These resources can help you manage your business, enhance your design or development skills, find design resources and help your clients. Some of them are services or products that I personally use, and some have been highly recommended by colleagues who use them.
Note: Some of the links on this page are affiliate links, which means I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on those links. It will not cost you anything additional to use them. Any proceeds go toward expenses for the website and podcast.
Business
Sales
Project Management
- Pancake (link shows videos I made and has link to buy)
- Monday
- Function Fox
- Dubsado
- AND CO
- Trello
- Plutio
- Project Panorama: WordPress project Management plugin
- Content Snare
- Website Identity Framework (WIF®)
Time Tracking
- Pancake (link shows videos I made and has link to buy)
- AND CO
- Everhour
- FreshBooks
- Harvest
- HourStack
- OfficeTime
- Paydirt
- Timely
- Timeneye
- Toggl
Schedulers
Calendars
Calls/Meetings
Contracts
Proposal Software
E-signature Tools
In addition to the proposal apps, which include e-signature, are:
Pricing
Marketing Mentor’s Overhead and Hourly Rate worksheet (2.6 MB PDF)
Invoicing
- Pancake (as part of full project management system; link shows videos I made and has link to buy)
- AND CO: Get 50% off your first year of Pro with code THANKFUL
- Paydirt
- Dubsado (as part of full project management system)
- 17Hats
- FreshBooks
- Wave
- Xero
- Fiskl
- Quickbooks
Accounting/Taxes
Client Portal
- Pancake (as part of full project management system; link shows videos I made and has link to buy)
- WP Client
- Client Portal
- Huddle
Cloud Storage/File Delivery
Password Managers
Marketing
- Instagrizzle Instagram course: Grow your audience and get more engagement
- Funnel Packs
- Social Bee: Social media management
- My Web Audit: Produce beautiful, actionable, and easy-to-understand website audit reports for leads and prospects.
- Convert Pro
Medical Sharing Plans (U.S.)
Design
Education
Fonts
Images and Icons
Sources
Search hundreds of sources by stock image type.
Image Compression
Logo Files
Logo Package Express is an Adobe Illustrator extension that automatically generates and exports logo packages with blazing speed.
- Logo Package Express (save 10% with code boost10)
- The Logo Package freebies
- Logo Package Express tutorials
Presentation Design
ToolsToo add-in for PowerPoint
Presenting Design Comps
Print Design
Software
Image Editors
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Affinity Photo
- Fire Alpaca
- GIMP image editor
- PicMonkey
- Photoscape
- Photoshop Express
- Photopia
- Relay That: website and AppSumo deal
- Remove Bg
Illustration
Page Layout
WordPress
Accessibility
Accessibility Checker Pro by Equalize Digital
Business
Courses
Forms/Email Opt-In
Page Builders
- Beaver Builder
- Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder
- Mastering Beaver Builder course
- Elementor
- Ultimate Addons for Elementor
- Wallace Inline for Beaver Builder and Elementor
Portfolio
Project Management
Project Panorama: WordPress project Management plugin