Knowing what apps to use to make your business run a little smoother can make a big difference. Your productivity, marketing, shipping, reach, and everything else can work a little better when you have the right tools, and the same goes for apps, too. Here are some apps that I personally use on the regular and find super helpful. Please feel free to add any suggestions that you have.
TikTok - Promotion. Exposure. New customers. Fun! I have only been on for a couple weeks, and I am loving it. Such engaging people, more traffic, and the numbers are translating into dollars. It doesn’t have to be pretty or perfect to work on TikTok.
2. Instagram - Bread and Butter. Where you get to carefully craft your brand and connect with your audience. This is an easy to share online profile where you put your best foot forward and connect others to your shop, your site, or your message.
3. Canva (this is an affiliate link because we believe in it so much!)- An amazing tool for creating just about anything you might need for a small business. Make stickers, flyers, logos, instagram posts and reels, Pinterest content, banners… An excellent graphic design tool for the non-graphic designers to quickly and easily create cohesive branding, pins for Pinterest, social media content, flyers, business cards and so so much more.
4. Splice - This is an editing app and is amazing for on the go/iphone video editing. It is really easy to learn and use, but can be a bit expensive, unless you use it often.
5. YouTube/Google - Both of these are excellent and free learning tools. I have googled/youtubed so many things when it comes to business. You name it, I have searched it. It is just part of being a small business owner. Keep in mind Youtube can also be used for promotion. Google analytics can also help you with your SEO and search-ability. These are excellent tools.
6. Pinterest - Great, long term marketing/search tool. Use it to drive traffic to your site. This is one of those apps that is essential to business, but is extremely underrated. There are lots of strategies when it comes to Pinterest, and they just changed how they prioritize posts, and added a lot of new features. Click Here to take a look at The Complete Pinterest Toolkit for Creatives to help you rock Pinterest for your business!
Other Helpful Apps:
Photos and VIDEOs: QUICC (for adding captions to videos), SnapSeed, Adobe Sketch, Procreate, Font Candy
Selling your art: Etsy, Society 6, Red Bubble
Social Media stuff: Repost, Snapseed, Podcasts, Audible, Facebook
Productivity and Admin stuff: Marco Polo (video messaging App), Google Sheets, Google Drive, ten percent (meditation app), Calm (meditation app), Shipstation
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