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Whenever we travel, we always try to get local recommendations from friends. Because while there is magic in stumbling across an undiscovered gem of a restaurant, sometimes you (quickly) find out that there's a reason those tables were empty...
Advice from friends can save you time, money and your stomach from the occasional bout of food poisoning.
We’re here to help your business succeed in whatever way we can. That's why we’ve gathered our top free resources and favorite tools in this comprehensive list. Most of these are tools we use to run our own business.
We hope you find our favorites so helpful that they soon become your favorites too.
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Learn how to create and optimize content for conversions on your website. We take complicated subjects like content creation, keyword research, and search engine optimization, and break them down in easy, bite-sized pieces you can understand. And best of all, we give you a strategy you can implement in your business.
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It’s a ready-to-use landing page for Showit or Elementor designed to help you start capturing leads.
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With hundreds (if not thousands) of fonts in the Canva library, it can take some time to find the gems among the weeds.
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Scroll-stopping social media templates… easily editable in Canva and perfect to show off a new website, project or blog post.
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Grab our 20 best prompts to streamline your content creation while still keeping your brand voice & reaching ideal clients.
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Learn how to unite your entire online (and physical) presence to present a cohesive brand that appeals to your ideal client.
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Designers - craft the perfect questionnaire to kick off the design process in a way that makes clients feel understood and valued.
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Create SEO optimized content using the exact template we use with our team to generate hundreds of inquiries and more traffic.
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Don’t have a lot of time to spend optimizing your site but still want to improve your Goole search rank?
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Launching a new website is a lot of work. Stay organized and make the most of your launch using this checklist.
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A truly easy-to-use email builder for beginners and pros. Send beautiful emails people love to get and create simple checkout pages.
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Want to generate more leads and sales on your website? Try a BDOW! pop up. This easy-to-create, highly-targeted pop-up quickly made us $10k on our website.
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The drag-and-drop, no code website builder for photographers and creative professionals.
The tried and true resources we use to run our business. You’ll find everything from website platforms to email marketing and business tools.
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You can't go wrong with fonts from Jen Wagner. We use her fonts on this site + we've liscensed several for our templates.
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Not in a place to hire an attorney to create a custom, legally-sound contract for your business? No worries! Paige is the one we trust with our own contracts!
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Manage projects, build client relationships, schedule appointments, and create workflows to automate the entire process.
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With Ashlyn Carter’s copywriting templates and resources, this will be your reality. Enjoy your ticket to strategic, elevated copy that resonates with dream clients.
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Why take hours to create styled stock photos for your brand when Elevae does this so well? You’re right—there’s no good reason.
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The email marketing platform that we use to send marketing emails. The app makes it easy for anyone to get started, but has the horsepower for experts.
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We use Crisp to add a chat for quick pre-purchase questions to our shop. It adds a personal touch to the shopping experience.
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Gusto helps us manage payroll as well as payroll taxes. We also used their marketplace to find our health insurance.
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We use this tool to schedule social posts, house videos and streamline our postings across platforms.
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A podcast devoted to helping service-based businesses build their brands and find more clients.
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Today’s guest is Susie Bulloch of Hey Grill Hey, my absolute favorite for grilling, BBQing, smoking website. This is an interview I recorded while at Kit’s Craft and Commerce event this year. I’ve been following Susie for a long time, before she had her own line of BBQ products in grocery stores. I jumped at […]
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Christmas is just around the corner and if you still have a few loved ones left on your list, we’re here to help. We asked our team to round up a few of their favorite intentional Christmas gifts. These are gifts that many of us have given in the past or will be given this year.
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There’s something special about picking out a great gift for someone to demonstrate your gratitude for their relationship or excitement over a significant life event. We have a tendency, though, to be better gift givers as people than we do as business owners. For whatever reason, we often forget certain characteristics of great gift-giving when we’re giving gifts to clients. We slap our logos on the side of everything from cheap pens to more luxury items and send them on their way.
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Don’t leave your SEO strategy up to chance. Surfer will give you an SEO workflow to boost your organic traffic, increase your visibility, and improve your rank.
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I think the free version of RankMath is the very best FREE SEO plugin available. If you don’t have the money to invest in a pro SEO plugin, check out RankMath.
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