Mama With a Calling
Equipping You to Walk by Faith on Your Business Journey
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Podcasting Tools
Podcast Mic
My favorite mic is this one from Amazon. It’s got amazing sound quality and sits on my desk for ease and convenience. Love the price, too!
Podbean (podcast hosting)
Podbean is so easy to use and gives a lot of stats to help manage the growth of the show. They make it easy to get your podcast onto other platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon. Get one month free if you use my link!
Canva Pro
I make all of my podcast cover art, promo graphics, etc with CanvaPro. While they do have a free plan, CanvaPro has so many pros (see what I did there) that it’s 100% worth it. With the pro version, you can create and sell templates, use their giant library of graphics and photos, and remove the background in images. Just to name a few things. Try it for free using my link.
Online Business Tools
Website in a Week
If you’re the DIY type and really want some help setting up your website, then I highly recommend checking out this workshop-style course. She walks you through exactly how to setup your site to look the way you want and best represent your new business.
Convert Kit
To begin collecting emails for things like a blog, email marketing, etc. you will need to have an email service provider. ConvertKit is one of the best out there. If you’re serious about making money online, get ConvertKit from the beginning. Try it out for free up to 100 subscribers. You’ll be glad you did.
BluChic Theme
Once you have your domain and hosting, you will need a theme (the design) for your website. I love my Isabelle theme from BluChic. They have a variety of feminine themes and they are compatible with Elementor!
Screen-cast-o-matic
If you are doing any video for your blog, Youtube channel or marketing online, then you will need a video editor. Screen-cast-o-matic is very easy to use and is super affordable. I love their feature of letting me record myself and my screen at the same time.
Shopify
Shopify is a way to sell digital products on your website or blog. They also have a way to send the digital products to the customer once they’ve paid. They have a Lite plan which is under $10. So you can use them to process payments and deliver the product but you wouldn’t have an actual store front. To see if you like it, they have a great 14 day FREE trial so you can check it out. Just go here to sign up.
Learning about Business
FleaMarket Flippers
Rob and Melissa are amazing flippers (try over $100k in a year!)! They often make hundreds and even thousands of dollars PER SALE! In their course Flipper University, they teach you how to find those awesome items. They also have a course teaching freight shipping so you don’t have to be afraid to ship BIG stuff (think exercise equipment and bigger). Big items can often mean big money. Their Facebook group that goes along with the course is pretty active as well.
Budgeting and Finances
Undebt.it
With running a business comes a good hard look at finances. The less you need to make, the more your business can grow. This is a great FREE website that let’s you input all of your debt then look at the different options for how to pay it off. So you can compare debt snowball to paying off the largest card first. Love this free online tool. It also shows you predicted times on when you will be paying off that debt. Motivation!
MileIQ
This app makes it super easy to track mileage for your new business. If you are traveling a lot to source for your ebay business or maybe driving to meet clients for consults, you want to claim those drives. They add up faster than you’d think. It’s an app and its super easy to use. Just in the first month, I had a few hundred dollars worth of potential claims!
Quickbook Self Employed
I love how easy this is to keep track of all of my business expenses. I connect it to my business accounts and it keeps tracks of all of the transactions. All I have to do is swipe to indicate it was for business or personal. The bonus mile tracker feature is awesome, especially if you’re reselling. Driving to all of those yard sales counts! If you’ve never tried it, get 50% off the first 6 months.
