My little one-person business does ~$189k/mo in revenue.
It costs me $1,446/mo + 2.9% to run it.
Here are the 12 no-code tools that run my business:
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Website (and more): @Kajabi
Kajabi makes my life very easy.
It bundles my website, landing pages, forms, customer CRM, and courses together.
It's truly a great tool for the cost.
Cost: $399/month
Email marketing: @ConvertKit
I recently moved my email marketing to ConvertKit.
I'm currently building out automations, a welcome sequence, and beginning to segment my readers.
The Creator Network adds thousands of new subs to my newsletter each month.
Cost: $783/month
Payments: @stripe
Stripe connects directly to Kajabi, so it's easy to take payments.
I get paid out every weekday, so I'm not held hostage while a company holds my money for interest.
Cost: 2.9% + $.30 per sale
Social Publishing: @hypefury
I use Hypefury for Twitter posting because it's flexible and powerful.
- Auto-retweets
- Auto-plug my newsletter
- Auto-unretweet
- Mass DM'ing
- Inspiration templates
- Etc.
A super powerful publishing tool
Cost: $49/month
Newsletter Templates: @typeshare_co
To produce a high-quality newsletter, I need templates to riff off of.
Typeshare helps me draft my newsletter in 45 minutes, by providing a number of templates to help.
Built by digital writers for digital writers.
Cost: $20/month
Web Analytics: @usefathom
I find Google Analytics to be difficult to use and understand.
That's OK because Fathom Analytics is amazing.
It takes less than 2 minutes to set up and gives me all of the analytics I need in one simple dashboard.
Cost: $24/month
LinkedIn Analytics: @getshieldapp
Shield is way more than just LinkedIn analytics.
It's the perfect tool for repurposing, saving old posts, and truly understanding what's working.
With 410k+ followers, it's a must for me.
Cost: $16/month
Testimonials: @testimonialto
@damengchen has built a unique testimonial tool.
I embed it inside of my courses and let users record videos or write a text testimonial.
With one click, the testimonial gets approved & automatically added to my landing page.
Cost: $60/month
Business CRM: @NotionHQ
The complete hub of my entire creative business.
- Company roadmap
- Daily/weekly to-do
- Complete content system
- Networking and connections
- Etc.
It literally keeps me organized unlike anything else.
Cost: $10/month
Scheduling: @TaplioHQ
Taplio is my new go-to scheduling tool for LinkedIn.
It comes built-in with AI for brainstorming, inspiration from top-performing posts, and many other features.
It's now the best LinkedIn publishing tool on the market.
Cost: $55/month
Course recording: @loom
Forget complicated, expensive setups for recording my courses.
I simply install the Loom plugin, open up my presentation and get creating.
This has saved me a ton of money and time when building out my video courses.
Cost: Free
Custom Integrations: @zapier
To connect any tools that don't work together, I use Zapier.
Hell, sometimes I just sit around and dream about what automation I can build.
For all of the sticks that I have, this is the glue.
Cost: $30/month
@zapier That's a wrap.
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If I wanted to put this together cheap, here's what I'd use:
- CRM: Notion
- Publishing: Buffer
- Website: Carrd or Dorik
- Course +Email: Gumroad
This stack would be about $70 a year + 10% fees from Gumroad.
It's what I used for 2 years and crossed $500,000 with just this!
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