There are many tools a Business needs to succeed and often there are many options that create confusion.
Many Businesses don’t have the time or can’t afford the expense to research each option to find the best tools for business.
Crowe Coaching has done the research and have through our network received feedback on which tools to test; after many costly trials in the pursuit to find tools that help businesses function successfully we have a list of recommended tools that will save you time and money to increase the efficiency of your business and help you generate more clients.
Below you will find the recommended list:
FINANCES
FRESHBOOKS – Invoicing, Expenses, Accounting Solution www.freshbooks.com
Freshbooks is great for all your Invoicing and client management. You can send invoices and allow your clients to log into their own personal page to view and pay invoices. Also send estimates that clients can accept which automatically turn into Invoices for billing. Add, track and assign expenses and manage Finances anywhere through your secure online access, great for billing time tracking and invoicing clients while away from the office.
Freshbooks offers affordable options as your business grows including a free account to get started. Register your trial account here and let us know what you think.
EMAIL MARKETING AND EMAIL LIST MANAGER
MAILCHIMP – Total Email Solution www.mailchimp.com
MailChimp is the perfect email solution for your business. Design eye-catching, professionally-branded HTML email campaigns, automatically manage subscriber lists, and track results. Just point, click, and send. No coding or programming required.
MailChimp also provides easy code to past into your website for capturing subscribers to your newsletter and automating the emails to these subscribers.
View an example of a subscriber box at www.masteryzone.net
WEB ANALYTICS – Track your Website Stats
CLICKY – Real time tracking of your website statistics www.clicky.com
Clicky is a great tool to let you know what’s going on with your website and the people visiting. Depending in which plan option you choose you can track numerous websites and get detailed stats including when clients enter your site, what page they start on and what page they leave your site. Valuable stats to let you make the important changes to your website to increase your results.
Clicky is simple to use even if you would not rate yourself to savvy on the technical side of things and knowing the stats is a important part of business success. Register for a Clicky account ;choose the option that best suits your business and get control of your results.
FORM MANAGER – Easily create forms
WUFOO – Create many forms easily and without tech knowledge www.wufoo.com
Wufoo is a excellent tool to create forms without needing to know any technical coding. Great if you want a fast way to create and add forms to your website and emails.
You can create many forms with lots of cool cut and past functions; Create registration forms for your event, booking forms for your service, questionnaire forms to create result with graphs; the options are huge.
Wufoo even integrates with PayPal so you can easily accept payments from the people signing up to a form as well as have Wufoo email you and your clients to let you know who has signed up on a form or made a payment.
Wufoo is defiantly the solution if you are looking to create numerous quick forms you can change easily and are not wanting to invest in a developer.
Check out this example of a form built within minutes using Wufoo. A Wufoo Form example
If you are only wanting a few permanent forms and you know what you want we recommend you have a developer build them and speak with Bamboo Branding for this solution as it will work out more cost effective in the long run.
HOSTING & DOMAIN NAMES
BAMBOO BRANDING – IT Solutions at a fair price www.bamboobranding.com
Bamboo Branding provides a hosting services that meets the needs of any business no matter what stage your business is at and provides this service at a fair price. If you are not sure about Hosting than the team at Bamboo Branding will be able to provide you with assistance without the technical jargon. Contact Bamboo Branding and receive the professional service without the Technical confusion. admin@bamboobranding.com Let them know Crowe Coaching referred you and they will offer you 12 months hosting for the price of 6 months. Bamboo Branding also provides Domain Names for your business. Every business should secure their domain name as it is their business address on the world wide web. Visit www.bamboobranding.com to secure your domain name.
BLUEHOST – Hosting solution for the more advanced user www.bluehost.com
BlueHost is a great solution if you are comfortable with the Technical I.T stuff. They provide a hosting service that you fully manage yourself and you can add as many domain names and websites to the one plan as you like.
Remember this is a solution for those of you more skilled with the I.T world, the support is more basic than if you were with a IT Solution specialist such as Bamboo Branding.
If you have more than one or two websites and can navigate your way through a CPanel Bluehost is a great solution; you will be able to host unlimited websites with unlimited bandwidth at a great price.
If you have any feedback on the Business Tool Box list or you would like to recommend a product or service for us to test, email: admin@crowecoaching.com.au
Regards
Chris Crowe
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