80+ SOLOPRENEUR Resources & Tools
Key tools & resources for solopreneurs & small business owners
A professional, well-oiled business is within reach – even for your small business. Here are some top resources geared to simplify the DIY in your business.
Startup Essentials
- Business Model Canvas for straightforward business planning
- Score’s Startup Template for writing your first business plan
- LegalZoom for setting up your first LLC
- The Little Brand Book for establishing a cohesive brand identity for your online business
- 4over4 for completely free, full color, single-sided business cards
Build Your Website
- How To Build An E-Commerce Store Step by Step
- Shopify for e-commerce store and dropshipping
- WordPress for world-class websites (use Bluehost for hosting)
- Bluehost for simple, affordable website hosting
- WPEngine for high quality web hosting exclusive for Wordpress
- Big Cartel for free ecommerce store
- Freewebstore and Ecwid for free e-commerce site
- Wix for booking clients online, e-commerce, or simple website
- Leadpages for a powerful landing page builder
- Showit for eye-catching websites for photographers and creatives
- About.me for quick landing pages
- WiseIntro for a quick website
- Strikingly for a free and fast websites
- Squarespace for beautiful portfolios and info sites
Selling Product - digital products like courses & ebooks to physical products
- How To Build An E-Commerce Store
- Shopify for quick and easy e-commerce store and dropshipping
- Instagram Content Strategy eBook to learn tips on selling products on Instagam
- Gumroad for selling ebooks, video courses, software, music, and other large digital files - includes an affiliate program if you work with influencers
- Payhip for ebooks or video courses
- Etsy to sell anything - digital or physical
- Fiverr to sell any digital product or service
- Leadpages for a powerful landing page builder
- Teachable & Kajabi for selling online courses
- EasyWebinar and EverWebinar for the best webinar platform
- Printful, Redbubble, and TeeSpring for selling prints & merch
- WebEx for selling webinars and workshops and live classes
- Zoom for online consultations, webinars, and classes
- WordPress for world-class websites (use Bluehost for hosting)
More E-commerce Essentials
- Free boxes and mailers from USPS
- Free scale for shipping (when you sign up for Stamps. Cancel at anytime)
- Uline for boxes, packaging materials, bottles,
- Burch Bottle for bottles, jars, and other product packages
- Good Start Packaging for sustainable packages for food, drink
Design Tools
- Canva for easy graphics anywhere
- Adobe Spark for quick social media graphics
- Creative Market for affordable fonts, graphics, and templates (they give you free graphics and fonts every week!!!)
- Envato for premium templates for designing your website and more
- Khroma or Adobe Color for awesome color combos and palettes
- Moodboard for beautiful moodboards
- GIMP for free, open-source Photoshop
- Infogr.am for infographics
- Pixabay for stock images
- Stocksy for stock images
- Twenty20 for stock images
- Burst at Shopify for free, high quality stock images
- Nappy.co for free stock images of black people
- CreateHerStock for stock images of black women
Printing
- Uprinting for printing everything - package inserts, product labels, mailers, business cards
- Moo for quality, beautiful prints
- Vistaprint for affordable printing
- Blurb for quality photo books
- GotPrint for affordable printing solutions
- 4imprint for custom merch printing
- DiscountMugs for custom merch printing
- Merch.ly, Threadbird, and RushOrderTees for merch, custom tees
- Packlane for custom packaging, mailers, and shippers
- StickerMule for custom stickers, packing tape, and mailers
- Packola for custom printing
Social Media Management
- The Content Planner for mastering social media planning
- Instagram Content Strategy eBook to learn tips on selling products on Instagam
- Planoly for easy, visual Instagram planning
- Tweriod for identifying the best times to tweet
- SocialRank for finding the lead influencers in your circle
- Buffer for scheduling and sharing on social
- Hootsuite for your all-in-one social media manager
- Later for managing all things Instagram
- Linktree, Bio.fm and About.me for quick landing for bio
- Milkshake for gorgeous landing pages for buo
- Tailwind for a Pinterest and Instagram scheduler
- Hashtagify for hashtags
- SocialOomph for social scheduling
- IFTTT for social media automation
Email Marketing
- Benchmark Email for simple email marketing tools
- Drip for a fully integrated eCRM and automated workflows
- Mailerlite for powerful, email automations
- Mailchimp for the best intro to email marketing
- ConvertKit for full service email marketing and automation tools
- SumoMe List Builder for growing your email list
- HelloBar and IntroBar for a lead generation tool for growing email list
Payments, Bookkeeping, Contracts, CRM
- Square
- PayPal
- Quickbooks
- Shoeboxed for scanning receipts and preparing expense reports
- Sighted for free online invoicing software
- PocketSuite for running a business through text
- Xero Accounting for accounting software
- Honeybook for client management software
- Dubsado for client management software
- 17hats for full service business tools
- Sighted for free online invoicing software
- Bench Accounting
- Shake Law for free contract templates
- Proposify for writing up proposals, contracts, and other documents
- Hatchbuck for a free CRM tool which provides email and content management
Scheduling & Conferences
- Acuity and Calendly for scheduling
- X.ai for a free scheduling assistant
- UberConference for easy conference calls
- Zoom for simple web conferences
Collaboration & Project Management
- Slack
- Asana
- Todoist
- Trello
- Basecamp
- Fiverr and Upwork for finding support like accounting, virtual assistant, logo designer, or admin work
Time Savers & Management
- IFTTT - this is super powerful!
- Grammarly for editing long blogs or emails
- Zapier to simplify and automate processes
- RescueTime to time your hours
- Tomato Timer to time your hours
- Last Pass for password saving
- Momentum for Google Chrome to stay productive
- Self Control for Mac or StayFocusd for Google Chrome for blocking distracting websites
- Evernote for note taking
- Focus@Will for background music to keep you engaged
