Resources we use to run the business
When you work for yourself, you have to learn to create, market, and sell your work, find clients, tackle legal stuff, run your business, hire other independent workers, and so much more. Here are the resources we find valuable and use to remain independent.
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Collaboration
- Notion - the place where we write, capture research, organize programming, tracks products, and much more
- Figjam — For whiteboarding and facilitating workshops
- Loom – For async alignment 1:1 or with a group.
- Zoom – It's 2024, you know what Zoom is
- Google Drive – Document sharing, spreadsheets, and simple forms
Design
- Affinity Designer – The best design tool on the planet that doesn't require a subscription
- Figma — For when we need to collaborate on high fidelity design
Services
- ConvertKit – For making and managing marketing funnels
- Stripe – Used to process all credit card and invoice payments.
- Zapier – Virtual duct tape to create a lot of automation steps between tools, basically to ensure a seamless experience for customers
- Vimeo – video hosting to embed videos inside websites and communities without showing ads or the source url
- Adobe Creative Cloud – Primiarly used for font licensing through their lowest cost option
Courses
Brennan Dunn's Mastering ConvertKit – Though a bit dated, it's an excellent course to learn the nuances of tagging, segmentation, and scoring so that you can get the most out of ConvertKit.