Favorite tools
Here are some of my favorite business, travel, and wellness tools that have allowed me to grow and scale my business, book travel with ease, and manage my personal wellness.
*It takes a lot of time and money to make the content on the blog and podcast. I’m happy to do it (because I do love it!), but I also offset some of that cost by earning money through the affiliate links on this page. Please enjoy!
Marketing
ConvertKit - ConvertKit makes it simple and easy to manage your subscriber list, your email automations, landing pages, tagging, etc. I saved hours of work setting up my email automations by switching to ConvertKit. Try it out with a free trial - I promise, you won’t be disappointed!
Namecheap - This is where I buy all my domain names. They make it easy (and cheap!) to purchase whatever domain name you want or need!
Creative Market - This is what I use for Instagram and Pinterest templates. When I’m in a punch and need something different, I head on over to Creative Market for all my design needs!
Leadpages - Generate leads with landing pages, alert bars, pop-up forms and websites. Leadpages has beautiful templates to help you gather email addresses and keep in touch with your audience.
Social Media
Tailwind manages my Pinterest scheduling and keeps me connected with Tribes of pinners with similar interests. I no longer have to worry about what time I log in to Pinterest to post, and it’s increased my Pinterest engagement by 1300% percent since I started using it!
Planoly is an Instagram scheduler that I don’t think I could live without. While the free option is limited, I can easily schedule all my posts for a week without worry.
Project / Client Management
Asana is where my life is - personal and business. I build out client projects, podcast and blog workflows, keep track of payments, and create my grocery list each and every week. It’s not only free, but the free option is so robust you may not even need to upgrade!
HoneyBook is a client and project management tool that is revolutionizing the way I work. I can communicate with my clients, accept new leads, generate invoices, create tasks, and so much more.
Websites
Squarespace is what this site is built using, and they make it so incredibly easy to put a website together in just 30 minutes! With countless templates, and drag and drop field, it made it easy for me to launch this site right away. This site is built on Squarespace and I can’t recommend them enough!
Weeknight Website: I did a 30-day trial on Weeknight Website because I wanted some WordPress background in the event I worked with clients on that platform. WordPress can be a tricky platform to use, but Weeknight Website makes it easy to build a WordPress site in just a short time.
Affiliate Platforms (aka how I earn the extra dough)
ShareASale connects affiliates with merchants, and there are some pretty heavy hitters on here!
Amazon Affiliates allows you to link to your favorite products and will payout a commission.
Course Hosting
Podia is the easiest platform I’ve found to create courses, sell downloads, and host membership communities. They have great customer support and make it easy to build and sell digital products.
Legal
The Contract Shop is where I purchased templates for my Website Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. You can purchase a multitude of different contracts, so head on over to www.thecontractshop.com to find your next contract!
Learn
Bucketlist Bombshells taught me the ins and outs of the tech and design skills I needed as a Virtual Assistant, develop workflows for client onboarding, and build a business that I can travel the world with.
Six Figure Blogger If you have a blog and are looking for ideas to monetize it, then this is the course for you. Lauren and Alex of Create & Go not only provide ideas for monetizing blogs, but also break down exactly how to go about creating an eBook, eCourse, or utilize affiliate marketing.
Pinterest Avalanche Also from Create & Go, this course teaches you how to utilize Pinterest to grow your traffic to your blog. Yes - Pinterest is more than pretty pictures, it’s a powerful business tool!
She Did It Her Way Amanda has been my business mentor since day 1. Her courses break everything down in clear and concise manner, and she’s always willing to help, provide advice, and cheer you on!
The Savvy System - This is where I learned all about how to become a virtual assistant. In this course, you learn how to build your business, market, get clients, scale, and create the lifestyle you want to live.
The Savvy Vault - This is the key to being a virtual assistant. The Savvy Vault is chock full of courses on every platform you might need as a virtual assistant at one low membership fee!