22 Productivity Tools To Make Your Business Life A Whole Lot Easier (#16’s My Favourite)

What business owner doesn’t want their business life to be a whole lot easier? Where you get more done in less time and with less money, and punch way above your weight, (possibly) against competitors with much deeper pockets.

Well, that’s absolutely possible these days thanks to an amazing array of online productivity tools ranging from one that helps you find anyone’s email address in a heartbeat (Clearbit) to another that means you’ll only ever have to remember one password every again (Lastpass).

Over the past few months, with the help of small business expert Dale Beaumont and host of 52 Ways (an amazing free one-day business workshop), we’ve compiled a list of 23 of the best productivity tools going around – each one designed to make your business life a whole lot easier.

Each one is listed below – clicking on the link will take you to Dale’s review of that tool, where you’ll then find a link to try it out.

    1. PlaceIt – Generates free mock-up images for your marketing materials
    2. Video Speed Controller – Speed up, slow down, advance & rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts
    3. Appear.in  – Helps you stay productive with effortless video collaboration
    4. YouTube Director – the easiest way to create marketing videos on your smart phone
    5. Clearbit – where you can find (almost) anyone’s email address
    6. Namechk – Search for an available username or domain and secure your brand across the internet
    7. Grammarly – Ensures everything you type is clear, effective & mistake-free
    8. Giphy – Creating and sharing GIFs with Giphy Capture is so easy
    9. Upwork  – An easy & inexpensive way to find freelancers globally
    10. Shakr – An affordable way to do video marketing for small businesses
    11. TeamWork – Project management made easy
    12. Snagit – Enables you to capture, record & annotate anything on your screen

13. Magalogs – They’ve made many direct selling marketers very successful

14. Google Sites – A free and easy way to create and share webpages

15. Dialpad – A business phone system for the funky modern workplace

16. Headline Analyzer – The #1 secret to writing better marketing headlines

17. LastPass – Never forget a password again

18. About.Me – A simple way to promote your personal brand

19. Pocket – It saves all your online content in one place to view later

20. Voxer – Think of it as audio SMS

21. Flipboard – One place for everything you discover online

22. Hotjar – How to learn from your website visitors

There you go, 22 online productivity tools to make your business life a whole lot easier.

Do you have a favourite? Let me know in the Comments below.

Or maybe there’s one you’d add to the list.

 

Lovingly posted by Tim on the 12th September 2017