642: 50+ Tools and Apps to Work Smarter and Get More Out Of Your Side Hustle
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Hey, it's time for tool talk. These are fifty plus tools and apps to work smarter and get more out of your side hustle. What's up? What's up, nick? We've been day jobs since this one.

Quested topics that I get. I'll look under the hood, the different tools, apps, resources, software, services, but I used to run side of nation. And because i'm not decorate, I just reading off a list in model logging for hour.

I thought I would be to have a cal host for this discussion, could bring her own opinions and insight and recommend resources to the table as well. She's the host of the award winning podcast, the highlights, black women entrepreneurs who scaled their side hustles into proposal businesses. And she's an accomplished entrepreneur in her right from cats le pro naka Matthews. A welcome to the similarly named cats le show.

Thank you. Thank you so much, nik. Wow, that was quite a intro and it's always fun to hear a fellow podcast. I'm like, oh, you rock that. Oh, you so good at this.

Well, very much appreciated. You are no stranger or two. The mike with over four hundred episodes of the side house le pro podcast run.

And since twenty sixteen, i'm excited to learn a little bit more about your business in the tool kit that you've been using to run IT as well. We got a bunch of different categories to run through today. But since common thread here is, is online business, we going to start with website tools.

I still believe that even in the age of social media and video, I think it's really important to have that website as your home base. And for me, that starts with wordpress. And specifically, generate press is the theme that i've been using for the last seven, seven years for that word.

Press, of course, has the energy being free, open source, generate press, prety, affordable, premium theme, light weight loads, fast customers. And what's cool about what press specifically is just like the ecosystem of plugins in support where IT, there's a little bit like any software, there's a little bit of a learning curve to bend IT to your will. But it's super, super powerful and its seems to be the platform all of the serious website builders are using. Is that what side of pro is hosted on as well?

That is absolutely what side hole pro is hosted on. I've been using wordpress and is funny. You mentioned the theme detector because I started out by getting you know wordpress site and then going to the called wordpress theme detector.

So it's wp dash theme detector that com I believe I will link to IT. And from there I just IT allows you to copy your your well plugged IT in you know the seat, like what thing that we're first site is using. And then I just used the same thing. So when I was started out, and I wanted a professional in pock website, I went to a fellow park that was like, then I thought, look really clean, really good. And I just copied the feet.

Yeah, I know that control you or something. Like, look at the source code, see if we can find out what the team file directories are not like totally, that all what of my first sites was this virtual assistant directory. And IT was a site that I found.

I was like researching a wine nit. Say, like I don't know thing about wine and no business being in my face, but one of the I found was this like wine wine club review site is like, you know but the decades ent layout, these structure is an exactly the same thing. What theme where they're used like, okay, we could just rebuild this to be about the world of virtual .

assistance so much in is literally rebuilding. You don't have .

we emit the wheat. So we spoke earlier, like I said, okay, this is hosted on where Price is not itself hosted. And for me, the hosting platform that site, ation, has been on for over ten years at this point is W P X.

W P X hosting amazing customer support where they like, respond within seconds on the live check. They have helped me out of so many different, not just technical chAllenges and issues that come up. They take daily backup PS. They've been awesome. And for it's one of those bills that you think I pay annually and up until very recently was like two and five box mother paid annually and black right idea was even less than that just recently, like went over my allocated disk space for IT and I had to up to the next, the next storage year. But when those bills that every time will come around and be like, I am getting such an amazing deal from these people, like this is like this is like what you know those costs where you're like really happy to pay.

Oh yeah, that is an amazing deal because yeah, hosting is so if I thought I was hosting on blue host for a number of years and then recently in twenty twenty three switched over to i've had a positive experience so far with background actually my web designer recommended IT and the same thing they give me a emails with updates on performance, what can be improved in all these other of things? I find that really helpful to .

ah the only thing that I still have this blue host account for is creating these like redirects and I what theyve got a bunch of different plants, but like the one that allows for lots of different ad on domains. So register vanity domains for the sake of saying them on the on the podcast like you one of the first once I was like byte ton's book that com and that i'll take you over to amazon the book or you want to start a website of your own go to side hustle website um and then we'll go to my tutorial page and this was a page straight out of the path lian playable here back of the day. Do this is like a that's release.

you know yeah i'm trying to figure out like how I can consolidate. It's a lot of back and work when you switch over a host and you definitely you don't want to make sure any of your old sites crash. So it's like, am I doing duplicate payments right now?

So I need to figure that out yeah because that is the hosting side of things for the domain ant registration things. I use godiva a lot years and still have some domains at godiva lately, has been pork bun, who you know was a one time sponsor the show. But just I like their very simple straight forward interface without trying to sell you a million different ads. Like like go daddy tries to do.

I thought you go daddy, but yeah so doing you're like do I need this actually needed here?

We've talked about like the goat I conspiracy theory of like you know checking to see if the domain is available. Like no, I know don't do that you're ready to click buy is like some like somebody is scraping this. You know it's happened too often to just be purely coincident.

Like, well, and now I go back a week later that happens to be registered. Actually, we have the next one on this list is the builder, or in my case, beaver builder. IT is IT turns wordpress into more of a with waye type of editor.

What you see is what you get type of editor. We could drag and drop and manipulated a little bit easier. And so beaver builder has been awesome for.

I use elementary, or I should say, my website designer. So I started out with wordpress, and after three years of pak casti, and I hired a website designer. And so SHE took over and you and added in elementary to do all the design and all that stuff.

So I can even say that I use that other than making edits any time was very user firmly. So that's a great thing. I'm not a website designer, but after she's done with project into man's, obviously i'm not going to call her every time. I need to set up a new page, make an edit, set up A A land page. So elemental is really easy and state forward to go in and do any kind of edits.

The way these were are kind of layers on top of your existing world theme. And I use IT to create custom pages, custom landing pages that you don't want to follow the exact default temp, but more often is like little call out inside the post, can use little short code for you kind of build these things in the cooking about that. You can you can embed that in a bunch of different posts.

And if that link changes or you want to highlight a different part, a different product, you can even swap that out in one place in the in the bieber builder saved row and IT updates throughout the whole site, where is going in and manually updating a dozen different posts. I agree. That concludes our website section. I'm sure there's been going website related things were lower the last two yes.

Yeah, plugin s might come up. See, i'm sure.

So the next category that we got is marketing tools. And one big shift for me that we talked about this year was a shift from active campaign convert IT. I was just a kid now for the email list, hugely important part of the business. You need to be able to take an anonymous podcast list and say, now I have the chance to communicate proactively with them instead of just whenever they happen to download you on kit as well.

I am on kit. I am. It's so new to me. But yes, I want kid and I like you a lot. I like I started out with male champ, like most people, early marketers. And then I switch over to convert IT when I got way more serious about tagging people subscribers as they come on to my list and be able to deliver automation and sequences.

So if you're not a marketer, and that all seems like jargon inches, you know, jib jab to you, basically when someone gives you their email for a free bee that you offer, I love being able to customize their experience. When i'm really on my game, mark, I can't even lie and like i'm still not working things out sometimes, but let's say I am leading a web r right? So I like how convert kit makes IT really easy to send, follow up, find their emails to tag people and make sure the right people are getting that or are not getting that. So i'm not bothering people who don't want this info about a podcast .

weapon or a little if you are sitting straight newsletter. No regulators that could be behave IT, could be substandard, could be any number of different tools before the automation and segmentation and tagging and all the other features that converted or kit has. I think it's really cool and there is a safety and numbers.

This is what James clear uses. This is what temporary uses you like. Okay, well, was enough for them. It's probably enough for me.

exactly. And that's a lot of my tool started like, oh, you use that, amy. Part of feel OK cool.

Yes, save the numbers. What else I like about kit is like they've made a lot of investment in the creative economy where they're like really rooting for the small guy IT feels like where, oh yes, they built out their sponsor network and they are creator network, where you could recommend other newsletter creators that you might like, that might be worth to follow. Similar nature like china, like lift everybody up, which is is cool to be a part of that ecosystem.

is so right about that. And I really is, and I like the content they develop, whether there is on their blog. And even the founder, he has a podcast as well.

What's his last name again? Very yeah. IT doesn't make IT more approach able. When you hear the founder of a business I like, how may thin ages is so approach able, when I hear him on his own podcast, is talking about his experience building. And that's what I, me, an entrepreneur, is going through. So IT adds a level of trust and also like ability factor to the the entire brain, not a rave about convert IT for forever and has .

always been front center, even shown up at events. And even as the C E O of you know thirty forty million, our company, whatever this you remembers your name you know it's like, hey, remember we talked a few years ago about this. He plays apart very well and and IT is difficult as well. I saw I lied and so we were done with the website section.

I knew we were to the next .

on this list that I have his lead pages, which is a landing page build that have been a customer for probably close to ten years. At this point, IT was another recurring subscription. Like, do I really need this in my life? I really hesitant to buy IT, but within three months, you know, my triple decides of my email list.

Within twelve months, I was like ten or twelve acts like, okay, this, this is worthwhile. What I primarily use IT for today is still IT has at any page functionality to collect emails. What I originally used to for was like a double, like a two step up in, like, you run down, okay, nice looking. Pop up or come in and then you could do IT, I don't use that so much anymore. But now you can have this kind of landing pages after an opt in with a limited time you thank you page with like a limited time add on up sell offer that been doing for a couple years and has like a little countdown timer and like integrates with stripe with the payment processor al stuff you can do with.

I think I need to be doing more, but I love lee pages. I would say this is one of my favorite tools as a side has learned entrepreneur, because IT makes IT so easy to set up a quick landing page. K IT feels like you set up a like many website and no one will know the difference.

And so I use that primarily for when I do live classes, live trainees, and that, like, I have one that is just been with me since I started using lead pages. And similar to you, I tripled the size of my list when I started using them right away. I did like a master instagram chAllenge, and that we would actually did a little many case study.

So I lovely pages and it's back in the day, I also I saw the bill and I thought about cancellation in the customer service agent was kind of like, well, we're showing that you made this much revenue from your lead page last year. Are you sure you don't want to pay this and will be like, you're right, you're right. OK 杯 makes IT hard .

to get rid of。 But and that's cool because like if you're doing a weapon or you do not alive training, there's all these templates you you have to start from scratch in the such a time sabor. So definitely like what they're doing.

Yes, the next one on this list is a new to me to all maybe in the last year and a half or so. And that is a quiz builder called interact. It's try interact that but will link all the stuff up in the show notes for you.

We're using all the same tools.

I as expected, a little bit more of A A debate or back and forth bunch will get to them later in the show. But interact super cool.

I feel like you're using things in in different ways that, like you said, like the lead pages. So yeah, we can also talk about that because i'm like i'll tell me how to use IT. I optimize my use.

Happy to keep out on that stuff too, but interact a couple different quiz that are alive right now. One is on the home page of side, us nation. This is like your side has to finder answer a couple questions about your interests, goals, experience, right is going hopefully narrowed down the the realm of possibility or pointing in the right direction. And then I took an idea from a gusta on the show, SHE and in winston can see this in action at hustle that show answer you quite questions and it'll spit out, you know, this eight to ten episode recommended play less based on your answers. And that's been working really well.

Who I love that that's a great idea. So I love try interact as well and fully enough. I just recent started using that. I used to have a different landing page or excuse me, website free bee, that was like the primary driver.

And then I finally said, let me finally try IT out as a quiz and similar to you have uh site house personality but it's more like which side housing is right for you. So the whole premise of side house le pro is about building out a side household from passion project to profile business. So I want people to understand, like, k, are you the creative title? Are you service space consult insight? So that was IT immediately just took off. And I also got I also run ads to IT. They are pause right now, but I run adds to IT as a leave magnet and then you know you're able to as a fulfillment, you get to your response and then also tailor customize strategies via email once you get your response from the quiz.

Yeah I think it's a really cool level of personalization, the table to do plus you get this first party data that you know nothing else really has.

And so one thing that was surprising to me on the home page, quires, I think one of the first question is like, do you want to sign us so to make extra money or do you want to sign us to eventually quit your job? And you know, my mentality is like, of course, you know, people want to quit your job versions like and I think the podcast listen er personas probably more in that bucket, but four out of five people that lend on the home page we're like I want to ask so to make extra money was like, oh, that's really yes is really interesting. And now you can segment those people on the email list, do all sort of school .

stuff so question for you with your play list. So are you sending them to an sure like a many episode player on your site? Or how are you doing that player is just linking out the episodes has done .

through spotify. So we create those custom public playlist and spotify and then send people so they can add those .

to love IT love IT stein IT perfect.

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Bank services are provided by piermont bank member F D I C found core features or free. They also offer an paid product found plus. The next on this list is a facebook group lead generating to all call group leads.

This has been part of our customer flow, or leaf flow, for the past couple years where IT automatically, if you know went somebody joins the facebook group but ask a couple questions. It's like you have a site on. So already if you have to tell me about IT, you want to get our best side util tips and inter s insider newsletter through email.

You don't put your email in here and then through group leads, you automatically sends the data over to kit now and and adds those people to the email st and IT. And I can detect as a personality on the list or is that a new subway ber and kind of send different messages based on. Where coming from.

who I love that I need to implement that. So yeah, that's one I haven't been using. So yes, definitely want to test that out myself.

Group leads the a facebook group of the flash f. We get over there. You can see in action as well, if you not already remember. And this is added thousands of new subscribers a year. So I love the you know broader strategy is like have the facebook group for your topic, for your community. And then you know the next level is like what how do you get people off for facebook into your email, into your ecosystem of IT? And so group leads .

has been super helpful for that. Yep, getting people off social media into your email, it's just huge as an entrepreneur. Do you do anything similar for like instagram, linton, twitter?

I got to learn from you and stuff. I do almost nothing. I've got a wordpress plugin for you at number ten ten.

I don't know. We're probably losing count on this list. This is called pretty link. This is a long running where press plugging in that he helps you create easy to remember a filler links so that and both for podcast episodes where I could, hey, showdowns, this one side of nation that slash cola, or you could do if you want to go check out courses on you. To me, it's a nation that comes like you to me. So that makes IT easy to say if you don't want to go to mention before creating that custom venality domain, like buy buttons book that like this is A, A, A free way to do that.

I use pretty link all the way I love pretty link and customizing. And I also even do IT for like facebook ads. For example, if I have a link in that, I want to make sure that it's not this whole long links. So I often mixture have a custom link. Or if I want to know if you click on instagram to listen to the episode on facebook, or what have you made customize .

linked for data tracking as well. Next one also a filly IT related. And this is the lasso plugin. I think it's get lasso that co we had the founder under on the the show a year or two ago and this was another one.

Like do I need another recurring subscription? But it's like, I don't know what the Price is like thirty nine bucks of moo. There's something it's not crazy expensive because the lift in conversions that you see from creating these cool you know wirecutters inspired product displays far exceeds the the cost of the of the little tools.

I think that looks really cool. We have slow leaving, going through the entire side, creating little product displays, the call outs. And they I think they look great. They look at a mobile and and they performing well.

too well. Definite heard to get less so, but I haven't used that yet. So thank you for endorsing IT.

So to check IT out, yeah, it's one of call IT management. By looking around, we are like what is everybody else doing? You like everybody else can see school the product displays.

Like, i'm visit the boat. And for the longest time, like I I tried to build myself like a bever builder. IT just could never get the the same look at you. And like, you know why stopped cheaping out? Just go and do the thing.

right, right? Which products are you displaying when you say that?

Oh, so IT will be, you know, tools like fun rise or to be they go check out the flea market flipper workshop .

that would be really cool to do for my sponsors. Yeah.

that one is pretty cool. My digital product business, my course business is hosted on teaching. And this is you're probably going on five years at this point. Teach able was one of the very first sponsors on the show. So always have A A warm place of my heart for teaching in their founding team as they took a chance, you know, as a up at coming podcasting. But this is a place to host your courses, a place to process payments for those, host the sales pages also to kind of like all in one tool four, of course.

Yes, I also use teachable and I host my podcast moguls course on that. So that's, of course, where teach aspiring pod casters how to launch and monetize your own podcast. And it's been really great. It's a seamless experience to go in set up the modules, then you get the replace. When we have our mastermind calls, you can send people to the check out sales page there. Or if you do another like fund type of website, which i'm sure will get to, you can still just stand them the info to get registered in and gets started with the course on teachers. I really like.

yeah been forever. There's a bunch of different or learning management system type of tools, posen cons to all of them, but it's been working fine over here yeah what .

you'll find with tools is the swimming costs like you have to really make IT worth IT for someone to want to switch their whole workflow and take their content over to another platform. So I don't think any other course provider has made the switching cost worthwhile. Yeah.

it's to be it's going to be had to be A A significant feature improvement or significant cost savings to unravel that. That was what I was for, for active campaign is like really, we ve got thirds of different forms. It's all these integrations into their credit convertites.

I hey, we will do a for you and they did so OK. The next one on, I guess, a couple on this list are going to be seo related. And first one for me is a fs.

It's hr fs. This is the leading keyword research tool and has been for a long time. Anybody serious about ranking their content in google? All the series seo people are, you know friends, colleagues, people in the industry tend to use this one.

And they recently came out with a starter plan that was like a third of the cost. And I was like, okay, that's the one that I need because it's like always, always kind a little bit expensive for what we were using IT for and it's the same thing was like what the our eyes is definitely there. If you can get a piece of content that the key world topic you d discovered through H F.

S and you created that content and you got IT to stick. IT definitely pays for itself, but like definitely also pays for herself if it's a third of the costume and the future that didn't really change. So really called to have .

discovered that just recently. I like that another one that you know I for seo was really doing the basic of using A A warehouse ss plugin. And I think IT was called used. But there's a new business that my husband and I starting.

So i'm i'm going to take IT a step up and actually used was they call H F, yeah, yeah, yeah for that because again, I I wanted start out by knowing, okay, what can we rank for? What are the top searches for this? What are the suggested searches? So what exactly does that do for you?

So what are the cool things you can do is plug in a similar or a competitor site and see what pages of theirs are doing well, what pages you know, what kind key that they have created content for. And that's kind of like this opening Spark of inspiration. You like, oh, that's an interesting I never would have thought about that.

And the other kind of use case is we've got all of these different keyword topics now or ideas that we could create. And then you punch malian. And to tell you the approximate search volume of traffic potential plus the estimated difficulty of each one. So were actually sorting by which ones have the most traffic potential and are the easiest in theory.

to rank for. There was something else I used for that, and for some reason, oh, i've used scm rush tool. Yeah, I had to look that up. Definitely use them. Rush.

okay? The other S O tool we've been using is phrase. It's F R A S E. This is a little bit nervous, but IT works in a couple of different ways. First, you can input a new content idea. This is the article that I want to write and IT pulls in, you know, the top ten twenty search results that are already in google for that topic and says, if you creating this article, this is what google ready thinks is the most valuable content so you can help kind of build your outline based on that. In the second way you can use that is to say we already have this article on topic X, Y, Z, but it's it's due for a fresh and IT works similarly well as well. You know your your content mentions this phrase know twice, but the top ten results mention IT four time so you might want this is like really granular and kind of like I don't know if that really if that could be considered A I, but I like just kind of helps you've turned figure out what where the gaps might be content.

So you find that you need that on top of era. That's interesting. yeah.

So atrs more for the like key, the general seed ideas for content. And then this is like helping you build out the outlines or improving existing content. And you could use ChatGPT for this probably.

Yeah, I was going to say, I think I ve since i've been using ChatGPT, i've been kind of forty. I absolutely going to test if I to pay for all of.

again, next one, productivity tools. And all of these are productivity tools in one form or another. But for me, the top one, the first tab that gets open every day, probably bad habit, is gmail. It's like one in box to rule them all. If you email me nick isolation, that will come into gmail inbox. And you've got all of these you know filters set up where, you know, news letters go over here and you know a filia taes notifications over here, and then the personal stuff goes into this folder and know paypal receipts go into this accounting type for kind of that one central inbox to really to really rule .

them all has been, hold me. The beginning of side has a proven, again, one inbox. If you detail me at high at side hose proa code, it's going there.

And IT usually is. Sometimes I do my calendar before gmail, but yeah, that's probably one of the first places. I mean, each day probably that have IT.

but it's fifteen, twenty years old at this points can be hard to break until that a layer on top of gmail is a software called saying box, which is one of a smart like first level filtering where where everything that comes in IT decides like this is need to go to primary box. Need to go into kind of a secondary less important in box, and it's it's remarkably good at that. And you still have to go check the secondary in box.

They call the same later like it's not urgent. You can look at IT later and you still need to go and clean that out. And you can train, study and drag IT back and forward. But it's been I ve a customer, there's for a lot years and there's IT filter out thousands, thousands of messages at this point that were less important and stopped cluttering .

up the mAiling box. I think I need that for my personal I used to use a booming a lot more and even for like sending later. But obviously you can do that now just for a gmail. And what I find with the inbox is I just want to be able to see everything first.

I don't want you to go like sometimes things would go some filters and I wouldn't even I don't know, just want to make sure that i'm seen everything, but I do have my inbox divided, start on top and then on red. And so it's nice because once i've read and addressed IT, it's blink and I don't have A I don't like keeping a huge in box at all and then but start lets me know what I need to get back to. And that's my simple system right now.

And then everything has I have a ton of filter. So I do organized by alright email goes to address this, goes to I even have things like email examples, and i'll do that by name of the influence content creator. And i'm like, what like this email. So i'll save IT in their special invoice for me to go back to the review. Yeah.

I take inspiration from somebody else rather than starting from that blank page.

rather than starting from scratch .

to mention bombing as as a good gmail add on, the one that i've been using for a long time is called the gmail, where it's like, this isn't important today, but I I want to return ACE in a couple weeks.

You just see, see or forward that message to like two weeks at no gmail, that com and IT like brings you back to the top of your inbox or if you know send a note to A A sponsor or a client and you want to make sure to follow up with them in a few days, you can say like cc or bcc. Maybe you don't want them to see IT like five five days and large mail that comic, any commonly expressed time frame it'll be face that syrian box. So it's it's been A A cool.

helpful tool as well.

I like that. Next on this list is a clipboard management tool. I'm on PC. This is clip x, which allows you to like, saves the last twenty five things you copied onto your clipboard, which is like just one of these like little test top productivity tools. I've heard that copy clip is the mac alternative, but this is something that I use all day, every day without even thinking about IT.

Now that's so interesting. So why do you want to remember what you can? Maybe I was scared to scared for someone that can track of what I can be.

Yeah, I got a pasting the URL, you know, copy something now and then. So, but I was like three copies ago. I want to pace dead thing again. It's just like it's workable. How often that use case comes up.

That's true. That is true. Like what i'm the email, okay, I wanted to have my podcast, my apple pack slim copied.

Oh, but now the last thing I did was the youtube. So right? Okay, you've convinced me. Maybe I will add this one. Is that a chrome extension? Or it's another um like separate thing to do as ad one .

as a desktop free I think free software for PC in the copy clip I want to say is the mac alternative that people have have mentioned OK. I do have a chrome plugin or chrome extension for you next. And this one is called the magical.

This is custom keyboard shortcuts and so uses all the time, like if I hit S S S or something like that, will you P W H T T P you know, w outside isolation that you get tired of type of the stuff out over over again. Yeah, you kind of create these custom keyboard shortcuts for the stuff that you type out all the time. Or like astro, something that's like the you know schedule once the link like meet me that so is like you use this all the time as well. And so that's been really helpful.

That's so cool. You don't nick, I thought I was productive, but you you are running me. So how different level I thought I was doing something with command c, command v one of those keyboard shortcuts. Okay, no, I don't have a keyboard shortcuts.

All yeah, that takes takes a minute to set up. You know you feel like just, uh, relativity in ja, when you you bang these emails out.

you know I like that.

I think there's three anything that probably have .

a paid plan to h speaking of that, one thing I forgot to mention about gmail. I also have a lot of saved templates inside of gmail, so that saves me time with responding to people. So ah and I also have that for my va.

So my va has sob email, underside house, the pro and then everything from email pitches to perspective guests, to responses to people who pitch us in different things, to say to sponsor or all kinds of things. We've made up all kinds of templates so that we can just plug and play and now have to keep reverting the wheel for each mail and speeds up the reply process. Yeah.

oh yeah, that's great. That's great. For responsible requests for guest pitch, a request like, oh, you can afford the sake of sanity and funding guest applications through this form you know, here's the link. And yeah, because you the stuff you had up typing out over over again.

right right, over and over again, anything over over again becomes a temple.

right? My next productivity tool is my personal creation is called the three question journal. Every night he is going to ask you what you get done today, right? Like kind of A A mental brain dump of all the things to cross off your list.

It's to ask you what you're grateful for and it's going ask you how you are going to win tomorrow. What do you talk priorities for the next day? And this is something created um last year, I want to say, and has been kind of a daily habit ever since then.

And he helps me feel more on top of that, helps me honestly can do that you know shut down routine like, okay, you know, it's it's out here and it's to the page and then when I get to work the next day, it's, well, this is what yesterday I said with the top, right? So let's go dock those out first. And so that's spring helpful. Three q journal, that com is A A redirect link and another one of those vantis domains where you can get redirected over there.

Yes, I love that. So I also have a tool that I used for productivity. So I started this IT back into sixteen and call the goal get action plan. And it's essentially my approach to managing my goals for the air.

So I break IT down into ninety day springs and A K A twelve week experience where instead of focusing and looking at the year as like this huge, oh, I gotta get all this done. And I didn't make up the concept of twelve experience. But the way I break IT down in the goal, get action planner, helps people who don't meet their goal to be calculate.

And so I think that's the thing i've noticed for my listener's. That's the thing that stops most people is this feeling of beating yourself up. And that's Normal.

It's part of the process to not get things done. So how do you recommend late? How do you regift your goal so that you actually get things done?

So that has helped me at time to not waste time, unlike that mental roll coaster, and just say, alright, let's pit. So similar to you, I look at my calendar. That's where I keep.

So once I break, this brings down into quarterly goals by nine days brings and I break IT down into monthly. And so each night i'm looking at, okay, what did I get done? What do I to shift around this week? So IT just keeps me going one foot of the time, just keeps wommen, and you can get more of that over right side has a product cosrich h goal get .

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The common thread of all of these trips, though is airbnb. We love being able to get exactly what we're looking for in a place to stay and have a more local experience than staying in some giant hotel chain. And you know me, i'm always thinking about the next side hole idea, the next income stream, right? And one that at the top of the list is hosting our place on airbnb.

While we're traveling that way, the house doesn't to sit empty. We could use the income to help pay for the trip. And we've heard from several successful airbnb hosts on the show.

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That's our next category of tools here for me. Two tools work in conjunction with each other. First is google calendar and and the second one is scheduled once.

This is like the booking management link, where you know, somebody wants to book a podcast interview, somebody wants to book a intro call. You have these different categories set up. We have heard from the assuming crew that tidy cow is this, you know one of one time purchase instead of an annual subscription for schedule ones.

But I know schedule ones is are integrated into a bunch of different systems, including these keyboard shortcuts. So it's that's what i've have stuck with by google calendar and in scheduled once for the really the thing with google calendar is is like the time blocking. Where in schedule ones will I have to do this too? I am only taking meetings on mondays and wednesdays. I want like bigger.

deep work blocks, the time, the rest of days. Yes, I I use google calendar and calling so talented that originally I started using that just to have my guess, be able to book and see, select from all the options I had on my calender. And now I use IT for everything, as well as my VIP coaching calls with like VIP branding or podcasting clients. I use IT for quick information calls when I interview people for to hire them from side to prove is all run through calling. And then of course, IT thinks with my calendar so they could only schedule when i'm available because I also block off my calendar for various life things or yet deeper work sessions and all that.

Totally, I will hand it's county much Better looking interface than schedule once, if I want to care about presentation a little bit more coldly, is the want to go out there. Oh, and the next category on our tool list, resources list, is for, uh, graphics in video. And so the common one that everybody probably uses at this point is called canvas, is A C va.

This is youtube. Pm nails, this is digital product by making workbooks in here. This is sometimes cost of blog graphics. This is super easy use and they've add IT on all these kind of cool you photo editing, imaging enhancement, AI type there like really, really powerful like that's another one of those where it's like it's really just grateful that that this exists in the world and makes life easier.

Yes, absolutely. Canvas is a one. If you're asus learn doing any kind of creating graphics for your business, you need to be on canada. I use the canvas for you, my presentations for webs for creating quick e books and sometimes I even purchase templates on ec. So let's say you're not finding what you want inside of canada.

Lot of times you can go on to ez and say no e book or you want a new slide decks um presentation slides and then they create a cm va version. So you can just once you purchase, download IT and then upload that temple let to canvas and start working by customizing. It's here, your brand colors. And I do that at time because sometimes i'm just looking for something fresh, whether it's graphics on instagram, you talked about instagram growth or anything. I sometimes purchase a template and they move IT over a canvas.

Yes, for sure there is um a screen recording tool that I use for online courses, for demo videos, for tutorials, for virtual assistance and uses all the times called screen pal used to be called screen caston atic. I think there's still a free plan, but super affordable. This would be an alternative to loom. This is just, I don't know what, when we use almost daily to kind of create that type of process library type of content that, that you internal facing to the company, but also external al facing content where that you want to do a demo of some tools using put that up youtube. And it's like really, really helpful to have and and I use their beauty and editor for a lot of video tools to like it's it's very basically like if you are used to after effects or something like, you know real official video and IT export, if you going to be like White, like but it's the one that .

I learned to use either loom or quick time. Quick time. I've been defaulting to a lot more because the loom has been a little bit glitchy.

Sorry, loom. So I need to check out screen power. What do you like? IT more than loom. Did you ever try room?

I used loooong up until like the limit of the free plan and calling about loom is that I will provide a transcript of the video where this tool is not at least on the pricing here that i'm out, I think a ably grandfather in some low, low rape. But loom absolutely is is a viable alternative .

to and a similarly, I also record tutorials for my team to you just walk through process of how to do something. And eventually, because i've recorded so many, we need to go back in and probably get transcripts, put those in ChatGPT and update sop.

The other one, just for screen shots, and actually for like full goal, you want to capture like the whole website, not just what's visible. I use a chrome extension called awesome screen shot. And what else is cool about this is you can kind of do real time mark up of IT, where in the editing winner you can crop that image, you can add circles and arrows and text. And we use that for a lot of, like product review content on the website where, you know, we point to, you can catch up for gift card. You can a highlight that section on the screen shot and that's something that ends up getting used quite a bit or just like even if it's just like a customer support, like here's what we're seeing on r and you know capture the screen shot.

send IT over. I like that. What's that called again.

awesome screen shot is the chronic extension, right? Next tool, video tool that we've been loving this year because it's really, really cool is called big tory pictor. That A I I want to say this is uploader script.

And there's probably like different scrip creation tools that are in there before us. Our typical use case would be upload the script, upload the voice over in the eight poles in hundreds of stock footage. Clips like you turns this into a really visually compelling type video.

IT adds captions. yes. And some of these videos .

that we done have had ten thousand views like they're out there on youtube making money. And this would have taken hours and hours and hours of know of video editors time.

I love IT. Yes, yeah.

This has to be an an equal edition just to speed up video production process. The bio neck is still in the scripting, which talked about you and working with some ChatGPT prompts, I want to turn this blog post into a compelling video script. Can you help me get for me to be and it's not quite there here because it's still .

me near rating and no tried. I think it's what eleven loves for that and it's scary how good your voice can be. But by the time you set up everything, there's still some you know things to work through.

But what I wanted to say about what you just said, the scripting part with ChatGPT, what i've found helpful is when you you really have to approach IT and I got this on my sister and my husband like this is like an intern, you know and so it's going to be a back and for dialogue is not like people think, oh, just give me a list of great prompt. So i'm sure i'm sure you don't think that, but a lot of people are like me. We just get the process that you got, but actually you're having a conversation.

I usually start every experience of writing something and i'm like, hg p, how is that going? Is the people here know but and then i'm like, here's what I want to do and then we go back and forth and IT gives me the first draft. And then i'm like, no, that sounds to this, that I give me examples of my writing and I say what i'm trying to do with this.

And so IT takes a while. Mac, but by the time we go through this process, yeah, we get to a good place. And then then you can take that script and like tweet IT to what's or like as you're really, of course, adjust IT organically.

But I I can definitely say I think you can speed up your script process with A I I would ChatGPT or claude that AI like check those out because it's been really, really helpful. It's not going to give you the first past. You're not going to be impressed with you still have to work shop IT like it's a person yeah an employee yeah that makes sense.

And the more the more you can prime IT and IT and you ve got enough body of content on the internet where he knows he knows who you are, kind of knows how you would speak to your personality.

That is the same thing. But I find it's still faster even after we've gone through that whole conversation. Then me like sitting down and like having to download, i'm thinking and .

create a cripp from scratch. Yes, for sure. I've got a disco code for pictorial N S H N twenty lignac site location twenty will get you twenty percent off. I think over there will have to link that up in the show notes really call to on a trip, put together kind of a demo video of like art typical use case, and share some of the sult that that some of those videos have gone was like, well, some of them earning views and dollars every day. And I was like, what I will typically do is, you know me for the first five or ten second, say we're going to talk about the best items to flip for a or we're going to talk about decide hustles for introvert. I know we can, some of these examples where we use these use this tool, but talking head intro for three seconds, five seconds, then, uh, you know, the rest is kind of factory generated with those stock footage.

right? I love that. And we were talking about this before we started recording how, as I was going to your youtube channel, like you know, I can do some of these as well because um there are lots of little many things people ask me and i'm like a through looking at your channel, realizing and I need to do one of these just quickly explaining how something works or how a side hose can. Up your email is and tag people or you know that just shooting out an example but I love what you do there. So yeah I I think that's so smart.

Some of that q and a content has the longest shelf life where some of my best performing videos, or like how to keep you drop box from taking up your local hard drive story I yeah video is probably ten years old and it's just, you know, if he was probably created with screams, pal and it's like, here's no a two minute ID video how to get IT on but it's still the answer is a question so any time people are asking you questions, I think it's important to make a of that because I could turn IT to content for you yeah here alright, real quick.

The other one on the graphics and video categories is pixel pex e ls. This is just free stock photography, aware that's where you're sourcing a lot of the images. We've got a deposit photos license.

You ought like a hundred pack of assume a few years ago and still are working through those as well. But you know where you can kind of find the image, illustrate what you talking about? Sometimes it's there.

sometimes it's pixel. Yeah, you know, I actually use canvas for my images. These days I used to use pixel, but nowadays i'm on the profile on canvas.

So and often time i'm looking for black women, women of color just more like niche things actually like niche. But I want specific things. And canvas has actually really good library of images, even when i'm talking about podcasting, different types of podcast studios. So I use IT for that. And when I need other stock photo, things like imagery for social, I have some apps that I use for that um like temples is one of them and .

fixer i've also tried I do oh yeah OK. Our next category is team collaboration. And for me, that starts with secure password, cheering for me that last pass again in a customer for years and years. This companies may be a little bit embattled with I don't hope to security breach the I it's been fine for me. That's been good for me.

I know knock on with the same thing with the switching cost. It's like at this point, I don't know I was sticking with last years for now, but ah the password breaches have been a little concerning.

I don't know where the tipping point was, whether that you had so many different logins to keep track of and is like, how are you ever going to remember all of this stuff? And so just you know off low that mental clutter IT doesn't have to be last past, but if you don't have a password manager like that.

so that's an absolute must have, yes. And for me, the password manager, IT, wasn't so much like I was forgetting word anymore. But once I started working with the team, I was definitely not comfortable giving someone else my password. So whoever invented in this concept, thank you, so that I can get them to log in places, but they're not seen in my password.

And of our next stage of this is you know the family share plan mainly like in case of emergency, is bring going to be able to access the stuff that he needs to and know without. I think it's like know the laptop is like biometric or like hope. Just want to make sure like you in in one secure location, you can unlock everything you needs unlock.

But that's that's last past for the team. Uh, secure pass for sharing. We have make that com, which is you formally integrate. This is an automation tool that connects different apps and services in in your life.

And so an example use case would be if somebody enrolls in one of the courses, unteach able make will automatically send their information over to convert IT. If somebody buys one of workbooks, make will make sure that they get appropriately tag and automatically you trigger that. Like file delivery email, if the podcast editor uploads a episode to like the final audio folder in google drive IT triggers is an email to the shower notes writer.

Okay, another episode is ready for you to go listen to and summarize. Here's the link to IT. And so it's kind of remove me from that process in a lot ways. And just like you know, makes IT IT makes IT happen .

automatically or so i've used sap er for that. And as we're talking about this, you just gave me an idea of 女 automation that I need to set up for my team when like i'm done recording in riverside， for example. So I love that way to have in this conversation. Just getting so many new .

ideas have here was reusing them for a long time and want to like double triple the rates is like really guys like come you know come on and that was one where is like, yes, there's a learning curve. Yes, there's a switching cost but I didn't have so many automation like ah we can fix this out. Yeah I found this support the make support like pretty well too.

And they be a lot of knowledge based articles like if you want to do a specific thing, they are they're usually pretty helpful on getting that set up. The next one here is a sona. This is you. I still have my like pendent paper to do this, but as the team has grown, as the complexity of the business is growing, despite you are trying to stick with the motor of you simplicity first, assam has been really helpful for keeping track of tasks and deadlines. And two days.

And whose all for that? You know, i've used a sona base camp trio, and I found that i'm really not incivism ET. I don't know what that is.

I just kind of overcomplicated IT a little bit for me. But I know at some point, maybe I revisit or someone will make one that I really vibe with. But right now, we we have our communication previous like we're not using a project management tool.

I've only use those one. I'm usually working with a brand right on giving them deliverables and things like that. So that's when asthma has been most helpful. Yeah there's a learning curve.

All these the chAllenge is you open IT up and it's blank. Yeah I I know this is going to be super powerful, but I got to figure out how to make IT work for me and it's it's all customize of all, but it's like, you know some level of on boarding. Your guidance would be be helpful for sure.

And that's where there's hope. Whole business is built around selling notion templates and people don't really well with that. I have a virtual assistance service that i've been a customer of for years, and this is called okay, relax, which might be my favorite name for A A B A service.

They do. I'm on my fifth, seventh assistance through them. But theyve been really reliable for like dedicated recurring tasks. Early on, IT was running reports, installing the magnets. You doing company research blog post formatting like theyve been um a helpful addition to the team in prety.

Affordable service to I also use A V A and not to a service actually through just a referral. And we've been going on, I want to say, maybe like almost five years now. Um so yeah IT finding a good one, a good person is really Priceless.

Yeah keep keep on the team for sure. Yes, the other kind of agency service are produced, ed. The service that helps out on the website side of things is called the N W P. And I consider this kind of my on call on demand website insurance where if something breaks with wordpress 这一关， make an adjustment or put to help out with all that stuff， especially instrumental during the last um redesign refresh of the site. I don't it's kind of painful, like there's a lot of months where I like I don't bother them at all and it's like there was my free on the train, but you something that that comes up and that's what it's kind like the insurance policy as something breaks. You know you have somebody .

on your team who can can jump in. I like that I formally would just go to like my host customer service, but that is a good investment.

okay? Next, under team collaboration and communication is in mobile, who has been a sponsor on the show. This is the affordable wireless service rider, have been a customer since nineteen nineteen, don't do a lot of phone, you know, direct phone calls. I use GLE voice as well for some business calls, but is really handy to have .

an affordable rate. So you use this for yourself service overall? yes.

okay. So I yeah I do have a google voice as well. And and outside of that horizon is what I used yeah .

as the business grows, we have had open phone as a sponsor on the show. They just under different, different news cases. At a certain point, you kind of outgrow you outgrow your personal cell phone.

You got you route things to different ways. Anyone have, especially you do in different marketing channels, and you want to make sure what what channel is working. I want to have a dedicated phone number for that and and everything, but mint mobile has been my my wireless provider.

I just include that on this list because you as there is slow and says, you know friends don't let friends overpay for for wireless. The other team collaboration to all that I am in all day, every day is google drive. And this is sharing blog articles.

This sharing, like production dogs for different episodes. IT is kind of home base for a lot of different files and reports. And a templates is where we have our process library for, you know, all the things are going on inside our nation. Was of A A late camera, was on using drop box for a long time. But the the functionality with oodle drivers as a whole lap Better even use IT for collecting survey responses, job application, and then sharing files amongst people on the team.

Yeah use both. So primarily google drive for team related files, but dropouts for really large files like episodes, all the back ups and things like .

that amazing affordable extra gig bites of stories are you know just having having that back up and I think think there's a word press plugging aba look up which one is is like so the host W P X tasks daily backup PS of the site. But we also like a little bit entity wouldn't hurt you know that that is you know the whole base, the red and butter and I think that it's back up to google drive daily, weekly interest. All right.

Well, to the podcasting section now. And the first is what how do you is one question, how do you record remote interviews? And we're recording this on riverside, riverside dot F M.

This is a broster based recording tool that allows for remote interviews. IT takes, I think, really clean. Audio IT records, video IT records each side independently.

So there's voice over I P legs. You know, theoretically, it's got a good back up on. Each individuals local hard drive, it's been probably year and half using riverside. Sometimes we have some technical chAllenges, but overall it's .

been prety reliable. Same here have been using riverside now I want say one and IT has been very reliable. I love reside. I'm actually creating its almost live, of course, with them called the ultimate guide to video podcasting.

So when it's live, you'll go over to side has a product cause that video podcasting right? And i'm just going through basically yeah everything like my at home studio in my cloud and why it's so seamless. I love IT because I I love virtual pakia.

I am not ready to go into a studio every single time I do an episode yet and i'm able to see the guess. They can join easily, they don't have to log into anything and I can see their equipment to make sure know their sound is okay, that the according is uploaded. And I just think it's so, so smart. And adaptations .

in a couple recent guests were local. And like I I guess we could record this impressive but not set up for that. Like let's just stick with the process, stick with the system here. I also record a direct backup into audacity and that ends up be in the track that know we abused from my side of the audio. This is audio editing to like what I can record, the uh add reads and the commercials and just to do that directly.

i've been doing everything in riverside like my reads course reads everything these days. Yeah okay it's .

it's become really powerful like they have like these A I snipers that it'll generate IT does transcriptions which you know allows us to cancel our suggestion to the other transcription tool. There is there has been some consolidation, some tool like turn to trim down the commitment of month subscriptions.

Yes, it's taken over a lot, like you said, like shown notes before my social media manager was writing those manually. Now we have like a base to start with and then we customize IT. So it's just set up our processes so we can then focus on other big picture items.

Yeah there is another transcription editing tool that we do keep on the payroll and that is descript and primarily, uh, for video editing. And when I first use, I think joe from stacking Benjamin was the first one. Be like gotta.

Try this. You first experience editing video by editing text. Know this. This is where the conversation went off the rails. We are going to just strike that out of the transcript and IT delete that section of the video like this is like magic.

magic yeah. That makes IT IT .

makes you so much easier for video editing. If you have an interview, if you have even just talking head type video, you want to, you do the transcription, and then you can start editing in that way. Use that first past in my video editor uses that to to create the the video version of podcast.

Yes, I love that actually about rivers light. But I also do have describe because I I still like IT as a video editor for non podcasting 来 就 quickly want to upload something and do .

some editing yeah one cool use case was we talked about eleven labs for their professional voice over upload to hours of your audio and IT IT comes back pretty， pretty good actually. Will these scripts have similar called overdub? And the use case for me, we we were traveling, didn't bring, you know, the power up and bring the microphone with me.

And they said the advertiser requested to change from this scrip that you recorded to this script. And I was like, one line different or, you know, just a few words were different, is like, oh, you know, let me try let me punch this into descript overdub and it's like, okay, you know, for just a few seconds of audio like nobody would know the difference like that was really cool. I didn't have to know.

Do a false set up in recording and reuptake ad and like a whole, all the other nonsense, some definitely equal tool they have in your two belt. As far as the editing of the show itself, like the after recording production side, my editing service has been podcast fast track since twenty sixteen, I think like right before my oldest son was born and it's been made a big net time saver. And you focus your energy on what you're most excited about, creating the content, connecting with all some people like the looking at those little wave forms for the first three years of the show like this got to be something I don't tell you that I just didn't know how to do IT very well and like me, so they they help .

out with all that, bob. I I also outsource editing and it's just never something I loved I use. Well, actually, my editor pitched me back into twenty sixteen. We've been working together ever since longest team member that is the crazy to think about Chris from pot shaped nice.

Yeah there is something to that where if maybe there's the ideas, the opportunity, if you can figure out audio editing and maybe you use some of these AI power tools, you get a client that sticks around if they're going to keep doing the show. That's a very sticky customer, a long, long, long.

long lifetime value. Yeah exactly. And start pitching. People don't be afraid, like don't just wait for them to come to your website. Look, look for pod casters. Pod casters are always looking or you know a good deal so you know, work on your pitch.

I will link up a pod chaser as well. And the last one in the podcasting category is megahed. This is the new or new issue within the last year or so media host for the shows is spotify owned or spotify power that allows for dynamic ad insertion across the whole catalogue seems to be the direction that the industry was going. And that's been another good addition or another good shift over over to make definite more expensive than what I was paying with lipson ah which is which is noticeable. But again the .

r wise definite yes I am on the A S podcast tork. So i'm on A S platform which also seamlessly allows for dynamic conversation. I believe they might have been the first ones to do that um for independent pod casters for that I was on lipson for a long time and love lipson as well.

Super user friendly. The team customer support was always very, very a responsive. So I actually have a code for lipson hostile pro if you want to try IT out because the first month.

and I have three, very nice. Well, link that up. I lisson was absolutely awesome for the first. You probably ten years of the shop, it's just again, one of those bills that comes up, everyone, that you're like, I am getting such an amazing deal. You know, it's similar to the way house you like, yes.

yeah, no brainer.

I was really like, I had no idea. Like you need a media host, what I I thought I to you know in the early days, maybe itunes. So I I didn't even think about IT and IT was fifteen box a month you don't starting and had had been twenty five or thirty like legitimately the show might not exist. Like what I what am I committing myself? I just have to keep paying this for forever.

And you know over time is like, no, no, no, this is very, very low cost to pay to be able to reach thousands and thousands of people yeah one really important point that should have mentioned at the top of the show is neither of us started here with, you know, dozens of different to in monthly sub ript. Like you started off doing the editing ourselves. We started off doing the graphics ourselves. You are very free, very cheap, like trying to do the the minimum of help product and then layer on complexity and cost and team members as as time has gone on, because IT may be intimated, you started doing the math in your head of like all this is an annual subscription, this a month subscription. And IT might sound intimate, but it's like to know we've added costing complexity as as the .

businesses have grown. Yeah exactly.

We've got the money category, which I think is our last one here, if not the last, but maybe one of the last, the a new to me book keeping, where fin tech and plaid integrations have opened up a bunch of these different services. And one of the cool ones that I found and actually made the switch for bookeen ping this year was to kick.

I think it's kick that cow. Oh my god. H, I literally just email and want to try them. So tell me about your experience.

yes. So this, you know, thinks with all different accounts, and I kind of gives you that, you know, real time. sure.

But also the monthly snapshot of income and expenses and probably will save one thousand fifty hundred box a year compared to the other in the coding. Like if you don't have much expenses is actually free. And so if you have less than I want to say five have depending on when you're listening to this.

And you know it's a few tech start up. So like your plans change all the time, but if you have less than fifty or twenty five thousand dollars in annual expenses, you could actually use IT for free and is really cool. And they have annual plans on top of that.

I was the person who kept book keeping as one of my tasks. Wait too long, wait too long. Because I was that weird person who got a little top hit of logging the the income on the spread, like almost in real time, like what a colossal waste of energy though, that I felt good even though I .

felt good and still missing stuff like we're not accountants. We're missing stuff. We don't know other things we could like. That's what I saw, what that kick does that intrigued me because it's like, all right, they're catching things that you might not realize and backs are earlier conversation about the teaching team. So it's founded by another teaching alarm so that the other one I was talking about, so you have Carry and kick are both teachers alone founded business?

Oh yeah, yes yeah. I conrad, totally yes. But it's is pretty slick, really cool interface that you can what what bothered me about my old bookeen ping solution was, again, a message or bookeen per if you wanted to give something, got this categorised like on earth.

They not just have like, yeah, that's what i'm struggling with right now. I don't like any other ones i've tried and i'm like I need to find a Better, more automated, more intelligent solution. Yeah was like, how can they .

could just put a little drop down venue or like recasting gries IT and like you got a message them and IT takes three weeks for them to reply. It's like guys like the whole pitch was like you are you intelligence plus human? Like if you're not going to have the human part, like what the point is.

right? And I like the a nice interface. Like I am. Static person, I need a nice interface that I can drag drop.

And then i've also tried the human bookkeeper thing and I don't like like you go and off into the dark, wiping on spread shit, then coming back to me with the spread sheet that I don't really like. I don't really like you have organize information. So i'm still working to this process, nick, so i'm going to give you a try.

And the other ones that's on the business side, the one that I really like on the personal side is monarch. And this is you are personal network dashboard. This is income and expenses. This is you know historical your performance and you know the stock market at the time in this recording has been on a year long tair. So of course, like it's it's rewarding to log in and see that, that word number go up, but it's it's a kind of interface as well with the customizable dashboard track. Um all the personal side of things and that something that my wife and I both have access to where we can kind of get a that snapshot to get that picture of, of the the personal finances. I like another .

one i'm taking note of yeah that's .

everyone has been has been called when a couple guests have have mentioned to. And I don't know mabe, there's a business I know maybe use IT for business too, but that's on the personal sign.

And then finally, on the affiliate tracking side, affiliate income tracking side, than using a tool called affluent, which polls in, I think I ve got bought by impact, one of the affiliate network, but I pulled in data from impact from commission junction, from the rack, from all these different infiltrate networks, and going to gives you a daily snapshot. You were filled earnings and sends your email day, which is always nice to get. And lately that number has been like going down so well.

And but IT s IT gives visibility to IT and I only be because I I really like that and that takes time like this reporting like know where did where did the income come from? How do these links perform? The only downside is like there's no thrive integration, there's no sam card integration. Where's like IT doesn't didn't give you one hundred percent picture of what happened on the affiliates, but IT probably has sixty.

seventy percent. I'll look into that once. That's the thing i'm looking for. Two, with the bookkeeping. IT is so annoying to have all these different things where when you know you're start out, you start out as the side host like money is coming from different places, strike paypal, all these different integrations and I wish someone would just make a all that just takes IT all yeah and I don't have to like the upload spread sheet from different places or also looking at this data in addition to this websites data, it's some A I solution is needed.

And now if I get I able to get lasso performance tool working, I may be able to hit the cancel button on on this affluent because I think there's some overlap in the function ality there, but that's IT. I think we throughout forty, fifty different to resources .

for you that, wow.

are there any favorites that come to mind that the people want to know about?

What I add is a social media management. So I like using a tool call later right now to schedule outposts, or my media manager schedules outposts across the different social media psychos, pro, instagram, facebook, linton channels. And we use .

buffer for linton.

Okay, what was the first one? It's LED later.

just E, R. Later that come add to the list what you excited about this, what kind of projects you get going? I know you always got other things following from a far and curious .

to see what's coming up. Oh yes, I am are excited about this riverside video, pocatello, especially after our conversation. I'm excited to get that out there and have everyone see how easy you can be to pocket right from home like you don't need this huge fancy set up or studio. And so excited to get that out into the world.

And also, if people want to continue learning for me and growing their podcast into actual revenue, then i'm excited for you to learn more about podcast moguls, which is my course, and also master mind group, where we are independent podcasts ers who have scaled their podcasts into repeatable revenue through various measures. So we've done we've have people who work with brands, but also people who have used their podcast as a function for their own business and to get more clients. So you can find out all about that over side has a product co for podcast moguls. IT sight has a product coast flash pocket mobs. And like I said, once the riverside course is live, IT will be over at side house product cosplay .

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