A list of apps/services that we use and could consider for future use.
For each new product please use the template below:
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Competition Referral Programs
https://www.viralsweep.com/
https://referralrock.com/
https://viral-loops.com/
https://upviral.com/
https://invitebox.com/
https://wanttogoviral.com/ - share link to get a free gift
Product: Gogle Analytics Campaign URL Builder
Website: https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/campaign-url-builder/
Overview: Provides information for Google Analytics that helps to identify the success of a individual link.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 5 stars
Affiliate Programs
Product: Kick Booster
Website: https://kickbooster.me/
Overview: Used for Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Shopify Referral Programs
Do we use it? no
Price: $29 USD + commission on funds raised through Kickbooster
(% to Boosters + 3% to Kickbooster*)
Rating:
Retargeting
Product: PixelMe
Website: https://pixelme.me/
Overview: Create a tracking pixel for a URL - anyone that clicks through to the URL then alerts the pixel.
Do we use it? No
Price: $24 month for 5,000 clicks
Rating:
Audio
Product: Sound Cloud Music
Website: https://soundcloud.com/freebmusic
Overview: free background music for videos
Do we use it: sometimes
Price: free
Ratings:
Product: Audio Extractor (from a video)
Website: http://audio-extractor.net/
Overview: extracts the audio files from a video
Do we use it: rarely
Price: Free
Ratings: 4
Product: JukeDeck
Website: https://www.jukedeck.com
Overview: Create background music for videos. Works ok.
Do we use it? Rarely
Price: Free - meant to give credit to JukeDeck, if not there is a price per download.
Rating: 2 stars
Product: Audio Jungle
Website: https://audiojungle.net/
Overview: Royalty free music and audio tracks from $1
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: From $1
Rating: Haven't used it
Product: Ben Sound
Website: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music
Overview: Royalty free music and audio tracks from $1
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Meant to credit creator but can get away without it
Rating: Decent
Product: Premium Beat
Website: https://www.premiumbeat.com/royalty-free-music
Overview: Royalty free music
Do we use it? Not yet
Price:
Rating: Haven't used it
Video
Product: Content Samurai
Website: https://www.contentsamurai.com/
Overview: Easy to create videos using stock images/videos or own images/video snippets.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Was $197 per year with Business Blueprint offer but normally about $397 USD
Rating: 4.5/5
Product: Vidsy
Website: http://app.vidsy.com
Overview: has templates of sales scripts you can use for videos. Is a partnering app to Content Samurai.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: zero, received lifetime access when we signed up to Content Samurai
Rating: -
Product: Movavi
Website: https://www.movavi.com/
Overview: Create videos
Do we use it? Yes
Price: there is a key for Version 15
Rating: 4.5 stars in cnet.com
Product: Filmora (formerly Wondershare)
Website: https://filmora.wondershare.com
Overview: Create videos, add overlays etc
Do we use it? Not currently
Price: $39 USD for one user per year
Rating:
Product: Animoto
Website: https://animoto.com/
Overview: Create customisable slideshow videos
Do we use it? Not currently
Price: $22 AUD per month
Rating: 4 stars in Google play
Product: Clips
Website: https://www.apple.com/ph/clips/
Overview: A new iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, effects, graphics, and more.
Do we use it? not yet
Price: free for iOS devices
Rating: 4.5 stars
Product: VideoHive
Website: https://videohive.net/
Overview: Royalty free videos and templates created by video professionals from all over the world. There are some useful stock beer videos.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Around $8 a video
Rating: Untried but looks useful
Product: Pexels
Website: https://videos.pexels.com/
Overview: free stock video footage (these are used in the Lumen5 platform)
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: free
Rating:
Product: Videvo
Website: https://www.videvo.net
Overview: free stock video footage
Do we use it? rarely
Price: free
Rating: limited footage and a lot is linked to Shutter Stock that tries to sell the footage.
Product: Pixa Bay
Website: https://pixabay.com/
Overview: free stock footage
Do we use it? sometimes
Price: free to download, suppose to attribute the image
Rating:
Product: Overlayr
Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overlayr-text-overlays-over-photo-and-video/id1155305499?mt=8
Overview: Text Overlay for Images & Video - can change font, font colour, background colour behind font. Good for banners you want to run throughout the whole video. Can't have the words change throughout the video.
Do we use it? Rarely
Price: Free - $5 to remove Overlayr branding and access all fonts
Rating: Decent
Product: Raw Shorts
Website: https://www.rawshorts.com
Overview: Allows you to create animated videos with moving characters, titles, etc.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: free without export or $20 per video export, bought in bundles of $60. HOWEVER, as a work around you can screen grab the video playing in the Raw Shorts website using Movavi or other screen recording software (ensuring to select "custom" record format and selecting just the video section of the screen)
Rating: Good, but does require work around for unpaid version of screen recording the video.
Product: Lumen5
Website: https://lumen5.com
Overview: uses AI to create videos from blog posts, has a library of thousands of images, video snippets and audio
Price: free for the time being, but most likely will become monetised
Rating: Good, however, servers are slow when it comes to rendering and it can take time to have them render - like a days.
They have mentioned this should get better once more servers come online over time.
Product: Crop.video
Website: https://crop.video/
Overview: Crops existing video for social media or to reduce the size
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: free for 1 video with same dimensions throughout, 2 mins length
Rating:
Product: Lyrebird
Website: https://lyrebird.ai/
Overview: Can be used to create a speech by anyone after recording their voice, then typing out a speech
Do we use it? Not yet launched
Price:
Rating:
Product: Lightstream
Website: https://www.golightstream.com/
Overview: Stream from your computer to Facebook live
Do we use it?
Price:
Rating:
Product: Video Shop
Website: NA its an app
Overview: good
Do we use it? yes, used for videos such as Advent calendar
Price:
Rating: 4.5
Product: Enlight Videoleap
Website: http://videoleapapp.com/ Apple App
Overview: good, similar to Video Shop but some slightly different features, some are a bit more advanced, e.g. allowance for text overlay with a background colour on the text overlay.
Do we use it? yes, final video for Top 50 beers was created using it.
Price: free
Rating: 4.5
Screen Recording
Product: Screencastify
Website: https://www.screencastify.com/
Overview: Record, Edit, Annotate, Store, and Share video screen captures
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free for Lite; $24/year Premium
Rating: 4 Stars
Product: Loom (an alternative to Screencastify)
Website: https://www.useloom.com/
Overview: any screen recording can be watched directly where it is shared
Do we use it? not currently.
Price: Free for Chrome extension
Rating: 4.5 stars in Chrome Store
Product: Mailchimp
Website: https://mailchimp.com/
Overview: Used for mass customer emails, plus automation
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Varies by the number of people in the database. Currently $200 per month
Rating: Good
Product: Boomerang
Website: www.boomeranggmail.com/
Overview: Boomerang adds scheduled sending and the easiest, most integrated email reminders to Gmail, helping you reach Inbox Zero
Do we use it?
Price: Free (Basic); $4.99/Month (Personal); $4.99/Month (Pro); $49.99/Month (Pro)
Rating: 4 stars in Chrome Store
Product: Motion Mail App
Website: http://motionmailapp.com
Overview: Count Down timer, integrates with Mailchimp.
Do we use it? Not currently
Price: $10 for 100,000 credits http://motionmailapp.com/pricing
Rating:
Product: Bonjoro
Website: https://www.bonjoro.com/
Overview: Bonjoro lets you send personalised welcome or thank-you videos to your customers.
Do we use it?
Price: 14-day trial then $25 per user per month
Rating: 5
Find Emails
Product: Email Hunter
Website: https://hunter.io/
Overview: easiest way to find professional email addresses
Do we use it?
Price: Chrome extension is free or 150 requests; $39/month for 1K requests (billed yearly)
Rating: 5 stars in Chrome
Social Media
Product: Get Emoji
Website: http://getemoji.com/
Overview: website to source emoticons / emojis for social media posts
Do we use it? Yes
Price: free
Rating: 5
Product: Hootsuite
Website: https://hootsuite.com/
Overview: social media manager
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free for 3 social profiles, $19/month for 10 social profiles (Professional); $99/month billed yearly for 20 social profiles and 3 users (Team plan)
Rating: 4 stars in Chrome
Product: Buffer
Website: https://buffer.com/
Overview: social media manager (publish and schedule content to social networks)
Do we use it? not currently
Price: Free for 1 social account, 10 posts per social account; $10 for individual 10 social accounts, 100 posts
Rating: 4.5 stars in Google Play
Product: Insta Rip (Dinsta)
Website: http://www.dinsta.com/ & http://www.w3toys.com/instagram/
Overview: Instagram photo downloader/ & instagram video downloader
Do we use it? yes
Price: Free
Rating: 5 stars
Product: SaveDEO
Website: https://savedeo.com/sites/instagram
Overview: Instagram video downloader + download video from other sites
Do we use it? not currently
Price: Free
Rating:
Product:ezGIF
Website: https://ezgif.com/optimize & https://ezgif.com/maker
Overview: download GIFs from Twitter
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating:
Video Leap with GIPHY Cam apps on Iphone
No website
Overview: download each app to your phone.
Do we use it: not really
Notes: to create a simple gif you can take still images of a product (rotating/moving slightly before each image) then upload to an app like Video Leap and create a short video with the still images. Then make each image last about 10 frames (about half a second). Export this video and upload to the app GIPHY to create the GIF files, then export this and upload to ezGIF website (https://ezgif.com/optimize) to compress the file (compress to between 50 - 75 depending on file size). This can then be downloaded and used in marketing and on product pages.
Product: Twitcher
Website: Available on Chrome
Overview: Used for easily switching between multiple Twitter accounts
Do we use it? Used by Richard
Price: Free
Rating: 4 stars
Product: Slack
Website: https://slack.com
Overview: Brings different messaging apps all to one place
Do we use it?
Price: Free to try
Rating:
Product: Speed Leads
Website: http://speedleads.io/ [login details in Last Pass via https://app.wishloop.com/auth/login]
Overview: Share external links on social media with a branded call to action box, e.g. for lead generation, survey completion, driving website traffic etc
Do we use it: yes it's available
Price: One off fee of $37 USD
Rating:
Product: Live Reactions Poll
Website: https://livereactionspoll.com/
Overview: Provides a live reactions feed on Facebook based on someone liking or loving the post.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Free
Rating:
Product: Postradamus
Website: https://postradam.us/
Overview: allows to schedule but probably best feature might be the search engine to find existing viral content to share.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price $4 per month
Product: Live Reacting
Website: https://www.livereacting.com/
Overview: Live facebook videos with interactive templates, Could use as countdown to Advents going on sale, it also has games, polling type functionality.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Can pay per play as one off for $3.99
Images
Product: Remove BG
Website: https://www.remove.bg/
Overview: Remove background from images. Easily the best available.
Do we use it? Trialling it - can be integrated into photoshop, also has windows app.
Price:
Rating: For quality 5 stars
Product: Gimp
Website: https://www.gimp.org/
Overview: open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialised tasks.
Do we use it?
Price: Free
Rating: 4 stars in Windows Apps
Product: Autoclipping
Website: https://autoclipping.com/
Overview: remove background from image
Do we use it?
Price: free if you create an account
Rating: 2 star
Product: Malabi
Website: https://www.malabi.co
Overview: remove background from image
Do we use it? not currently
Price: free for one off images
Rating: 2 star
Product: Tiny PNG
Website: https://tinypng.com/ & https://www.betweenelements.com/tinypng-app
Overview: significantly compresses image files so they are smaller in size without loss of quality. Allows for both Jpeg and PNG images with transparency.
Do we use it? Yes, works well - recommend using app which is stored on your computer https://www.betweenelements.com/tinypng-app
Price: free
Rating: 5
Product: Free Pik
Website: http://www.freepik.com/
Overview: free pictures and illustrations
Do we use it? sometimes
Price: free to download, suppose to attribute the image
Rating:
Product: Pixa Bay
Website: https://pixabay.com/
Overview: free pictures and illustrations
Do we use it? sometimes
Price: free to download, suppose to attribute the image
Rating:
Product: Unsplash
Website: https://unsplash.com/
Overview: free high res images (these are used in the Lumen5 platform)
Do we use it? sometimes
Price: free
Rating:
Product: Post Images Online
Website: https://postimage.org/
Overview: Allows you to post images to a public URL which can then be used anywhere online.
Do we use it?
Price: None
Rating:
Product: Full Screen Shot
Website: use inspect element in Chrome, instructions here: https://www.deconetwork.com/blog/how-to-take-full-webpage-screenshots-instantly/
Overview: takes full screen shot from top of page to bottom of page.
Do we use it? yes
Price: 0
Rating: 5
Product: Lightshot
Website: chrome extension, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lightshot-screenshot-tool/mbniclmhobmnbdlbpiphghaielnnpgdp
Overview: website screenshots - can save online for sharing
Do we use it? yes
Price: 0
Rating: 5
Communication
Product: Skype
Website: https://www.skype.com/en/
Overview: Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 4 stars in Google Play
Product: Appear.in
Website: https://appear.in/
Overview: Can allow multiple people to get in one Skype type web call instantly. Similar to https://zoom.us
Do we use it? If Skype isn't available - our room: appear.in/beercartel
Price: Free
Rating: 4 stars in Chrome
Product: Krisp
Website: https://krisp.ai/
Overview: Removes background noise from Zoom calls and makes the calls clearer
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free + paid plans
Rating: 4 stars, free plan only allows 120 minutes a week
To Do List
Product: Google Tasks
Website: https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas
Overview: To do list app that can sync with Gmail, calendar, etc
Do we use it?
Price: Free
Rating: 3 stars in Chrome
Product: Todoist
Website: https://en.todoist.com/
Overview: online task management app and to do list
Do we use it? yes
Price: Free for Basic; $44.99/year Premium; $44.99/user/year Business
Rating: 4.5 stars in Chrome
Product: Teamwork
Website: https://www.teamwork.com/
Overview: A suite of online collaboration tools designed to maximise your team's productivity, communication and overall customer happiness.
Do we use it? Not currently
Price: 30-Day Unlimited Free Trial; $249/mo unlimited users 500 projects 400GB space; $149/mo unlimited users 200 projects 100GB space
Rating: 4.4 stars in Google Play
Product: Trello
Website: https://trello.com/
Overview: Project management tool through posting tasks in boards and cards
Do we use it? No
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5 stars in Google Play
Product: Wrike
Website: https://try.wrike.com/
Overview: project management tool and work collaboration
Do we use it? not yet
Price: Free for basic
Rating:
Accounting
Product: Xero
Website: https://www.xero.com/au/
Overview: online accounting software
Do we use it?
Price: $25/month Starter; $50/month Standard; $60/month Premium
Rating: 3.4 stars Google Play
Product: Receipt Bank
Website: https://www.receipt-bank.com/
Overview: online bookkeeping app' integrates seamlessly with Xero
Do we use it?
Price: $33/month 50 items processed per month; $55/month 100 items process per month; $77/month 150 items process per month
Rating: 4 stars in Google Play
Product: eWay
Website: https://www.eway.com.au/
Overview: eWAY is a global omnichannel payment provider, processing secure credit card payments for merchants around the world.
Do we use it?
Price: n/a; need to call them for the price
Rating:
Product: Square
Website: squareup.com/dashboard/
Overview: Point of sale that is tied in to mobile phone
Do we use it?
Price: 2% transaction cost
Rating:
Other
Product: Colour Pick Eyedropper
Website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
Overview: allows you to select colour values from web pages
Do we use it?
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5 stars in Chrome
Product: Video Speed Controller
Website: https://one-tab.com/
Overview: Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5 stars in Chrome
Product: One Tab
Website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolhttps://one-tab.com/
Overview: Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.
Do we use it?
Price:
Rating: 4.5 stars in Chrome
Product: Lastpass
Website: https://www.lastpass.com/
Overview: Password Manager, Auto Form Filler, Random Password Generator & Secure Digital Wallet App.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5 stars
Product: Auphonic
Website: https://auphonic.com/
Overview: improves quality of audio files
Do we use it? not yet
Price: free for 2 hours of monthly processed audio
Rating: 4 stars
Product: Free Map Tools Australian Post Code Radius
Website: https://www.freemaptools.com/find-australian-postcodes-inside-radius.htm
Overview: gives you a radius of distance from a postcode
Do we use it? yes
Price: free
Product: Hotjar
Website: hotjar.com
Overview: records website + heatmaps + asks customers for issues
Do we use it? Occasionally, when problem solving issues
Price: Free for 2,000 recordings
Rating:
Product: Hemmingway App
Website: http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
Overview: scores your blog or text in terms of readability
Do we use it? Sometimes
Price: Free
Rating:
Product: Chrome Remote Desktop
Website: https://remotedesktop.google.com/
Overview: Allows you to login to other computers
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: Seems good
Process: How to clear the cache of just 1 particular website without having to clear browser history
1. Open the website
2. Click F12 to get the developer tools panel to open up
3. Right click over the browser refresh icon (to the left of the URL bar)
3. Select "Hard Reload" or "Empty Cache and Hard Reload"
Transcription
Zapier blog article on transcription
Product: Temi
Website: https://www.temi.com/
Overview: Best for fast, frictionless transcription
Do we use it? Worth trying
Price:
Accuracy: 16 mistakes, 94%
Speed: 1 minute
Pricing: $0.10/minute, free trial (first four uploads) availableRating:
Product: Transcribeme
Website: http://transcribeme.com
Overview: Transcription service
Do we use it? Not currently
Price: from $2 a minute
Rating:
Product: Rev
Website: https://www.rev.com/
Overview: Transcription service
Do we use it? Have used previously, was ok - they also have Temi.com which is touted as 90% cheaper and 10x faster (it requires high quality audio with no background noise)
Price: from $1 a minute
Rating:
Transcription can be done by Joslyn Erickson <[email protected]> who does BrewsNews transcription.
Product: Spotify
Website: https://www.spotify.com/
Overview: Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.
Do we use it?
Price: Free; $0.99/3 months premium
Rating: 4 stars
Product: OpenRefine
Website: http://openrefine.org/
Overview: OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data..
Article on OpenRefine by Zapier: https://zapier.com/blog/openrefine-guide/
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Free
Rating:
Product: Trint
Website: https://trint.com/
Overview: Drop audio and video files intro Trint and it will be automatically transcribed in less time than the original recording.
Price:
Rating: $12/hr; Plans: $15/hour (Pay as you go), $40/month (Basic, 3 hours of upload a month), $120/month (10hours of upload per month)
Blogs/Grammar
Product: Publicate
Website: https://publicate.it/
Overview: create and export beautiful HTML newsletters for free
Do we use it? not yet
Price: free
Rating: 4 stars
Product: Grammarly
Website: https://www.grammarly.com/
Overview: A free writing app and grammar checker will make sure your messages, documents, and social media posts are clear, mistake-free, and impactful.
Do we use it? yes
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5 stars
Product: Grade Proof
Website: https://gradeproof.com/
Overview: Artificially intelligent proofreading for Google Docs. Instantly correct spelling, grammar and phrasing with GradeProof.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 3.5 stars
Product: FocusWriter
Website: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
Overview: FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilises a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Free
Rating: 5 stars
Product: List Goal
Website: http://listgoal.com/launch-special/
Overview: helps you reach your target email subscribers
Do we use it?
Price: Free
Rating: 5 stars in chrome Web Store
Product: Microsoft Office
Website: https://portal.office.com/
Overview: Includes Excel, Word, PowerPoint - one license can be downloaded to 5 computers. To download the software so that you are not using the online version go to https://portal.office.com/ then in the right hand corner choose Install Office - currently login is via [email protected] WYe458TGrWiI - if office is already installed on a computer then open Word and go to File Account and sign in with the previous credentials.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: $14 a month
Rating: 5 stars
Design/Layout
Product: Canva
Website: https://www.canva.com/
Overview: Canva makes design simple for everyone. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5 stars
Product: Easil
Website: https://easil.com
Overview: Create great posters using templates, including hospitality templates
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: $8 USD a month
Rating:
Product: Draw.io
Website: https://www.draw.io
Overview: Create flow charts easily and for free
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Free
Rating: Seems useful
Product: Place it
Website: https://placeit.net
Overview: Puts your logo or an image on books, computers etc
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: $29 a month for 3 high-quality images
Rating:
Product: GIPHY says
Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/giphy-says-turn-your-voice-into-gifs/id1219091845?mt=8 (download here)
Overview: create GIPH images/turning your voice into GIPHS
Do we use it? not yet
Price: free
Rating: 5 stars
Product: PostEpic
Website: www.postepic.com/
Overview: Postepic is a mobile app that lets you capture quotes from the books you read and turn them into astonishing images.
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Free for iOS devices
Rating:
Product: Mark Flowcharts
Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mark-flowcharts-diagrams-in-seconds/id1225427550?mt=8 (download here)
Overview: create diagrams, flowcharts, and wireframes
Do we use it? not yet
Price:
Rating:
Product: Autodraw
Website: https://www.autodraw.com/
Overview: predicting the image you are drawing and turning these into png files
Do we use it? not yet
Price: Free
Rating: 4 stars
Surveys & Quizzes
Product: Survey Monkey
Website: https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Overview: Create and publish online surveys in minutes, and view results graphically and in real time.
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 4.5 stars
Product: Typeform
Website: https://www.typeform.com/
Overview: Build beautiful, engaging, and conversational online forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages, and much more
Do we use it? Yes
Price: Free
Rating: 3 stars
Product: Qzzr
Website: https://www.qzzr.com/
Overview: a simple online quiz tool that allows get better leads, improved engagement, and more revenue.
Do we use it?
Price: 14-day free trial then $29/mo for basic
Rating: 5
Calendars
Product: Calendly
Website: https://calendly.com
Overview: helps you schedule meetings without the back-and-forth emails
Do we use it?
Price: Free
Rating: 5 stars
Product: Zapier
Website: https://zapier.com/
Overview: automate tasks between web apps
Do we use it?
Price: Fre for Basic; $20/month premium
Rating: 4.5 stars
Tasks
Product: One Flare
Website: https://www.oneflare.com.au/
Overview: Marketplace where you can get quotes from a range of suppliers for tasks to be done
Do we use it? Not yet
Price: Free
Rating:
Product: Service Seeking
Website: https://www.serviceseeking.com.au/
Overview: Marketplace where you can get quotes from a range of suppliers for tasks to be done. Can be useful for finding decent tradies.
Do we use it? Rarely
Price: Free
Rating:
Product: Airtasker
Website: https://www.airtasker.com/
Overview: Airtasker is a trusted community marketplace for people and businesses to outsource tasks, find local services or hire flexible staff in minutes - online or via mobile.
Do we use it? Rarely
Price: Price per job
Rating: Haven't used enough
Product: Freelancer
Website: https://www.freelancer.com
Overview: Hire freelancers from throughout the world online for tasks e.g. marketing. Can be used for both on-going and one-off tasks.
Do we use it? Yes - Freelancers used: DJdesign for cropping images
Price: Price per job
Rating: Very useful once you find the right freelancer
Product: Fiverr
Website: http://fiverr.com/
Overview: Hire freelancers from throughout the world online for tasks e.g. marketing. Typically used for one-off low cost tasks.
Do we use it? Rarely - Freelancers used: Keashan for Excel Macros
Price: Price per job
Rating: Useful once you find the right freelancer
Product: QWILR
Website: https://www.qwilr.com/
Overview: Replace your PDF proposals, quotes and presentations with interactive & mobile-friendly webpages that plug into your systems and are as easy to build and reuse as they are beautiful.
Do we use it? Not currently
Price: Free for first 3 documents then $39 a month
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Product: Expert360
Website: https://expert360.com
Overview: Find expert consultants for one off jobs.
Do we use it? Not yet
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Product: Proof
Website: https://useproof.com/pricing
Overview: Use a social proof to get people to purchase products e.g. Tom just bought Stone IPA
Do we use it? No
Price: $29 for 1000 visitors a month, $79 for 10,000, $129 for 50,000
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Product: SkyRoam
Website: https://www.skyroam.com/
Overview: Wifi anywhere in the world
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Price: $8 per day
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Product: Coolors
Website: https://coolors.co/
Overview: color scheme generator
Do we use it?
Price: Free
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Product: Rocketbook
Website: https://getrocketbook.com/
Overview: a notebook that sends notes to cloud
Do we use it? https://getrocketbook.com/pages/how-rocketbook-works
Price: depends on the type of notebook
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Product: VooPlaters
Website: https://vooplayer.com/
Overview: video hosting solution with a sophisticated suite of video marketing tools that helps businesses grow with video.
Do we use it? https://vooplayer.com/#section--91643
Price: 14 day free trial; $47 monthly plan; $33 annual
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Product: Frontapp
Website: https://frontapp.com/
Overview: shared inbox for team
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Price: $15 per user/month (BASIC); $29 per user/month (PREMIUM); $59 per user/month (ENTERPRISE)
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Product: Calendly for Chrome
Website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/calendly/cbhilkcodigmigfbnphipnnmamjfkipp?hl=en
Overview: Calendly for Chrome makes it easier to access your Event Type links, create Adhoc Meetings, and more. You can add meeting times directly to an email and even override your current schedule—all from your inbox.
Do we use it? An account is required to use Calendly for Chrome. You can sign up at calendly.com.
Price: Free
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Product: WhatsApp Business
Website: https://www.whatsapp.com/business/
Overview: businesses can interact with customers easily by using tools to automate, sort, and quickly respond to messages.
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Price: Free
Rating: 4.3
Product: Hey Meta
Website: https://www.heymeta.com
Overview: check and build meta tags
Do we use it? Type website URL and click generate
Price: Free
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Product: Seoptimer
Website: https://www.seoptimer.com/
Overview: Website Review And SEO Audit Tool
Do we use it? Enter an URL address and get a free SEO analysis!
Price: 14 day free trial; $29/ month (Basic) or $59/month (Advanced)
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Product: Sniply
Website: https://snip.ly/
Overview: Sniply adds your custom call-to-action to any page on the web, allowing you to engage your followers through every link you share.
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Price: https://snip.ly/upgrade/ $29/mo (Basic); $75/mo(Pro); $149/mo(Business); $299/mo(Agency)
Rating:4.7
Product: Picreel
Website: https://www.picreel.com/
Overview: Picreel exit offers help to increase conversion rate and recover up to 25% of all abandoning visitors for you to follow up and retarget.
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Price: 30 day free trial; $14/mo(Starter); $52/mo(Basic)
Rating: 4.4
Product: Useproof
Website: https://useproof.com/
Overview: Increase your website conversions using real social proof. Show how popular your offers are by displaying recent signups, purchases and more.
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Price: 14 day trial then $79/mo
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Product: One Time Secret
Website: https://onetimesecret.com
Overview: Used for sending one-off password.
Do we use it? Rarely
Price: Free
Rating: Good
Product: Zingtree
Website: https://zingtree.com/
Overview: Can be use for decision making / process flows
Do we use it? No, maybe there are much cheaper alternatives?
Price: Expensive $1,000 a month
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Product: Inventory Planner
Website: https://www.inventory-planner.com/pricing
Overview: helps forecast future sales
Do we use it? Not currently
Price: $100 USD for one connection and 1000skus
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