Resources

This page links some of my recommended resources.

Some are free, some are paid.¹Please see my obligatory FTC Disclosure as well.

These are all things I have personally used or implemented for clients and decided “hey, that’s pretty cool, I should tell others about that”.

If you have your own resources that you like, send me a message and I’ll take a look.

Business Apps and Systems

I also have a complete guide to the essential apps for modern businesses.

WP Engine for managed WordPress website hosting. Includes daily backups, 24/7 live chat support, free Genesis themes and more. This site is hosted with them.
WP Rocket for speeding up WordPress in the background.
Amazon Web Services for basically everything else. You can host domains, route DNS, easily deploy/scale web apps and more. Google Cloud is a strong competitor.
ConvertKit for email marketing. If you need something heavier, check out Keap (formerly Infusionsoft).
Google Drive for cloud storage. I used to recommend Dropbox but Google Drive outpaces in terms of value for money.
Google Workspace (formerly Google Apps and GSuite) for your office apps and video conferencing via Google Meet.
Calendly for hassle-free scheduling and meetings. No more “are you free on…” email chains.
Confluence & Jira from Atlassian. Powerhouse applications for business. Confluence is your internal wiki where all your SOPs and more can go. Jira is a highly-customisable issue tracker that can be used for everything from project management to inventory tracking to running agile teams.
Asana for project management. Great for teams that don’t have their workflow built into a CRM or for non-technical teams that don’t need something as complex as Jira.
Pipedrive for CRM. It just works.
GitHub for git/version control. I really want to like BitBucket, but have found GitHub easier to use.
Slack for team communications, mastermind groups, client groups and more.

Need help implementing these apps in your business?

Things for task management and personal project management.
Bear for handling journals, personal processes, documents, records etc. I used to recommend Evernote but they are having trouble with their billing system so I couldn’t renew my subscription 🤷‍♂️.
Mailplane acts as a wrapper around any Google email accounts and gives you keyboard shortcuts, multi-account access, drag/drop functions and more.
Affinity apps make a decent and reasonably-priced alternative to Adobe Creative Suite. I switched as I was tired of paying the rather-pricey monthly subscription for apps that I only use periodically.
Screenflow for recording screen tutorials. Also has a very powerful built-in timeline editor.
SetApp is a monthly subscription of applications that is invaluable for anyone who uses a Mac. I’ll have an article on this at some point, but some of my favourites right now include Path Finder, BusyCal, Ulysses and Bartender.
Sublime Text for general text notes and coding. I have heard good things about Visual Studio Code but have not used it as extensively.