From every day planners to content relationship management (CRM) software, the eight founders sat down with us Jessica Abbo share your essential business tools to save lots of time, money and stay organized.
Mara Smith, founder and CEO of Inspiro Tequila
“Inspiro Tequila is an ultra-premium, certified, additive-free, easy-drinking tequila. We provide the choice of pure spirit that tastes great and means that you can benefit from the moment. My favorite time saving business tool is Airtable. I’m capable of keep all my information in a single place, organized in numerous databases on the platform, and it is rather easy to make use of for somebody who will not be as tech savvy as I’m.”
Megan McGowan, founding father of Lilvil
“Lilvil is a concierge service for fogeys that allows them to spend their time doing the things they need to do, somewhat than the things they do not, by outsourcing tasks akin to finding childcare, scheduling kid’s activities, and planning birthday parties. As a startup founder, I wear many hats, including being a social media manager, so my favorite business tool is Canva since it allows me to have consistent and high-quality content after which create templates that I can provide to my team.”
Kara Venus, CEO of Stella’s Way Marketing
“Stella’s Way Marketing is a full-service marketing and PR agency. We focus on small businesses and non-profit organizations. We use Canva for inspiration, post scheduling, post scheduling, and really all the pieces from logo design to starting a business.”
Jennifer Jank, Productivity Injection’s lead brain hacker
“We help corporations and their teams increase profits without spending extra hours. I email my clients and prospects through my CRM system so I can tick the auto-tracking option. A couple of days after I send the e-mail, I get an automatic email in my inbox reminding me to follow up. That way, nobody will ever fall right into a trap.”
Laney Harvick, owner of Harvick Farms
“Harvick Farms is a plant nursery based in Cassville, Missouri. We sell high-quality plants and run free educational activities. One of my favorite tools is Zoho Social, a content management system that means that you can put all of your content into one program, schedule it, see who your top users are, discover peak times and find a way to deliver content at the most effective possible time.”
Julia Akinyooye, founder and CEO of Emmanuel Consulting Agency Inc.
“Emanuel Consulting Agency Inc. is a homecare consulting company that helps homecare corporations be licensed and compliant. My favorite tool to assist keep my business organized is Oney. It has great features like CRM, social media management tool in addition to project management tool.
Karly Hiser, founding father of Crann Organic
“Crann Organic produces organic clothing for kids with sensitive skin. To keep things tidy, I really like an old-fashioned planner, and there is nothing higher than a planner made out of recycled paper. So while many individuals depend on technology, I really like the old-fashioned paper planner.”
