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Business Tools - what do you use?
Hi All,
I thought I'd share a few different tools I use to help me in our business, along with what I use them for. Feel free to add your own list in the comments too. 🤗
- Monday.com (free version) - to do list & tracker
I use monday to build out a really comprehensive to do list, and then also have an upcoming events section - this helps me plan my work more effectively and I can see everything in the one space. They recently released a new feature that allows you to have multi-level boards which has also been great. I did move over to Notion for a short period and really loved that too, but moved back to Monday because I just needed an easy "to do" list that I could move around and group items etc.
2. ChatGPT (paid) - content writing & brainstorming
I use ChatGPT like a search engine these days and to help me find / explore information - I have a good history built up and so use it to also help me pull together articles and posts - I've trained it over the years for my tone of voice, but have started to transition more over to Claude
3. Claude (paid) - brainstorming, automations & creating documents samples / templates
I've only just started using Claude about a month ago, so am still learning how to optimise it. The first thing I had it do was go through and clean up all my files in on my laptop - it was amazing!
I just saw that Claude have released some new workflows and automations to help with Small Businesses so I'm excited to learn more about these and see if I can use them in our business / help others set them up in their businesses.
4. Google Suite (paid) - emails + general ops management
This gives us our custom emails @milkingducks.com + @duckduckpig.com.au emails as well as access to google drive where we try to store all our important docs so they're in the cloud not on our devices.
5. Canva (paid) - content creation
We use Canva to create social media tiles, slide decks, anything creative really.
6. Square - POS for our roadside stall + markets
I have QR codes set up that people can scan on our roadside stall to pay for the items, and then we use it as a fast payment option when we're doing markets. Works well, reporting is easy, you can use your phone instead of needing hardware when you're at markets (although we have a card tapper as well).
7.Wordpress - website
I originally built our website on Bubble.io but moved it over to Wordpress because we just needed a basic website with standard features. I'm in the process of building out the online farm shop at the moment to ensure we have scheduled delivery options as well as being able to buy tickets for events - if we need more custom features in the future, I might look to change back to bubble, but at the moment Wordpress is the most cost effective solution for us.
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