Soniamarie's favourite tools and tech

Tech  & Tools 

 


Finding the right tools and tech are critical to the smooth running of your business especially when it's online.  They save so much time, energy and allow your processes to run just that bit smoother.  I've tried and tested quite a few and have listed below the ones that have become my best friends and have helped a lot of my clients.

 

Just so you know, I’m an affiliate for some of these, so if you sign up I may receive a commission. But, I want to stress that I only ever recommend something I love and have used myself. 

Tech - Kartra

This is my secret weapon and had to be at the top of my list!  It's the all in one platform that saves me so much time.  Rather than having lots of different platforms to manage, Kartra connects them all in one place.  Here is what you can manage:

  • Website
  • Mailing system for your email lists
  • Videos
  • Courses & Memberships
  • Calendar that integrates with Google calendar and others
  • Checkouts that integrate with Stripe and Paypal for automate payments
  • Sales Funnels to automate your leads
  • Affiliate program and so much more

I run my the majority of my business on this and it has saved me £100's per month as well as made my life easier. You can get a free trial and demo by clicking below. As an extra, if you do sign up with my affiliate link, you can book in a free 30 minute chat with me to talk through how to best use it and what to focus on first. Email me here to let me know, I will confirm you have signed up and then we can book in our call. 

 


Tool - Content Library + Calender

Creating content for your social media platforms, email list and blogs is a lot of work. Your community do not always see your content the first time, so you need to keep putting it out there. I was missing the trick of repurposing which is basically using your content again and planning it out in advance. 

 

If like me, you want to have a super-slick system to manage this and store your finest work so that you can go back and repurpose it again and again, saving you time and energy, then this tool is is for you. This content calendar and library is amazing and I wish I had it sooner! 


Tech - Calendly

This scheduling system has been a life saver.  It makes it easy for you to arrange your meetings by simply sending out a link to your calendar where you've already added your availability, so that someone can book straight in without going back and forth on email. And guess what? You can do this for free.

 


Tool - The Mothership Dashboard

If you want to better organise the back office in your business, I highly recommend this set of planners, trackers, maps and sheets. They will save you time, effort, confusion and the stress.  It is a set of 12 Google Spreadsheets that you can immediately use to help you run your business more effectively and efficiently without you having to invest lots of money. It has really helped me to get some order in all of the things I need to keep on top of! 

 


Tech - Typeform

This is great! I have used it to create surveys fro my market research, to onboard clients too.  You can pretty much design what you want and to get the information that you need. Even better is you can have up 10 questions for free, there is a lot that you can find out with 10 questions believe me!  

 


Tool - Canva

This is my dream app! You can design ANYTHING with Canva. It has easy to use templates and makes creating and editing your graphics really simple. If you are like me and has all of the ideas in your head but not able to use the professional designing tools like Adobe or Photoshop, then this is perfect! The free plan offers everything you need to get started, while we do use the Pro Plan, the free plan was perfectly enough for getting our courses off the ground.

 


Tech - Be Live

This is for live streaming and recording videos with guests.  I use it to stream straight on my Facebook page and group and it can connect to YouTube as well. I love it because you can share you screen if you doing a presentation, it streams in good quality and, you can record you sessions and download the visual and audio afterwards on.  Free version is great to get you started with a few streams per month. 

 


Tool - Asana

Asana, project management software is really easy to use and allows you to manage multiple projects at any one time.  Your clients and team can collaborate with you and track progress on set tasks etc.  It is what I use for a lot of things including the Content Calendar that I recommend above.

 

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