Inside Our Business Toolkit
My dear fellow entrepreneur, here is a curated list of our trusted go-to business tools and favourite resources that we highly recommend (and use in our business!). Nothing on this page has been sponsored so if we are sharing it, you know it’s good! So grab the tools that changed the game for us, and empower also your path to success!
Psst, some of the links below may get you a sweet discount! ;)
OUR FAVOURITE
BUSINESS TOOLS
SPROUT STUDIO
I use this all-in-one CRM for all my creative businesses! Scheduling appointments. Check! Sending contracts. Check! Invoices. Check! Questionnaires. Check! Client Portal. Check! Workflows. Check! I love that I can have everything in one place.
NOTION
A project management powerhouse! This platform lets you have to-do lists with tasks, milestones, workflows, and timelines that keep everything successfully organized making every project a breeze.
GOOGLE DRIVE
There’s a reason Gmail is known as the king of email hosting and storage. Share, access, and store your files and folders from any mobile device, tablet or computer for free.
BOOMERANG
Allows you to schedule emails to be send later. Perfect for when you don’t want your client to know you just emailed them at 2:30 am (You know it happens!). – You can add it for free to your Gmail account.
TOP RECOMMENDATION FOR
WEBSITE & HOSTING
SITEGROUND
Our top recommendation for domains and hosting! In a world full of hosting plans, not all are created equal, and you definitely get what you pay for. Siteground is very reliable with affordable plans, plus their customer service is just amazing.
SHOWIT
Showit is a leading drag-and-drop web design platform, confidently chosen by industry leaders across all fields. All of our website templates are built on Showit. No code needed. Get 1 month of Showit for free (New accounts only)
WORDPRESS
Our website is built on Showit and WordPress and we love how user-friendly both are. WordPress is free to install and you can easily manage upgrade and plugins.
DIVI BUILDER
Divi is a drag-and-drop WordPress page builder. It’s a visual editor that let’s you design your website without code. Divi has over 24000 reviews of 5 stars! Yes, it’s that good!
CREATE A POWERFUL ONLINE BUSINESS!
Browse our ready-to-customize templates & get the one that you love the most! Easily launch your new professional and conversion-focused website that connects with your audience and grows your creative brand.
THE SUPERHEROES FOR
BRANDING & DESIGN
CREATIVE MARKET
Creative Market is an online marketplace great for design assets like graphics, elements, and many more design goodies. There are also many unique and affordable fonts for your visual content.
CANVA
Canva is an online platform that allows users to easily create social media graphics, presentations, and other visual content. Canva is great for creating GIFs for social media!
COLOUR LOVERS
A creative community where people create and share colours, palettes, and patterns. Over 4 million user-created colour palettes to inspire your website ideas.
Google Fonts
Google Fonts is what we use in our Showit templates, so you can pretty easily change a font in a template to a different Google Font.
OUR FAVOURITE
PHOTO & VIDEO
CRISTINA PHOTOGRAPHY
If you live in Canada, we suggest Cristina Photography for all your personal branding photography and headshots.
ADOBE SUITE
We love Adobe, especially Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Premiere Pro. We create a lot of the graphics for our website and edit videos using Adobe.
UNSPLASH
Looking for free photographs? We use photos from Unsplash in almost all of our template designs and throughout our social media.
PEXELS
Free stock photos & videos you can use everywhere. Browse millions of high-quality royalty-free stock images & copyright-free pictures.
AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER:
Some of the links in this page are affiliate links. If you purchase using our affiliate link, we may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Of course, we only recommend the tools that we use and love the most!
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