MY FAVORITE
Small Business Resources
A curated list of resources I recommend to my clients and community. I never recommend any company or product that I haven't used. Although I encourage you to do your own thorough research before investing in a program or tool, to ensure it’s a good fit for your unique business (and your personality, too!)
Note: Anything with an asterisk (*) means it's an affiliate link. Thank you for your support of my design studio!
SMALL BUSINESS TOOLS
WillowSpace*
CRM
My client management system that helps me easily on-board clients including sending proposals, contracts, and invoices, as well as project questionnaires. You can also streamline how you capture leads, schedule meetings with clients, and more.
Squarespace
WEBSITE + DOMAIN MANAGEMENT
My business website platform! I love Squarespace because of their new 7.1 website builder and how they set you up for success to create beautiful, custom layouts that engage your audience. Hint: Take time to get clear on your website needs and do your research to ensure you’re choosing the right website platform for your business!
Interact Quizzes*
MARKETING
Grow your email list and engage with your audience using Interact! A quiz is a creative way to attract new subscribers and Interact’s easy-to-navigate platform helps you create an customize a quiz for any industry.
The Contract Shop*
WEBSITE TERMS + CONTRACT TEMPLATES
My go-to place place to purchase Terms and Conditions and a Privacy Policy for your website, as well as contracts to use with my clients and collaborators. They even lead you through customizing it for your business and your needs in 10 minutes or less.
Flodesk*
EMAIL MARKETING
Flodesk helps you get started on your email marketing quickly and easily! Their beautiful, creative, and polished emails allow you to show off the pro you are. You will actually ENJOY emailing your list!
DESIGN ASSETS
Creative Market*
DIGITAL ASSETS
This is a go-to resource of mine for beautiful fonts, icons, illustrations, textures, and more. They also have awesome templates for anything you can imagine and stock photos too!
Unsplash
STOCK PHOTOS
My fave stock photo website! Wonderful for high quality images to use as full with banner website photos and more texture-like background images. Free to use, too!
ONLINE PRINTERS
I LOVE working with and supporting local printers as well! If you’re based in the Twin Cities and looking for a print shop to build a relationship with, send me a message and I will connect you.
Moo.com*
ONLINE PRINTER
An online printer with beautiful paper stock options and really high quality printing that will give everything a high end and classy feel. They have set print sizes and set quantities you can choose from, and they ship worldwide.
Smartpress
ONLINE PRINTER
An online printer with quality printing and affordable prices. They have a good selection of paper stock and you're able to order in any size and any quantity (of course, the lower the quantity, the more the price per piece). They ship worldwide! Visit their site for a quick printing quote.