Our Top Five Online Productivity and Organization Tools
Independent business owners tend to be the jack of all trades in order to manage every aspect of their business. However, it’s rare that one person can thoroughly do it all on their own. We’ve gotten insights from successful fitness business owners on how they use online business management softwares in order to be more productive in their day to days. Check out these 5 tools to get some much needed assistance.
1. Virtual Assistant | Time Etc.
Someone who will read your emails AND reply to them for you? Sign me up!
DIAKADI Trainer, Natalie Carey, gets help running her training business from a company called Time etc. This company pairs you with a talented and educated Virtual Assistant to take care of your to-do list at a fraction of the cost of an in person full time assistant.
For example, to make valuable use of every minute of her day, Natalie has her VA read her emails out loud to her by phone each morning while she is commuting to work in her car. She then dictates her email responses back so that when she arrives at work each morning, her email inbox is clean. Other Business Movement clients have also found great success using a VA for everything from competitor research to online forms and email marketing.
2. Task Manager | Asana
Asana has become an invaluable tool for our team at DIAKADI Fitness, helping us prioritize, organize, assign, and monitor the progress for every step of our projects. Our stress levels are lower, our deadlines are more reliable and each of us feels more successful with our workload.
Asana is known for being a team task management software for fitness facility owners, as well as for independent business owners and personal projects.
3. Scheduling | Calendly
Calendly is a scheduling software platform that is designed to organize, automate, and arrange your calendar. It has the ability to connect with up to six of your calendars (Google, iCloud, Outlook, and more) to automatically check availability to help you connect with your best contacts, prospects and clients and NEVER have the dreaded double book again. Best of all, it automatically creates your Zoom appointment links for any virtual meetings.
4. Accounting | Harvest + And.co
Harvest and And.co are both excellent accounting tools built to assist with billing and invoicing, session tracking, and financial organization.
Harvest keeps track of where your time is spent, creates visual reports on projects, and makes for seamless invoices, payments, and payment reminders. Harvest’s apps and integrations also let you track time from the tools you already use, to make for seamless transitions.
And.co lets you create customizable invoices, business proposals, track expenses, manage your projects, and more.
Both softwares offer free plans and allow a free 30-day trial to test their features.
5. Organization | PTMinder
DIAKADI Trainer, Joseph Illustrisimo, explains, “PTMinder is one of my favorite tools because it helped me take the organization of my business to the next level.
I can track sessions, sign-up for automatic billing, and sign people up with memberships or packages. All of this can be done within your own personal branded website, which is also built within the tool. PT Minder frees you up to do what you love, training and working with your clients!”
