7 Useful Tools To Make Your Online Business Profitable

Trello

Whether you have a small team of employees or have a network of online freelancers working remotely from different parts of the world, you can’t go wrong having a project management tool to make sure everyone is on the same page. And when it comes to project management, Trello is easily one of the top names in the business.

• Manage projects, such as research and development or a product launch
• Ran daily tasks according to specific checklists with deadlines
• Run marketing campaigns

Trello is free to use, allowing users to create 10 Team Boards. You can also pay for Business Class and Enterprise to get unlimited Trello features for $9.99 and $20.83 (for 20 users), respectively.

Google Docs

Google Docs isn’t just a word processor; it’s also a powerful collaboration tool, allowing multiple people to work on a single file at the same time. The web-based word processor is free, and part of the office suite found within Google Drive.

• Create collaborative reports (e.g., marketing, revenue, sales)
• Create pitch decks for potential investors
• Draft invoices, quotations, and proposal letters

Canva

If you’ve always wanted to create beautiful, professional-quality posters, presentations, social media graphics, and banners but don’t have the expertise or patience to use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, Canva has you covered.

• Create visual content from scratch or by using templates
• Use a simple drag-and-drop interface
• Offer a catalog with millions of images, graphics, and fonts
• Create marketing collateral and graphics for daily social media posts
• Create letterhead and resumes

Canva is free. For team features, you can also upgrade to Canva Pro for $12.95 per team member per month.

Slack

Slack is a gorgeous chat app with communication features that are perfect for teams within business organizations of all sizes. Its core features for business include:

• Facilitating communication in the workplace
• Helping teams communicate and collaborate across remote locations
• Encouraging the sharing of documents, images, and other files across teams and between team members

Despite being feature-packed, Slack’s design and the interface is smooth, making it immensely popular with users. Business owners can create dedicated chat groups for specific teams/departments or projects, rather than depend on SMS or email to get in touch with every single employee.

• Lite version is free to use
• Upgraded version starts at $8 per month

Yondo

For online teaching entrepreneurs looking to increase their revenue with additional service offerings, Yondo is an all-in-one eCommerce solution.

• Add a live 1-to-1 session, webinar and video-on-demand function to your existing business
• Access to an administrator panel where you can customize an eCommerce site that works for you
• Access to valuable analytics data
• Integration ability with several other systems that you can use to improve your business operations

The starting price of $27 per month (Starter Plan).

Hootsuite

Any online business owner worth their salt knows that the enterprise has no chance of surviving without effective marketing. By now, it’s safe to say that your business already has a social media presence on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Instead of wasting time from each platform to the next, you can use a tool that gives you access to all of your social media accounts in one place.

• Manage multiple social media accounts across a wide variety of social networks
• Schedule posts and tweets
• Monitor engagement activity at the individual-post level
• Monitor brand mentions

Hootsuite’s plans range from a Free plan, which is perfect for solopreneurs looking to manage multiple social networks. They also have a Business plan, which supports up to 35 profiles and 10 users for $599 per month.

Ahrefs

Part of doing business on the Internet is knowing what your competitors are doing online. It allows you to keep tabs on their tactics. You can also see what they’re doing wrong and draw inspiration from their successful strategies.

• Full overview of a competitor website’s search engine optimization (SEO) tactics, their AdWords campaigns, content, and other crucial digital marketing metrics

Ahrefs can be intimidating to novice users. If you take the time to understand basic digital marketing concepts, its potential will make sense to you.

As an online teaching entrepreneur, it’s reasonable to want to be fully in charge of running the business. At times, things can quickly get hectic and take more time than usual. You can use these tools to organize your day. This will allow you to reach your strategic goals on both a professional and personal level. All of these tools are designed to simplify tedious tasks. In effect, allowing you to focus on the big picture which is what matters when it comes to business.