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It can be difficult to know what resources to choose from for your creative service-based business. Below are 5 of my favorite recommendations for tools that I’ve found work for me in my 16 years as a photographer and currently utilize for my brand photography, mentoring, and consulting.
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HoneyBook is everything your business needs to get it done. Manage projects, book clients, send invoices, and get paid — all on HoneyBook.
I’ve used HoneyBook since shortly after they launched. It served me amazingly well when I was a wedding and family photographer. It transitioned easily with me into brand photography, mentoring, and consulting. If you have a small business that requires online proposals and invoicing, contracts, project management, scheduling, and invoicing then give HoneyBook a try to discover how powerful a tool it is.
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Create a website that books the clients you love. ShowIt gives you complete creative control so you can finally build the website you’ve been dreaming of.
In my opinion, ShowIt is like Photoshop and a website building platform collided. It’s the perfect website builder for creatives! I love the ability to fully customize templates, integrate my wordpress blog, and have access to some of the top website designers in the country who design on ShowIt. It’s icing on the cake that the ShowIt community is amazing, too!
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Built by creators for creators. You can use it to design and send on-brand marketing emails, create opt-in forms that deliver your free resources to grow your list, build powerful email automation, and more.
From the moment FloDesk launched I knew I’d love it as my email platform. Much for the same reasons that I love ShowIt and HoneyBook, FloDesk was built by creatives for creatives. They have beautiful email templates to choose from, all capable of being customized to fit your brand. FloDesk cuts the navigational clutter that other email platforms have that slowed me down.
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Stan Store is an all-in-one creator store. It functions as a link-in-bio by hosting everything you need in one place. I love having my homepage as my first link, followed by all my free and paid resources.
Here are a few features I love:
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Create beautifully branded content for social media & beyond. Easy & intuitive to use. Thousands of templates, illustrations, & other assets are available. Schedule to Instagram or Facebook right from Canva.
Canva is my favorite tool for easily creating graphics and videos, and scheduling them to social media. I love the ability and ease to collaborate with others within Canva. So if you outsource social media, have a team or an intern, and they can fit seamlessly into your social media planning process.
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I tried to keep this blog to the point to give you just the information you need. If this blog was helpful for your creative small business, leave a comment letting me know. If you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments as well.
If you liked this post, check out my other post about HoneyBook here.
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