Books, tools, and resources I recommend.

Technology

  • Airtable

    Airtable enables any team, regardless of technical skill, to create apps on top of shared data and power their most critical and unique workflows.

  • Beautiful.ai

    The best and easiest way to create on-brand presentation decks. Way better than PowerPoint or Google Slides.

  • Buffer

    Buffer is a social media management platform where you can schedule and publish posts across various platforms, analyze metrics, and engage with your audience.

  • Canva

    Canva makes it easy to create professional designs and to share or print them. Plus, it’s free for nonprofit organizations!

  • Codeable

    Codeable is the only WordPress freelancer platform. They match customers to the best WordPress experts to solve any WordPress problem.

  • Custom Ink

    Sell custom t-shirts and take donations with no inventory, hassles or risk. Just design your shirt, share why you are raising and then share your campaign. They fill the orders and send along the funds you raise!

  • DashThis

    DashThis is an automated and easy-to-use marketing reporting tool created to help marketers save hours of work and create beautiful reports in the blink of an eye.

  • Flywheel

    Premium managed WordPress hosting that allows you to easily build, launch, and manage all of your websites with workflow tools.

  • HoneyBook

    I use HoneyBook to manage clients, contracts, and invoices. Get for 25% off for one year when you click the button below.

  • MailChimp

    Win new customers with the #1 email marketing and automations brand that recommends ways to get more opens, clicks, and sales.

  • Monday.com

    The perfect project management software for nonprofits and small businesses. With a forever free plan and affordable monthly rates, it is a flexible tool to manage tasks.

  • Moo

    Moo is a great option for businesses and nonprofits of all sizes for printed materials — especially business cards. Create a business account and your team members can order their own cards when they run out!

  • Neverbounce

    The only software I use to clean email lists. Before you import a list to your email software, clean it first!

  • Printful

    If you’re a nonprofit or small business that wants merch but doesn’t have the budget or time for inventory, Printful is a great way to have an online store without any upfront costs.

  • Printify

    With free design tools, you can easily add your custom designs to t-shirts, mugs, phone cases, and hundreds of other products.

  • Sanebox

    Finally, the Inbox you deserve without giving up your beloved webmail/email client. The only way I stay at inbox zero!

  • UpStage CRM

    The ticketing CRM arts & culture organizations have been waiting for. Built by arts administrators for arts administrators.

  • WP Engine

    If you need powerful website hosting and you use WordPress, check out WP Engine. It is particularly useful if you’ve got multiple subdomains or are a small business building sites for clients.

Reading List

  • Hidden Brain

    by Shankar Vedantam

  • UnMarketing

    by Scott Stratten

  • Precision Marketing

    by Lee Gallagher

  • Freakonomics

    by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

  • Brainfluence

    by Roger Dooley

  • Influence

    by Robert Cialdini

  • Blink

    by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Buyology

    by Martin Lindstrom

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