Best Small Business & Entrepreneurs Online Tools. Lotem Website and Graphic Design

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2 As an entrepreneur and a small business owner you need to be able to create and share documents, photos, projects and move things along in an efficient way. I love finding and experimen>ng with new tools that will help me save >me and money for my business while making the process fun and stress- free. Here are my all >me favorite tools that I use regularly for my business: Evernote: Evernote is a soeware that you can easily use on your computer or device to save and create notes and archive them. It can be a text note, photo, link, webpage or even a video. You can create a notebook and add notes and pictures to it. It will also sync between your devices. Pocket: Pocket is an online organizer that will help people save interes>ng ar>cles, videos and more from the web for later enjoyment. Once saved to Pocket, the list of content is visible on any device phone, tablet or computer. IFTTT IFTTT is a if, then trigger. It will create chains of simple condi>ons called recipes. Complicated? Not at all. Once you ac>vate your channels (social media, plugins, websites ) you can choose from thousands already created recipes or create a new one. 2

Here are my all >me favorite tools that I use regularly for my business: Evernote: Evernote is a soeware that you can easily use on your computer or device to save and create notes and archive them.

3 Sarit Lotem has 15 years experience as a website and graphic designer and is the founder and CEO of Lotem Website and Graphic Design and Small Business Online Club.com Sarit is an expert website and graphic designer who loves to help turn small business owners visions into a profitable online presence. In addi>on to designing websites, Sarit uses her skills as a professional designer and entrepreneur to teach small business owners how to create their own high traffic websites using her easy step- by- step instruc>ons as well as how to op>mize their own website for more traffic. Hootsuite Lets you manage your social media accounts such as TwiVer, Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin through one interface and schedule posts to go out when your followers are most ac>ve. I ve been using Hootsuite for the last 3 years. I find it reliable and easy to use. Buffer Buffer is another scheduling tool for social media. What I like about it is that it will also suggest a mix of posts for you to share on your social media pla^orms. Fast and easy! Free for up to 10 posts for each social media pla^orm sarit@lotemdesign.com 3

In addi>on to designing websites, Sarit uses her skills as a professional designer and entrepreneur to teach small business owners how to create their own high traffic websites using her easy step-

4 Dropbox Dropbox is your storage in the cloud. You can also hare your Dropbox folders with your team and make it easier to keep everyone quite literally on the same page. I use it when I sent big document to my clients such as artwork and high regula>on designs. Free Google Drive Google driveis a mix of the old Google Docs with a twist of cloud storage. It will let you create a document and presenta>ons on any device (for example your laptop) and edit it on another (your cellphone). Love it Google Hangouts Like Skype only by Google. A fantas>c tool to hold face- to- face mee>ng with your client as well as webinars. WebinarJam I used Teleseminar for my webinars and I switched over 6 months ago to WebinarJam. Webinarjum is an add- on system for Goggle hangouts. It will give you extra features to enhance the webinars experience such as interac>ve comment system and popup promo>ons. It will also let you send s to your avendees before and aeer your webinar. So far, I m very happy with it. SurveyMonkey A great tool to build free surveys to conduct market research, and keep a pulse on customer desires and sa>sfac>on. Canva Canva will let you create beau>ful graphics fast and easy. You can choose if you want your graphics to be published on Facebook or TwiVer and Canva will resize and share it for you. 4 4

It will let you create a document and presenta>ons on any device (for example your laptop) and edit it on another (your cellphone). Love it Google Hangouts Like Skype only by Google.

5 Asana Asana is a web- based project management system. Users can create & assign tasks to themselves or other team members, and all members can have access to the tasks and comment and update their progress. Asana is free for teams of up to 15 people. MailChimp One of the most powerful marke>ng tools out there. MailChimp allows you to create and manage lists, create newslevers and auto responders. It will also show you important insight such as how many people opened your and which link they clicked on. Free for the first up to addresses. Carbonite If you do not use an external drive to protect your important document and family photos, do yourself a favor and get Carbonite. It s is a cloud storage and online backup. When my laptop crashed a couple years ago, I didn t go ballis>c because I knew that all my files are protected with Carbonite. Free Press Release Gets the word out about your business whether you re just launching the business, a new product, or upda>ng your service. Free Press Release will distribute your news to major search engines and targeted journalists who cover your industry. This one is new to me and I m just star>ng to use it. Mural.ly Mural.ly is another new tool for me. It s a visual- collabora>on whiteboard app. Drag and drop images, links, and documents to organize your ideas. This simple visual tool can keep your team in sync through brainstorming, planning, or designing a project. 5

On-line Storage and Backup Services

On-line Storage and Backup Services Google Drive, icloud, Dropbox, Evernote There are many different services available that allow us to store, backup, and even share our files. Tonight we will explore some of these; how to use them and