#05 The Best Productivity Tools: What We Use To Run Our Online Businesses

What you will learn

* The list of tools we could not do business without
* How we use each tool and why it's so great

Here is a list of most of the apps we talk about on the podcast, most of them are free or freemium. Enjoy!


Google Apps
Google apps is the framework that runs all our emails and document framework. We do not use Office, we mostly use Google drive.

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From $5 / user / month​


Asana
Asana is the place where all the team tasks and discussions we have are. It plugs flawlessly with Google Apps and seriously uncluttered our emails.

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Free up to 15 users​


Slack
When it comes to team chat and "live" communication, we ditched Skype for Slack. It's integration and search function make it a must have for us.

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Free with 10integrations & limited search


LastPass
Passwords can be a headache as a team. Not anymore with Lastpass, save all your passwords in 1 place, share them with team members and keep everything secured very easily with Lastpass

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Freemium


Rescuetime
Who is slacking and who is working hard in your team? Hard to tell when you are remote. Well Rescuetime helps you stay self disciplined and keep others on track as well.

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Freemium


Calendly
Organising meetings and calls can be a huge pain when done via Email. Calendly makes coordinating much easier. All you do is share a link with your contact and they can pick a time from pre chosen schedules to meet with your or call you. A must!

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Freemium


Skitch / Evernote
When you run websites, you're always sharing screenshots or taking some notes. These can get messy unless you use Evernote and skitch to easily save blurbs and screenshot and organise /search them at any time.

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Freemium


Screenflow / Camtasia
The best way to train your team remotely is to make quick tutorial videos with screencasts. These tools allow you to do exactly that. It's also a great way to create video courses.

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Free trial then $99 one off​


Spotify
When working long hours, some music can be useful to keep focused. We use Spotify to get fresh music with the radio function.

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Freemium
Full Transcript
Welcome to the Authority Hacker podcast, the place to learn field tested, no BS tactics to grow hack your online business, and finally, live life on your own terms. Now your host, Gael and Mark.

Gael: Hey guys, welcome to the Authority Hacker podcast. In today's episode Mark and I are going to talk about the software and tools that we use to run our business not in an online marketing, not Facebook, social media, SEO- none of that, just the tools that kind of run the business the email that run the productivity and all that stuff.