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I compiled this list of my favorite business resources & must-haves to level-up your business, generate more passive income, and increase income streams -- we run our business and our client's businesses off of these amazing tools! I recommend you bookmark this page, it's an ever growing list as we test more and more AMAZING tools. Check it out!
Below you'll find a few of our very favorite tools, supplies, books, and fun things just for you! Everything we share we are using in our own business or our client's businesses. We only recommend products we can back.
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Templates!
Time is one of our greatest assets, which is why we have designed templates that are 100% customizable to fit the needs of our clients.
tools of the trade
Our go-to tools for running our business!
You ask and we deliver! These are just some of the online tools we use make your business goals a reality!
① Kajabi
✰Our Fav!
Kajabi is an all in one Platform. You can build, sell, market, and grow your business with JUST this tool. It's so incredibly easy to use and we HIGHLY recommend Kajabi to all our clients. Kajabi is where the magic happens! We use Kajabi to build courses, funnels, webinars, email sequences, and more! Don't just take our word for it, give it a test run!
② ClickUp
✰A Must Have!
ClickUp is an all-in-one suite to manage people, projects, and everything in between. ClickUp is the project management software that keeps us on track and up-to-date with all of our projects, clients, and due dates. And you can get started for free! Are you seeing a trend here? We love free resources!
Try ClickUp③ Google Drive
✰File Organization & Communication
As a remote team we rely on file sharing and virtual collaboration. Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. We store files, communicate on projects, and so much more. We also use it with our clients so they can see progress in real-time and share their feedback, all in one place!
Try Google Drive④ Quickbooks
✰Accounting
We use Quickbooks to help with our internal bookkeeping and money management. It links to your credit cards and bank accounts to make taxes easy! Quickbooks also provides invoicing and contractor payments. A must for anyone managing their own accounting and taxes!
Try Quickbooks Online⑤ Calendly
✰Scheduling
Calendly is our calendar scheduling tool that we use when creating meetings and appointments with our clients. It's simple and easy to use allowing all parties involved to see what works with their availability, no more confusion around time zones!
Try Calendly⑥ Honeybook
✰Proposals. Contracts, & Payments
Honeybook is a tool that helps create proposals, contracts, and collect payments. It keeps everything in one place so that we don't have to worry.
Try Honeybook⑦ Zoom
✰Communication
We use Zoom for all of our internal team meetings and meetings with our clients. We also use it for webinars, online summits, and content creation.
Try Zoom⑧ Loom
✰Visual Communication
Loom is a more efficient, expressive, effective way to communicate. We share our screen recordings with team members and clients. It's so much faster than typing an email
Try Loom① Canva
✰A Must Have!
Canva is the tool we use to create our website graphics, slides, social media graphics, and custom fonts. I can confidently say we live inside of Canva ;) One of the reasons we LOVE Canva is how easy it is to use. Everyone on our team can use Canva, there's no need to spend hours watching Youtube tutorials. We also share designs with our clients, and by giving them a Canva file they can make adjustments down the road without us. Plus, checkout all the template shops you can browse to save oodles of time!
② Adobe
✰Design & File Sharing
We use Adobe Creative Cloud for many of our design applications. We also reply on two tools: Acrobat DC and Adobe Sign. Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format. And Adobe Sign is how we e-sign files and contracts.
Try Adobe③ Styled Stock Society
✰Design Templates
Styles Stock Society has tons of beautiful stock photos, templates, and designs that make it easy to customize your content.
Browse the Shop!④ Pixistock
✰Design Templates
Pixistock is another great source for stock photos that adds consistency and simplicity throughout your design projects.
Sign-up!⑤ The Template Tribe
✰Design Templates
Time Saving Canva Templates For Coaches, Educators & Niche Experts Creating Online Products & Programs.
Sign-up!⑥ SquareKicker
✰Design Extension
SquareKicker is an intuitive no-code design extension which allows you to bring your Squarespace sites to the next level without using a single line of code.
Sign-up!⑦ Usetiful
✰Digital Adoption Platform
Improve digital adoption without coding and increase user retention and engagement in any digital software.
Sign-up!Tailwind is our go-to social media scheduling tool that we use for Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook. It easily helps re-purpose content to save you time and energy.
Dollar Eighty is a tool that we recommend to all our clients to save hours and organically grow their Instagram by targeting your niche with hashtag tracking, comments, likes and posts.
Typeform helps create interactive experiences for your audience — get more responses to help you on creating content.
Interact is a tool for creating online quizzes that generate leads, segment your audience, and drive traffic to your website.
Active Campaign offers software for customer experience automation, which combines the email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation, and CRM categories.
Flodesk is a email marketing service provider that's built for creators. You can use it to design and send on-brand marketing emails, create opt-ins, and more.
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My Workspace
I believe that the work-from-home life is the best life. Here are a few of my very favorite things that I use in my workspace.
Office Supplies
We have to admit...we are a little picky when it comes to our favorite folders, notebooks, and pens. Take a look at some of our favorites below!
Work From Home Attire
They say to dress for the job you want, so here are our office outfit go-to's!
My Bookshelf
At The Hively Co, we believe in being learners and educating ourselves is one of the top priorities for everyone on our team. Checkout the some of our latest reads!
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