Best Digital Tools For Entrepreneur

1) Acuity Scheduling:

This is a smart calendar that allows people to book appointments with you based on your availability. You can customize it to have your brand Name as part of the booking URL, set up specific time slots when you are willing to take calls or meetings.

How it helps me: streamlines my schedule and sends me an email alert of new bookings! It also ensures that my calendar is not too full.

2)Buffer For Social Media

At 1 shot , you can link up to 100 post at a time for each social media profiles across twitter, Facebook pages, a Facebook profile, Facebook groups, instagram page, Linkedin profile, Google plus page and Pinterest Account.

How it helps me: I can schedule upto 100 posts at a time for each social media account! . The analytical feature lets me know which content gets the maximum engagement/clicks to my sites and helps me in re buffer and that backs into my Queue.

3)Canva For Design And Graphics

You absolutely must use canva if you’re in the digital space. As an entrepreneur showcasing your work / your brand/ your logo becomes so much simpler with this free tool. Canva helps you out with especially with their free and customizable templates .

From social media to blog designs to pinterest to You Tube covers to instagram story highlights, It has everything .

How it helps me: I have pre set templates for my own social media graphics as well as folders for my clients work which makes it simple to share with a single click.

4)Drift For Chat

The interface is so intuitive and especially useful for entrepreneurs who offer online service or products. Having a chat box on the blog is a great way to engage with potential customers. Lends a human touch to whole exercise

How it helps me: Enquiries for my work shops/ Consulting services and training programs have increased since I installed the Plugin and so have subscribers to my newsletters.

5)Google Forms For Collecting Information

Literally, the easiest thing to set up to collect information pertaining to your business your clients e-mail address, phone numbers, work request and so much more.

How it helps me: Well its free and all I need to do is login using my goggle account . In addition it has e-mail notifications that send responses to filled out forms. You can also create spreadsheet with your responses. Nothing to beat simplicity and elegance of Google forms.

6)Skype For Calls

Skype is one of the best calling networks on the VOIP model and the quality of the calls are unbeatable. Most initial client request are ones that I prefer to handle over skype since it means that I can take calls on my laptop. This also ensures that anyone can share their screen if needed, during the call. Keeps my hands free for note taking.

How it helps me: A lot of clients ask for my phone number to book calls. Since I am not too comfortable with this model, I prefer to set it up through skype . Privacy is everything this days.

7)Tailwind For Pinterest Or Instagram

If I talked about Tailwind I won’t stop Nothing has helped me increase my page views better than tailwind in the last 6 months. Their power scheduling feature, their insights and analytics, their tubes, their support desk .

How it helps me: It completely free ups my Pinterest schedule so I can focus on other aspects of my business such as creating blog posts, engaging with my facebook group and working my clients requirement.

8)Type From Feedback Data Collection

When I came across Type form on a few blogs, I was intrigued by hoe preety the forms looked! Such appealing designs and such an easy interface that allowed users to just answer a few questions and submit their requests.

When I realized that it was easy to set up, I whooped with joy! Adding an image dragging and dropping content blocks and customizing it for users is a fun exercise . Best part ? On the free plan you can generate 100 responses per month !

How it helps me: With E-mail alert setups, I know when a person has signed up for a workshop or requested a sessions for consulting with me . I can also embed a type form on any page of my blog so it shows as a pop to visitors.