Lot’s of our community members ask what tools we use for different things in our business so we thought we’d create a resource that goes through what tools we use so you can check them out and see if they are suitable for your business too!
They are in no particular order and we have shared links to the softwares websites so they are easier for you to find. We make a small commission off of some of the tools as we love them so much. All funds are put back into running CWIB.
Website
Our website is a custom made WordPress website – Design by Happy Splat Design – Developed by Joel Eade Design.
Hosting – Ventra IP
Domain – Netregistry
Plugins:
Clicky – To look at Analytics and Heat Maps for our website
Elementor – This is a super easy tool to help you build pages and landing pages on your website < we LOVE this.
WooCommerce – To set up our memberships and take payments for our shop. This is linked with Stripe and PayPal.
Email Marketing
We couldn’t love without our email marketing and CRM platform. We’ve set up heaps of automations that’s saved us 100’s of hours.
We use Active Campaign to embed optin forms to our website, to create all our emails, to manage our membership applications plus more. We also really LOVE Active Campaign, we love it that much that we’ve become an affiliate which means if you decide to use Active Campaign yourself and use our link. We receive a small commission that goes back into running CWIB.
Graphics
Branding, complex graphics and workbooks – Design by Happy Splat Design
Basic Graphics and Social Media Images – Canva
Book Keeping
Xero – We don’t love booking keeping as much as we love marketing, so we’ve outsourced this to a bookkeeper.
Storage
We use the business version of Dropbox for our storage so we can access it online from anywhere in the world.
You can also you Google Drive which is free, we just prefer Dropbox.
Podcasts
Mic:
- Rode USB podcaster mic – It has an optional swing arm and shock mount
- Mobile Phone Head Phones
- Travelling Rode Smartlav Mic in my Galaxy or laptop (I LOVE this mic)
- Senheisser studio headphones HD25 II
Record/Edit:
- Mac – Screenflow
Sound and uploading to Amazon S3:
- Auphonic app to level audio
Interviewing Guests:
- Skype – No video, ask each party to put do not disturb on skype.
- Zoom
Podcast Storage:
- Amazon S3
Website Set up/Plugins:
- Blog set up RSS feed
- Plugin Blubrry
Transcribe podcast for SEO purposes if in budget
Image:
- Canva
Syndicate through Social Media.
Social Media Scheduling
Webinars and Online Meetings
For our webinars and monthly Online Business Socials we use Zoom and love it. We find that it works better for us then Skype when making group calls.
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