Toolboxes
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Text a friend | Tell them in person Text them | Send a letter | Carrier pigeon |
| Write down your dreams and freedom number | Notebook Text yourself | Whiteboard | Airplane smoke signals |
| Action | Free | Cheap | Advanced |
| Voice finding | Personal experiments (publishing!) Reddit/X | Show Your Work – Austin Kleon | One-on-One Coaching (shoot me an e-mail) |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Idea capture and swipe files | Apple Notes Notepad Google Keep Notion | Things App Leuchtturm1917 Notebook Notion (paid version) Evernote | Roam Obsidian Milanote Fancy voice recorder |
| Action | Free | Cheap | Advanced |
| Images | Pexels Unsplash Canva | Storyblocks Canva Pro | Getty Images Shutterstock |
| Audio | YouTube Audio Library Free Music Archive | Epidemic Sound Artlist | Hire a Band Musicbed PremiumBeat |
| Brand | Canva | Canva Pro Fiverr (hire a cheap pro) | Photoshop Upwork (hire a pro) |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Funnel building +email automation | Converkit (they aren’t sponsoring me but I love ’em) Mailchimp Google Forms | Convertkit | Convertkit ClickFunnels Kajabi |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Market evaluation | Google Trends + Adwords Reddit | PickFu Ubersuggest | BuzzSumo Qualtrics SEMrush Market Explorer |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Sponsor information | Rate Calculator Social Blade Crunchbase | Hunter.io | Winmo |
| Talent agencies | AspireIO FameBit | Social Bluebook | Nebula I can’t recommend any others because I have no experience with them. |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Accounting | Wave Zoho Books | QuickBooks Xero | Hire someone Bench |
| Taxes | IRS Free File E-File | TurboTax | Hire someone H&R Block |
| Payment collection | PayPal Venmo | Stripe Gumroad | Kajabi |
| Legal services | Rocket Lawyer | Rocket Lawyer LegalZoom | Law Firm (hire someone) UpCounsel |
| Business bank services | Bluevine Novo | Any bank you know of – best | Mercury Banking |
| Insurance services | Thimble | InsureOn – great option State Farm | The Hartford Local services |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| SOPs | Google Docs Apple Notes | Notion Process Street | Trainual Tallyfy |
| Delegation | Asana | Trello Basecamp | Monday Asana (paid) |
| Delegation Hiring | Fiverr Craigslist OnlineJobs.ph | Upwork Toptal |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Web hosting | WordPress.com | Cloudways | WP Engine |
| Domain | WordPress.com | Cloudflare | BrandBucket |
| Web design | Canva WordPress | Figma | Hire someone |
| Social media posting | Buffer | Typefully Hypefury Hootsuite | Sprout Social Sendible |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Email list and automation | Mailchimp Convertkit | Convertkit Active Campaign | Convertkit HubSpot Marketing Kajabi |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| File storage | Google Drive DropBox OneDrive | Google Workspace Dropbox Plus | Amazon S3 Dropbox Business |
| Post scheduling | Buffer Zoho Social | Typefully Hypefury Hootsuite | Sprout Social Agorapulse |
| Free | Cheap | Advanced | |
| Text a friend | Tell them in person Text them | Send a letter | Carrier pigeon |
| Write down your dreams and freedom number | Notebook Text yourself | Whiteboard | Airplane smoke signals |