K
Who doesn’t love notebooks? I use them for my business in different ways and love Kikki K ones!
BUSINESS MGMT
ASANA
I rely on Asana to organize pretty much every detail of my business from content calendar to client workflow templates. It’s an absoute must-have for me!
CRM
DUBSADO
The best CRM for service-based businesses (it even has a built-in scheduler *bye-bye Acuity*) and my holy grail! Read more here and use code junglesoul to get 20% off subscription.
GROW YOUR EMAIL LIST
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LEAD MAGNET QUIZZES
interact
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SCHEDULING
TAILWIND
The holy grail of Pinterest marketing equipped with scheduling, looping, tribes, analytics and more.
PIN OPTIMIZING
TASTY PINS
Plugin that specializes in optimizing for Pinterest – my preference. Features include disabling certain images for pinning, hiding multiple alternative images to your post and more.
pin looping
TAILWIND SMARTLOOP
Smartloop is part of Tailwind but deserves a separate mention. For those looking to reshare their best content automatically at optimal times, this is your solution!
SOCIAL MEDIA
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LATER
Later makes planning and auto-publishing posts so easy. I especially love the preview function and hashtag collections.
FACEBOOK SCHEDULER
Did you know Facebook has a built-in scheduler? It’s actually pretty good and my posts are now doing better than before.
LONG-TIME FAVORITE
BUFFER
Buffer is just an all-around great social media scheduler & although I don’t use it on the regular at the moment, I still stand by it.
CREATE BANGING PINTEREST GRAPHICS
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pro software
ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE
With Adobe’s subscription model you can access your favorite programs without breaking the bank. My choice is the photography plan including Lightroom and Photoshop (plus 20GB of space), and it’s one of the subscriptions I’ll happily pay for.
QUICK & BEAUTIFUL
canva
Even though I’m a Photoshop fan, the beauty of Canva is that you don’t have to be creative or good at designing. You can whip up worksheets and social media graphics in minutes! Plus, the bulk of Canva’s functions are completely free to use.
canva alternative
easil
Easil is a drag-and-drop visual design tool very similar to Canva. It’s intuitive, has more advanced templates and layer editing. It’s more similar to Photoshop than any other DIY design tool. I also like that they offer a huge selection of stock images even in the free plan.
PROTECT YOUR BIZ
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PASSWORDS
LASTPASS
I use it to store and keep my personal passwords safe and collect passwords from clients. You only need to remember one password – the master password as they call it – to access the vault where passwords are saved.
SITE SECURITY
WORDFENCE
Protecting your website is about preventing and monitoring – that’s why installing a security plugin is so important. Wordfence is one of the two big security plugins and my personal favorite.
SITE BACKUP
UPDRAFTPLUS
I love UpdraftPlus because you can set up automatic backups or do it manually, save them to your computer or to the cloud and restore right in the plugin (here’s to hoping you don’t have to).
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