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23 Apps That I Use To Grow And Manage My Businesses

I get this question a LOT and so I've finally decided to compile a list of all the apps I use to manage, maintain, communicate and grow my business. 

1. iMovie 

  • Hands down the easiest and most economical app to use to quickly edit videos on the go. 
  • I use iMovie to splice videos together, add in bumpers, music etc 

2. Canva 

  • Canva is like having a professional graphic designer available 24/7 in an easy to use do it your self way. 
  • I love this app, because I can take a picture and add words, colors, frames etc to it and it takes me no more than 5 minutes to create 

3. YouTube Capture

  • This app is great, because it allows me to upload my videos via mobile quickly. 

4. Iwatermark +

  • This app allows you to watermark one or multiple photos quickly and easily. It also allows you to store multiple watermarks for use!

5. Quik by GoPro 

  • I love this app, because it lets me make compilation videos with music quickly and easily. You simply upload 25 photos or videos and it puts them together in a fun video. Our life in the Gym videos at StoneAgeFuel are made with this app. 

6. Lightroom 

  • For when I need to make pictures look extra crisp and extra clean. 

7. InShot 

  • I use this app when I need to modify the size of a picture or video for the different social media formats and add in text to the video from Facebook to Instagram stories to Snapchat to YouTube and more. 

8. Facebook Pages

  • Let's me monitor, schedule, respond to messages (on FB and Instagram) for all the pages I manage 

9. MailChimp 

  • This app allows me to check on how my email campaigns are doing and to manage my lists and 

10. MailChimp Snap 

  • For sending off quick emails from my phone using my MailChimp account 

11. Facebook Ads 

  • Managing, adjusting and modifying all my Facebook ads 

12. Google My business 

  • For managing and monitoring my local business

13. Google Analytics 

  • To check and see how well my website is performing

14. Yelp Biz

  • To manage my yelp account, reviews, rating etc 

15. YouTube Studio

  • With this app I can manage all my YouTube accounts, comments, analytics and modify videos if necessary 

16. Bitly 

  • To be able to track links that I send out and see how many people click on them

17. Repost

  • To be able to share things on Instagram

18. SoundCloud Pulse 

  • For managing my SoundCloud account and podcast on there 

19. Basecamp 3

  • Our project management tool

20. Google Drive 

  • To be able to manage and edit documents continuously 

21. Zoom 

  • For webinars and meetings 

22. Crowdcast 

  • We use this when we are running public webinars and we want to go live from Facebook, YouTube and periscope at the same time 

23. Slack 

  • For internal team communication 

There you have it all the apps I use on a daily basis to manage, grow and maintain my business. The list may seem rather long, but all of these play a critical role in what we do in some regard every single day. 

What apps do you use? Post in the comments and let me know!

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