Best Books & Tools
(disclaimer – some of these are affiliate links)
Business Tools
For all of our email marketing needs we use Mailchimp – so user friendly!
For accounting, invoicing, time tracking, you have to check out FreshBooks!
Writing/Blogging
If you write, blog, or create any kind of content regularly, you need an editor! If you have a podcast or show, you need a transcriptionist! All of our editing and transcription needs for Season One were handled by Shayla Eaton with Curiouser Editing!
Learn how to self-publish your own book easily with Jim Wood’s Write | Publish | Share course.
Improve your writing and headlines with all the freebies you get by signing up on Copyblogger.com
Podcasting
You can learn basically everything you need to know about podcasting from friend of the show John Lee Dumas.
Marketing & Social Media
Get Kelsey’s Marketing Magic Course for Small Businesses Marketing Made Easy!
Pinterest Course – Pinterest Course – The Power of Pinning
LinkedIn Course – LinkedINFLUENCE
BOOKS
General Business
Go Solo: How to Quit the Job You Hate and Start a Small Business You Love! – By our very own Kelsey Humphreys
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New RichThe 4-Hour Workweek
(Though we would rather you build a business you love rather than make money for ‘lifestyle design’, he teaches so many great tactics every entrepreneur can use!)
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins
Rework by Jason Fried
Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
The E-Myth Revisited
Writing/Blogging
Grow your audience and online platform with Platform by Michael Hyatt
Podcasting
Podcast Launch by John Lee Dumas
Marketing & Social
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk